Abhay Malla

Investment Associate

As an Investment Associate at Lumikai, Abhay is involved in driving end-to-end deal flow, crafting investment theses, conducting in-depth industry research, and portfolio management support.

Prior to Lumikai, Abhay was part of the investment team at Mayfield India (an early stage $200 Mn+ AUM fund), focusing on consumer, deep tech, and platform investments in India. Some of the companies he has worked with, include EatClub, Agnikul, Exly, Emiza, Strata and TrueFan.

He was also involved in the exit process, notably working on the LEAP India sale to KKR of ~$275M in 2023, and recently the Emiza Supply Chain Services partial exit to Evolvence India and Mirabilis investment Trust in 2025.

He started his career as a consultant with MXV, and later transitioned to Bain Consulting, working in the private equity ringfence with clients such as Goldman Sachs VC and Mubadala Investment Company.

Abhay holds a Bachelor’s in Commerce (Honors) from Shri Ram College of Commerce, Delhi University, graduating in 2020.

Outside of work, Abhay has been a gamer for 12+ years with a passion for hardcore multiplayer and single player games. He has collectively spent 4000+ hours across various titles such as DOTA 2, Counter Strike, FIFA and VALORANT, reaching top percentile on the Indian leaderboard for the latter. Some of his favorite single player titles are Red Dead Redemption 2, God of War and Hogwarts Legacy.