Anu Sridharan is the head of marketing and development at CSEI. She is responsible for leading fundraising strategy and communications for CSEI.
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Anu has freelanced for various startups around Bangalore in the financial technology space.

Prior to that, Anu has been co-founder and CEO of a social enterprise called NextDrop Inc for over 8 years, which aimed to tackle the problem of urban water scarcity by tracking water supply for utilities through better data.

Anu was listed in the Forbes “30 Social Entrepreneurs Under 30” list for her work with NextDrop Inc in 2012 (USA) and 2016 (Asia), was a TED Unilever speaker, and was part of the Y Combinator summer 2017 batch.

Anu holds a Masters from the Civil and Environmental Engineering program at the University of California, Berkeley, where her research focused on the optimization of piped networked systems in developing economies.