Athera Fund IV

Ishan joined the Investment Team at Athera after ~7 years of experience across strategy consulting, operations, and project management. Prior to Athera, Ishan was a Senior Consultant at Bain & Company, working on C-suite objectives across strategy definition and implementation, spanning growth, product, channels, CX, margins, and post-merger integrations, mostly in Consumer Tech, Consumer Products, Retail, and Digital Insurgents. Before Bain, Ishan was in a Project Management role in the Energy sector at Technip, delivering large-scale, turnkey refinery, hydrogen and LNG projects. He has also served short stints in fashion retail with ABFRL, in power with NTPC, and in advanced manufacturing with BHEL and Technip.

Tanya joined Athera after 10 years of working in Assurance and Financial due diligence at KPMG. Her experience at KPMG cuts across sectors and at various stages of an organisation's journey from incubation to growth and debt listing. Tanya worked with and advised startups in the e-commerce, AdTech and retail sectors. She has also advised and guided venture capital and private equity firms in carrying out financial diligences alongside reviewing deal documentation. At Athera, she assists in evaluating potential investments from a financial standpoint and also assists in deal structuring. Tanya guides portfolio companies in streamlining their finance processes along with assisting them on complicated accounting and tax matters. She also helps in LP reporting, valuation and other matters.

Mangala has been associated with Inventus since the beginning. Prior to Athera, she worked at Wipro. She is the force running the Athera office smoothly.

Rutvik has been investing in early-stage technology companies since 2012, following over a decade of operating experience across global technology firms and startups. He began his career in the U.S., building internet infrastructure and enterprise software at CA Technologies and an early-stage startup. In 2007, he joined Google in Bangalore, where he led and launched several products including Voice Search, the Google Mobile App, SMS channels, and Google News globally. He later founded Taggle, an e-commerce startup in Bangalore, gaining first-hand experience building a company from the ground up in India. Rutvik is deeply passionate about technology and product thinking, and is particularly drawn to companies where technology creates a durable moat. He holds six patents in web applications and infrastructure products. At Athera Venture Partners (formerly Inventus India), Rutvik has invested across four funds and partnered with founders from the earliest stages through scale. His portfolio includes Unbxd (acquired by Netcore), Aasaanjobs (acquired by OLX), HealthifyMe, Euler Motors, PlayShifu, and Picsee. He serves on the council of the IVCA Climate and Sustainability council, the apex industry body for alternative capital in India.

Parag has been an early-stage VC for most of his career. Parag started his VC career with ICICI Venture, India's first venture capital company, in 1993. He followed that up with stints at GE and Intel's corporate venture arms. Parag joined Inventus in 2008, shortly after the first close of Fund I. He is or was a Board Director or Observer at redBus, FundsIndia, Lemnisk, Power2SME, PolicyBazaar, Pixxel, Tricog, worxogo, Clootrack and Ati Motors. Parag is a Charter Member, and past member of the Governing Body, of TiE Bangalore. He is on the Investment Committee of a couple of incubators in Bangalore.