Kalpana Chitra Venkatesan

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General Partner at Clearwater Ventures · Fintech

Clearwater Ventures
Noida, India · IST (UTC+5:30)
11+ years experience
NIT Warangal
English, Hindi
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Overview

General Partner at Clearwater Ventures, backing fintech companies. Sit on 5 boards. Before that: Cognizant and Flipkart. Most at home with due diligence and venture capital. Trail runner and occasional climber.

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venture capitaldue diligenceboard work

Experience

  1. General Partner
    Jan 2026 - Present
    Clearwater Ventures · 9 mo · Full-time · Noida, India
    • Backed 24 founders at pre-seed and seed.
    • Sit on 6 boards.
    • Led or co-led 13 investments, 5 of them now at Series B or later.
  2. FP&A Manager
    Apr 2024 - Jan 2026
    Cognizant · 1 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Noida, India
    • Built the operating model the board used for a $197 million raise.
  3. Finance Director
    Dec 2020 - Apr 2024
    Flipkart · 3 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Noida, India
    • Took forecast accuracy to within 4% for 10 straight quarters.
  4. Controller
    Sep 2019 - Dec 2020
    Reliance Jio · 1 yr 3 mo · Contract · Noida, India
    • Saved $4 million a year renegotiating vendor contracts.
    • Closed the books in 6 days, down from 12.
  5. Finance Manager
    Jan 2016 - Sep 2019
    SAP · 3 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Noida, India
    • Ran diligence on 3 acquisitions.

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Education

  1. NIT Warangal
    B.Tech, Economics
    1992 - 1996

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