Introduction
Tushar Kansal does not fit neatly into one professional box. By day, he is Founder and CEO of Kansaltancy Ventures, a boutique cross-border advisory firm headquartered in Delhi with associates across the UAE, North America, Southeast Asia and Europe. By evening, he is the host behind a microphone, running two podcast formats – “Right!” and “Aradhya” – his Podcasts and Expert speaking sessions have together crossed 100 million views and generated more than 25 million in annual organic reach. In between, he has delivered over 1,000 talks, keynotes and TEDx address, been featured in 200-plus publications including CNN-News18, the Economic Times, Business World, Times of India and Times Now, and hosted a nine-episode series, “Business ki Pathshala,” on Tata Play’s “Har Ghar Startup” channel, backed by actor-entrepreneur Suniel Shetty.
What ties these strands together is a recurring theme in his public commentary: India’s economic rise, its capital markets, its entrepreneurs, and its place in a shifting global order. Kansal’s short-form video library — with titles ranging from “The Truth About America’s $36 Trillion Debt” to “BRAHMOS: India’s Missile Masterstroke” to “Why Nations Chase Indian Talent” — reflects a consistent editorial interest in geopolitics, defence, trade and the Indian growth economy, delivered through the lens of a former CFO and venture advisor rather than a career broadcaster.
Early Career: The Institutional Grounding
Kansal’s professional foundation was built in traditional corporate finance. He trained as an engineer, completed his MBA from the University of Delhi, and later pursued leadership studies at Harvard Business School. His early career included a stint at Deloitte & Touche, followed by a role at Brand Capital, the venture investment arm of the Times of India Group. He went on to serve as CFO of DLI, a company owned by the US private equity firm Guggenheim Partners and he was involved in raising USD 2.5 billion for MTS India – a scale of fundraising that placed him among a small group of Indian finance professionals with direct experience of large, cross-border capital deployment.
This “Big 4 to Big Capital” trajectory – Deloitte and Brand Capital – a Times Group venture platform, and a Guggenheim-owned CFO mandate – gave Tushar Kansal both the technical grounding in deal structuring and valuation, and the institutional credibility that later became central to his public persona. He now also serves as a Venture Advisor to a Canadian VC fund and a Venture Partner with a US-based angel fund, extending his institutional footprint beyond India.
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Building Kansaltancy Ventures
Kansal founded Kansaltancy Ventures as a boutique advisory firm built around a specific thesis: that experienced, hands-on consultants – many of them former CFOs – can deliver the judgment of a large advisory brand without the overhead or the generic playbook. The firm’s stated areas of work span strategic investments and acquisitions, mergers, business and project planning, growth strategy, valuation advisory, venture capital and private equity fundraising, pitch preparation for corporates and investors, pre-IPO and IPO funding, and structured or special-situations debt.
The firm’s client base is deliberately wide-ranging by geography and sector – spanning media in Sweden, organic consumer brands in Portugal and the UAE, ESG-focused companies in Australia, robotics, healthcare, fintech, and consumer products across India, the US and the Middle East. Kansaltancy also counts more than 1,700 VC funds and family offices within its network, and its leadership team – including Partners, chartered accountants with over 30 years in investment banking and asset management, and Columbia-educated investor and operator with cross-border deal experience – brings a combined 75-plus years of professional background across KPMG, Credit Suisse and Havas, among other institutions.
The Podcast: From Advisory Desk to Public Platform
Kansal’s move into podcasting was, in effect, an extension of the advisory relationships he had already built over two decades. “Right!” is positioned for personal branding, corporate marketing and commercial visibility; “Aradhya” is framed around purpose – showcasing not just what guests do, but why they do it. Across both formats, the recurring tagline is consistent: “Simplifying Life & Industry with Meaningful Talks.”
The subject matter is broad but tends to cluster around four content pillars that Kansal has described publicly: entrepreneurship and startups, business strategy and growth, marketing and brand building, and finance and scaling capital. Within that frame, a significant share of his most-viewed content addresses India’s economic trajectory relative to the rest of the world – episodes and clips examining US debt, trade tariffs, defence indigenisation, China’s manufacturing strategy, the Indian rupee, and questions of talent migration and “brain drain” versus “brain gain.” Several individual videos and reels attached to his channels have logged single-digit-million view counts, and cumulative reach across YouTube, Instagram and Facebook – spanning appearances on shows such as Sahoo Ji Podcast, The Invisible Middle Podcast, and The Adycted Show – regularly runs into the hundreds of thousands to millions per clip.
