Tarana Lalwani

Tarana Lalwani is one of the founding partners at InnoVen Capital, where she heads sourcing and execution of venture debt transactions. She plays an active role within the portfolio companies which encompasses facilitating business development, and planning and guidance on further fund raises. Some of the investments lead by her are Elastic Run, Porter, Zetwerk, Bharatpe, Servify etc. Prior to InnoVen she was a Principal at Seedfund, where Tarana sourced, evaluated, and mentored early stage companies. She also works closely with the portfolio companies to get them to the next level of growth. Given her strong ties with angel groups like Mumbai Angles, where she was an active member and the venture investor community, Tarana continues to be involved in the early stage space mentoring and guiding founders on fund raising, strategy and business development, and dabbles a bit in some angel investing.
Tarana serves on CII Western Region Sub-Committee on Startups and Entrepreneurship, is an Independent Director with Embassy Developments, and an advisor to Auerolis an early-stage sector agnostic fund.
Tarana started her career in New York with Morgan Stanley, following which she joined Radian, a financial services firm, in their structured finance group. Tarana holds an undergraduate degree from LaSalle University, and an MBA from Columbia Business School, USA.