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Pearl Agarwal
Founder & Managing Director, Eximius Ventures
Pearl Agarwal
Founder & Managing Director, Eximius Ventures
Prior to Eximius, Pearl spent a decade across various investment roles in the US and UK, helping companies raise capital, facilitating multi-billion dollar mergers and acquisitions, and ensuring business development. Alongside Eximius, Pearl is also the co-founder of DotReview, a platform for founders to get authentic and trusted reviews of investors.
Education:
McCombs School of Business (UT Austin)
Pooja Sarkar
Senior Assistant Editor and Podcaster, Forbes India
Pooja Sarkar
Senior Assistant Editor and Podcaster, Forbes India
Pooja Sarkar has been a financial writer for over a decade and works at Forbes India as Senior Assistant Editor. Pooja writes on global private equity funds, Indian deals ecosystem and financial investigative stories. As a financial journalist she actively champions the cause of women participation in the Indian financial ecosystem.
She also hosts a business & economics podcast called From The Bookshelves of Forbes India.
Lavanya Ashok
Partner, Trifecta Capital
Lavanya Ashok
Partner, Trifecta Capital
Lavanya brings deep life cycle growth equity investing experience to the firm. She has deployed funds, mentored portfolio companies through their journey and created healthy exit outcomes for investors in both India and the US. She joined Trifecta Capital to build out its late-stage equity platform, to consolidate its position as the financing partner for the new economy. She also cultivates a deep interest in fitness, yoga and mindfulness.
- 15 years of growth equity investing and investment banking experience.
- Previously, M.D., Goldman Sachs Principal Investing, a senior member of a 12-person team deploying funds from GS’ balance sheet and USD 8 Bn global private equity fund in India
- Lifecycle investing experience including investments in Pepperfry, Azure, Cytecare and successful exits in Mahindra & Mahindra, Max India, and TVS Logistics.
- 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
Education
BS, Finance & Economics - Wharton, U Penn (2004)
MBA - Stanford GSB (2010)
Sushma Kaushik
Partner, Aavishkaar Capital
Sushma Kaushik
Partner, Aavishkaar Capital
Sushma is a Partner at Aavishkaar Capital and brings with her over 18 years of diverse experience in the field of early stage investing, small business incubation and consulting across sectors. Sushma has worked to identify, manage and exit large number of companies and has worked closely with several inclusive business entrepreneurs. She has been an active representative on the Boards of several early-growth stage companies. She started off with an entrepreneurial venture in engineering design services and moved on to roles in investments. She was part of the acquisition team at Starwood Capital where she evaluated diverse real estate assets. While at Ashoka- Innovators for the Public, Sushma got to work with social entrepreneurs in the Housing for All initiative. She has worked closely on building collaborative partnerships in market based solutions for the low-income populations.
Sushma has completed a strategic leadership program at the prestigious Harvard Business School. She is an engineering graduate from RVCE, Bangalore and has an MBA from the Indian School of Business, Hyderabad.
Sushma loves solving problems and in her free time mentors startups across diverse fields. She was recognized as “40 UNDER 40” Alternate investment professional in India and as one of the Top 100 Women in Finance-2020 in the “leading” category.