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Shruti Srivastava

Climate-tech Investing | Early-stage VC @Avaana Capital | IIT Madras

Mumbai, Maharashtra

Invests in

Stages:

Locations:

  • Min Investment:

    $100,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $5,000,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $1,500,000.00

Work Experience

  • Investment Director

    2022

  • Principal

    2021 - 2022

    Avaana is India's leading climate-tech focused VC, investing in novel technologies and innovation to unlock a low carbon and climate resilient growth pathway for critical sectors of the economy. Key focus areas include energy transition and resource management, mobility and supply chains and sustainable food systems.

  • Board Member

    2025

    GreenGrahi is an insect-biotechnology company converting food and agri-waste into high-quality insect protein for animal feed and frass-based plant nutrition products through its proprietary biomanufacturing platform, with a path to cost parity with conventional alternatives.

  • Board Member

    2025

    High Time Foods (HTF) develops shelf-stable, affordable plant-based protein products, with customizability and versatility that enables incorporation in a wider variety of cuisines globally, along with food processing and horeca applications.

  • Board Member

    2024

    Dharaksha is building a First-of-a-kind (FOAK) biomanufacturing platform to develop sustainable, mycelium-based packaging solutions using agricultural waste as feedstock, with a path to cost parity vs. conventional alternatives

2021

  • Board Observer

    2021

    One of the largest, digitally-powered B2B food supply platforms in India, FarMart is helping create food supply chains that are more efficient, reliable and resilient.

  • Board Member

    2021

    Eggoz is India's leading consumer egg brand, offering high quality fresh eggs, leveraging deep integration with its partner farms.

  • Board Member

    2021

    Intello Labs is building deep technology solutions to automate quality assessment, grading and sorting for fresh produce.

2022 - 2023

  • Board Observer

    2022 - 2023

    Turno is an EV distribution-cum-financing platform.

2020 - 2021

  • Board Observer

    2020 - 2021

    Arya.ag is India's largest post-harvest services platform bringing together warehousing, financing and trade.

2019 - 2021

  • Board Observer

    2019 - 2021

    Intello Labs is building deep technology solutions to automate quality assessment, grading and sorting for fresh produce.