About Us
Democratising funding decisioning and access to founders.
About Saarva
Who We Are
Saarva is led by experienced professionals with deep expertise across banking, tech platforms, fintech, venture debt, and growth.
Our team has evaluated over 1,000 startups, scaled venture debt in India, and built a rich network of equity investors spanning angel networks and top-tier VCs. We exist to democratise funding decisioning and access for founders.
1000+ Startups Evaluated
Deep experience assessing ventures across Consumer, Fintech, B2B, and emerging sectors.
Venture Debt Expertise
Scaled venture debt in India with 100+ funded companies since 2019.
Rich Investor Network
Connected with top-tier VCs, angel networks, and institutional investors across India.
Full-Stack Team
Deep expertise across banking, fintech, tech platforms, risk, and operations.
Our Track Record
Leadership
Meet Our Founders
Experienced professionals with deep expertise across banking, tech platforms, fintech, venture debt, and growth.
Nupur Suri
Founder, Saarva
With 20+ years across banking, fintech, lending, collections, consulting, and multi-sector growth, Nupur has built and led high-performing businesses across India.
Her work spans full-stack execution — from credit strategy, risk and tech implementation to GTM, offline/online customer acquisition, collections, and nationwide operations scaling.
She has worked in Standard Chartered Bank and ANZ in Retail and Corporate Banking and as COO of Progcap, a leading Fintech funded by Google, Tiger Global and Tier 1 investors.
She has also led strategy consulting engagements across media, manufacturing, and emerging sectors, advising on business expansion, new market entry, and organisational transformation.
Abhinav Suri
Co-Founder, StrideOne
Abhinav Suri is a seasoned financial-services leader with over two decades across banking, credit, risk and venture debt. A significant part of Abhinav’s career has been shaped by his work with India’s startup ecosystem in Stride Ventures debt fund. He has evaluated over 1,000 startups across Consumer, Fintech, B2B e-commerce and other emerging sectors, and funded more than 100 ventures since 2019, including Zepto, Lendingkart, Inframarket, Pilgrim, Perfios, Bluestone etc. Currently a Co-Founder at StrideOne (NBFC), Abhinav has been instrumental in embedding machine-learning credit models and automated decisioning through their award winning Tech platform.
He previously held leadership roles at IDFC FIRST Bank, ANZ, GE Capital and Citi. Abhinav is deeply focused on building next-generation, AI-enabled lending frameworks and has extensive expertise in evaluating diverse business models and enabling growth at scale.


