Serial entrepreneur Pankhuri Shrivastava no more

New Delhi: Pankhuri Shrivastava, Founder of Pankhuri, a women-centric social community platform start-up, died due to a cardiac arrest on Friday. An announcement was made by her company on Monday. She was 32.

“With profound grief and sorrow, we regret to inform the sad demise of our beloved CEO, Pankhuri Shrivastava. We lost her on 24th December 2021 due to a sudden cardiac arrest. May her soul obtain Sadgati. Om Shanti,” the company tweeted on Monday.

Pankhuri Shrivastava launched Pankhuri in 2019 for women members to socialise, explore and upskill through live interactive courses, expert chat, and interest-based clubs.

Several top executives mourned the untimely death of Pankhuri Shrivastava on social media.
“Yesterday it came as a shock to me when I found out that ©pankhuril6 is no more. I remember her as a vivacious bright woman full of ideas and full of life. She was confident. That was something you noticed about her immediately!” Vani Kola, the Founder of Kalaari Capital tweeted on Sunday.

“Deeply saddened and shocked by this sudden loss. Pankhuri was so full of life, ideas and passion and had a missionary zeal. We loved having Pankhuri in our Surge family and will miss you so dearly. Our thoughts and prayers are with her family in this very difficult time,” Sequoia India Managing Director Rajan Anandan tweeted.

Pankhuri Shrivastava, who hailed from Jhansi, raised $3.2 million led by Sequoia Capital India’s accelerator programme, Surge, and India Quotient and Taurus Ventures.

The entrepreneur had also founded rental startup Grabhouse, which was sold in 2016 to Quikr in a cash and equity deal.

 

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