Rita Ravindra

Rita Ravindra is a consumer-tech operator and entrepreneur who founded MiaMia Beauty, a social beauty platform designed to fix the fragmented digital beauty experience for Millennial and Gen X users. MiaMia launched its first product — an iPhone app with a "discover, bookmark, share & buy your beauty" premise — in November 2016. She describes herself as a startup executive with 15+ years across business development, global expansion, equity and debt fundraising, buy- and sell-side M&A, finance, and operations.

Before founding MiaMia, Ravindra was VP of Operations & Business Development at RadPad, a residential rental marketplace, where she was instrumental in raising a $9M Series A and executed the partnership deals to launch its mobile/web payments product. Earlier she was VP of Operations at Wittlebee, a children's-clothing e-commerce startup. Ravindra also spent formative years at MySpace, where she held roles as VP of International Strategy and VP of Business Development, and she began her career in investment banking.

Ravindra holds an MBA from the University of Chicago (Booth) and a B.A. in Economics from UCLA. Alongside her operating and investing work, she has taught as an instructor at General Assembly, drawing on her background in fundraising, business development, and startup operations.

• Invests as an individual angel, primarily at the seed/early stage in consumer-facing companies she can advise operationally.
• Sector interests track her own operating experience: mobile consumer apps, marketplaces, beauty/wellness, fitness, and consumer media/newsletters.
• Brings hands-on fundraising and BD expertise (she personally helped raise a $9M Series A at RadPad), so she tends to back founders where her operating help and network add value beyond capital.
• Looks for consumer products with clear engagement and monetization mechanics — her portfolio skews toward apps, community, and lifestyle brands rather than deep tech.