Dinika Mahtani

Partner

2024

Cherry Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm led by a team of entrepreneurs with experience building fast-scaling companies such as Zalando and Spotify. The firm backs Europe's boldest founders, usually as their first institutional investor, and supports them in everything from their go-to-market strategy and the scaling of their businesses. Cherry Ventures has previously invested in the seed stage of over 50 companies across Europe, including FlixBus, Auto1 Group, Infarm, Rows, Forto, and TourRadar. Cherry Ventures is based in Berlin and invests across Europe with operations in London, Paris, and Stockholm.

Principal

2021 - 2024

Non Executive Board Director

2021 - 2023

Arthr are on a mission to improve everyday living for people with arthritis by designing, developing and championing innovative, high-quality and ergonomic products.

Director Of Finance And Operations

2020 - 2021

Dinika was part of an exec leadership team, building the future of B2B technology-enabled renewable energy platforms, across GTM Ops / fundraising / strategy, pricing & finance. Kaluza is OVO Group’s technology platform ecosystem that is driving the transition to a zero carbon grid. Its SaaS platform enables energy suppliers to empower their customers with unique digital experiences and smart, low carbon technologies (including EVs, and other residential devices) that not only reduce energy bills, but lay the foundations for a more flexible energy system. Kaluza’s leading tech is recognised across the industry, winning ‘Technological Innovation’ in edie’s Sustainability Leaders Awards 2020, ‘Transport Technology’ in BusinessGreen Technology Awards 2020 and ‘Best Innovation in Electricity’ at the UK Energy Innovation Awards 2019.

General Manager, JUMP UK

2019 - 2020

Dinika launched, managed and scaled Uber's JUMP e-bikes product in the UK

Head of Strategic Finance, UberEats EMEA

2018 - 2020

Dinika was a core part of UberEats' EMEA founding team

Strategic Finance & Pricing - Russia & Central Europe

2016 - 2017

Dinika led Pricing & Strategy for EMEA, and later focused on Russia and Central Europe. She was part of the deal team which sold this business to Yandex.

Capital Markets & Fundraising AVP

2013 - 2016

Leveraged lending and loan capital markets. Deal origination and execution across the technology, media, telecom & energy industries.

Investment Banking Analyst

2007 - 2010