Bundeep Singh Rangar

London-based entrepreneur and investor Bundeep Singh Rangar founded PremFina, a financial inclusion-oriented fintech that successfully disrupted the U.K.’s 30-year-old insurance finance industry. Recognised among the top UK finance industry CEOs, he’s attracted hundreds of millions of dollars in venture capital, debt and private equity funding, from Japan’s Rakuten Inc., Silicon Valley investor Tim Draper’s UK VC firm, Canada’s Thomson family of the Thomson Reuters company, Madison Dearborn Partners and Morgan Stanley in the US.

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An early digital currency adopter and advisor to Skype in its formative years, he’s invested in several tech companies such as firm Lyft, digital asset manager Wave Digital Assets, venture fund IDEO CoLab, blockchain gaming platform Forte, property data firm Chimnie, insurance broker Pikl, and delivery app Glovo. Bundeep currently serves as the CEO of Fineqia International, a Canadian firm that invests in digital asset companies, blockchain and AI technologies. 

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Bundeep’s impact on venture capital reflects his strategic acumen on how ground-breaking technologies impact business and society. As the co-founder of Glass Ventures that is in formation, he’s now pioneering as a VC investments in early Web 3.0 and Web 4.0 companies.

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During a finance career over two decades, he’s arranged for more than $500 million in financings for UK, European and Indian companies. Notable deals include Germany’s Fidor Bank funding UK loan receivables; Volkswagen’s lead equity investment in California nanotech start-up NanoMuscle; and Del Monte’s investment in FieldFresh, a joint agro-tech venture between the families of Sir Evelyn de Rothschild in the UK and Sunil Mittal in India.

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Bundeep previously founded UK corporate advisory firm IndusView, via which he advised the Boards of top businesses such as UK credit scorer Experian, staffing co. Hays, accounting software firm Sage and Danish online investment bank Saxo Bank, on entering and growing in the Indian market.

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Philanthropy

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At the height of the Covid pandemic in 2020, he organised www.artandco.net, the world's largest online art auction for Covid relief that received much media coverage. It raised funds for 7 charities helping Covid patients as well as those affected by lockdown induced depression and domestic violence. Bundeep is also a brand ambassador for Sporting Equals, a UK institution promoting ethnic diversity in sports.

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Media, Events and Education

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He has been featured in publications such as Bloomberg News, Forbes, The Telegraph and The Times and is a frequent guest on Bloomberg TV, the BBC, CNBC, CNN and Sky News as well as a speaker at significant industry events. His reviews of newspaper headlines for BBC TV World News can be seen at www.rangar.tv.

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While working at Bloomberg, he launched its first live TV show on technology @Bloomberg, and created Europe’s first index of Internet stocks on the Bloomberg terminal.

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Bundeep produces a 3-hour daily music-led South Asian radio program in Canada at www.RadioHuns.ca, and organises the www.SouthAsianFest.net, the largest cultural festival of its kind in North America, both legacies of his late younger brother, Hunsdeep Rangar. Earlier in his career, he worked at MTV and Star TV in Hong Kong and Montreal’s CKUT FM radio.

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Bundeep has been spotted at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Burning Man in Nevada, Art Basel in Miami, Frieze in London, F1 in Abu Dhabi and Singapore, and Wimbledon events. He has also produced a Bollywood-Hollywood crossover film, Lines of Descent. 

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Bundeep holds a Master of Science degree from Columbia University, New York; a BA from McGillUniversity, Montreal; a Diploma in Internet and Advertising from the University of California, Berkeley; a Diploma in International Relations from the University of Vienna, Austria; and a Diplôme d’Études Collégiales in Commerce and Pure and Applied Science from Marianopolis College, Montreal. He attended boarding school in India at the Lawrence School, Sanawar.