Ramana Nanda

Ramana Nanda is Professor of Entrepreneurial Finance and Academic Lead of the Institute for Deep Tech Entrepreneurship at Imperial College London. His research examines financing frictions facing new ventures, with an aim to help entrepreneurs with fundraising and to shed light on how financial intermediaries, corporate R&D and policy makers can improve the odds of selecting and commercializing the most promising ideas and technologies in the economy.

For the academic years 2007 through 2020, Ramana was on the full-time faculty of Harvard Business School, most recently as Sarofim-Rock Professor and co-director of the HBS Private Capital Project. He received his Ph.D. from MIT's Sloan School of Management and has a BA and MA in Economics from Trinity College, Cambridge, U.K. He is a recipient of the 2015 Kauffman Prize Medal, that is awarded annually to one scholar under age 40 whose research has made a significant contribution to the literature in entrepreneurship.

Prior to starting his Ph.D., Ramana was based in the London and New York offices of Oliver, Wyman & Company, where he worked primarily with clients in global capital markets as well as in small-business banking. He continues to advise startup ventures on their financing strategies and also works with philanthropists and investors looking to back "deep tech" entrepreneurial solutions to global challenges.

AWARDS & HONORS

• Selected for a 2017 Schulze Distinguished Professorship.
• Winner of the 2015 Ewing Marion Kauffman Prize Medal for Distinguished Research in Entrepreneurship, awarded annually to one scholar under age 40 whose research has made a significant contribution to the literature in entrepreneurship.
• Won 2012 World Finance Conference Best Paper for "Investment Cycles and Startup Innovation" with Matthew Rhodes-Kropf.
• Awarded the 2009-2010 Kauffman Foundation Junior Faculty Fellowship in Entrepreneurship Research.
• Received the 2005-2006 Kauffman Foundation Dissertation Fellowship Award.
• Awarded a GBI-Stern Aspen Foundation Grant in 2004 for research on the Indian software industry.

AREAS OF INTEREST

• entrepreneurial finance
• entrepreneurship
• government and business
• innovation
• venture capital

ADDITIONAL TOPICS

• financial intermediaries
• financing
• green technology
• industry evolution
• international entrepreneurial finance
• international entrepreneurship
• small business finance
• social entrepreneurship
• technological change
• venture creation/development

• environment INDUSTRIES

• banking

• biotechnology

• energy

• financial services

• green technology

• microfinance

• nonprofit industry

• venture capital industry

GEOGRAPHIES

• Asia
• Denmark
• Europe
• India
• Mexico
• North America
• United States