Lakshmi (Jothi) Potluri

Chief Revenue Officer, Tira Beauty | Driving growth & P&L across omnichannel retail, venture & digital commerce | Board Director | Columbia MBA

📍 Mumbai, Maharashtra, India🔄 Updated September 2026💼 4 investments📅 15 years investing🗓 Last invested Nov 2014𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
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Board Observer
Nov 2014
Velvetcase is a fine jewellery online platform that brings together the best independent designers from across the world. The vision behind Velvetcase is to create an intelligent, contemporary platform for jewellery lovers seeking modern and contemporary designs, high quality finish and personal touch. Our founders, Kapil Hetamsaria & Runit Shah conceived the site as a bridge between the accessibility of the Internet and the charm of culling through unique and different designs created by global designers in New York, Mumbai, Kuwait, Milan, Jaipur, Kolkatta and several other places where fine jewellery is an art. The team strives hard to create a rich, cultural destination for jewelry lovers – powered by unique experiences and inspirations of individual designers embodied in their designs. We leverage cutting edge technology tools to allow customers to personalize these designs in various colours of gold and qualities of diamonds per her needs and budget. Tying these together is our Velvetcase service that you’d expect from your personal jeweller, creating a luxury shopping experience unlike any other.
Angel Investor
Apr 2011
One of Indias foremost Angel Networks. Fostering Entrepreneurship. Mentoring Entrepreneurs. Nurturing Ambitions. The Chennai Angels (TCA), formerly known as Chennai Entrepreneurship Trust Fund, was established in November 2007 with the objective of fostering Entrepreneurship with prime focus on nurturing and mentoring new generation entrepreneurs. Aspiring entrepreneurs with innovative business ideas often fumble to translate thoughts into commercially viable ventures. These teething troubles could be attributed to inadequate awareness in taking the ideas forward or paucity of funds. In an effort to help these young minds, a group of prominent successful entrepreneurs came forward to form a consortium called The Chennai Entrepreneurship Trust Fund in Nov 2007, which is now The Chennai Angels (TCA). TCA are a Group of successful leaders who have successfully built, run and in many cases exited enterprises across multiple domains and industries and help entrepreneurs build and grow their ventures and enterprises into success stories.
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2021
Head of Asia Business Development
Jul 2021
B Capital invests globally in extraordinary founders and businesses shaping the future through technology. With more than $9 billion in assets under management and dedicated stage-based funds, the firm focuses on seed to early- and late-stage venture growth investments, primarily in the technology, healthcare and resilience tech sectors. Founded in 2015, B Capital has an integrated, global team across nine locations in the U.S. and Asia. The firm’s value-add platform, together with the consulting expertise of its strategic partner, The Boston Consulting Group, provides entrepreneurs with the tools and resources to scale quickly and efficiently, expand into new markets and build market-leading businesses. For more information, click here.
2017
Chief Executive Officer | Partner
Oct 2017
Delivering Change Ventures is on a mission to be the destination for responsible entrepreneurs. The following are our areas of focus to bring innovation from around the world and make it accessible to organizations. • Connecting relevant Israeli startups with Indian corporations looking at Innovation • Innovation Consulting for corporations & government • Startup enablement platform for early stage companies • Soft Launchpad for global startups that want to enter the Indian ecosystem We have access to a portfolio of 5000 plus cutting edge early to mature stage companies across fintech, technology, smart city, IOT, energy, agriculture etc., which would enable companies to revolutionize their businessesThis will help the Israeli startups to expand their business in India This will also provide local Startups to access the Israel Eco System including technology, funding & more.
2016
Chief of Staff/Chief Growth Officer
Apr 2016
Network18 is Indias leading media conglomerate, which includes the country’s largest omni-channel news network, consisting of 20 news channels across 16 languages and 4 online news platforms across 13 languages. It is the highest reach TV news network in India, reaching over 175 mn people around the country every week with a viewership share of 10.9%. Network18’s digital portfolio is India’s No. 2 digital news/information publisher with over 180 mn unique visitors every month. The network operates some of India’s top news channels such as CNN-News18 (English), News18 India (Hindi), CNBC-TV18 (English) & CNBC Awaaz (Hindi). The regional portfolio of the news network boasts 15 channels such as News18 Uttar Pradesh / Uttarakhand, News18 Bihar / Jharkhand, News18 Madhya Pradesh / Chhattisgarh, News18 Rajasthan, News18 Punjab, News18 J&K / Ladakh / Himachal / Haryana, News18 Assam/NE, News18 Gujarati, News18 Bangla, News18 Odia, News18 Kerala, News18 Kannada, News18 Tamil Nadu, News18 Lokmat and CNBC Bajar. It also is home to India’s most visited news websites such as News18.com, CNBCTV18.com, Moneycontrol.com, firstpost.com among others. Network18’s latest initiative Local18 (which focuses on hyperlocal content) covers almost 300 districts in India. The group also publishes Forbes in India.
2014
Velvetcase
Board Observer
Nov 2014
Board Observer
Nov 2014
Velvetcase is a fine jewellery online platform that brings together the best independent designers from across the world. The vision behind Velvetcase is to create an intelligent, contemporary platform for jewellery lovers seeking modern and contemporary designs, high quality finish and personal touch. Our founders, Kapil Hetamsaria & Runit Shah conceived the site as a bridge between the accessibility of the Internet and the charm of culling through unique and different designs created by global designers in New York, Mumbai, Kuwait, Milan, Jaipur, Kolkatta and several other places where fine jewellery is an art. The team strives hard to create a rich, cultural destination for jewelry lovers – powered by unique experiences and inspirations of individual designers embodied in their designs. We leverage cutting edge technology tools to allow customers to personalize these designs in various colours of gold and qualities of diamonds per her needs and budget. Tying these together is our Velvetcase service that you’d expect from your personal jeweller, creating a luxury shopping experience unlike any other.
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