Sambodhi brings a rare combination of buy-side discipline and investigative depth to the investment process. As a hedge fund investor at Steinberg Asset Management (a Eurekahedge Best Indian Hedge Fund), he developed a rigorous framework for identifying mispriced growth shaped by years of direct exposure to portfolio construction at the highest level.
Before that, as Senior Engagement Manager at McKinsey's private equity practice (promoted ahead of peers), he learned to underwrite the business first (margins, management, and competitive position) before trusting the model. He began his career advising clients across South-East Asia at Deutsche Bank. Since 2018, he has generated ~25% annualized returns on personal capital against roughly 15% for the broader market over the same period.
Akshay's edge is in seeing what businesses are becoming before the market prices it. At McKinsey, he led diligence and strategy work on acquisition targets totaling more than $25B in value, and built new consumer and consumer-health businesses from scratch.
Extensive experience as an operator at growth-stage startups gives him a practitioner's feel for which companies can truly execute. He brings behavioral-finance fluency to portfolio construction: not just what the numbers say, but why consensus is reading them wrong.
Kandarp brings a combination of institutional investing rigor and entrepreneurial instinct to Strivepoint's strategy and capital formation. As a Partner at McKinsey & Company, he led Consumer Private Equity in the Americas, building the firm's Consumer Private Equity practice and advising leading global funds across 100+ consumer diligences spanning food & beverage, beauty, apparel, restaurants, retail, and DTC.
Before McKinsey, Kandarp spent over a decade inside a high-growth consumer business (from product and brand to supply chain, sales, and e-commerce), giving him a practitioner's understanding of how companies actually operate and drive transformational growth.
He brings deal pattern-matching from 100+ consumer diligences. And the operator scars from running a consumer business himself.