Vandana Chopra

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Principal at Foxglove Ventures · venture capital, hardware

Foxglove Ventures
Gurugram, India · IST (UTC+5:30)
5+ years experience
IIM Lucknow
English, Hindi
Investing
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Overview

I invest in climate at Foxglove Ventures, usually at pre-seed and seed. Backed 28 founders at pre-seed and seed. Before that: Google and Reliance Jio. Most at home with hardware and energy.

Good reasons to reach out
  • Founders building in climate
  • Thoughtful intros to people in my field
  • Speaking or podcast invitations
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  • Crypto token projects
  • SEO and link-building offers

Replies on weekends

Skills
infrastructureenergyclimate techhardwareventure capital
InvestingLooking to invest
closes in 3 months

Writing $25k cheques into pre-seed climate in MENA

Cheque size
$25k
Stages
Pre-seed, Seed
Sectors
Climate, B2B SaaS
Geographies
LatAm
Lead or follow
Follow
Decision time
One meeting and a partner call
How I help
Fundraising strategy for the next round

Typically lead or co-lead. Decisions within 3 weeks.

Gurugram, Indiaclimate techventure capitalinfrastructure
Open

Experience

  1. Principal
    Mar 2026 - Present
    Foxglove Ventures · 7 mo · Full-time · Gurugram, India
    • Led or co-led 17 investments, 9 of them now at Series B or later.
    • Previously an operator for 9 years before investing.
  2. Consultant
    Sep 2024 - Mar 2026
    Google · 1 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Gurugram, India
    • Ran commercial diligence on 25 deals.
  3. Associate Partner
    Dec 2022 - Sep 2024
    Reliance Jio · 1 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Gurugram, India
    • Led the migration of 41 services to climate tech.
  4. Business Analyst
    Oct 2021 - Dec 2022
    Intuit · 1 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Gurugram, India
    • Reduced cloud spend on developer platform by 26% in two quarters.
    • Brought on-call pages for developer platform down from 38 a week to 3.

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Education

  1. IIM Lucknow
    MBA, Business Administration
    2021 - 2023
  2. IIT Kanpur
    B.Tech, Computer Science
    2016 - 2020

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