Pranav Shah, CFA

Pranav's experience spans 15 years in private investments having worked across Venture Capital, Impact Investing, Corporate VC and a Single Family Office, leading the entire deal cycle including sourcing, business due diligence, transaction execution, post-investment oversight, and exits. He also comes with operating experience having led initiatives at high-growth startups.

Pranav has worked with leading investment firms like Guggenheim Partners, Aavishkaar Group, Sterlite Ventures and high growth startups ByteDance and Zetwerk. His most recent stint was with RoundGlass, a single family office, where he was responsible for managing entire private investments portfolio in India. His versatile experience of investing across multiple sectors of early stage investments and deep network in the startup ecosystem for exits has helped in building a strong portfolio of investments. Gaining valuable experience at rapidly expanding startups like ByteDance (social media content) and Zetwerk (B2B manufacturing) has provided profound insights into the journey of creating businesses from ground zero to achieving substantial growth, enhancing his proficiency as an investment professional.

In his current role at Cervin Family Office & Advisors, Pranav heads the Private Markets Investments for its clients.

About CERVIN: Cervin Family Office & Advisors is a specialist Family Office advisory firm working with family business owners & serial entrepreneurs. The firm currently advises over USD 1.5bn in advisory assets with almost all its clients in India.

The firm is registered with SEBI under the “Investment Advisers Regulations” which allows the advisor to only earn a fee from the client and bars them from earning any brokerage, commission, placement fee, referral fee etc. of any kind.

CERVIN has been founded by senior industry professionals who have vast experience in managing large family offices. The founding team has a long common work history and has come together to back a vision of providing unadulterated & holistic advice to its clients.

The firm does not manufacture any products in-house but works on an open-architecture basis. This allows the firm’s clients to have the whole product universe available to them which is not the case even if the client works with a few large wealth managers.

CERVIN focuses on working with family business owners in particular as the firm also provides services in the space of wealth structuring, succession planning & family governance.