Startups in India: Meet these women VC partners from Vertex Ventures SE Asia & India

Kanika MAYAR | 22 Jul 2022

women partners india vc firms With over 500 VCs in India, we are proud to be one of the very few VC firms in India to have female investor professionals - partner Kanika Mayar and investment analyst Ishita Shah, according to Money Control.

Kanika Mayar joined Vertex Ventures Southeast Asia and India in 2020.
She has over 9 years of experience across PE, asset management and investment banking.

Prior to joining Vertex, Kanika was an Investment Officer with the International Finance Corporation (IFC) where she focused on investing in early-stage #technology, #telecom, #renewableenergy and #infrastructure companies across India and South Asia.

Before IFC, Kanika was with Goldman Sachs’s Investment Banking team covering transactions in natural resources in Europe.

Kanika holds a Bachelor in Economics from the Lady Shri Ram College, Delhi University and an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad.

Ishita Shah joined Vertex in 2021.

Prior to joining Vertex, Ishita was an Associate at EY-Parthenon, a global consulting firm headquartered in Boston, US. She worked at the Mumbai office on due diligence and strategy projects in the education sector (Pre-K, K-12, Higher Education) across various geographies like India, Italy, and South East Asia including Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam. She has also worked with Splainer Media, a women-led digital news media startup, helping them with their growth strategy and implementation across sales, marketing, and product design functions.

Ishita holds a Bachelor of Technology in Metallurgical Engineering and Materials Science, and a Minor in Humanities and Social Sciences from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay. While in college, Ishita headed the Literary Arts club.

Thanks to Kanika and Ishita, we invested into amazing female founders such Achitha Jacob (Proactive For Here), Sonam Motwani (Karkhana.io).