Lumikai

Sasha Bhatia works in the Founder's Office at Lumikai Fund, a seed-stage venture capital firm in India focused on interactive media, digital platforms, and games. In this role, Bhatia supports the leadership and investment team through strategic research, portfolio insights, and internal workflows, and contributes to investment processes via market mapping, competitive analysis, and investment memo inputs. Bhatia also works with the marketing team on content and ecosystem initiatives, including research reports, social media, and founder-facing programs.

Niyaz Laiq is a Partner at Lumikai Fund, an India-based venture capital firm investing in interactive media, digital platforms, and games, with seed to Series A cheque sizes of $200K–$2M and portfolio companies including Eloelo, Supernova, Bombay Play, AutoVRse, NPrep, and Zoop. His earlier career spans over 18 years across venture capital, private equity fund-of-funds, and entrepreneurship, including a Partner role at seed-stage investor GSF, co-founding recipe-sharing platform BetterButter (later sold to Silverpush), founding student housing chain Hammock, and roles at Federated Hermes Private Equity and Lok Capital. He also founded Founders Day, a weekly newsletter covering seed-stage deals in India.

Aditya Deshpande is a Principal at Lumikai Fund, an early-stage venture capital fund in India focused on interactive media startups, where he invests across interactive media, digital platforms, and games. He holds an MSc in Financial Economics (Cum Laude) from Erasmus University Rotterdam and a BA (Honours) in Economics from Christ University, Bangalore, and has cleared CFA Level 1.

Anant Seth is Chief Financial Officer and an Investment Committee member at Lumikai Fund, where he leads the finance function covering fund accounting, investor reporting, portfolio valuations, and compliance. He previously served as CFO at UTI Alternatives and as an AVP at Jacob Ballas Capital, where he oversaw fund accounting, investor reporting, and regulatory and tax compliance, and earlier worked in fund accounting at Macquarie handling financial reporting for four infrastructure funds. He began his career at Price Waterhouse and A. F. Ferguson & Co., managing statutory, internal, and tax audits.

Asher Siddiqui is a technology investor based in the San Francisco Bay Area and serves as Managing Director at Song United, where he oversees the venture investment portfolio of Dug Song, founder of Duo Security. He is building ASILICA, a service that assists founders and tech operators in evaluating investment opportunities and constructing venture portfolios across funds, direct investments, and secondaries. His career spans entrepreneurship, corporate development and M&A, and venture capital as both a general partner and limited partner, including more than 100 early-stage investments and over 20 venture fund investments as an LP.

Rishabh Sethia is a Chartered Accountant working in the financial services industry, with experience in product control, reconciliations, derivatives, and financial reporting. He serves as Manager of Finance and Fund Operations at Lumikai, a venture capital firm.

Tiasha Guha Neogy is a Finance Controller at Lumikai Fund, working in the private equity space with a focus on Indian tax and regulatory matters. A Chartered Accountant based in India, she has more than six years of experience in corporate and international taxation at PwC and EY, advising clients across industries including private equity, shipping, and manufacturing.