Priya Oberoi
General Partner, Goddess Gaia Ventures
Priya is the General Partner of Goddess Gaia Ventures (GGV), Europe’s first women’s centric healthcare fund . Priya conceptualised and started to build GGV in 2021 after a long-held belief that women’s healthcare is greatly underserved and underfunded and there remains huge, untapped market potential in this investment vertical. GGV invests across the spectrum of women’s health at seed +; its investment thesis focuses on 5 core investment themes to create alpha in a cross-pollinated portfolio. GGV aims to scale its winning portcos into the US market providing cross border, go to market support to its companies to help navigate entry point pitfalls. Priya is also an avid angel investor having demonstrated access and a winning formula when investing into promising start ups across different investment verticals. As a survivor of cancer and intrusive IVF treatment and living with an auto-immune disease, Priya knows first hand the importance in bringing effective client centric solutions to market . Her own lived experiences were her inspiration and passion in building GGV and investing in white spaces at the intersection of tech, health, wellness & science. As the former founder and CEO of Oberoi Capital Partners, a boutique private placement and PE investment firm, Priya built a company from the ground up into a successful, sought after firm returning 8498x shareholder value over 12 years. She built, managed, and ran the investment firm providing fund raising expertise, business, strategic and structuring advice and multi-channel scale-up positioning across different asset classes & distinct PE investment strategies. She from inception, multiplied the firm’s bandwidth giving the firm the ability to access the entire investor spectrum from GCC Royal Families to corporate and institutional investors. She has raised funds and led the strategic expansion into the GCC markets for several blue-chip clients. Priya is a structured finance and derivatives lawyer by background and training, attaining of-counsel recognition in 2010 at Clifford Chance- a magic circle law firm. She is one of the pioneers of Islamic Derivatives having been an architect of the ISDA-IIFM Tahawut Master Agreement that now is a foundational template for a $1.2 Trillion Industry. She has been the lead lawyer on numerous multinational transactions, skilfully working with both public and private companies. Priya has throughout her career been a sought-after speaker at prestigious forums and a popular thought leader for her industry. Priya holds a BA (University) MA, Oxford University
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