in december 2018, bansal founded bac acquisitions private limited, a venture that focused on building and acquiring technology-driven businesses in diverse industry verticals. since 2014, bansal has made 18 investments in local, early-stage startups where the deal size was $1–2 million. in 2019, bansal invested $100 million in ola and received a stake holding of 0.37 per cent. in february 2019, he had investments in ola, grey orange, ather energy, sigtuple, inshorts, unacademy and teamindus.