Meet our Investment Advisory Team. Your Future Partners.

Arushi is a firm believer in the exceptional talent within India’s tech ecosystem. Over the years, this talent has unlocked significant potential to transform traditional businesses, rapidly build large enterprises, drive non-linear business growth, and expand markets. At Together, she wants to continue supporting such entrepreneurs and is excited to meet teams who apply first principles thinking, embody unbridled optimism, and contribute to the SaaS and AI ecosystem in India.

Prior to Together, Arushi worked at Mirae Asset Venture Investments where she was a part of the founding team of the fund (notable investments include Kreditbee, Ola, Zomato, Zolostays, Shadowfax, Raise). Before Mirae, she worked at Elevation Capital (focusing on early-stage fintech and health tech). She also worked with General Catalyst (focused on US-India corridor SaaS/Fintech) during her internship at HBS. She graduated from Harvard Business School (2023) and is an alumnus of Shri Ram College of Commerce (2016).

Between a broken TV and a random comment about helpdesk pricing in Hacker News, Girish Mathrubootham envisioned and co-founded Freshworks (then Freshdesk) in 2010 to create a better way to service and delight customers. What began as a single product focused on customer service is now a global company with a comprehensive suite of products.

Girish has never lost his passion for building products that delight customers and their employees, nor for helping others along the way. He has invested in over 60 startups and is a founding member of SaaSBOOMi, Asia’s largest community of founders and product builders shaping India’s SaaS industry. With Together, Girish hopes to take his commitment to the Indian startup ecosystem to the next level.

Treading the unconventional path has always been a constant theme in Kaushik’s life. An engineer by trade, and a builder by passion – Prior to joining Together, Kaushik was a Consumer PM at Urban Company, Asia’s leading Home services marketplace, building fintech & D2C products. Earlier, he was at Kearney consulting leading players in the QSR and Oil & Gas space on areas of cost reduction & operational excellence.

Kaushik holds a Bachelor’s and Master’s Degree from BITS Pilani.

Prior to joining Lakshmi was the VP of Product Strategy for Google Search and launched GenAI in Search and prior to that was an ex-Twitter exec who worked directly with Jack Dorsey. Lakshmi started his career at IBM building enterprise SaaS products before Cloud was thing and moved to EY as a Management Consultant in M&A in the UK. In addition to his role at Together, Lakshmi is a visiting lecturer at IIT Madras and teaches AI and Entrepreneurship class at the Wadhwani School of AI & Data Science.

It was Manav’s idea of creating a fund for founders that was the seed behind starting Together.

In addition to being a founding partner at Together Fund, Manav is the Founder & CEO of Eka Software, enterprise SaaS platform to unify procurement, supply chain, treasury and payments. He is on a mission to modernize traditional industries through continuous innovation in enterprise software and SaaS.

An ardent believer in ‘pay-it-forward’ philosophy, Manav is the founding member of SaaSBOOMi, a community of entrepreneurs shaping India’s SaaS industry.

Over the past decade, Manav has been actively taking part in building the ecosystem by backing more than 30 startups as an angel investor and encouraging them to think of scale in a regimented and disciplined manner.

An ardent student of digital products and internet businesses, Pratyush’s career includes a couple of short stints at Amazon Web Services where he was a Solutions Architect in the India Public Sector team. He also worked as a part-time Investment Analyst with Miten Sampat (CRED, ex-Times Internet) and Aakrit Vaish (Jio-Haptik) where he was a part of over 17 angel investment deals.

Pratyush holds a Bachelor’s and Master’s Degree from IIT BHU.

Always looking to learn & unlearn, Shivam was a management consultant prior to joining Together, where he helped CXOs of leading conglomerates with business incubation & fund raising across South East Asia. Earlier, he has also spent time as a social entrepreneur, building businesses with a net positive impact on the world.

Shivam has an MBA from IIM Calcutta, and a B.Tech from Delhi College of Engineering.

Shubham’s passion for helping founders and learning from them brought him back from Singapore to India trading a banking job for a lifetime of startup adventures.

As an angel investor, Shubham has partnered with founders at companies such as Stashfin, MPL, Ixigo, Adpushup, Locus, Invideo, ZoomCar, Kristal, Next Billion, Posist and Testbook.

Prior to Together, Shubham led the SaaS investments practise at Matrix Partners India and backed exciting startups such as Rocketlane and Superops.ai.