Syed Safawi
Founder at ELINA INVESTMENTS PRIVATE LIMITED
Gurgaon, Haryana
Syed Safawi, Founder at ELINA INVESTMENTS PRIVATE LIMITED is an active investor based in Gurgaon, Haryana. This profile covers what Syed Safawi backs, at which stage, and how founders can reach out in 2026.
Mr. Syed Safawi is a Co-Founder of Padup Ventures. He founded Elina Investments. He also serves as an Advisor at Aadar. He serves as Board Member at Ascend Telecom Infrastructure. He comes with almost three decades of leadership experience, with two decades growing and transforming companies in India and outside in consumer goods, beverages, telecom, infra, and beauty & wellness. An Investor in technology platforms and on several Boards and Advisory Boards, he educates over ten thousand underprivileged children through his E&H Foundation. After a distinguished corporate career leading several transformations, he has also co-founded a business solutions platform called Optiwize, focuses on family-owned businesses and SMEs. He has served companies like Coca-Cola, Bharti Airtel, Reliance Communication, Vyom Networks (A Tata-Tele JV), VLCC, etc. specializing in turning companies around with large profitability, fundraising, and exits. He was the CEO of Vyom Networks, a TATA-SREI-PE joint venture, where American Tower Corporation closed the acquisition of a 51% controlling ownership in 2016, thus figuring among the top 10 inbound M&A deals in India ever, across sectors. Besides the business transformation, the organizational transformation witnessed an increase in people engagement scores to 87 ( vs. 62) comparable to the Top 100 companies in India. Before Vyom Networks, he was with Reliance Communication Limited as the President and CEO of the Wireless Business and Chairman of the Reliance Management Board. He worked with RCom, taking it to over 150 million customers, a US$ 4 billion revenue, and US$ 1 billion EBIDTA. He is an MBA from India an alumnus of The Wharton School, USA, and a certified Director from the Institute of Directors.
- Investor type
- Angel
- Stages
- Early Stage VentureSeed
- Invests in
- Consumer & RetailConsumer Goods (CPG)Mobility & LogisticsAutomotive & EV
- Location
- Gurgaon, Haryana
- Typical check
- $375K
- Past investments
- 5
Notable investments
GoMechanicReliance Communications
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