Divya Acharya

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Angel Investor at Independent | ex-Asian Paints

Independent
Hyderabad, India · IST (UTC+5:30)
15+ years experience
IIT Kharagpur
English, Hindi, Telugu
Investing
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Overview

Angel investor, backing fintech companies. Previously an operator for 10 years before investing. Led or co-led 28 investments, 8 of them now at Series B or later. Before that: Asian Paints and Qualcomm. Most at home with board work and venture capital. Open-source contributor on weekends.

Good reasons to reach out
  • Founders building in fintech
  • Speaking or podcast invitations
  • Working sessions on venture capital
  • Second opinions on board work decisions
Please don't message about
  • Crypto token projects
  • Agency or outsourcing pitches
  • Generic networking requests

Answers in batches on Fridays

Skills
venture capitaldue diligenceboard work
InvestingLooking to invest
closes in 3 months

Writing $250k cheques into seed fintech in Africa

Cheque size
$250k
Stages
Series A
Sectors
Fintech
Geographies
India
Lead or follow
Follow
Decision time
10 business days
How I help
Fundraising strategy for the next round

Happy to follow a strong lead. Decisions within 1 weeks.

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Experience

  1. Angel Investor
    Aug 2024 - Present
    Independent · 2 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Hyderabad, India
    • Sit on 7 boards.
    • Backed 30 founders at pre-seed and seed.
    • Previously an operator for 9 years before investing.
  2. Senior Consultant
    Mar 2022 - Aug 2024
    Asian Paints · 2 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Hyderabad, India
    • Led a cost programme that saved a client $192 million.
  3. Business Analyst
    Sep 2018 - Mar 2022
    Qualcomm · 3 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Hyderabad, India
    • Shipped 28 launches on the web team without a rollback.
    • Reduced cloud spend on web by 40% in two quarters.
  4. Associate Partner
    Jun 2015 - Sep 2018
    Dream11 · 3 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Hyderabad, India
    • Moved 90% of storage traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
  5. Senior Consultant
    Mar 2012 - Jun 2015
    Boston Consulting Group · 3 yr 3 mo · Contract · Hyderabad, India
    • Led a cost programme that saved a client $93 million.

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Education

  1. IIT Kharagpur
    B.Tech, Finance
    1992 - 1996

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