Know Your Investors

Yashwanth Hemaraj, a venture capital investor at Benhamou Global Ventures, specializes in digital enterprise transformation, focusing on cloud technologies, cybersecurity, IoT, and analytics. His investments include Tagnos, Totango, and Macrometa. He offers startup mentorship, covering fundraising, market strategies, and product development. Previously, he was an engineer at SpiderCloud Wireless and holds an MBA from Kellogg School of Management and an MS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Maryland.

A venture capital investor at Arka, Aarushi Khanna specializes in early-stage SaaS investments and corporate partnerships. She brings a diverse background in corporate mergers & acquisitions, solution architecture, and business development across various geographies. A founding team member at two tech startups in the mobile intelligence and robotics space, Aarushi holds an MBA from the Indian School of Business and a B.Tech. from the National Institute of Technology, Karnataka.

Aditya Nishtala is a venture capital investor with Arka Venture Labs. He primarily focuses on cross-border investments in the pre-seed/seed stage in the B2B tech/SaaS/enterprise software space. Before joining Arka, Aditya was a venture & marketing partner at Emergent Ventures. Prior to that, he founded and ran a consulting firm, working alongside multiple VC firms and helping startups and nonprofits with branding, marketing, and GTM.