Anita Srinivasan
I clear the legal runway so breakthrough tech can take off
Emerging-tech lawyer · product-builder · incoming LL.M. (Law & Technology), UC Berkeley ‘26
About
- 10 years at the crossroads of securities law, fintech product, and Web3 strategy
- General Counsel & Elder Council member, Kratos Gamer Network (US$500M decentralized gamer network)
- Fast-track product roles at Simpl (buy now, pay later for D2C e-commerce) and Kaleidofin (inclusive financial services for rural women entrepreneurs)
- Panelist, India Blockchain Week 2024 & Hashed Emergent’s Text-to-Code series
- Gold medalist, National Law School, Bangalore; incoming graduate student (Merit Scholar) at Berkeley Law
Skills
| Focus | Highlights |
|---|---|
| Regulatory strategy for frontier tech | Leading token-generation event and exchange-listing blueprint for Kratos Gamer Network including internal restructuring for launch readiness; negotiated custodian, market-maker agreements; led investor due-diligence and closed funding. |
| Product + legal hybrid | Scaled legal ops to enable sales velocity as revenue partners grew 60 → 175 and annualised revenue grew US$1.5M → US$12M in 17 months. |
| Operater-level execution | Designed and implemented distribution strategy for a savings-insurance-credit product and scaled field ops 4 → 500 branches across 8 Indian states. |
| Policy influence | Frequent speaker on token launches and consumer-facing Web3 regulation in India; led industry efforts to advocate for private-sector usage of the digital-identity stack and for targeted COVID-19 stimulus packages for the rural Indian household |
Story
Watching my dad place stock-trading calls in the pre-internet era sparked a curiosity about markets that turned into:
- Capital markets lawyering: underwriter and company counsel on US$1.78B equity IPOs and placements in the financial-services and technology sector and diligence on the US$23B Vodafone-Idea telecom merger at S&R Associates (Aug 2015 – Jun 2018).
- Fintech product building: re-architected Pay Later stack for regulatory resilience and piloted revenue-based financing for e-commerce merchants at Simpl (Jul 2022 – Apr 2023); built inclusive-finance rails at Kaleidofin.
- Web3 legal leadership: steering Kratos’ token launch and listing readiness, product advisory, fundraising (US$10M strategic ecosystem funding round) and corporate development (US$4.3M M&A deals).
Next stop: Berkeley Law, where I’ll expand my playbook to cover governance and liability in decentralized technology and AI.
Speaking Engagements
- Panelist – “Regulatory Hurdles in Capturing Indian Consumers,” India Blockchain Week (Dec 2024)
- Speaker – “Token Launch for Indian Web3 Founders,” Text to Code, Hashed Emergent (Aug 2024)
Contact
📧 anita@berkeley.edu | LinkedIn | X
Open to research/build collaborations, advisory mandates and speaking engagements on tech law and policy.