Sangeetha Shankar

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Principal · Developer infrastructure · venture capital

Lakeshore Capital
Gurugram, India · IST (UTC+5:30)
10+ years experience
University of Delhi
English, Hindi
Investing
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Overview

10 years around startups; now investing in developer infrastructure. Sit on 5 boards. Before that: Myntra and Ola. Most at home with open source and developer tools. Volunteer coding coach for school students.

Good reasons to reach out
  • Founders building in developer infrastructure
  • Thoughtful intros to people in my field
  • Working sessions on open source
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  • Agency or outsourcing pitches
  • Fund-of-funds solicitations

Replies between meetings, usually same day

Skills
venture capitalopen sourcedeveloper tools
InvestingLooking to invest
closes in 3 months

Investing in Series B developer infrastructure founders across Southeast Asia

Cheque size
$500k-$2M
Stages
Seed, Series A
Sectors
Developer infrastructure, climate
Geographies
LatAm
Lead or follow
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Decision time
Within a month
How I help
Intros to operators in our network

Usually the first cheque in. Former operator - I help with hiring and GTM.

Gurugram, Indiaventure capitalopen sourcedeveloper tools
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Experience

  1. Principal
    Mar 2026 - Present
    Lakeshore Capital · 7 mo · Full-time · Gurugram, India
    • Previously an operator for 9 years before investing.
    • Sit on 2 boards.
    • Led or co-led 37 investments, 7 of them now at Series B or later.
  2. FP&A Manager
    Sep 2022 - Mar 2026
    Myntra · 3 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Gurugram, India
    • Built the operating model the board used for a $34 million raise.
    • Took forecast accuracy to within 1% for 7 straight quarters.
  3. Finance Manager
    Jul 2019 - Sep 2022
    Ola · 3 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Gurugram, India
    • Built the operating model the board used for a $209 million raise.
  4. Financial Analyst
    Mar 2017 - Jul 2019
    Cognizant · 2 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Gurugram, India
    • Closed the books in 6 days, down from 10.

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Education

  1. University of Delhi
    B.Com, Business Administration
    2011 - 2015

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