
Navak_Gupta
33 year old, Entrepreneur by profession; my first venture was in FMCG with well known investors and VCs investing in my company and eventually Emami acquiring us in 2014. Since then I have been part of multiple sectors as part of my family business in real estate and fuel retail. To take this forward, I am now venturing into setting up a large compressed Biogas (Bio CNG) plant in Telangana based on Napier grass and hope to scale this business over multiple plants by building deep expertise in biofuels. I also run a deep tech synthetic biology based company which develops high value ingredients like carotenoids using precision fermentation. My first molecule is currently in scale up with a CDMO and will be commercialised by mid of 2025.
I follow multiple sectors due to my work and otherwise my interests, giving me unique insights about sectors like biotech, chemicals, pharma, renewable energy, biofuels, capex plays, natural gas and CGD companies, auto companies, consumer businesses especially luxury, agro industries, banks and financial sector, defence companies, IT and technology companies and lastly real estate and ancillary plays.
I have been investing for the last 7 years and regularly follow the overall market movement and trends. My high conviction ideas where I am also invested for several years include Nazara Technologies, Deepak Nitrite, Goldiam International, International Gemological Institute, IDFC First Bank, Persistent Systems. Also have few high conviction small cap names with differentiated business model I am actively tracking before taking positions.