Chandrika Srivastava and Nikhil Basu Trivedi were married Jan. 11 in San Francisco. John Pleskach, a deputy marriage commissioner at San Francisco City Hall, officiated.
The bride, 28, is a staff product manager at Tesla, a sustainable energy and automotive company in Fremont, Calif. She graduated from Yale and received a master’s degree in civil and environmental engineering from Stanford.
She is a daughter of Sangita Srivastava and Rakesh Chandra Srivastava of New Delhi. The bride’s father is the chief pilot for standards, quality assurance and operations safety at IndiGo Airline in New Delhi; he retired, having achieved the rank of wing commander with the Indian Air Force. The bride’s mother retired as a geography teacher at Delhi Public School – Dwarka, a high school in New Delhi.
The groom, 29, is a managing director at Shasta Ventures, a venture capital investment firm in Menlo Park, Calif. He graduated from Princeton.
He is the son of Anuradha Basu and Shanker S. Trivedi of Atherton, Calif. The groom’s mother is a professor of entrepreneurship at San Jose State University, and director of the Silicon Valley Center for Entrepreneurship in San Jose, Calif. His father is the senior vice president for the enterprise business at Nvidia, a public technology company in Santa Clara, Calif.
The groom is the maternal grandson of Prahlad Kumar Basu of New Delhi, who was a senior civil servant in the India government from 1979 to 2006, including minister of state from 2005 to 2006. The groom’s great-grandfather, the late Gaganvihari Lallubhai Mehta, served as India’s ambassador to the United States from 1952 to 1958.
The couple met in 2013 through a mutual friend on the campus of Stanford.
