KP Balaraj

KP Balaraj is a Managing Director with Sequoia Capital India. Prior to joining Sequoia Capital India, KP co-founded WestBridge Capital Partners. Earlier, KP was part of the Whitehall Group of Goldman Sachs & Co., where he served as a member of Goldman-backed funds and operating companies that invested over $1 billion of private equity in Southeast Asia. Prior to that, he was a co-founder and CFO of Miradiant, a financial services venture-backed startup. Earlier, he was an investment banker at Salomon Brothers. KP is a founding board member of Young Entrepreneur's Organization (YEO) Bangalore. KP received an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BS in Business Management from Brigham Young University, where he graduated as valedictorian of his class.