Our Team

Mr. Abhishek Agarwal is a Managing Partner at Rockstud Capital LLP and has 12+ years of experience in Indian financial markets. His key expertise lies in equities as an asset class. He has done his graduation from HR College & further pursued his MSc Finance from Lancaster University Management School in the United Kingdom. He started his career in PINC as a Research Analyst in the Institutional Desk. After completing 2 years in the said organization, he joined his family run stock broking firm, Fortune Interfinance Ltd. He was in a pivotal position to set up entire Mumbai office operations, institution desk & research in equities. He handled a team of 20 people at various divisions and roles.

His extensive knowledge helped him to advise and exchange his views on economy and stocks in various news channels like CNBC Awaaz, CNBC TV18, ET Now, NDTV Profit & Zee News.

He later decided to focus on early stage startups and joined various angel networks like Indian Angel Network, Lets Venture, Venture Catalysts. He has been investing successfully as an Angel Investor for the last 5 years and invested over 24 Start-ups across all sectors. Some successful startups he invested in are Loginext Solutions (exited at 16X), Kwench Lab Solutions (exited at 5X), Wellness Forever (carry return 5X), Getmyparking (carry return 3x) etc. He has also been invited several times as guest speaker at various start up events (like Bombay Chamber of Commerce, Lets Ignite, Assocham Chambers of Commerce, etc) in India.

He successfully formed SEBI registered VC fund “Rockstud Capital Investment Fund” in Sep 2018 with a target corpus of $25mn.

With over 12 years of experience in Capital Markets, Ritesh Bhagwati is one of the founding team member & Vice President at Rockstud Capital LLP (here since 2014).

Ritesh is responsible to structure an exhaustive research framework for the fund to meet its end objectives. Apart from focusing at providing quality stock ideas with an objective of high margin of safety and maximizing favourable returns under Small and Midcap space, he has been instrumental in devising and implementing effective equity portfolio allocation and monitoring the same. His role extends beyond providing research ideas to tracking portfolio investments with objective to maximize the return potential on fund level and scout for opportunities alternately.

His previous endeavours include services at Maximus Securities (a part of Mafatlal Group) a domestic broking firm, Eqestar Capital (a Luxemburg based) a private equity firm and Fortune Interfinance Ltd which is now Rockstud Capital LLP) a family office turned into Alternative Asset Managers.

Ritesh holds B.Com degree from R A Podar College, Certified Financial Planner From Financial Planning State Board of India, Diploma in Business Management from Welingkars Institute, Mumbai and CFA Level 1 Cleared from CFA Institute, USA.

Akshay Mohnot is a graduate and post graduate in Mining Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology(Indian School of Mines), Dhanbad. He has 8 Years of Business and Strategy experience in real estate, consumer lighting, fintech and alternative investment fund(AIF). He heads the fund raising, distribution, investor relations, marketing & PR activities and event management. He created the first SEZ(Special Economic Zone) in Rajasthan from land acquisition to land use conversion as well as getting approvals from the authorities and selling by plotting to various large scale industrialists. He completed the end to end deal in a time span of 3 years.

A passionate sales professional who took Light Form Marketing(Brand Name-Luminac) from its South India presence to Pan India in a span of 6 months and scaled the business to 3x with a new industry reform of advance payments by dealers instead of credit which is very prevalent in LED lighting industry. With the entrepreneurial zeal, he was working as a pseudo entrepreneur and first employee with BHIVE group in Bangalore where he pioneered in setup of Fintech Platform for investment into alternatives. His business acumen led to convince management to have an Alternative Investment Fund (AIF). With real hands on experience from setup, fund raise, due diligence, deal making, negotiations, accounting, compliance and investor relations worked towards the success of BHIVE Fund(a Cat-2 AIF).

He speaks at different forums about LP rights and investor safeguard mechanisms in riskier assets of Alternative investments. With strong knowledge and experience of Debt (LRD, project finance, inventory discounting, revenue-based financing) and Equity (startup fund raise and real estate) deal structuring and negotiations, he often advices fintech startups about legal aspect and safe guarding investor mechanisms. He has completed 6 half-marathon and 2 marathons since 2018. He is avid sport enthusiast and trained mountaineer. He is fond of relationship between food and mental well-being, so keeps himself busy experimenting with spices over his free time.

Rajesh comes with over 12 years of experience in the Accounts and Taxation. He has been working with Rockstud Capital since inception. Prior to Joining Rockstud Capital, he worked with a VUB Engineering Pvt. Ltd. (Real Estate Company) as an Senior Accountant for a two years where he was responsible for end to end accounting, taxation and finalization of Company financials. There he was leading a team of 5 people. Rajesh also spent 3 years with Ketan Nanavati & Co where he was Article Trainee handling various companies statutory and Internal Audit and Finalization. Before that he spent a 4 year with Nitin Dave & Co. Chartered Accountant where is was handling Accounts, Taxation and Audit for Co’s like Maersk India Pvt. Ltd., Lazard India Pvt. Ltd., Shapoorji Pallonji & Co. Pvt. Ltd and their various group companies. During his working tenure he has worked with different accounting software’s like, SAP Based ERP (FACT), Oracle, PeopleSoft, Spectrum and Tally ERP9.

Rajesh has done his Inter CA from Institute of Chartered Accountants of India and also completed a Bachelor’s Degree in Commerce from Hazarimal Somani College of Commerce and Economics from Mumbai University.