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Ameya Upadhyay

Investor

Venture Partner at Flourish Ventures

London

Writes $2M – $7M checks · typically $3.5M

About

Ameya Upadhyay is a General Partner at Flourish Ventures who invests in founders building financial infrastructure across Africa, the Middle East, and other emerging markets, with an emphasis on global and cross-border payments as well as blockchain-native companies. He helped launch Madica, the firm's Africa-focused pre-seed program. Before Flourish he worked at Omidyar Network and Bain & Company, and he holds an engineering degree from Delhi College of Engineering and an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad.

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Invests in

Crypto & Web3Fintech

Experience

  1. Flourish VenturesGeneral Partnercurrent2026 — present
  2. Flourish VenturesVenture Partnercurrent2019 — presentLondon
  3. Omidyar NetworkPrincipal, Investments2012 — 2019London Area, United Kingdom
  4. BAIN & Co.Consultant2009 — 2012
  5. Barclays Capital, Barclays Capital Fund Solutions LondonQuantitative Associate2008

Education

  1. Indian Institute of Management AhmedabadPGP, Business Administration2007 — 2009
  2. Delhi College of Engineering (New Delhi)BE electrical2003 — 2007
  3. Delhi Public School, R.K. Puram (New Delhi)
  4. Indian School Muscat

Skills & more

Strategy5Management Consulting11Business Analysis4Business Strategy13Corporate Finance2Financial Modeling12Market Entry7Valuation4Consulting3Analytics2Growth Strategies5Competitive Analysis1
+1 moreBusiness Development

From Ameya's professional profile.

Same school

Also attended Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad93

Kulpreet SinghOperating Advisor at OpenOceanPiyush KharbandaGeneral Partner at Vertex Ventures Sea Management Pte. Ltd.Kanika MayarPartner, Investment & ESG Officer at Vertex Ventures Sea Management Pte. Ltd.Amrit RajPartner & Chief Marketing Officer at Jungle VenturesPranjal KhandelwalAnalyst, Investments at LightboxHarkesh MittalChairman, Startup India Seed Fund Committee at Seafund

+ 87 more

Shared employers

Also worked at Omidyar Network35

Paula GoldmanChief Ethical Officer of Salesforce at EMERGENT VENTURESShripriya MaheshGeneral Partner at Spero VenturesSara EshelmanGeneral Partner at Spero VenturesJalak JobanputraFounder and Managing Partner at Future Perfect VenturesArjuna CostaCo-Founder & Managing Partner at Flourish VenturesEmmalyn ShawCo-Founder & Managing Partner at Flourish Ventures

+ 29 more

Also worked at BAIN & Co.593

Steve JurvetsonCo-founder of Future VenturesLaela SturdyManaging Partner at CapitalGJulie YangVice President at InvestcorpIan MarshInvestor at DN CapitalSanjot MalhiPartner at NorthzonePascual Cortes-MonroyPrincipal at Northzone

+ 587 more

Deals · 1

Lidya HoldingsBoard seat

via Flourish Ventures · filed May 2021

Attribution from SEC filings, press coverage, and firm rosters.

Colleagues at Flourish Ventures

Arjuna Costa
Co-Founder & Managing Partner at Flourish Ventures
Audrey Marrache
Corporate Paralegal at Flourish Ventures
Charlee Brady
People Operations Manager at Flourish Ventures
Crystal Sun
Analyst at Flourish Ventures
Daniel Gorfine
Advisor at Flourish Ventures
Diana Narváez
Principal at Flourish Ventures
Efayomi Carr
Investment Partner at Flourish Ventures
Emmalyn Shaw
Co-Founder & Managing Partner at Flourish Ventures

Network10

Daniel GorfineScout
Advisor at Flourish Ventures
Diana NarváezScout
Principal at Flourish Ventures
Tilman EhrbeckScout
Co-Founder & Managing Partner at Flourish Ventures
Tom Preston-WernerScout
Cofounder & General Partner at Preston-Werner Ventures
Arjuna Costa
Co-Founder & Managing Partner at Flourish Ventures
Christopher Heymann
Partner at 1k(x)
Crystal Sun
Analyst at Flourish Ventures
Emmalyn Shaw
Co-Founder & Managing Partner at Flourish Ventures
Garret Chiem
Sr Associate, Finance & Operations at Flourish Ventures
Harsh Gupta
Principal at Flourish Ventures

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