Utpal Vaishnav

Utpal “UV” Vaishnav is the Founder, Chairman, and Architect of EightQor Group and Managing Partner of EightQor Capital.

Based in Dubai and operating across India and Europe, he has more than two decades of experience building technology businesses, products, SaaS companies, and venture platforms. He has built and led organizations of more than 200 professionals, executed a multimillion-dollar company exit in 2017, and acquired a multimillion-dollar SaaS telephony business in 2022.

His work connects four complementary disciplines: AI and software engineering through Upsquare, venture creation through House of Starts, capital allocation through EightQor Capital, and social impact through Enrise Social Foundation. Together, they form the EightQor ecosystem for building technology companies, venture platforms, capital systems, and long-horizon institutions.

EightQor Group is privately owned through Polynxt.

A former national-level chess player, UV applies the strategic thinking of competitive chess to business architecture. He is also a Wing Chun practitioner and student of practical martial arts.

Through his writing and the #DhandheKaFunda series on LinkedIn, he shares practical frameworks on entrepreneurship, capital allocation, systems design, leadership, and long-term value creation.

He welcomes conversations with founders, operators, investors, and institutional partners building for the long term.

If your trajectories align, reach out to him. He’s just a Google search away: “Utpal Vaishnav.”

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