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Supriya Sharma

Go-getter · DISC type d
Partner - Insights at IIMA Ventures
📍 Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India

Supriya Sharma is a Partner at IIMA Ventures, where she focuses on startup research, coaching, and translating academic insights for industry application. With a PhD in Organizational Behavior from IIM Ahmedabad, her work centers on startup identity and scaling challenges. Colleagues have described her as committed, innovative, and meticulous.

Outside of her professional focus on startups, Supriya has a keen interest in womens financial inclusion and caregiving. She is an avid reader, having recently reviewed a biography on Zomatos founder, and has a stated passion for Hindi and Urdu poetry. She also shows a humorous side in her writing.

Supriya once wrote a social media post celebrating the 40th anniversary of Microsoft Excel, calling it her "first true love. "

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Experience
18 Years
Current Role
Partner - Insights
Location
Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India
Personality Overview

How Supriya shows up

Direct & Candid
Decisive
Challenger

They don’t always try to control the conversation but neither do they like yielding it fully. They respond well to confident salespeople. They care equally about the product and its potential impact.

Priorities

Topics Supriya cares about

Startup Culture & Scaling
She runs an accelerator program at IIMA Ventures focused on helping startups build scalable organizational and cultural foundations, viewing people-related issues as a primary cause of failure.
Women's Financial Inclusion
She is a vocal advocate and researcher on this topic, co-authoring articles that highlight the significant gender gap in women's access to financial services in India.
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Career

Work history

9-2016
Partner - Insights
IIMA Ventures
5-2011 - 8-2016
FPM (PhD)
Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad
1-2009 - 8-2010
Professor
SCMLD
8-2007 - 1-2009
Executive Assistant to President
Religare Insurance Broking Ltd.
7-2006 - 8-2007
Management Trainee/Asst Manager
Bajaj Allianz General Insurance Co. Ltd.
In the press

Media appearances

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Education
FPM
Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad
Education details unavailable
Indian Institute of Management, Indore
Social presence
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Behavioral profile

DISC profile (public)

d

Dominance (D)

Dominance (D) reflects how goal and task oriented a person is, and their ability to accomplish results irrespective of how demanding the circumstances might be. Those scoring high tend to be motivated by winning, competition, and success.

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