Divya comes with 13 years of experience across different domains in the financial sector. At Stride Ventures, she is a part of the Investments team. She comes with strong expertise in Origination and Underwriting of start-ups. Prior to Stride, she was associated with Northern Arc Capital. She also has a background in Equity Research having looked at listed entities during her stint at HSBC and CRISIL. Divya has also worked on devising and implementing financial products for low-income households while at Centre for Innovative Financial Design. She did her Engineering from Anna University (Chennai) and her MBA from Institute for Financial Management and Research, IFMR (Chennai).