Ostara Advisors

FOUNDER & CEO
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Vasudha Madhavan, Founder & CEO, Ostara Advisors, comes with over two decades of experience in Corporate & Investment Banking across Citibank, ICICI Bank and boutique investment banking and made her debut in the Top 20 on the All-India M&A League Tables in late-2018. In 2023, Vasudha was felicitated by India Energy Storage Alliance (IESA) as one of the Top 40 ‘Women leaders driving the Energy sector in India’. In 2024, Vasudha was featured in Season 5 of MG Changemakers by The Better India for founding India’s first specialist climate-tech investment banking firm, Ostara Advisors.

After an illustrious career in the Banking sector where she was known for her business acumen as well as her intrapreneur skills, she honed in on Climate-Tech as the vertical she wanted to make a mark in. Vasudha founded Ostara Advisors in 2015 to catalyze global capital flows into the climate-tech ecosystem in India. Taking a thought-leadership approach in these sectors, the firm is today an early mover in institutionalizing fund-raising in these sectors with a focus on growth stage fund-raising and M&A transactions. Vasudha has advised and facilitated pioneering deals in these sectors, including India’s first M&A deal in the Electric two-wheeler sector, which is the largest part of India’s $200b automotive industry, as well as some of the first and largest VC & PE rounds in the Indian EV and climate-tech ecosystem.