About

Dinesh is a Partner at Siana Capital), a Venture Capital firm focused on investing in early-stage deep tech ventures in India. Dinesh has evaluated 1000+ investment opportunities at early stages (Seed to Series A) across various sectors (agritech, healthtech, edutech, climate/energy transition and frontier enterprise tech) and worked closely with the start up ecosystem across incubators/accelerators, angel/crowd funding networks, micro VCs and founder entrepreneurs over the past 7 years. He had led investments across the entire lifecycle from sourcing, evaluation, deal structuring & consummation and post investment management as a Board Director/Observer. As an active style of investment management, Dinesh continues to work very closely with the portfolio founders/boards to help navigate the strategic challenges and competitive dynamics that early stage ventures face in their growth journey. Dinesh has also taught as a visiting faculty for Post Graduate Program on Entrepreneurship & Innovation recently at Flame University, Pune and earlier at IFIM, Bangalore. Prior to start up ecosystem, Dinesh has almost 25 years of extensive global management and technology consulting experience where he had a chance to live and work across continents (New York/Boston, London, Abu Dhabi, Singapore). Dinesh has been an intrapreneur even as a corporate executive launching new service offerings, managing/scaling teams and P&L accounts, growing strategic client relationships. Dinesh was a Partner and Managing Director (Country Head, India) at ISG Inc (formerly TPI, a leading Nasdaq listed American technology advisory firm) where he advised on multi- billion dollar complex digital transformation programs, IT strategies and IT governance areas. Prior to that, Dinesh worked with Infosys as a senior executive for 3 years leading a service line P&L and before that with Accenture Strategy for almost 10 years advising clients on Business Process reengineering, operational cost optimization, IT strategy and large scale change programs.