India Capital has invested exclusively in Indian public equities since 1994. We employ intensive fundamental research to make long-term investments in businesses that are central to India’s growing economy. The result is a fund portfolio that differs markedly from that of the benchmark index. Institutions, including foundations, pension funds and family offices, represent the majority of the fund's capital.

OUR TEAM

Our team and those of our affiliates have over fifty years of combined experience in India investing and investment research. We bring a range of professional experience in fields such as private equity, investment banking, equity research, management consulting, corporate management and business journalism to inform a far-reaching, fundamental approach to investment.

Dan Tennebaum

Managing Principal

Dr. Jon Thorn

Director, ICF

Uday Saripalli

CFO and COO

Piyush Goyal

Vice President

Saket Yadav

Vice President

Akshay Jain

Associate

Parang Trivedi

Senior Analyst

Tanisha Chandhok

Analyst

Harsh Vidhani

Analyst

Ritik Shah

Analyst

Shanskar Singhal

Analyst

Mahesh Ambokar

Vice President, Technology

Asha Salokhe

Information Technology Analyst

Waheedali Shaikh

Manager, Administration



Our Directors

Kapil Dev Joory

Director, ICF

Nancy Orr

Director, ICM

Win Bennett

Director, ICM

Couldip Lala

Director, ICF

Ameet Parikh

Director, ICR

Christopher Brader

Director, ICM

Raju Jaddoo

Director, ICM

Sudesh Lala

Director, ICM

RESEARCH
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RESEARCH Research is the core of our investment process. It takes us to nearly every corner of India, from executive offices and government conclaves to factory floors, construction sites and agricultural cooperatives. India’s more than 3,000 publicly traded companies are not always well understood by traditional market intermediaries, nor is comprehensive data readily available from secondary sources in many cases. As a result of these inefficiencies, interactions with customers, competitors, suppliers and regulators can yield a genuinely distinctive view of a business. Comprehensive research allows us to identify opportunities that are not widely understood and construct a concentrated, high-conviction and non-consensus portfolio.

2025
Dan Tennebaum In Conversation With Harvard Business School Professor Tarun Khanna
Conference

This video is taken from a “fireside chat” I recently had with Professor Tarun Khanna at Harvard’s annual India conference. Professor Khanna leads Harvard’s university-wide South Asia Institute and oversees Harvard Business School’s activities in India. Many years ago, I was his student. More than two decades later, he and I held a wide-ranging conversation about how much has changed since then.

In the intervening years, India’s capital markets have grown thirty-fold and delivered among the best long-term equity returns of any major market in the world, second only to the United States. And yet, there have been painful flameouts of some of India’s highest profile companies and institutional asset managers that have left many investors with permanent losses of capital and returns that failed to match the scale of India’s growth.

During our conversation, Professor Khanna asked me to reflect on what it takes to survive and thrive as an investor in India over time, which disciplines will be essential to generating strong returns in the future, and how the best opportunities today are often found in surprising places.

Ours was one of several sessions over two packed days at the India conference. Speakers this year included policymakers, entrepreneurs, scholars, journalists and Bollywood luminaries. The discussions, and more than a few spirited onstage debates, were a vivid reminder of the wildly disparate points of view India’s prominent thinkers hold, their enthusiasm for arguing them, and the love of country that ultimately unites them.

On a personal level, I was struck by how much the conference attendees themselves revealed about today’s India. When I was an MBA student, I had several classmates from India, but there were only three in my cohort who had worked in India (me among them) and I can’t recall many wanting to return after graduation. This year, I met students from the business school and the Kennedy School of Government who already had deep experience in India as entrepreneurs, in the civil service, and even teaching in government schools. They, and many others who have trained at top organizations overseas, are now eager to build careers back home.

The decisive reversal in the flow of India’s human talent, hungry to invest in their country and themselves, is the surest sign I know of the scope of the Indian opportunity and the energy, ambition and intellectual resources its young people are bringing to meet it.

Warmly,
Dan

PODCAST

MAY 2024

The Case For India At India Capital

Dan Tennebaum’s interview with Ted Seides on the Capital Allocators podcast.

From Ted: “Dan Tennebaum is the Managing Director at India Capital, a thirty-year-old investment firm focusing on public equities in India. Dan moved to the country twenty-five years ago and spent time in the start-up world and venture capital before pivoting to the public markets in 2007.

Our conversation covers Dan's path from a U.S. Midwesterner to India and the case for public equities. We turn to India Capital’s perspective on sourcing, research, management, regulation, valuation, portfolio construction, risk, and misperceptions, colored with some examples along the way.”

Listen to the full conversation

Listen to highlights

Our investment philosophy

Key risks and common misperceptions

Preventing permanent loss of capital

The case for Indian public equities

Investing in India Vs. China

What we're most excited about now

EXCERPTS FROM OUR YEAR-END INVESTOR CALL

India, China And The US

CURRENT RESEARCH

RESPONSIBLE INVESTING

The India Capital Fund has had an ethical investment policy for more than three decades that mandates, among other things, refraining from holdings in armaments, tobacco and alcohol.

We believe that approach has enhanced our focus on sectors central to India’s responsible growth and strengthened investment performance. Portfolio companies include:

Renewable Energy. One of India’s largest green energy lenders, financing 17 thousand megawatts of renewable power capacity.

Renewable Energy

Job Creation. India’s largest private sector job creator, with more than 500,000 total employees.

Job Creation

Financial Inclusion. Institutions serving more than 150 million newly banked households and 14 million farmers.

Financial Inclusion

AWARDS

PHILANTHROPY

We and our affiliates are pleased to support a number of organizations that work to improve education, society and the environment in India and Mauritius.

Ajit Deshpande Medical Center

The Ajit Deshpande Medical Center serves more than 24,000 low income patients per year, providing free care in the areas of pulmonology, dermatology, dentistry and more.

Mauritian Wildlife Foundation

The Mauritian Wildlife Foundation assists in the conservation and preservation of Mauritius’ endangered plant and animal species. The Foundation’s long-term aim is to recreate lost ecosystems by saving some of the rarest species from extinction and restoring native forests.

The Cheshire Homes

The Cheshire Homes provide residential care to men and women with physical and learning disabilities.




Corporate India Is Starting To Consolidate. Investors Should Take Notice.

This is not an offer to buy or sell securities. The India Capital Fund maintains positions in sectors and stocks discussed in this note.

December 2022

Corporate India has historically been characterized by extreme fragmentation across sectors. But increasingly, some companies are pulling away from the rest in market share and especially in earnings. This change will have profound implications for investors.