Yashwanth Ramesh Shankar

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Associate at Banyan Ventures · Climate · climate tech, hardware

Banyan Ventures
Kochi, India · IST (UTC+5:30)
5+ years experience
PSG College of Technology
English, Hindi, Malayalam
Investing
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Overview

5 years around startups; now investing in climate. Sit on 5 boards. Before that: Morgan Stanley and Nvidia. Most at home with climate tech and energy. Home cook with strong opinions about biryani.

Good reasons to reach out
  • Founders building in fintech regulation
  • Speaking or podcast invitations
  • Questions about fintech regulation
  • Thoughtful intros to people in my field
Please don't message about
  • Offshore staffing offers
  • Agency or outsourcing pitches
  • Unpaid work or spec projects

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Skills
hardwareenergyventure capitalclimate tech
InvestingLooking to invest
closes in 3 months

Writing $1M cheques into Series A climate in India

Cheque size
$1M
Stages
Pre-seed, Seed
Sectors
Fintech regulation
Geographies
India and Southeast Asia
Lead or follow
Co-lead
Decision time
One meeting and a partner call
How I help
Intros to operators in our network

Happy to follow a strong lead. We reply to every founder.

Kochi, Indiaventure capitalclimate techhardware
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Experience

  1. Associate
    Dec 2025 - Present
    Banyan Ventures · 10 mo · Full-time · Kochi, India
    • Secured 4 payments licences.
    • Built the privacy programme for launches in 15 countries.
  2. Principal Product Manager
    Nov 2022 - Dec 2025
    Morgan Stanley · 3 yr 1 mo · Contract · Kochi, India
    • Led or co-led 40 investments, 6 of them now at Series B or later.
    • Previously an operator for 9 years before investing.
  3. Product Manager
    Oct 2021 - Nov 2022
    Nvidia · 1 yr 1 mo · Full-time · Kochi, India
    • Ran 170 customer interviews before writing the first spec.

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Education

  1. PSG College of Technology
    B.E., Economics
    2016 - 2020

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