Mythili Sankaran CEO and Co-founder of Neythri, a global community of professional South Asian women and Co-founder and Managing Partner of The Neythri Futures Fund talks about her journey

Mythili Sankaran is the CEO and Co-founder of Neythri, a global community of professional South Asian womxn and the Co-founder and Managing Partner of The Neythri Futures Fund I, a venture fund for and by South Asian women. Mythili has been a consulting CXO to early-stage startups, product management specialist, dealmaker, entrepreneur and community builder. She comes with extensive experience in both, the corporate and nonprofit sectors. With over two decades of experience in the technology sector, Mythili brings a combination of strong startup, enterprise, product management and business development expertise to teams she works with. Previously, Mythili was the Senior Director & Head, Western Region for the U.S. India Business Council where she led the Council’s west coast practice and membership. Prior to USIBC, Mythili was the CEO of Koollage, a telecom/web startup. Early in her career, Mythili spent several years as a Research Staff Member at IBM Research Labs as well as AT&T Bell Labs and in product management roles at Lucent Technologies. Mythili recently founded Stratalens, an executive advisory firm to help early stage startups and advises them on all aspects from product ideation and investor pitch preparation to fundraising, marketing, business development, startup operations and business implementation. Additionally, Mythili is a member of several leading angel investment funds focused on women entrepreneurs such Portfolia, Pipeline Angels and Golden Seeds and is also a Fellow of the American Leadership Forum, Silicon Valley. Mythili is also actively involved in several non-profits focused on girls education and empowerment. She serves on the Regional Board of Room to Read, a global nonprofit supporting girls’ education and literacy, is a mentor for the Duke Technology Scholars program, and Global Advisor to How Women Lead. Mythili has a MS degree in Physics from Texas Tech University and an Executive MBA certificate from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. LinkedIn: --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/shobhana-viswanathan/support