Gaurav Bhasin

Managing Director, Allied Advisers

Gaurav started Allied Advisers to serve entrepreneurs and investors globally. Gaurav began his career as an engineer and management professional before moving to Investment Banking.

Gaurav has closed more than 100 transactions (M&A, Financings including structured debt and PE / VC raises, Recapitalization, Strategic Alliances and Divestitures, IPO, Follow-On) representing clients in a broad range of technology sectors. Gaurav has also closed transactions for emerging technologies companies in Deep Tech incl. AI / ML.

Previously, Gaurav was a Managing Director at Capstone Headwaters and Pagemill Partners, a division of Duff & Phelps Securities. Gaurav also worked as an investment banker at Banc of America Securities. Gaurav has successfully completed complex cross-border transactions worldwide including Canada, Europe, India and Israel. One of his transactions led ACQ to recognize the transaction as Cross-Border M&A Advisor of the year.

Gaurav has MS in engineering from UCLA where he graduated in the top 5% of his class and attended on a full research fellowship. He also got an MBA at UCLA while working full-time and graduated with Anderson Honors. He is also co-author of several published papers in scientific journals.

Gaurav has invested in companies which exited successfully to Docusign, Nutanix, Jamf, Luminate PE among others.  Gaurav was noted in the top 101 Managing Directors in Finance in San Francisco and in Silicon India top 100 companies founded and managed by American Indians.