Ishita Mathur

Overview

I invest in consumer, usually at pre-seed and seed. Previously an operator for 11 years before investing. Backed 54 founders at pre-seed and seed. Before that: Goldman Sachs and Ola.

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Experience

1. Angel Investor

   Apr 2025 - Present
   Independent · 1 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
   • Previously an operator for 9 years before investing.
   • Sit on 7 boards.
   • Led or co-led 13 investments, 2 of them now at Series B or later.
2. Director of Engineering

   Jan 2024 - Apr 2025
   Goldman Sachs · 1 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
   • Shipped 16 launches on the developer platform team without a rollback.
   • Wrote the venture capital service that now handles 21 million requests a day.
3. Director of Engineering

   Jul 2021 - Jan 2024
   Ola · 2 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
   • Reduced cloud spend on iOS by 28% in two quarters.
   • Shipped 7 launches on the iOS team without a rollback.
4. Staff Platform Engineer

   Apr 2019 - Jul 2021
   Nvidia · 2 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
   • Brought on-call pages for search down from 19 a week to 2.
   • Led the migration of 63 services to marketplaces.
5. Director of Engineering

   May 2016 - Apr 2019
   Meesho · 2 yr 11 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
   • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 33 minutes to under 2.
   • Took crash-free sessions from 97.5% to 99.8%.

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Education

1. IIT Kanpur

   B.Tech, Engineering
   2002 - 2006