Hari Balu Nair

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Principal, Foxglove Seed Fund - hardware · venture capital · energy

Foxglove Seed Fund
Bengaluru, India · IST (UTC+5:30)
8+ years experience
IIT Hyderabad
English, Hindi, Kannada
Investing
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Overview

Principal at Foxglove Seed Fund, backing climate companies. Previously an operator for 8 years before investing. Before that: Razorpay and Myntra. Most at home with energy and venture capital. Collector of fountain pens.

Good reasons to reach out
  • Founders building in climate
  • Working sessions on energy
  • Thoughtful intros to people in my field
Please don't message about
  • Generic networking requests
  • Decks without a clear ask
  • Agency or outsourcing pitches

Travels often; replies within 48 hours

Skills
hardwareclimate techventure capitalenergy
InvestingLooking to invest
closes in 3 months

Writing $100k cheques into seed climate in Africa

Cheque size
$100k
Stages
Pre-seed, Seed
Sectors
Climate
Geographies
US and Europe
Lead or follow
Follow
Decision time
One meeting and a partner call
How I help
Fundraising strategy for the next round

Happy to follow a strong lead. Former operator - I help with hiring and GTM.

Bengaluru, India · remote OKclimate techventure capitalhardware
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Experience

  1. Principal
    Dec 2024 - Present
    Foxglove Seed Fund · 1 yr 10 mo · Contract · Bengaluru, India
    • Backed 58 founders at pre-seed and seed.
    • Previously an operator for 11 years before investing.
    • Led or co-led 7 investments, 6 of them now at Series B or later.
  2. Associate Partner
    Apr 2023 - Dec 2024
    Razorpay · 1 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
    • Cut p99 latency on the developer experience services from 516ms to 179ms.
  3. Consultant
    Dec 2019 - Apr 2023
    Myntra · 3 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
    • Delivered 17 engagements across 9 countries.
    • Led a cost programme that saved a client $195 million.
  4. Senior Consultant
    Oct 2018 - Dec 2019
    Wipro · 1 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
    • Ran commercial diligence on 21 deals.

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Education

  1. IIT Hyderabad
    B.Tech, Computer Science
    2013 - 2017

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