Mathew Cyriac is a highly respected investment leader with three decades of experience building, transforming, and scaling businesses across India and the United States. His career spans influential roles at Credit Suisse, Quintant/iGATE, Bank of America, Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette (DLJ) and The Blackstone Group. Mathew is Co‑Founder of Yali Capital, a deep‑tech investment platform backing pioneering Indian companies in fabless semiconductors, artificial intelligence, life sciences, robotics, smart manufacturing, aerospace, and surveillance technologies. His work at Yali Capital reflects a long-standing commitment to advancing India’s innovation ecosystem and shaping the country’s frontier-technology capabilities. He also serves as Chairman of Florintree Advisors, a homegrown private equity firm that has successfully backed and guided companies such as Data Patterns, IdeaForge, and MTAR Technologies to notable public listings. Under his leadership, Florintree has become synonymous with high-quality investments and value creation through operational excellence. Previously, as a founding member and Co‑Head of Private Equity at Blackstone India (2006–2017), Mathew was instrumental in introducing and executing majority-control investment strategies in India—an approach that has since become a benchmark in the Indian private equity landscape. His work at Blackstone shaped several landmark transactions and set new standards for operational turnaround investing. Mathew has held board positions across leading Indian corporations, including serving as an Independent Director at Tata Capital and Tata Play, and he currently chairs Gokaldas Exports. His board leadership is marked by strategic clarity, disciplined governance, and deep operational insight. An alumnus of the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore, Mathew graduated as a Gold Medallist in 1994 and holds a degree in Mechanical Engineering from the College of Engineering, Guindy. He was honoured with the IIMB Distinguished Alumni Award in 2025, one of the institute’s highest recognitions. Mathew established the Tony James Centre for Private Equity & Venture Capital at IIM Bangalore, India’s first dedicated Centre of Excellence for private equity and venture capital research and practice, to further development of the investment ecosystem in the country. Across his career, Mathew Cyriac has remained committed to backing exceptional entrepreneurs, advancing deep‑tech innovation, and building globally competitive companies from India. His leadership at Yali Capital continues this mission: fuelling the next generation of transformative technology ventures.
As the Indian investing market evolves, I believe it will need innovation and sophistication that suit the nuances of the Indian market. I was very interested in building something from the ground up.
Throughout my career, I've learned that successful investing requires integrating business excellence with purpose-driven leadership. I see strong opportunities in homegrown deep tech companies in sectors such as aerospace, imaging, instrumentation and several other emerging areas. India has a real opportunity to build globally competitive public companies in this space. This conviction drove Yali Capital's founding and our work with exceptional entrepreneurs building world-class technology businesses from India.