His guest list reflects both the institutional-finance and the public-commentary sides of his work: Nat Schooler (Co-Founder, MONDAY INFLUENCER), Gary Fowler (Founder & CEO, GSD Venture Studios), Kim-Adele Randall (strategic advisor to CEOs and boards), Massimiliano Sulpizi (Founder, EquityMatch.co), finfluencers Deepak Wadhwa and Abhishek Kar, journalist Pawan Kumar of the Amar Ujala Group’s “The Bonus” podcast, Aaj Tak anchor Sonia Singh, and industrialist-investor Bijay Kumar Sahoo, among others.
Recognition and Awards
Kansal’s public-facing work has drawn a series of awards over the past several years. He was named “Best Startup Supporter” by the All India Council for Robotics & Automation (AICRA) for his contribution to the STEM ecosystem, an award presented by former IPS officer and public figure Dr Kiran Bedi. He has also received “Business Leader of the Year in Investment Management” from the Asian African Chamber of Commerce & Industry, “Entrepreneur of the Year” from Business Connect magazine, and “Best Investment Bank in Venture Capital” from Great Companies. He has been listed among the Economic Times’ “15 Business Leaders to Look Out For,” the Times of India’s “15 Dynamic Entrepreneurs,” and Times Now’s “Founders Shaping Industry Trends.”
On the speaking circuit, his talks have taken him to platforms including IIT Hyderabad, the University of Delhi’s Department of Financial Studies, and independently organised TEDx events, in addition to appearances on CNBC-TV18 and Radio Tarang 90.0 FM.
How Peers and Clients Describe Him
Testimonials collected on his LinkedIn profile and in his corporate materials point to a consistent set of characteristics: technical rigor, network breadth, and a willingness to push back on assumptions rather than simply validate a founder’s pitch. Nasser Al Kawari, former CEO of Exxon Mobil Africa, has noted that Kansal’s network extends from the MENA region to the Far East. Gary Fowler of GSD Venture Studios has called him “a go-to guy for Indian companies looking for someone with the drive, determination, network and experience to advise and guide companies.” Sourabh Singh of Trifecta Capital has described him as someone who “goes into the depth of each aspect and questions all business assumptions,” while Jose Graca of Bizmoni Group has pointed to his “detailed analytical thinking” and reliability in making the right connections for clients.
More recent recommendations, tied to his podcast work, echo a similar pattern – professionals describing his interviews as substantive rather than promotional, and crediting his commentary on venture capital flows, India’s agritech, fintech and healthcare diagnostics sectors, and macroeconomic themes as detailed and well-researched rather than surface-level.
The Nationalism and India-Growth Thread
Running through both his advisory work and his media commentary is an explicit orientation toward India’s economic and strategic positioning. Kansal frequently frames his content around questions of Indian capability, self-reliance and global competitiveness – from defence manufacturing and missile technology to talent retention and the debate over Indians studying or emigrating abroad. His podcast audience – split roughly evenly between finance and startup enthusiasts and a broader base of students and early-career professionals – suggests his commentary is reaching people earlier in their careers, not only institutional investors.
This is presented less as ideology than as a professional throughline: a former CFO and dealmaker using a public platform to explain, in plain terms, why capital, policy and geopolitics matter to an Indian audience trying to understand its own economic moment. Whether the subject is a startup’s cap table or a national debt figure, the stated aim – “Simplifying Life & Industry with Meaningful Talks” – remains the same.
A Global Footprint, an India Base
Kansaltancy Ventures’ structure – Delhi headquarters with associates in the UAE, North America, Southeast Asia and Europe, and a stated presence across India, Singapore, the UAE, the UK and the US – mirrors the geographic spread of Kansal’s own public engagements and podcast guests. It is this combination – institutional advisory work with a genuinely international client roster, paired with a domestically rooted, India-first media platform – that has come to define his current professional identity: an advisor to funds and founders across several continents, and a commentator whose loudest and most consistent message remains about India’s own trajectory.
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