Pro-Investors

Mili Srivastava leads Ventures for Diageo India. Diageo is the largest manufacturer of spirits in the world. Prior to this she headed business development for a crowdfunding platform and was with Deloitte Consulting.

Mili has equal experience of working with Start-ups as well as corporates and therefore understands the spectrum. She loves reading, travelling and cleaning. In her free time she either interacts with NGOs or Startups as the former teaches her compassion and latter passion.

Maya Chandrasekaran is the co-founder and Managing Partner of Green Artha Innovation – a climate innovation and investment firm. She also co-founded and continues to actively run the 200+ member Women in Investing Network — a network of women investors across India. As one of the founding members of Menterra Venture Advisors, she built the Education and Skilling investment practice. She was part of the founding leadership that scaled Babajob.com into India’s largest tech-enabled livelihoods platform, securing meaningful work for over 10 million people in just 7 years. Maya is a published author of 6 children’s books, an avid traveller, yoga enthusiast and parent of 2 very active boys.

Swapna Gupta is a Director at Qualcomm Ventures India, based out of the Bangalore office. She manages investments across all sectors in the technology related ecosystem.

Swapna gained experience across the corporate finance sector, on the sell side and buy side. Her expertise lies in venture capital, corporate finance, mobile and frontier technology and emerging markets. In her current role, she is involved in identifying attractive investment areas with a long-term outlook. She is scouting for the next unique opportunity and wants to support the right team.

Prior to joining Qualcomm, she was part of the Investment Banking team at EY, India where she concentrated on Private Equity and M&A of Technology/Telecom companies. She has also worked as part of the Corporate Finance team of Vodafone, India where she was involved in 3G spectrum bidding and financial planning.

Swapna has an MBA from Faculty of Management Studies, Delhi and a B.Tech from NIT, Nagpur. She is a travel enthusiast and an avid reader.

Lavanya brought 15 years of growth equity investing and investment banking experience to Trifecta Capital, where she is now a Partner. She has deployed funds, mentored portfolio companies through their journey and created healthy exit outcomes for investors in both India and the US.

Previously, Lavanya held the designation of M.D., Goldman Sachs Principal Investing, as a senior member of a 12-person team deploying funds from GS’ balance sheet and USD 8 Bn global private equity fund in India.

Her lifecycle investing experience including investments in Pepperfry, Azure, Cytecare and successful exits in Mahindra & Mahindra, Max India, and TVS Logistics.

She has also worked at SPO Partners, a value-investing oriented hedge fund in California managing USD 10 Bn, and Goldman Sachs investment banking in New York.

She had a BS in Finance & Economics from Wharton, U Penn (2004) and an MBA from Stanford GSB (2010)

She is deeply interested in fitness, yoga and mindfulness.

Srikrishna Ramamoorthy is a venture capital investor investing in early stage start-ups that create large scale social impact and co-founder of the Bangalore Literature Festival. His past experience is in consulting and implementation with organizations that improve the lives of people at the ‘Base of the Pyramid’. Passionate about travel, books, Indian classical music and radio, Srikrishna has hosted a daily show on India’s first and only wellness and lifestyle radio station.