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Trisha Rajani Vaidya

Trisha Rajani Vaidya
Founder & Ex COO, Dr. Vaidya's, Angel Investor and D2C Ops Junkie
Advisor, Global Bees & Advisor, Rukam Capital

Trisha Rajani Vaidya was the COO at Dr. Vaidya's: New Age Ayurveda. Prior to her entrepreneurial stint, Trisha graduated from Warwick University, UK with a BSc in Business Management. She then worked at Goldman Sachs in London from 2012-2014 where she was in the top quartile all through her stint. In July 2014, Trisha moved back to India and joined Nykaa as part of the core team which at the time was only 20 members. Trisha also worked in impact investing at Intellecap until she joined Dr. Vaidya’s in 2017. 

Dr. Vaidya’s aims to take the traditional science of Ayurveda to the 21st century by using innovative packaging, branding and new formats of products. It is India’s largest Ayurveda brand online and was recently the first Ayurvedic brand to be featured in the Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia List for 2019 and BW 40 Under 40 List! In 2020, Dr. Vaidya’s also won Youth SMB of the Year from Amazon and a Retail Startup Award from the Retailers Association of India. With innovative concepts like LIVitup (Hangover Shield) and Chakaash (Herbal Health Toffees. At Dr. Vaidya’s, Trisha spearheaded operations, customer service, logistics & finance and was instrumental in scaling the brand from 0-5,000 orders per day. In June 2019, Dr. Vaidya’s partnered with the USD 4b RP Sanjiv Goenka Group and has now been acquired by the group – making it one of India’s first successful D2C exits. 

Post the exit Trisha is an active angel investor, mentor for start-ups and an advisor to Globalbees and Trell. Outside of work, Trisha is an advisor to football focused NGO, Just for Kicks.