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Welcome to Foodoba Acquisitions!

We buy profitable growing businesses.
Meet our advisory board and team across various industries :



Mr. Ajit Kumar Narain


Mr. Ajit Kumar Narain

Ajit Narain is a Delhi University, BA(Hons) graduate in Economics
and a Financial Conduct Authority from Institute of Chartered Accountants UK &Wales

He worked with couple of C.A. firms in UK (Temple Gothard & Co , Whinny Murray Ernst&Ernst )

He has been a manager at Dunlop Plantations Ltd UK and later at Dunlop India Ltd Calcutta

Ajit then was director of Finance at Tinplate Co of India- Jamshedpur, India
And then Managing Director at Shree Products Ltd – Pune 1985/2000 and Swastik Rubber Products Ltd – 1988/2000 –Pune

He then founded Unirub Techno India P Ltd –Takve Pune in 2002 and sold it in 2019



Mr. Muralidhar Koteshwar


Mr. Muralidhar Koteshwar

Muralidhar Koteshwar is an engineering professional who is equally passionate about Education.

In a career that spans three decades after a B-Tech from IIT-Madras, he held leadership positions in multinational organizations like

C-DAC, Tektronix, Tata Elxsi, Celstream, Trilogy, Sonim and Avankia.

He is currently Head of Research & Strategy at CalyxPod, an Education 4.0 company powering Digital Campus and Managing Director of Mentor Cloud, an online mentoring platform.

He is a visiting faculty at IIIT-B & IIM Indore and was the founding secretary of the Advanced Computing Society of India He is equally passionate about education and as a Member of the Board of Trustees of the Art of Living’s Educational Trust was responsible for establishing over 100 educational institutes in India.

Workshops on Stress Free Living, Parenting, Leadership and Teaching pioneered by him have reached over a million people in 100+ countries globally.

He has conducted over 1000 workshops covering Design Thinking, UX, Product Architecture, Engineering Leadership and Personality Development in many MNC’s at all experience levels.

He travels worldwide speaking at International Seminars and training thousands of teachers and professionals in schools, homes and organizations.

He is a facilitator of the Executive Leadership Program of AICTE for faculty of Engineering and Management Colleges and is on the Andhra Pradesh Government Committee for Skills Education He was a keynote speaker at the Hindustan Times Annual Education Summit and has been felicitated by various institutions including the Government of Taiwan for service to society.



Dr. Ms. Kishori Apte


Dr. Ms. Kishori Apte

Experience Summary:-

1. Director of APT Testing and Research Pvt Ltd, Pune from 2015 till date.

2. Head of APT Research Foundation, Pune from 2006 till date.

3. Worked as research associate at Indian Institute of Toxicology 1983-1993.

4. Approved Ph.D Research Guide from Maharashtra University of Health Science (MUHS) Nasik and Symbiosis International University (SIU) Pune.

5. Proprietor of National Toxicology Centre, a F.D.A. approved Toxicology Laboratory since 1993 to 2014.

6. Guided 96 students from M. Pharm./ M.D. Ayurveda in their research projects.

7. Guided 3 Ph.D. Students and Co Guide of 6 PhD Students.

8. Recognized as a post graduate teacher by University of Pune, India.


Awards & Recognition:

1. Maharashtra FDA Approved Toxicologist.

2. “Ramabai Joshi women Entrepreneur award for year 2014” by Maratha chamber of commerce, Pune.

3. IRCA Certified ISO9001:2015 Lead auditor.

4. Member of Society of Toxicology USA



Mr. Vijay Shinde


Mr. Vijay Shinde

Director

SPJ Embedded Technologies Pvt LtdSPJ Embedded Technologies Pvt Ltd

Jan 2007 - Present · 15 yrs 6 mos

Managing Director

VSAS Automation Services Pvt LtdVSAS Automation Services Pvt Ltd

Jan 1995 - Present · 27 yrs 6 mos

Bajaj Auto Ltd

7 yrs 11 mos7 yrs 11 mos

Operation ManagerOperation Manager

Apr 1987 - Feb 1995 · 7 yrs 11 mos



Mr. Rakesh Taurani


Mr. Rakesh Taurani

As Executive and Business Development Head of Sports Centrum Puchov (www.sportcetrumpuchov.sk),

Managing Director of Odema Ltd known by its brand name Solarvolt,

specializing in new Solar technologies (www.solarvolt.sk),

Managing Director of Odema Renewables India Pvt Ltd which has won 12 different small and big tenders in India,

and last but not least MD of Indo European, Slovakia as part of the Deccan Water Treatment from Pune, India,

Mr. Rakesh Taurani spends half of his time in India and half in Slovakia.

