Bharati Jacob is the Founder- Partner of Seedfund based in Bangalore. She brings over 24 years of diverse and rich experience in venture investing, marketing and financial services. She has been in venture investing since 2000 across 3 funds. She began her investing career with Infinity Venture Fund in 2000 as part of the start up team. Prior to Infinity, she was head of the investment bank Lazard in South India and established Lazard offices in Chennai and Bangalore. Her responsibilities included operations and business development with P&L responsibility for both offices.

Bharati holds graduate degrees from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania as well as XLRI and the University of Delhi. After graduating from Wharton, she worked at Northwest Airlines as part of a strategic FP&A group that supported the Executive Management Board of the airline on key strategic and operational initiatives.

Prior to Northwest, she worked in marketing research in India, helping MNCs and Indian companies in understanding consumers and helping define marketing strategies for products across multiple categories.

Prior to Northwest, she worked in marketing research in India, helping MNCs and Indian companies in understanding consumers and helping define marketing strategies for products across multiple categories.