 Vijay Siddhartha is an Indian businessman from Karnataka. He is best known as the founder-owner of the chain of cafe-coffee-dry outlets. Born in Karnataka, Siddhartha got a master's degree in economics from Mangalore University. He is married to the daughter of SM Krishna, the former chief minister of Karnataka. He has been missing since 29 July 2019. Prior to that, he had stated in his letter that he had failed as an entrepreneur. Siddhartha started his career with JM Financial Limited in 1983 in Mumbai as a management trainee in portfolio management and securities trading. Almost 15 years later, Siddhartha established a successful coffee business in Karnataka. His coffee growing and trading company, amalgamated bean company, has an annual turnover of Rs. 25 billion. He was the first entrepreneur in Karnataka to set up cafe-coffee-dry in 1996. Now, he has 1,550 coffee-dry cafes in India. Siddhartha also founded Global Technology Ventures in 2000, a company that identifies, invests and mentors Indian companies engaged in technologies. Currently, he holds both seeds in GTV, Mindtree, Liquid Crystal, Way2Best and ATM. Owner of cafe-coffee-dry chain, Vijay Siddhartha found himself a mid-attacks evasion on 21st September 2017. A tax rate was conducted at over 20 locations in Mumbai, Bangaluru, Chennai and Chikmangalur by senior officials of Income Tax Department of Karnataka and Goa regions. However, after the reports of him gone missing, E.D. has stated that the probe against Vijay Siddhartha is not very serious.