Born Indian, living in Slovakia for almost 12 years now, Rakesh Taurani constatnly seeks opportunities how to connect Central European business with India and vice-a-versa.

With an attitude of let’s do it and lets go get it, he is always ready to take the responsibility and share his experience with others always looking for new technologies specially in Renewable Energies.

Mr. Taurani worked in the past as Head of Foreign Trade at Veena Enterprises Dubai, part of the Dayal Steel Group, where he was responsible from sourcing to selling for over 3 years, later worked as business head for Textile World, Slovakia for 3 years.



Right from a running watch repair service and running a newspaper publication before the Indian Independence; entrepreneurship runs deep as well as wide in the group. .

Our group (Board of advisors, family members, Investor network) bring to the table a solid experience, knowledge, contacts in several industries:

Manufacturing (B2B) : Fountains, Musical Fountains, Water Screen Projections and Lasers, Electronics, Energy Storage, Ancillary Parts & Tool Room

Manufacturing (B2C) : Food / Snacks, Well-being Natural Products

Technology: Software Product Creation, Educational Sofwares, SAAS Services, Mechatronics Projects (Software + Electronics + Hardware), CRM Customisation and Reselling, Internet of Things (IOT) projects and Products

Real Estate: Development, Leasing Investments, Temples & Ancient Homes Re-Construction

High Ticket Sales and of course Business Acquisitions ( We are now part of the 900+ Global Private Investors Group  focused on Business Acquisitions in partnership with business acquisition stalwarts, acquiring 265+ businesses worldwide, each ranging from million dollar deals to even few billion dollar deals

Our team has media celebrities, big industrialists, multinational companies, governments and large NGOs as primary customers.

Apart from the numerous industry and local awards, Our group has received the prestigious Rajiv Gandhi National Award from the  11th Prime Minister of India : H.D. Deve Gowda for the contribution to the field of fountains in India

Foodoba is reputed for taking up extremely challenging projects and professionally completing  them within stipulated time.
It has been growing steadily over decades in it's domain, and now it's time to grow by leaps and bounds.

This is why the third generation entrepreneurs in the family (2nd generation in the company)  are looking to acquire various businesses,  preferably in the manufacturing and IT sector.

First initiative of Foodoba after acquiring companies is to get the acquired company ready for massive scaling  using their existing human resources.

For the rapid massive scaling of the acquired business, Foodoba will be using it's massive business experience  as well as:
  • Large networks of Industry Connects
  • Modern tools for manufacturing including sophisticated automated robots
  • Ultra targeted sales funnels
  • Process Implementation similar to the multinational companies
  • Self Service Portal including the Real time KPI dashboards, goals, self monitoring, progress report, analytics and enhancement platform for each person and function of business, including external vendors, suppliers, partners, auditors, compliance teams and even clients/customers.
  • Detailed documentation  and multi level audit for each step of the internal and external processes
  • Social Media Brand Enhancement & Recognition
  • Artificial Intelligence based New Age Engaged Digital Marketing
  • Dedicated team for internal and external  feedback processing and process up-gradation
  • Dedicated and highly specialized team for Individual focused, personalized  employee career development
Through our suppliers, customers, consultants and even social initiative drivers we repeatedly come across a very concerning issue in our society :
Missing succession planning for SME businesses, founders unable to transition to retirement, excellent companies closing down abruptly with massive loss of employment, is a rampant problem in almost every sector we looked at.

Foodoba has taken up the responsibility to solve this problem for the entrepreneurs it comes across.

Initially by acquiring companies directly, and later assisting young entrepreneurs to acquire businesses from the earlier generation of entrepreneurs, then standardize and enhance the operations and finally to scale up quickly.

And the first few acquisitions would help to gear up quickly for making this grand vision of Foodoba a reality in the coming few decades.
 

Here are some of the things that we are looking for in a business to consider it for acquisition:

First and most critically, we want the business to have a good track record of generating free cash flow.

We want profit making stable growth private companies, the owner of which wants exit for one or more of the following reason(s):
  • Want to retire but doesn't have a successor.
  • Health is failing
  • Insufficient energy to operate the business
  • Reached personal capacity to grow the business despite decently positive cash flow
  • Business was inherited after original owner was deceased or became incapable because of health.
  • Moving abroad
  • Any other similar personal reason

Business must be preferably decade old. We give 20+ years old businesses much higher preference.

Revenue  and steadily growing net profits and necessarily has a management team  smoothly handling the core functions of the business , independently of the owner.
Contact Us via : investor@foodoba.com