Investor, Entrepreneur, Founder, Mentor, Startup Coach, Startup Community Hacker, Speaker, 8 Marathons, 1 Icelandic Financial Collapse, Principle Centered and working hard to do the Right thing everyday.

Bestowed the Order of the Falcon by the President of Iceland on January 1st, 2025 for building the startup community in Iceland and for promoting entrepreneurship.

Strategy, Entrepreneurship, Venture Investing, Management Consulting and Investment Banking Advisory experienced professional. Focused on value creation to all stakeholders.

Investment Track Record (profile@Angellist https://angel.co/balakamallakharan):
1. CLARA - Acquired by Jive Software (Nasdaq: JIVE)
2. Buuteeq - Acquired by Priceline.com (Nasdaq: PCLN)
3. GreenQloud - Acquired by NetApp (Nasdaq:NTAP)
4. Guide to Iceland - Profitable and growing (Winner of Deloitte Fast 50 in Iceland and 3rd in All of Europe)
5. Indo Bank - Mentor and early investor, fastest growing neo-bank in Iceland

Founder Startup Iceland, a grassroot initiative to build a vibrant Startup Community in Iceland. Startup Iceland is a yearly conference on building sustainable and anti fragile startup community in Iceland.

Bala provides VC, Strategy, Business Development, Technology, Leadership and Capital raising/planning advice and management consulting. Bala also provides advisory service to companies planning to establish presence in India, Iceland and other emerging markets.

Professional goal is to profitably grow the business by focusing on principles and fact based consulting and value creation.