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Eight Roads managing partner Raj Dugar quits; to launch secondaries fund: report

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Raj Dugar has quit his role as Managing Partner at Eight Roads Ventures and is likely to start a secondaries fund.Dugar had joined Eight Roads back in 2007 and set up the fund’s operations in India before subsequently moving to Singapore in 2018 and expanding reach in other Asian markets as well. Prior to this, he was the director at The Carlyle Group for three years and also had stints at Goldman Sachs, Merlion India Fund and others in the past. He also co-founded WestBridge in 2000 and left in 2003.Eight Roads Ventures is a global investment firm backed by Fidelity which invests in consumer, enterprise and health-tech startups.