Lathika Pai

Country Head, VC & PE Ecosystem partnerships

Microsoft

Lathika Pai is Country Head, VC & PE Ecosystem partnerships, Microsoft where she works closely with top funds in India, in supporting their portfolio startups’ growth. In her prior stint, she was the Country Head, Microsoft for Startups, where she engaged with growth stage and typically Series A funded B2B startups. Her prior work experience includes large technology companies in the US and UK like Nortel, American Management Systems (CGI) and a $300 million funded start up Relera which was in the cloud and managed services space. As a serial entrepreneur, Lathika successfully raised capital for her ventures both through equity and debt funding, as well as provided profitable exits to her investors.

She has been on the Boards of international technology companies and helped them with their strategy for Asia. Lathika is also the Founder of SonderConnect, an organization that discovers, empowers and promotes women entrepreneurs looking to scale their business and raise funds through targeted mentoring and a robust, supportive community of executives, leaders and founders.