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Deepak Chhugani

Deepak Chhugani is Founder and CEO at Nuvocargo [1]. He maintains a presence on X (formerly Twitter) at @dchhugani [2].

Insights & ideas

Deepak Chhugani frames entrepreneurship as something absorbed early, growing up among Indian parents in Ecuador and Kenya where he observed family and community businesses, including his father's logistics venture that brought the family to Ecuador, and he treats this exposure as the root of his own ambition [1]. He also credits his investment banking stint at Bank of America Merrill Lynch as formative, describing the extreme hours and intensity as instilling a lasting work ethic and an obsessive attention to detail, while noting that the analytical, spreadsheet-driven mindset of banking left him unprepared for the operational nuances of actually running a company [1].

He emphasizes the outsized role of mentors in career transitions, pointing to entrepreneurs slightly older than him who encouraged him to leave finance despite having no technology background [1]. This led him to found Nuvocargo, a logistics technology company building AI-powered tools for border visibility, tariff management, and a transportation control tower offering freight cost and SKU-level visibility [1].

Experience

  1. Founder/CEO
    NuvocargoMar 2019 to Present
  2. Investor
    Startups & PEJun 2019 to Present
  3. Founder/CEO
    The LobbyMay 2017 to Dec 2018
  4. Investment Banking - Latin America M&A
    Merrill Lynch2014 to 2016

Education

Media & appearances

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