Dinika Mahtani
Partner at Cherry Ventures
Dinika Mahtani
Partner at Cherry Ventures
London, England
Overview
Work Experience
Partner
2024 - Current
Cherry Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm led by a team of entrepreneurs with experience building fast-scaling companies such as Zalando and Spotify. The firm backs Europe's boldest founders, usually as their first institutional investor, and supports them in everything from their go-to-market strategy and the scaling of their businesses. Cherry Ventures has previously invested in the seed stage of over 50 companies across Europe, including FlixBus, Auto1 Group, Infarm, Rows, Forto, and TourRadar. Cherry Ventures is based in Berlin and invests across Europe with operations in London, Paris, and Stockholm.
Principal
2021 - 2024
Non Executive Board Director
2021 - 2023
Arthr are on a mission to improve everyday living for people with arthritis by designing, developing and championing innovative, high-quality and ergonomic products.
Director Of Finance And Operations
2020 - 2021
Dinika was part of an exec leadership team, building the future of B2B technology-enabled renewable energy platforms, across GTM Ops / fundraising / strategy, pricing & finance. Kaluza is OVO Group’s technology platform ecosystem that is driving the transition to a zero carbon grid. Its SaaS platform enables energy suppliers to empower their customers with unique digital experiences and smart, low carbon technologies (including EVs, and other residential devices) that not only reduce energy bills, but lay the foundations for a more flexible energy system. Kaluza’s leading tech is recognised across the industry, winning ‘Technological Innovation’ in edie’s Sustainability Leaders Awards 2020, ‘Transport Technology’ in BusinessGreen Technology Awards 2020 and ‘Best Innovation in Electricity’ at the UK Energy Innovation Awards 2019.
General Manager, JUMP UK
2019 - 2020
Dinika launched, managed and scaled Uber's JUMP e-bikes product in the UK
Head of Strategic Finance, UberEats EMEA
2018 - 2020
Dinika was a core part of UberEats' EMEA founding team
Strategic Finance & Pricing - Russia & Central Europe
2016 - 2017
Dinika led Pricing & Strategy for EMEA, and later focused on Russia and Central Europe. She was part of the deal team which sold this business to Yandex.
Capital Markets & Fundraising AVP
2013 - 2016
Leveraged lending and loan capital markets. Deal origination and execution across the technology, media, telecom & energy industries.
Investment Banking Analyst
2007 - 2010
Education
Bachelor's degree
2003 - 2007
Master's degree
2011 - 2013