Impact India Investment Partners

Kumar Ganapathy is Managing Partner at 3i Partners and a board member of Upaya Social Ventures. Over 25 years, he has founded multiple venture-backed companies across telecom, enterprise storage, cloud, and AI sectors. He holds 75+ patents and has authored 12 technical publications in areas including AI technology, cloud infrastructure, enterprise datacenters, flash storage, and semiconductors.

Ravikrishna Cherukuri is a General Partner at 3i Partners focusing on deep technology investments. He has held senior executive roles in high technology companies and founded ventures in the sector. Cherukuri holds 19 granted U.S. patents.

Patrick Cyril is a global executive at Oracle leading sales, services, and customer success initiatives. With over 20 years of experience, he has built and scaled business units across AI, cloud, and software sectors, with influence over $10 billion in revenue. He leads more than 40 AI customer data centers worldwide and has founded and scaled multiple ventures within both startups and large enterprises.

Ravi Mistry is a Venture Partner at 3i Partners, a cross-border Silicon Valley-based venture fund, and a member of the founding team at Virident Systems, which was acquired by HGST/Western Digital in 2013. He has held senior operational and leadership roles across life sciences, technology, and non-profit sectors, including positions at DiscoveRx (acquired by Eurofins in 2017) and BioImagene (acquired by Roche in 2010), and has managed seed and Series A/B funding closings totaling over $35 million. Mistry serves as an investor and board member for MelioLabs, Executive Director of the IIT Gandhinagar Foundation, and is active in Bay Area life sciences organizations; he also holds adjunct faculty positions and mentors entrepreneurs through various programs.

Shalini Chhabra is Managing Partner at Incipia Advisors LLP. She brings over two decades of risk management experience across Indian financial institutions, with expertise in corporate underwriting, structured credit, capital markets, SME lending, securitization, and portfolio management. She founded 3i Partners, an impact investment fund that has invested in 14 companies addressing solutions in livelihood, health, education, agriculture, and climate sectors, and serves as a board representative for portfolio companies.

Subha Rajana is a Venture Partner at 3i Partners with over 25 years of experience in software project management, software development, and strategy. She is a founding LP at How Women Invest, an early-stage venture firm focused on female founders and female investors, and serves as a board member for Pratham Bay Area Chapter, a nonprofit organization supporting education, culture, and women empowerment. Her investment interests include climate tech, Web3, and AI applications.

Harsh Tiwari is a venture capital investment professional at 3i Partners, where he invests between $100,000 and $1 million in early-stage, IP-driven deeptech companies across defence-tech, space-tech, semiconductors, quantum technologies, energy-tech, biotech, advanced manufacturing, and robotics in emerging markets. His background includes advanced weapons research and development, aerospace engineering, and technical work on eVTOL aircraft design, rotating detonation engines, and hydrodynamics programs. He focuses on supporting founders developing technologies with strong scientific foundations and commercial or strategic applications.

Kavya Agarwal is a Vice President at 3i Partners focusing on deep tech investments. She brings approximately 10 years of combined experience spanning scientific research, startup founding, and seed-stage venture investing, with a particular focus on early-stage companies addressing development challenges in agriculture, climate, livelihood, healthcare, and education in India. Her background includes work in scientific research and startup founding prior to her venture capital career.

Shivank Tripathi is an Investment Professional at 3i Partners focused on deeptech investments. He is available to discuss opportunities with founders in this space.