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Shruti Srivastava

Investment Director at Avaana Capital

Mumbai, Maharashtra

Overview 

Shruti Srivastava is an Investment Director and Principal at Avaana Capital, specializing in early-stage venture capital focusing on climate and sustainability. With a background in financial modeling and equity research, she has made significant investments in companies like FarMart (Series A) and Elda Health (Seed), contributing to the growth of sectors such as Impact, EnergyTech, and ClimateTech. Shruti's career highlights include her roles as a Principal at Omnivore and a Senior Portfolio Associate at Acumen Fund, showcasing her expertise in impact investing and private equity. Her current position at Avaana Capital allows her to leverage her skills in investments, due diligence, and portfolio management to support innovative startups in sectors like TransportationTech and Digital Health.

Work Experience 

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Avaana Capital

  • Investment Director

    2022 - Current

  • Principal

    2021 - 2022

    Avaana is India's leading climate-tech focused VC, investing in novel technologies and innovation to unlock a low carbon and climate resilient growth pathway for critical sectors of the economy. Key focus areas include energy transition and resource management, mobility and supply chains and sustainable food systems.

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GreenGrahi

  • Board Member

    2025

    GreenGrahi is an insect-biotechnology company converting food and agri-waste into high-quality insect protein for animal feed and frass-based plant nutrition products through its proprietary biomanufacturing platform, with a path to cost parity with conventional alternatives.

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High Time Foods

  • Board Member

    2025

    High Time Foods (HTF) develops shelf-stable, affordable plant-based protein products, with customizability and versatility that enables incorporation in a wider variety of cuisines globally, along with food processing and horeca applications.

High Time Foods provides shelf-stable and moldable plant-based meat alternatives to food-service operators.

Raised $555,000.00 from TBD Angels.

hightimefoods.com
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Dharaksha Ecosolutions

  • Board Member

    2024

    Dharaksha is building a First-of-a-kind (FOAK) biomanufacturing platform to develop sustainable, mycelium-based packaging solutions using agricultural waste as feedstock, with a path to cost parity vs. conventional alternatives

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FarMart

  • Board Observer

    2021

    One of the largest, digitally-powered B2B food supply platforms in India, FarMart is helping create food supply chains that are more efficient, reliable and resilient.

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Eggoz Nutrition

  • Board Member

    2021

    Eggoz is India's leading consumer egg brand, offering high quality fresh eggs, leveraging deep integration with its partner farms.

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Intello Labs

  • Board Member

    2021

    Intello Labs is building deep technology solutions to automate quality assessment, grading and sorting for fresh produce.

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Turno

  • Board Observer

    2022 - 2023

    Turno is an EV distribution-cum-financing platform.

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Arya.ag

  • Board Observer

    2020 - 2021

    Arya.ag is India's largest post-harvest services platform bringing together warehousing, financing and trade.

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Intello Labs

  • Board Observer

    2019 - 2021

    Intello Labs is building deep technology solutions to automate quality assessment, grading and sorting for fresh produce.

Education 

Investments 

FarMart

Seed

Total funding: $44M

Elda Health

Seed

Total funding: $2M

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