New York December 15, 2019. Swati Mylavarapu is among the Indian Americans who have so far raised over $25,000 for Pete Buttigieg’s campaign to become President of the U.S. Others include Deven and Monika Parekh of New York.

Mylavarapu, an investor and former Silicon Valley executive who lives in San Francisco, raised the funds with her husband Matt Rogers. He co-founded Nest, a supplier of monitoring and other gadgets for the home, which was bought by Google in 2014 for $3.2 billion in cash. .

Earlier Mylavarapu worked at Square, a financial payments start-up. In 2015, she joined venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins as a partner. The next year she co-founded the Arena, an accelerator program that supports progressive startups like Flippable, and also seeks to elect Democratic candidates in Republican leaning districts. She and her husband set up an investment fund, Incite Ventures, and a nonprofit organization, Incite Labs.

In April Mylavarapu, was named investment chair of Pete’s Presidential campaign. In this role she heads fund raising for Pete’s campaign. She and Pete studied together at Harvard and also as Rhodes Scholars at Oxford. Discussing her work for Pete’s campaign as well as on social programs while studying with him at Harvard, Mylavarapu told The Wired magazine "For me…authenticity is something that you can’t manufacture…it’s the hardest thing to find in a candidate—you can’t make it up."

She added that she and Pete…”are absolutely in this to win the election.”

Swati’s bio:

INCITE VENTURES: Finding small gems, investing in them, building teams, getting other like-minded supporters involved, combining the right ingredients for growth… that’s what Swati has done her entire career.

For starters, she invested in herself, getting degrees at Oxford and Harvard as a Rhodes scholar. She learned how great teams and companies are built from the inside at start-ups Quid & Square. Most recently, she learned how capital supports and amplifies entrepreneurs as a partner at KPCB.

Swati is an equestrian and enjoys a fun afternoon in the dressage ring.https://www.incite.org/about-us

ARENA: Swati works behind the scenes to support Arena’s strategy, fundraising, and growth.

Swati is also a Founding Partner at Incite Ventures. She was previously a Partner on the venture capital team at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, where she focused on consumer digital and hardware investments. Before KPCB, Swati built the international business and product marketing efforts at Square, a financial services company that levels the playing field for small businesses. She also serves on the non-profit boards of B Lab, Bayes Impact, and the Boston Review. Swati graduated from Harvard with an AB in Development Studies, and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and a Truman Scholar. She also holds an MPhil in Economic History from the University of Oxford, where she was a Rhodes Scholar. https://arena.run/team/swati-mylavarapu

For the list of $25,000 plus donors to Pete;s campaign:

https://peteforamerica.com/9a9cc2e0-41ae-44b6-8c2e-224f97137785/

For The Wired story:

https://www.wired.com/story/pete-buttigieg-swati-mylavarapu-campaign-investment-chair/