Innovate UK member
Priya is a Venture Partner at Merian Venture. Previously she was Ecosystem G M for RocketSpace, a San Francisco HQ-ed company that helps tech entrepreneurs, high-growth startups and corporate innovators bring the future to market. RocketSpace’s UK campus opened June 2017. Priya was a career diplomat who was most recently posted as British Consul General to San Francisco where she focused on transatlantic tech and entrepreneurship.
As the first female British Consul General, Priya used her platform to support women in business, including initiating annual delegations of UK female tech entrepreneurs to Silicon Valley. Priya is also an Advisor to a VC firm that invests in women-led innovation, a Non-Executive Director of Innovate UK and is on the Advisory Board of Tech London Advocates.
Last updated: 19 October 2020