Ashni Biyani

Ashni Biyani, Angel investor in Mumbai is an active investor based in Mumbai, Maharashtra. This profile covers what Ashni Biyani backs, at which stage, and how founders can reach out in 2026.

Ms. Ashni Biyani is a Co-Founder and serves as Board Member at Think9 Consumer Technologies. Previously, Ms. Biyani served as a Board Member at Amar Chitra Katha. She is the Founder & serves as Director at Think9 Consumer. She is an Angel Investor. She served as a Board member and Managing Director at Future Consumer & Chief Ideator at Future Ideas. She leads the company's agenda of combining cutting-edge consumer insights, technology, and innovation to develop and grow a range of products in the food, home, and personal care space that deliver on the needs and aspirations of India's next-generation, young customers. Under her leadership, FCL is looking forward to profitably growing a unique, data-enabled, customer-proximate FMCG company. She started her journey in her formative years. She was inducted into Future Group in 2008, where she spent her early days attending meetings and visiting stores. She has also led various consumer businesses within the group and worked on strategically shaping and evolving Big Bazaar Super Centres into Family Centres. She has also founded a fashion accessories brand called Holii in partnership with luxury leather brand Hidesign. She has led the group's consumer insights and design firm, Future Ideas. Passionate about human behavior and social change, she works on behavioral changes that help transform ideas into conceptualized final forms. Under her leadership, Future Ideas has worked on various government initiatives and with foreign and domestic companies across various sectors. She has also been instrumental in bringing design-led thinking within the group's business decision-making. She earned her graduate degree in Industrial Design from the Srishti School of Art, Design and Technology in Bangalore and was also trained at New York's Parsons School of Design and the Summer Institute of General Management at the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University. She is closely involved with various social organizations and serves on the boards of Gujarat Ambuja Foundation and Salaam Bombay Foundation. Born and brought up in Mumbai, she is passionate about studying society and culture and is a student of classical Indian music. Prestigious publications like Forbes, Fortune, The Economic Times, and Business Today, among others, have acclaimed her leadership through a number of awards and citations.