Rishika Mody

Senior Manager, Strategy

Rishika is deeply passionate about systems development and innovation in the development sector. She believes that a stronger scaffolding can act as a force multiplier for impact.

With experience spanning business, society, and government—what Rohini Nilekani calls the holy grail of samaj, sarkar, and bazaar—she brings a unique interdisciplinary perspective. After two years at a multinational hedge fund, she decided to pivot to the impact space using tools and skills from her corporate experience.

Since that point onward, she has found avenues to marry her business acumen with impact centric work, to garner unique learnings by:

•⁠ ⁠Running an aggregator platform for social startups, where she built strong insights to business models across sectors;

•⁠ ⁠Serving as a founding member of an incubator-accelerator for women-led businesses at SEWA Bharat, where she learnt navigating the challenges of entrepreneurship at the grassroots level;

•⁠ ⁠Consulting for Telangana’s Women and Child Department, where she led product development to enhance last-mile service delivery at scale.

A graduate of Lady Shri Ram College for Women Rishika thrives on finding structure in chaos - thus, designing solutions for complex problem statements. In her free time, she enjoys reading non-fiction philosophies, conducting deep dives into impact investing, and discovering new music.