Accelerating growth with Connections, Capital, and Customers
Contributing to a positive change through ambitious founders, that develop solutions for complex problems.
About Us

We are technologists and entrepreneurs who built several businesses ground up and delivered several innovative solutions to the market successfully in last three decades.

Our Partners

We partner with mission-driven entrepreneurs and companies who possess an exceedingly rare intellect, a creative imagination and a radical vision. They dare to dream big.

Our Approach

We take a hands-on approach in the ventures we associate and bring in unparalleled depth of technology, capital, team and GTM strength using our vast network spread across the Industries.

We believe in building relationships

We’re there for the whole journey — in good times, in hard times, and for the long, difficult climb to the top.

Our Focus

From seed to venture to explosive growth, we work with entrepreneurs and their companies at every stage, across every sector. On occasion, we end up leading the larger round. We usually find ourselves participating in the round with reaching out to other investors to partner with us.

Startup Capital

Pre-seed, Seed or Startup stage, we can join you in your journey early and develop a successful business.

Early Stage

During the emerging stage, we help you with our capital and network for marketing so that you can start seeing a profit.

Growth Capital

In the Expansion stage, we help you to grow even further through market expansion and product diversification.

Bridge Stage

When company has reached Maturity phase, we support activities like mergers, acquisitions, or IPOs.

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STARTUP CLIENTS
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EARLY STAGE
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GROWTH STAGE
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When you need usWe are always there for you!
We pride ourselves on being patient, level-headed partners to you and your business. No matter what the future holds-bringing our experience, network and capital to bear at the most impactful moments along the way. We’re there for the whole journey — in good times, in hard times, and for the long, difficult climb to the top.
We are tight-knit group of investors with over 100 years of combined business experience. Be it Fundraising, High-Technology, Construction, Healthcare, Defense or Government Relationships, each of us come with our own areas of expertise and specialization, and we will open up our vast network that will help you at every stage, from turning initial viability into exponential growth and long-term success.
By continuously engaging with our portfolio companies and providing them with outstanding support on several fronts, including their global expansion, we enable partners to extract the full potential from their companies and power up the world with disruptive technologies. Our long-term orientation and willingness to get involved will help your company immensely
We get our hands dirty.

We are in the business of building successful enterprises, not the deal or funding business. We have a history of leveraging relationships to build teams, attract partners and customers and then together we build billion dollar businesses. We are your active partners who do everything we can for our companies together with our partners. During this process we offer various services to our partners.

Fundraising and M&A - 24 years Experience
92%
International Expansion - 20 years Experience
97%
Sales & Business Development - 35 years Experience
98%
Government & Public Relations - 21 years Experience
92%
We are your trusted partners, challenging the status quo and the laws of nature to bring your futuristic ideas to life.
We are entrepreneurs backing entrepreneurs

We focus on the big vision, even during the concept stages.

We have a solid track record of identifying opportunities before their times, and work with founders on their long-term vision and strategy.

The firm is led by entrepreneurs and operators of successful companies. We can add value and offer expert guidance throughout your company’s lifecycle—whether your big idea is at its inception or has already progressed to be a viable reality. We believe in empowering founders who are risk-takers, who dare to challenge the norms, and who leverage technology to change the way the world works.

Start Your Business

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Discussion of the Idea

You have a great idea that you think will make an impact on the world? Let's meet for a coffee and discuss the idea.

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Strategy & Mentorship

Our partners have founded their own startups and their advice comes from decades of experiences and success.

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Funding & Networking

Our partners hail from Silicon Valley to Asia with rich global network, from Corporate to Governments.

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Global Expansion

Our strong relationships with countries in Americas, Europe and Asia will expand your operations globally.

We are sector agnostic

We invest in people. We like to work with entrepreneurs that are risk-takers, disruptors, who dare to challenge the norms, and who wants to make impact on the world. Even though we work with companies from all sectors, here are our focus areas.

Information Technology

Lifesciences Healthcare

Energy & Utilities

Infrastructure Engineering

Consumer Services

Financial Services

Rock Solid Team

Each member of El Capitan Partners Team have decades long experience in building successful enterprises and know what it takes to grow and successfully exit a business. Drawing upon their expertise, we actively support our portfolio companies, often serving as a lead investor and board member. We believe we are better together, working as a team and it also helps us in providing an agile and responsive services to support you to succeed in a fast-paced and rapidly changing environment.

Manish Chauhan
A serial entrepreneur, seasoned strategist, disruptor and a growth hacker with cross-functional experience and cross-industry expertise over 38 years. Manish is known for formulating powerful visions and using them to drive change in complex, matrixed, and rigid environments.
Manish Chauhan
Co-founder / general partner
Syam Appala
An IT entrepreneur and seasoned investor with 20+ years of experience in incepting and delivering solutions that generated $70B+ revenues in last decade, pioneered several innovations & standards in networking and Cyber Security; advised and invested in over 400 IT companies.
Syam Appala
Co-founder / general partnerr
Sanjay Puri
A successful global entrepreneur, investor, mentor, and activist with powerful connectivity in government and business that places him at the forefront of thought leadership and professional advisement. Sanjay is a multi-faceted CEO and global business owner with many industry-leading ventures on the go.
Sanjay Puri
Co-founder / general partnerr
Hari Chandra is a Global Head of Power, Energy and Infrastructure, International Head of Investment Banking at Cantor Fitzgerald. Hari has 23 years of investment banking experience, having previously worked in the Power, Renewables and Infrastructure.
Hari Chandra
Investment Advisor
Srinivas is an experienced executive with a background in enterprise, security, and cloud infrastructures. He has worked with both established companies and startups. Currently, he offers guidance to multiple venture firms and serves on advisory boards.
Srinivas Mantripragada
Technology Advisor
What People Say

At El Capitan Partners we work with some of the world's most visionary entrepreneurs and business leaders to build truly transformational companies. Here's what some of these entrepreneurs and partners have to say about us.

Their team is easy to work with and helped me build amazing business in a short amount of time. Thanks guys for all your hard work.

Shoko Mugikura CEO / President

Trust us we looked for a very long time and wasted thousands of hours testing other teams, firms and outsource companies.

Alexander Smith Co Founder / CEO

This is an excellent company! I personally enjoyed the energy and the professional support the whole team gave to us into building my large business successfully.

Lindsay Swanson C.E.O.
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