Chitra Nayak, Mythili Sankaran, Sruthi Ramawami, Founders @ Neythri

Simi welcomes a founder trio to the podcast. Mythili Sankaran, Chitra Nayak, and Sruthi Ramaswami are the co-founders of Neythri, an organization dedicated to creating a network of South Asian professional women. Most recently, they launched the Neythri Futures Fund, a startup investment fund with an investor base of primarily South Asian women.

Now a little more about the women behind Neythri.

Chitra Nayak is currently an independent board member at companies like Infosys, and LifeWorks. Most recently, she served as COO at Comfy, a real-estate tech startup, and prior to this was COO at Funding Circle, an online lending marketplace. She was at Salesforce for eight years, where she served as COO of Platform and SVP of Sales Development. Chitra has an MBA from Harvard Business School, an MS in Engineering from Cornell University, and a BS in Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology.

Previously, Mythili Sankaran led regional operations for the U.S. - India Business Council and the American India Foundation. Mythili also served as CEO of Koollage, a web service company. Earlier in her career, Mythili spent several years in research and product at IBM and AT&T Bell Labs. She has a MS degree in Physics from Texas Tech University, a M.Sc in Electronics from the University of Bombay, and an Executive MBA from Wharton.

Sruthi Ramaswami is a growth equity investor at ICONIQ Capital, an investment firm that has served the likes of Sheryl Sandberg and Jack Dorsey. Prior to her current role, Sruthi was at Goldman Sachs. She is the co-founder of Shakti Collaborative, a digital platform that showcases the narratives of South Asian women. Sruthi holds a BA degree in Economics from the University of Chicago.

In this episode, they discuss talk the ways in which each of their respective careers informed the building of Neythri, how they came together, and their work bringing together South Asian funders, founders, and operators.

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