Piyush co-founded Amara Partners in 2023 along with Parag. Piyush has been investing over the last 12 years of his 14-year professional journey. Prior to starting Amara, he was a Director at Omidyar Network India. He has invested across sectors such as SaaS, services, real estate and healthcare and across stages, from seed to growth stage companies. He has taken active board seats in many of his portfolio companies and drives value through growth interventions (refreshed GTMs, acquisitions), margin expansion (pricing and cost interventions) as well as capital structure optimization. He has also worked an an investment professional at Mahindra Partners for close to 5 years.

Piyush holds a Bachelor’s of Engineering degree in Electronics & Communications from PESIT, Bangalore as well as a Post Graduate Diploma in Management from IIM Ahmedabad.