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Shrishti Sahu — Managing Partner · Swadharma Source Ventures · Gurgaon, Haryana, India.
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About
Shrishti Sahu is a 3rd-gen entrepreneur, investor and the host and author of The India Opportunity - one of India’s fastest-growing platforms focused on capital allocation, entrepreneurship, and wealth creation. She is consistently ranked as one of the Top 10 women investors in India. She has backed 60+ startups through her family office, Swadharma Source Ventures (SSV), investing actively in pre-seed and seed-stage companies across fintech, consumer, climate, manufacturing and emerging sectors shaping India’s next decade. SSV is the single-family office of The Sahu Group (a conglomerate diversified across hospitality, real estate, automotive and financial services), investing across public markets, private markets (pre-seed to Series A), fixed income, real estate, and alternatives. The India Opportunity Show has built an audience of 200,000+ across platforms and features long-form conversations with some of the most respected investors, founders, and policymakers, including Aswath Damodaran, Manish Chokhani, Sanjoy Bhattacharya, Ramesh Damani, Sanjay Bakshi, Ajai Chowdhry, and Montek Singh Ahluwalia. The show is nearing 10,000,000 (10M+) views and is considered one of India's fastest-growing business and investing podcasts. With the success of the show, Shrishti is also a published author now with her book called The India Opportunity releasing on 27th October, 2026, backed by one of the leading publishers of India, Juggernaut Books. Her work sits at the intersection of capital, content, and access - building a high-trust ecosystem for founders, investors, and operators participating in India’s economic opportunity. In addition to investing, she is building Hunnit, an athleisure brand, reflecting her background as an operator and entrepreneur. Previously, she built and exited a fintech company in India and has experience across private equity and operating roles at Facebook.—📩 Founders: We invest actively in pre-seed and seed rounds. Send your deck: shrishtisahu18@gmail.com | pitch@ssv.fundThe investment portfolio of SSV includes 55+ companies: Plum, Rupifi, Kutumb, Accacia, Eeki Foods, Stage, Jar, Aspire, OnFinance, Thermoflyde etcRecognitions include:• Top 10 Women Investors in India
• Rajeev Motwani Fellowship
• Women Entrepreneur Quest by Anita Borg Institute• Inspirational Alumni – University of WarwickBuy book here: bit.ly/TheIndiaOpportunity
Experience
Managing PartnerCurrent
Swadharma Source Ventures - SSV · Gurgaon, Haryana, India
Jul 2016 – Present
SSV is a sector-agnostic family office of The Sahu Group (www.sahugroup.com) for investing in early-stage companies. We invest across all asset classes - Public Markets (India & US), Fixed Income, Real Estate, Alternatives, and Private Markets (pre-seed- Series A). You can visit the website at ssv.fund. Evaluation criteria: - Founding team-market fit - Large markets - Superior product - Love and fanatic reviews from early customers - Stage: Pre-seed/Seed Portfolio includes (Pre-Seed/Seed) 50+ investments: Plum (health insurance for Startups & SMEs), Clickpost (logistics intelligence), Rupifi (credit for SMEs, built on OCEN), WorkApps (enterprise collaboration tools), Chingari (social video), Kutumb (communities for Bharat), 10Club (D2C roll-up), DelightChat (customer support for D2C brands), UrbanYogi (stress-tech/mental health), Gold Setu (digitising gold SMBs), Fleek (subscription management), WeSkill (extracurricular edutainment for Bharat), SBNRI (NRI banking), Jar (micro-investing), Blend (marketing SaaS), Eeki Foods (agritech), Wyld (creator economy), Hoggy (kids learning), GrowthSchool (cohort-based courses), Yelow (customer rewards & payments), EximPe (cross-border neobanking), Stage (Netflix for Bharat), Accacia.ai (climate-tech), Descrypt (risk & asset management), Aspire (UPI credit), Leap Club (professional network for women), GoHibe (social gaming co), Thimblerr (supply chain fashion tech), Thermoflyde (Refractory Mftg), OnFinance (Fintech SaaS), BrainsightAI (brain mapping), Vercos (autonomous drone), Mugafi (gen AI writing), Superfam (insurtech), Simple Viral Games (hyper-casual gaming), Pico Express (logistics), Zippee (quick delivery), The Future Co (AI post production), Troovy (clean nutrition for families), Eight Network (immersive, interactive audio storytelling)
Startup Programs Lead, Product Partnerships, India & South Asia
Facebook · Gurgaon, India
Jul 2018 – Dec 2019
Responsibilities included: - Crafting & implementing strategy for how Facebook works with startups in India & South Asia, to support entrepreneurship and job creation in the region. - Leading Startup Programs with 800+ startups such as She Leads Tech (a program to support Women Entrepreneurship in India), India Innovation Accelerator Program (An accelerator program focused on Emerging Technologies such as Artificial Intelligence and Virtual Reality), Facebook Innovation Hubs (Scaled partnerships with co-working spaces across India) as well as the AI ecosystem engagement strategy (hackathons, Pytorch/product trainings & adoption etc). - Working with Product and Engineering teams at Facebook to mentor startups in India across the programs to help with product adoption as well as product feedback. - Local partnerships with VC/PE funds, ecosystem enablers to support the budding startup ecosystem in the South Asia region.
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What I learned from a decade of running, having clocked over 10,000Kms+ 🏃♀️
Facebook's India Innovation Accelerator - AI for Social Good Cohort
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