Vidu Shanmugarajah

Vidu is a partner on the GV investing team, based in London. He is also GV’s legal counsel for Europe.

Before joining GV in 2015, Vidu’s career spanned law, startups, and investing. Vidu helped launch Grafton Capital, where he worked on enterprise software investments and spent time in private equity at HgCapital, working on technology buyouts and growth equity investments. He also founded an online platform that provided better access to legal services for startups and small businesses.

He began his career as a corporate lawyer at Linklaters where he led M&A, restructuring and financing transactions across a range of sectors.

Vidu holds a degree in law from the London School of Economics.