Grabhouse and Pankhuri founder Pankhuri Shrivastava passes way

Mumbai: Pankhuri Shrivastava founding father of Sequoia Capital-backed women-focused social group platform “Pankhuri” handed away on December 24. Shrivastava had beforehand based dwelling rental startup Grabhouse which was bought to Quikr in 2016.

Vani Kola, founding father of Kalaari Capital tweeted on Sunday, “Yesterday it got here as a shock to me after I discovered that @pankhuri16 is not any extra. I bear in mind her as a vivacious shiny girl filled with concepts and lively. She was assured. That was one thing you observed about her instantly.” Kola added, “ My coronary heart reaches out to her household at this premature tragedy. Her demise is a loss for our startup ecosystem. We misplaced a shiny and younger founder, however I do know her legacy will reside on. It was actually a privilege to know Pankhuri. Relaxation in peace, Pankhuri.”

Shrivastava is remembered by those that labored along with her for being a brave entrepreneur. “It’s a stunning piece of reports. Pankhuri was filled with vitality. What number of founders have the braveness to call their firm after them,” mentioned Anand Lunia, founding father of India Quotient, an early-stage fund, who was an investor in Shrivastava’s startup. Lunia first met Shrivastava in 2013 throughout the fund’s boot camp and has been an investor in each her ventures.

Shrivastava began Pankhuri in 2019, and had raised $3.2 million from Sequoia Capital India’s Surge programme alongside India Quotient and Taurus Ventures. Pankhuri is a platform for ladies in India to community, be taught and store by way of reside streaming, chat, and cohort-based periods, enabling them to be lively contributors in magnificence and life-style conversations on-line as a substitute of being passive shoppers.

Shrivastava’s earlier enterprise, Grabhouse was based in 2012 backed by Sequoia Capital, Kalaari Capital, and India Quotient.

Having accomplished her engineering diploma in pc science from Rajiv Gandhi Technical College, Shrivastava went on to finish a fellowship at Educate for India, in response to her LinkedIn profile. She additionally did a year-long stints at ZestMoney and Quikr earlier than she based her present enterprise.

“Take dangers in life to have the ability to expertise one thing new and totally different. Improve your threat urge for food by stepping exterior the norms. Take dangers and other people will observe!” had been the phrases Shrivastava shared with Kola throughout their current interplay, Kola wrote on LinkedIn on Sunday.

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