Gayatri Sarkar
CEO, Advaita Capital
Gayatri Sarkar is the owner of Advaita Capital, one of the few/only growth VC fund in the US owned by a woman-POC. We are investing in generative AI, deep tech and decarbonization advancing the human race. Our checks are $10-50M+ and it can go $100M+ for co-invetsment startegies, and we have invested in top names like Stripe, Epic Games, Neuralink, Cohere and other top generative ai companies as well.
Awarded Global Leader under 40 for championing $100B+ combined capital in gender advocacy through She-VC podcast. Former Federal Reserve Bank Manager- managed US Treasury’s assets for the US Military/ Navy, including managing big banks like JPM, PNC, G&D, and VISA. Founder of a consulting firm where US Treasury was first client. Founder of career networking tech startup, built at Harvard i-lab when Gayatri was a Harvard graduate student. Started her career as a data architect at HP, IBM, Goldman Sachs. Former GP of a TMT fund (acquired). Physics Honors, Math minor. Economics and Finance Major at Harvard. She completed 6years end of term as Board of Directors of Harvard Kennedy School NEA. She is also a crown patron of Princess Grace Foundation, USA, now Under The High Patronage of His Serene Highness Prince Albert II, Princess’s Grace’s son and ruling Prince of Monaco, is dedicated to the enduring legacy of his mother and the important mission of excellence in the arts. Advaita Capital is also official nominator of Earthshot Prize, created by Prince William Foundation, which grants 1M pounds to top 5 category climate tech startups through annual prize.
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About Advaita Capital:
We are a US based deeptech growth equity VC firm, investing in Series C/D with a strategy in AI, ML, chip/silicon, robotics, energy transition/decarbonization. We are a team of Harvard and MIT PhDs, Yale and Wharton engineers, the former COO of Invest Corp, Goldman Sachs, Federal Reserve Bank managing US Treasury’s tech assets for US military and US navy, and Google Deepmind research scientists.