Invests in
Locations:
Min Investment:
$100,000.00Max Investment:
$5,000,000.00Target Investment:
$1,500,000.00
Skills
Education
Lists including Priyanka
Work Experience
2014
Managing Partner
2024
Managing Partner, Seed Investing
2019
Chief Operating Officer
2017
CIIE is India's premier seed-investor and entrepreneurship centre housed at IIM Ahmedabad. Our mission is to identify and plug gaps in the Indian innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem. We back innovative ventures across technology and impact areas such as energy, environment, agriculture, healthcare and affordable technologies by providing policy insights, market access, capital and operating support. We run incubators, accelerators and venture funds across sectors in India and actively work on converting our insights into knowledge that can influence the practice of incubation and entrepreneurship in India.
Director Portfolio
2014 - 2016
Providing strategic, advisory and fund-raising support to 80+ companies in the CIIE portfolio.
Venture Partner
2018
Bharat Innovation Fund is a pre-Series A and Series A fund set up to catalyse IP-driven disruptive technology ventures in large emerging sectors such as healthcare, agriculture, renewables and advanced technology solutions.
2010 - 2014
COO, CTO, CFO
2010 - 2014
Piramal Sarvajal is an innovative social impact startup in the community-based drinking water space seeking to provide access to clean, drinking water to India’s underserved using technology and community engagement. I joined Piramal Sarvajal as the joint COO with a mandate for building systems and processes that would organize it for growth and market leadership. As the CTO I led the teams responsible for designing, developing and commercializing key technology disruptors including Soochak (remote management and monitoring systems for Filtration Plants) and the world’s first Water ATM – a cloud-based, solar-powered cashless vending ecosystem that enables 24/7 availability of clean drinking water at the last mile. I was also responsible for all financial processes including planning, budgeting, reporting and Key Results Area (KRA) setting for the entire organization as it's CFO.
2009 - 2010
Senior Consultant, Strategy and Change, Internal Practice
2009 - 2010
Advising Senior Executives at IBM on business and operational issues as part of the Corporate Strategy team at IBM.
2000 - 2006
Member of Technical Staff, Solaris Network Performance Team
2000 - 2006