Maria Ben

Analyst, Investments

Maria Ben

Maria is part of the Emerging Technologies team responsible for sourcing and evaluating investments in Climate, EV & Mobility and Agritech.

Prior to Omidyar Network India, she worked at Aavishkaar Capital as a member of the investments team primarily looking at early and growth stage investments along with portfolio management. She also comes with the experience of working at PwC India in their Investment Banking practice and was briefly associated with KPMG India as a risk analyst.

She is a graduate of BSc. Economics and Finance (Hons) at Ashoka University.

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