Divya Venkat

Principal at Lightrock

Divya is a Principal at Lightrock and leads investing in Education/Skilling and supports portfolio companies on their strategic human capital initiatives. She currently serves on the Board of Cuemath. Prior to joining Lightrock, Divya led large distributed teams in scalable and transformative social enterprises. Most recently, Divya led the Global People Management function at New Globe, serving nearly one million students across five countries in Africa & India. Divya started her career as a derivatives lawyer in 2008 with Linklaters LLP, London. An Erasmus Mundus Scholar, Divya graduated from the National Law School of India University, Bangalore (B.A. LL.B (Hons.)) and, is currently pursuing an Executive MBA from the Indian School of Business, Hyderabad.


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Lightrock is a global private equity platform that backs purpose-driven entrepreneurs tackling the world’s biggest challenges. Since 2007, Lightrock has invested in companies that pursue scalable and tech-driven business models around the key impact themes of people, planet, and productivity/tech for good. Lightrock’s portfolio includes more than 70 high-growth companies, supported by over 70 professionals based in 5 offices across Europe, Latin America, India and Africa. Lightrock is backed by the Princely House of Liechtenstein and LGT, the international private banking and asset management group. https://www.lightrock.com


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