Nruthya Madappa

Partner

2023 - Current

3one4 Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm based in Bangalore, India. The firm manages over $500M of capital and a portfolio of over 80 investments across the early stage. The firm works in select market categories and in the intersection of adjacencies that are large, growing, and ready for unique products and services. The themes pursued are SaaS, Enterprise & SMB Automation, Fintech, Consumer Internet, and Digital Health, with a focus on areas such as machine-driven actionable intelligence services, digital media, ambient intelligence technologies, logistics and distribution, and climate and sustainability tech. Portfolio companies include market leaders like Licious, Darwinbox, Jupiter, Open, Betterplace, Dhan, Yulu, Pocket Aces, Loco, Exponent Energy, Dozee, Begin, KukuFM, Werize, Bugworks etc

Director

2022 - 2023

Principal, Head of Growth and Capital Development

2020 - 2022

Founder and Managing Partner

2017 - 2020

Founded The Foundry to leverage global industry and academic expertise to support early stage entrepreneurs at an unprecedented scale. Portfolio of 30+ investments across urban tech, healthcare, enterprise tech and social enterprise via programs I founded in partnership with Yale University (Sustainable Health Initiative), Columbia University (Urban Works Innovation Challenge) and Brown University

Director

2017 - 2020

Exited to Brookfield. As the Director of Products at CoWrks drove conception, development and scale of new products and new lines of businesses. Led design and deployment of solutions that span tech, real estate, retail and hospitality.

VP - Strategy and Growth

2016 - 2017

Cuemath is a Sequoia Capital and Google Capital funded company with the singular aim of developing and delivering the most advanced math learning program. We empower educated housewives to deploy our world-class curriculum to 10,000+ students at their home-based Cuemath centers.

Product Manager (Volunteer Part Time)

2012 - 2015

TeachAIDS is a globally acclaimed non profit (MIT TR35, 2012 Tech Award) that creates groundbreaking software to solve persistent problems in HIV education around the world. Worked with a small team to develop, execute and distribute the Kannada version of the TeachAids material which today reaches 30 million people.

Business Development Manager (Volunteer)

2012 - 2012

Worked with the CEO on strategy and execution of several projects including business development, fund-raising, international growth and strategic partnerships.

Senior Associate

2012 - 2014

Worked closely with senior leadership of Fortune 50 companies and leading experts from UChicago, HBS and Stanford GSB to design solutions for a diverse set of problems in tech strategy, corporate structures, policy and IP defenses. Senior Associate (December 2013 - April 2014) • Led team of data scientists and consultants to mine extensive datasets of marketing, device usage and consumer demographic information to develop a focused future marketing strategy for the CMO of Fortune 50 client • We architected a server demand forecasting model; worked with client to improve operational efficiency of server deployment process and helped establish Fortune 50 client as leading cloud provider (drove implementation of recommendations that in turn reduced server deployment cycle from 6 months to ~1 month) Associate (November 2012 - December 2013) • Led discussions with cloud computing early adopters to learn about needs and usage of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS); Resulting report used to develop industry-wide benchmarks. • Built a multi-industry and academic R&D strategy and investment performance measurement model, for an international government. • Worked with leading experts at HBS to construct an economic model that studied the impact of software piracy on U.S manufacturing jobs. Results used to lobby at state and national levels for stricter anti-piracy regulations.

Lead Researcher

2010 - 2011

Led a research project in the VLF(Very Low Frequency) research group in the Electrical Engineering department. Designed and constructed a Compact Scintillator Charged Particle Detector which was launched on a CubeSat (satellite) in 2011

Project Lead (Part Time)

2008 - 2009

Project Mercury is part of an initiative by Stanford Hospitals under Dr. S. V. Mahadevan and has now been expanded to countries like Nepal. http://med.stanford.edu/news_releases/2007/may/EMRI.html Designed and taught a professional leadership development curriculum, as a part of a team from Stanford Hospitals, to paramedic students in GVK EMRI(Emergency Medicine Research Institute) Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India. The training focused on critical skills training to arm paramedics stepping into the fledgling emergency medicine program initiative in India. This paramedic training program is one of the biggest successes in modern India and our course took up the first two weeks of the two year training(http://www.emri.in/). When in India, was also team coordinator and acted as a mediator between the Stanford team and the local management.