Saniya Chawla

Senior Director, Strategy & Corporate Development

2025 - Current

Director, Strategy & Corporate Development

2022 - 2025

Leading M&A and Corporate Development for Innovaccer

Associate Director, Corporate Strategy & BizOps

2020 - 2021

LP & Advisor

2022

-LP Group member advising on developing investment thesis, fund structure and development -Identifying and originating investment opportunities in the US -Advising potential portfolio companies on operations, financing as they move to the growth stage (Hyperspec AI/ Kidex/ TrueFoundry) Portfolio - https://www.z21.ventures/portfolio

Contributing Writer

2020

Passionate about the startup ecosystem. Telling Stories through facts @AJVC -Contributor in bi-weekly detailed essays on growth companies and trending industries -Supporting in AJVC growth: Platform grew from 10k subscribers to 40k subscribers in the last two years -Taking Stories, Essays and other products for expanding in the US ecosystem

Associate Vice President -Technology

2016 - 2020

Managing end-to-end Strategy and Investments - company and industry data analysis, implementing changes in core business models for margin improvement, identifying and modeling areas of new growth, financial modeling, market landscaping & research, spotting trends, valuation analyses, tracking business drivers, financial DD and term negotiations in the Technology space (mostly focusing on Enterprise Software) both for domestic and cross-border M&A and fundraising transactions Key Closed Transactions -Zenoti, US based Global SaaS Platform - $50mn fundraise from Tiger Global Management -Nykaa, India’s largest ecommerce player in the beauty space - Multiple funding rounds involving investments from TPG Global and Steadview Capital -BookMyShow, India’s leading Digital Entertainment Platform -$100 mn fundraise from TPG Global -Crossborder M&A -Sale of Upstream Commerce, an Israel based AI Predictive Analytics player to Flipkart -Unbxd, a SaaS based, Smart Product Discovery Solution - $12.5 mn fundraise from Eightroads Ventures (Fidelity)

Summer Associate - Technology Division

2015 - 2015

• Worked on detailed portfolio analysis for 150+ companies • Produced comprehensive database of key tech start ups • Identified capital raising opportunities in high revenue potential technology verticals • Worked on Market Analysis for Internet and Technology Space both at global and domestic levels • Initiated Relationship with 50+ tech start ups for performing research and suggesting recommendations

Software Engineer, Linked Open Data

2014 - 2014

• Awarded full scholarship to improvise upon the education and learning mechanisms • Worked with Semantic - Web and Linked-Data for promotion of web scale interoperability. • Harvested linked data from the videos and transcripts available on TED (www.ted.com) • User Study Conceptualization • Successfully implemented an application integrating TED with the existing education platform • Query Languages - SQL/ SPARQL, Development - Java/ PHP Thesis Abstract: In this paper, we present the TED Talks dataset which exposes all metadata and the actual transcripts of available TED talks as structured Linked Data. The TED talks collection is composed of more than 1800 talks, along with 35 000 transcripts in over 30 languages, related to a wide range of topics. In this regard, TED talks metadata available in structured, multilingual and HTTP‐accessible form constitute a valuable resource, for instance, for schoolteachers, to explore controversial contemporary topics with their students in order to stimulate awareness and critical thinking or as a means for language learning. Moreover, being compliant with state‐of‐the‐art Linked Data principles, our dataset facilitates the computation of links with related data and resources. The TED dataset is used by a number of educational applications, and it is included in the LinkedUp Data Catalog.

Intern

2012 - 2012

Certified & trained in IT Security & Ethical hacking, for handling issues for securing systems