About Shruti

Shruti Iyengar is an Investment Manager at Future Planet Capital where she supports the UK Innovation and Science Seed Fund as well as the Blue Ocean Mandate. 

Prior to joining Future Planet Capital, she was an Investor with an early-stage climate tech fund, Sustainable Ventures, where she managed a portfolio of 36 companies, lead their 12 month-long Accelerator programme, and built out their impact measurement practice. 

Shruti began her career in Singapore where she worked with organizations across Southeast Asia including UN Women, Singapore International Foundation, and DBS Foundation to build out their impact investing and measurement strategies. She was involved with developing numerous incubator programmes for early-stage companies and mentored founders scale their businesses across verticals such as food/agri-tech, healthcare, and sustainability.

She also worked closely with Government agencies, Centres of Innovation, and SMEs in the region, delivering and evaluating the impact of SME support programmes, building her expertise across sectors such as manufacturing, precision engineering, energy, and environment/water technology.

Shruti holds a dual degree in Mathematics and Economics from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore and is a Women's Merit Scholar from London Business School's Master's in Finance programme.