Gaurav Bhasin

Based out of San Francisco.

Gaurav has closed more than 75 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 including Software (Application Software, Infrastructure Software, Vertical SaaS including Education, FinTech, Health Care, Real Estate Software), Internet (gaming, e-commerce) and Hardware. Gaurav has also closed transactions for emerging technologies companies in AR, IoT and AI / ML. His clients have exited to strategics like Apple to Zynga and PE firms such as ClearLake Capital, Francisco Partners, Hercules Capital, K1 Capital, Marlin Equity, Nexphase Capital, Providence Equity, Spotlight PE etc.

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 started his career as an engineer before moving into management roles.

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.