about US
Rotman Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital Association (REVCA) is a non-profit organization run by graduate students at University of Toronto - Rotman School of Management. We help navigate the startup ecosystem by delivering events, competitions, programs to help you better understand the unique opportunities of entrepreneurship and venture capital.
Whether you want to start your own business or find the next unicorn to invest in – now or in the future – REVCA will help you find fulfillment, discover your passion, and pursue your dreams.
MISSION
We help our members learn, practice, and connect with the start-up and venture capital industry.
By leveraging networks and hosting a multitude of events, we seek to build connections and develop a comprehensive platform for students interested in entrepreneurship and venture capital.
Our Team
Rodrigo Azevedo
Co-President, Venture Capital
Rodrigo co-founded InfoProp, a proptech startup, and achieved a successful exit by selling the company to a prominent real estate marketplace in Brazil. Alongside brainstorming new venture ideas, he is currently engaged in angel investing in three startups. Driven by his passion about innovation, entrepreneurship, and venture capital, Rodrigo aims to facilitate connections between Rotman Students and the local startup community, as well as the VC industry.
Updesh Thakwani
VP, Venture Capital
Updesh did his undergraduate degree in Finance and is also a CFA Charterholder and has over 7 years of experience primarily in Investment Management, M&A, Private Equity, Project Finance, and Venture Capital. In his last role, he led the Investments team of a family office based out of the Middle East where his responsibilities ranged from sourcing the investment opportunities to closing the transactions and deploying the funds.
Edison Zhu
VP, Marketing - Venture Capital
Zhechen (Edison) is currently working in Strategy at TikTok. Prior to Rotman, he spent three years in Strategy & Operations at an ed-tech startup which grew from Series C to pre-IPO during the period. Passionate about VC and the startup ecosystem, Edison hopes to engage students to learn more about this space.
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Rohit Challa
Co-President, Entrepreneurship
Rohit has 5 years of Management Consulting experience. Before starting his MBA, he vowed to never go back to a corporate job. He is passionate about building world-altering business solutions and is currently focusing his energies on tackling the world’s food waste problem and is interning at a Food Tech startup. Rohit is driven by the idea of building an environment conducive to entrepreneurship at Rotman.
Matthew Cox
VP, Entrepreneurship
Matthew has historical experience working across the world within the pharmaceutical industry. He has broad experience with start-ups, founding one in the UK and working on several others whilst in Canada. He is passionate about entrepreneurship and is excited by working with different founders and teams, discovering new and innovative ways to solve real world problems.
Bill Tan
VP, Marketing - Entrepreneurship
Bill Tan is an entrepreneur specializing in the Asian Market. He is currently building a start-up with 3 other co-founders in the grocery industry located in Singapore. Prior to joining the MBA program, he has worked in several industries such as banking and finance, automotive and tech.
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Khaja Mohiuddin
VP, Finance - Venture Capital
Khaja has extensive experience is the infrastructure industry with work experience across the world. He is passionate about entrepreneurship and technology. He is currently focusing his energy on building tools to make immigration easier and empower people to be global citizens.
Jasdip Shokar
VP, Finance - Entrepreneurship
Jasdip has 5 years of experience working across North America in operations and logistics. He has broad experience will working in multiple departments at his family-owned business and is passionate about beginning his own startup.
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Pruthvi D.
VP, Internal - Venture Capital
Pruthvi has extensive experience in startups and built several patented products. He is passionate about taking products from 0 to 1 and 1 to nHe is currently working as a Product Manager at BlackBerry, working with the Ivy Innovation Fund and applying his skills to identify strategic ecosystem partnerships for the BlackBerry Ivy Platform, a Software Defined Vehicle platform built by BlackBerry.
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Aishwarya Sapru
VP, Outreach
Aishwarya started her career as a designer in a prominent fashion technology startup. She excels in combining design and user experience to help with problem-solving. She aims to create and manage products that solve real-world problems.
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Corrina Vali
Industry Expert - Entrepreneurship
Corrina is a social entrepreneur, with 5 years of experience building non-profit and for-profit ventures in global health. She is currently the Co-founder and CEO of Tarrina Health, a healthcare distribution startup based in India. Corrina hopes to use this opportunity with REVCA to encourage MBA students to build ventures and offer connections to the local and global startup community.
Garima Jain
VP, Internal - Entrepreneurship
Garima has over four years of pricing strategy and market entry experience in financial services across USA. In addition to her professional experience, she has successfully managed her own small business. Garima's true passion lies in the art of creation, as she is driven by a deep enthusiasm for building new ventures and bringing ideas to life.
Deepiga Ganesan
Deepiga enables small, medium and large clients alike by providing recruitment efforts and offering market insights. Prior to this, she worked in a public sector undertaking in India handling human resource development needs for a dispersed marketing workforce. Fuelled by the love for food, she also ran a home-based food business delivering a cherished family recipe and is planning to use this opportunity to strengthen the VC-aspiring entrepreneur relationship
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Heling Pu
Industry Expert - Venture Capital
Heling is a venture manager at Creative Destruction Lab supporting the growth and scaling of early-stage deep-tech startups. He used to facilitate various cross-border M&A deals and early-stage startup investments and is passionate about fostering a more vibrant entrepreneurial ecosystem.
