Principal, Kraken Ventures

Ms. Stuti Pandey serves as Principal at Kraken Ventures. She served as Senior Associate at Maniv Mobility. Stuti double-majored in Policy and Management and Decision Sciences at Carnegie Mellon University. Following an internship at Citi Group and work structuring municipal bonds for state and local government infrastructure projects at Public Financial Management, she transitioned to the world of startups, joining SideCar as an early employee. At SideCar, she helped to deploy the company's shared rides product and to manage the company's pivot into B2B deliveries. Following GM's acquisition of SideCar, she joined GM's Active Urban Solutions team, where she focused on business models surrounding autonomy, and worked to integrate the company's Cruise acquisition, along with tying together GM's constellation of mobility investments. After a brief stint at Yelp, where she focused on product development for an in-house food delivery network, she joined VW's MOIA unit in Berlin as Product Manager and Tech Scout, where she mapped the autonomous mobility ecosystem for VW Group. After over two years of work with VW, she moved into tech investment, contributing to investment projects at EarlyBird Venture Capital before joining SpeedInvest's Network Effects team focused on markets and platforms. She has been a member of the Maniv Mobility investments team since August 2020.