I’m Ananya (she/her), a VC investor, startup & technology enthusiast and diversity advocate based in Sydney, Australia.
I’m a data-driven strategist, I believe in creating engaging, meaningful content and experiences and using insights from data to further refine that vision. 🚀
👩🏾💼 LinkedIn
📞 +61 404 597 510
🥑 Currently: Venture Capital Investor at Artesian Venture Capital, specifically supporting our $100m Female Leaders Fund. I also assist with our Climate Fund (closed for new investment).
Previously: Associate at Publicis Sapient's Strategy & Consulting Team. Started my consulting career as part of a select cohort profiled in this article.
👯♀️ Experience in venture capital, customer strategy, service design, operating model design, project management, market sizing and entry, enterprise wide transformation and change management
🎓 Bachelor of Commerce/Arts from UNSW
💫 Vice-Chair at Women of Colour Australia's Research & Advocacy Committee
✍🏾 Startmate Fellow Spring2021
📺 Serial binge watcher of all things true crime and psychological thriller
✨ Attempting to mint an NFT Collection Brown Baddies to encourage BIWoC engagement with Web3!
😇 Designated Organiser and Type A Friend (I love creating travel itineraries on a spreadsheet, finding/booking the best places to eat and have a special talent of scoring tickets to sold out events)
🥂 Always looking for good speakeasies in Sydney
🧁 Love to bake and feed people my food
Artesian Venture Capital
🚀 Startmate Spring21 Fellow
💥 Cadetship and Internships at corporate advisory/consulting firms like Macquarie Bank, McBurney & Partners and Sovereign Private
👩🏾💼 Previous founder of (failed) sustainable tech startup Indus Global. Working on Indus is how I fell in love with startups! Read about Indus in the Indian Sun or in the UNSW Newsroom.
✏️ English Tutor for Year 10-12 students (I am a real literature nerd)
💕 Empathy. I pride myself on my active listening skills, and give people the care and time needed in both personal and professional settings