Speakers

Ash is Forbes 30U30, former investments lead for the $100Mn Polygon Ventures Fund I for investing in early stage web3 startups globally (backed 4 unicorns) with LPs such as Softbank, Tiger Global, Sequoia, Accel, Lightspeed etc. Now, she is the youngest Partner at LocalGlobe in London co-leading their deeptech practice, ranked #1 early stage fund in EMEA and #3 globally with highest number of unicorns in portfolio, with companies like SoRare, Copper, Robinhood, Wise, Figma, Twitter and LP in a16z, Sequoia etc. They've been long standing partners with LBS, and run Newton in collaboration for helping boost the VC and entrepreneurial opportunities on campus. She ran a boutique trading shop and angel investor network while working at Citi and PMO India.