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Rebalance co-founder shares journey and investing insights

What they do

Rebalance runs an accelerator and angel community focused on female founders and women investors

Co-founder Aishwarya Malhi discussed her journey, the community's $50M deployed capital, and 30 portfolio startups

Nearly 60% of the community's funders are women, and 75% of portfolio companies have women founders

Aishwarya Malhi, co-founder of Rebalance, gave an interview to Indian Startup Times about her journey and views on investing.
She spent 7 years building access for over 200 founders and built a community of funders that is 60% women.
Through Rebalance, she has moved $50M in deployed and follow-on capital towards founders.
Malhi co-founded Rebalance in 2019 with Vikas Kumar.
Rebalance is one of India's earliest accelerator programs for female founders and India's first angel community focused on getting more women to invest.
The accelerator has hosted 10 cohorts and backed more than 30 startups.
Nearly 75% of the portfolio comprises companies with women founders or co-founders.
About 70% of those investments were led by Rebalance.

Malhi noted that women are taught to save, not to invest, and historically have rarely been given agency to make investment decisions.
She believes the solution is building communities and exposure pathways for women.
She observed that women investors often approach investments structurally differently, asking more questions around risk mitigation and execution, while men index first on scale and opportunity size.
Malhi said India's angel ecosystem has become more mature and thesis-driven, with founders solving uniquely Indian problems.
She highlighted the rise of operators, product managers, and startup professionals as active angel investors, and the emergence of women-led funds and family offices directly participating in startup investments.

Rebalance is headquartered in Gurugram.
It runs an accelerator program and an angel community.
The community has 30 investments to date, with 75% of those in female-founded companies.
Nearly 40% of the portfolio sector mix is deeptech.
Of those deeptech investments, 90% are led by women.
Rebalance is bullish on hardware and industrial tech.
The community has deployed and facilitated $50M in capital towards founders.