Maitree Mervana Parekh@Acrew Capital on Health & Fintech Investing
Episode description
Maitree Mervana Parekh is an early & growth stage investor @ Acrew Capital. Maitree is a student of consumer behavior shifts and a creative. She leads investments across Health and Fintech, working closely with the firm’s investments in Cometa, Future Family, Banked, ShopShops, Creative Juice, among other unannounced companies.Prior to Acrew, Maitree was an investor at Cerity Partners Ventures (fka Touchdown Ventures), where she helped launch and manage venture capital programs on behalf of large corporations, including T-Mobile. She started her career as an investment banker at Citigroup. Maitree was named Forbes 30 under 30, Venture Capital in 2022 and is a board member at NextGen and an active member of All Raise, helping to launch the All Raise Cohort Program fostering community and mentorship for women early in their venture capital careers. Maitree graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles with a BA in Business Economics.Topics:
- Decoding Consumer Behavior in Health Tech
- Fintech Innovation at the Intersection of Consumer Needs
- Evolution of fintech investments during economic uncertainty