Priyanshu Bhattacharya MBA, MA, B.E. (Mech.) 

Venture Capital | Strategic Advisor (Writings/Profile)

I’m a venture financier and M&A advisor. For nearly two decades, I’ve worked at the intersection of business strategy, capital markets, and practical imagination—helping founders, executives, and investors translate vision into velocity.

Across Europe and Asia, I’ve led venture development, structured financings, and advised on more than fifty transactions, from early-stage capital raises to complex cross-border M&A. I’ve partnered with entrepreneurs launching their first product and with boardrooms navigating investment decisions. On paper, the deals look neat. In reality, they demand navigating ambiguity, aligning incentives, and managing the unpredictable logic of human intent, especially in sectors like enterprise software, AI, and deeptech.

The job, at its core, is to solve for the “how.” How does this business grow? How does this deal get done? How do we close the gap between what’s possible and what’s real?

Along the way, I’ve worked across investment banking, venture advisory, and strategic consulting—launching new ventures, scaling businesses, and building the capital structures to sustain them. But beyond the transactions, I’ve been assembling a way of thinking: frameworks for strategic clarity, tools for decision-making under uncertainty, and a deep respect for the discipline of focus.

I was born in India and have lived in Munich, Paris, Tel Aviv, and Zurich before settling in London. I’ve traveled through more than forty countries, mostly without a plan. What I learned couldn’t be modeled in Excel, how cultures approach risk, how institutions adapt, and how people try, often imperfectly to make things work.

This site is a record of that learning. It’s a living archive: ideas, tools, notes from the field. Lessons from deals that nearly broke down. Frameworks for navigating the fog. Reflections from people who never meant to teach, but did.

None of this is final. But some of it might help you build something that lasts.

I hold an Executive MBA from Oxford, a finance degree from the University of St. Gallen and GGSB, and an undergraduate degree in mechanical engineering from Cochin University in India.

When I’m not working, I recharge in the mountains, get lost in art, or spend time with the people who remind me what really matters.

Thanks for reading. I hope this helps you ask a better questions.