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Swathi Dhamodaran

Investor

Associate, Growth Equity at Trifecta Capital Advisors

San Francisco Bay Area

About

Swathi Dhamodaran holds an MBA from Chicago Booth and a Computer Science degree from NIT Trichy. She currently leads Strategic Finance & Analytics at Airbnb and brings experience spanning venture capital, software development, and Goldman Sachs, where she built execution systems for trading desks. Over four years in venture capital, she invested in and advised enterprise software and AI companies including Atomicwork, Bluecopa, and Scribbledata, while conducting user research and supporting product and go-to-market strategy for early-stage startups.

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Experience

  1. AirbnbStrategic Finance & Analyticscurrent2026 — presentSan Francisco Bay Area
  2. Trifecta CapitalAssociate, Growth Equity2023 — 2025Mumbai
  3. PickyourtrailFounder's Office Consultant2023 — 2024
  4. Blume VenturesAnalyst, Investment Team2021 — 2023Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
  5. Goldman SachsSoftware Developer, Global Markets Division (Formerly Securities)2020 — 2021Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
  6. Goldman SachsAnalyst, Global Markets Division2019Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
  7. YNOS Venture Engine CC Pvt. Ltd.Machine Learning Intern2018Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Education

  1. The University of Chicago Booth School of BusinessMBA2025 — 2027
  2. University of ChicagoMaster of Business Administration - MBA2025 — 2027
  3. National Institute of Technology, TiruchirappalliBachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Major in Computer Science & Engineering
  4. HSBC/HKU Business Case Competition Global Alumni NetworkNational representative, Business
  5. National Public School Gopalapuram

Skills & more

Management9Public Speaking6Leadership10JavaMicrosoft Excel2Microsoft Word2PowerPoint2Microsoft Office4C1HTML1Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)1JavaScript2
+12 morePHPC++PhpMyAdminMySQLBack-End Web DevelopmentSoftware DevelopmentProduct Road MappingAnalyticsResearchProject ManagementCustomer ServiceEconomics

Languages English · Hindi · Tamil

  • Future of People, Power and Politics — 10-in-10 + Gigatonne
  • Goldman Sachs MyLearning - Securities Analyst Track 2020 — Financial Edge Training
  • Blockchain architecture & its applications — NPTEL
  • Stock market-Introduction — EQSIS
  • Introduction to modern application development-Hasura — NPTEL

From Swathi's professional profile.

Same school

Also attended The University of Chicago Booth School of Business431

Prashant ShahPartner at Monta Vista CapitalNoorPartner at Clear VenturesTinaInvestments & Portfolio Services Team Member at Clear VenturesBill PescatelloInvestor at LightbankGlebFounder and Managing Partner at iTech CapitalRavi RajamonyVice President at March Capital Partners

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Also attended University of Chicago241

Mark SusterManaging Partner at Upfront VenturesShardul ShahInvestor at Index VenturesSam BlackmanEntrepreneur in Residence at GV (Google Ventures)Clay FisherInvestor at Spark CapitalJonas CiplickasPrincipal at Scale Venture PartnersJulia Gonzalez SandersPartner and General Counsel at Crosslink Capital

+ 235 more

Also attended National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli14

Job SimonVenture Partner and CTO at Monta Vista CapitalSuresh BalasubramanianInvestor at Storm VenturesNachi DasExperts | Global Market Expansion & Growth at 212Anil KurugantiPartner at GP BullhoundShub BhattacharyaInvestments at FoundamentalChandresh IyerGeneral Partner at SixThirty Ventures

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Shared employers

Also worked at Airbnb90

Reid HoffmanCo-founder of LinkedIn; Partner at GreylockAlfred LinPartner at Sequoia CapitalHans TungManaging Partner at Notable CapitalKenneth ChenaultInvestment Team at General CatalystFraser KeltonInvestor at Spark CapitalBrenden GlapionCorporate Counsel at Greycroft

+ 84 more

Also worked at Trifecta Capital18

Rahul KhannaManaging Partner at Trifecta Capital AdvisorsLavanya AshokPartner, Growth Equity at Trifecta Capital AdvisorsAbhishek GuptaPartner, Credit at Trifecta Capital AdvisorsDeepak MohanPartner, Financial Solutions at Trifecta Capital AdvisorsSaurabh SinghPartner, Credit at Trifecta Capital AdvisorsAbhijit JoshiDirector, Credit at Trifecta Capital Advisors

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Also worked at Blume Ventures7

Karthik ReddyCo-Founder and Partner at Blume VenturesArpit AgarwalPartner at Blume VenturesHersh GulatiPrincipal at RPSG Capital VenturesJitesh LuthraEIR at Leo Capital VenturesKaushik SAssociate Vice President at Together FundArchit BhargavaInvestment Analyst at Avaana Capital

+ 1 more

Also worked at Goldman Sachs1,183

Josh KushnerFounder & CEO of Thrive CapitalFred EhrsamCo-founder and Senior Advisor at Paradigm; founder of NudgeMatt HuangCo-founder and Managing Partner at ParadigmNiki PezeshkiGeneral Partner at Felicis VenturesChris BischoffInvestment Team at General CatalystDamir BecirovicInvestor at Index Ventures

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Colleagues at Trifecta Capital Advisors

Abhijit Joshi
Director, Credit at Trifecta Capital Advisors
Abhishek Gupta
Partner, Credit at Trifecta Capital Advisors
Aditya Singh
Analyst, Credit at Trifecta Capital Advisors
Arijit Sarkar
Director, Credit at Trifecta Capital Advisors
Atul Satpathy
Senior Associate, Credit at Trifecta Capital Advisors
Ayush Gupta
Head of Finance, Credit at Trifecta Capital Advisors
Daivik Raval
Associate Vice President, Growth Equity at Trifecta Capital Advisors
Deepak Mohan
Partner, Financial Solutions at Trifecta Capital Advisors