B Capital founding partner Kabir Narang leaves to launch new investment platform

Kabir Narang, a founding wide spouse astatine B Capital and an aboriginal backer of respective Indian startups, has near the planetary task firm, TechCrunch has learned and confirmed with the company.

Narang is laying the groundwork for a caller concern level slated for 2026 that volition absorption connected “compounding astatine the intersection of technology, AI, and planetary superior flows,” per a enactment shared with founders and reviewed by TechCrunch.

After joining B Capital successful March 2017, Narang co-led the firm’s Asia strategy from Singapore and chaired its planetary concern committee. Durng his tenure, helium backed Indian startups specified arsenic Meesho, Khatabook, CredAvenue, Bounce, and Bizongo.

“We are surviving done 1 of the astir profound technological revolutions successful history, and 1 of the toughest tests of capitalist discipline,” Narang wrote. “AI scales thought itself, compressing the spread betwixt thought and output. The founders who brace that velocity with pricing powerfulness and improving portion economics volition specify the adjacent procreation of enduring value.”

Alongside processing the caller concern platform, Narang told founders that helium is taking 1–2% idiosyncratic stakes successful companies helium believes tin “compound intelligently.” This suggests helium plans to enactment progressive successful early-stage investing portion mounting up a broader vehicle.

B Capital confirmed Narang’s exit to TechCrunch and noted that Eduardo Saverin, Karan Mohla, and Howard Morgan would negociate its Asia portfolio alongside the existing squad successful South and Southeast Asia.

“After much than 8 years with the firm, Kabir Narang, who focused connected aboriginal signifier maturation investing efforts successful Asia, has near his relation to prosecute different opportunities,” a B Capital spokesperson said. “We are grateful for his contributions, and we privation him continued occurrence successful the future.”

Founded successful 2015 by Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin and erstwhile Bain Capital enforcement Raj Ganguly, B Capital is simply a multi-stage capitalist focused connected technology, healthcare, and resilience tech. The San Francisco–based steadfast manages much than $9 cardinal crossed 9 offices successful the U.S. and Asia. Through a concern with Boston Consulting Group, B Capital besides provides portfolio companies with strategical and operational support.

Before joining B Capital, Narang spent astir 9 years astatine Fidelity-backed Eight Roads Ventures India, wherever helium was a managing director.

“B Capital remains profoundly committed to our strategy successful Asia and our broader planetary platform,” the B Capital spokesperson said. “With beardown enactment and an experienced squad crossed the region, we are well-positioned to capitalize connected the adjacent question of innovation and proceed backing category-defining companies crossed our halfway markets.”

Narang did not respond to a petition for comment.