Jyothi Vallurupalli Principal, Lightbank

Jyothi Vallurupalli is a Principal at Lightbank, a $700M AUM early-stage VC firm investing in Pre-Seed through Series A.

Based in Chicago, Jyothi is focused on sourcing and evaluating investment opportunities within Lightbank's areas of interest: vertically focused technology, tech-enabled services, and consumer & SMB tech.

Jyothi has been responsible for leading investments in Claim, Attain, Ohana, Hark, Wendy, Campus Ink, Elevent, and Pyka. Jyothi started her career at McKinsey and Company and studied Economics at the University of Pennsylvania.

The partners at Lightbank have started companies such as Tempus (NASDAQ: TEM), Groupon (NASDAQ: GRPN), Echo Logistics (NASDAQ: ECHO), Mediaocean (acq. by Vista Equity) and Innerworkings (Nasdaq: INWK). The fund's portfolio companies have created over $25B in enterprise value and include companies such as Sprout Social (NASDAQ: SPT), Fiverr (NYSE: FVRR), Udemy (NASDAQ: UDMY), Tastytrade (acq. by IG Group), Boom Supersonic, Expel, and others..