Kanika Agarrwal
Co-founder, Upside AI
Ms. Kanika is the co-founder of Upside AI. She has a total of 14 years of work experience in financial services. She spent approx. four years with Mayfield Fund’s India practice advising Mayfield India Fund about investments in consumer internet, apparel, retail, food, technology and enterprise businesses. Mayfield globally has over $3 billion in assets under management and has over $200 million (~Rs 1,300 crores) under management in India. At Mayfield, her key deals included Matrimony.com (IPO – 2017), Amagi (adtech), Knowlarity (enterprise SaaS), Triphobo (travel tech), The Beer Café (food) and Genesis Colors (luxury retail). Before Mayfield, she worked with Credit Suisse in their investment banking team advising technology, media and telecommunication companies in Asia Pacific on mergers and acquisitions for approx. 2 years. Before Credit Suisse, she was with Ernst & Young for 3 years advising asset management companies, foreign funds and FIIs on their India entry and structures from a tax & regulatory perspective.
Educational qualifications: Chartered Accountant (All India Rank 18) and a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) degree holder. She also holds a B. Com from Mumbai University.