Rahul Parekh is a Venture Capital investor at 2150, taking on the biggest sustainability challenge on the planet. 2150 backs tech entrepreneurs with Constructive Capital so they can build companies that have the potential to benefit billions of people, create billions in commercial value and lower gigatons of emissions. Rahul has been on both sides of the table having founded and exited a VC-backed business. Before joining 2150, Rahul co-founded EatFirst, which he ran as CEO for several years before the company was acquired in 2020. He was also a managing director in Rocket Internet’s investment team, focussed primarily on urban mobile on-demand businesses. He began his career at Goldman Sachs, where he spent eight years as an executive director in equity derivatives trading.

Rahul graduated from the University of Cambridge with an M.A. in economics. He became passionate about sustainability after studying the impact of mass-urbanisation on living standards in developing countries and then witnessing this first-hand during a trip to India in 2007. Rahul’s personal commitment to sustainability in 2022 is to switch to 100% renewable energy at home.