Co-living startup based in Bangalore, India

• Identify and invest in early stage startups in India and Silicon Valley• Invested in over 10 Indian startups and a dozen international startups• Participation in angel investing networks and investment syndicates• Actively involved with Indian Angel Network, NEN, SINE, Angel List Syndicates.• Build partnerships and synergies for startups with global giants like Amazon, Google, IBM, Microsoft, Target.• Help startups with hiring, fund raising, strategic initiatives and pivots.

• Incubated enterprise and consumer product spinoffs• Initially focused on creating subscription based value-added-services for carriers offered on a revenue sharing basis => Complete ownership of products, marketing, business development and partnerships. => Developed relationships with CMO, CTO & Heads of Strategic Partnerships. => Hired and mentored sales and account management teams. => Launched with carriers in India and Bangladesh. • Conceptualized and developed Socially app, a multi-social-network client supporting Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Foursquare and deeply integrated with OS functionality such as Call Management, Calendar integration, Phone book integration, Geofencing, etc. => Got over 2 million MAUs. => Won Nokia Millionaire award from Nokia in 2011. => Built relationships with bloggers and app reviewers globally for marketing and promotion of the app.• Launched Imsy app, a cross-platform, push-notification based group messaging app. => Got over 5 million downloads on various app stores. => Built a fan base of over 25000 followers on Twitter and Facebook using contextual event tie-ups, localization, refer-a-friend contests, mobile coupons, blogging and such growth hacking tactics.• Incubated a BigData analytics product, Torch, for offline retail industry. => Torch is an Internet connected sensor, based on Embedded Linux for WiFi network packet monitoring, that measures traffic at retail spaces. => Cloud based analytics engine provide actionable insights to retailers on SaaS basis. => Responsible for product management & strategic sales. => Leading business development, branding and marketing effort through participation in industry exhibitions, startup events, demo-days and accelerator programs. => Organize a meetup group called Future of Retail Tech with over 100 members to network with retail industry professionals and build brand recall for Torch. => Torch Technologies spun off as a separate company

• Formed a competency center with over 100 engineers focused on building mobile data products on SMS, USSD, Symbian, iOS and Android.• Responsible for aligning the erstwhile ITFinity team and product strategy with Onmobile’s products and customer accounts.• Built new product lines of on-device consumer apps in Music, Sports and Finance verticals.• Addressed RFPs and clinched new accounts at global carriers in APAC, Middle East and Latin America like Singtel, AIS, Starhub, M1, Telstra, Optus, Indosat, Maxis, Digi, Telkomsel, DTAC, Dialog, Grameen, Du, Etisalat, Warid, Zain, Vivo, Claro and Movistar.• Worked on the integration of Voxmobili, a French startup acquired by Onmobile, and in aligning the strategic goals and product lines. • Built relationships with leading engineering and MBA colleges in India for on-campus placements and their startup incubators for building developer apps on Onmobile platforms.

• Started ITFinity in 1999 at the age of 23.• Raised angel money (Rs. 1.2 crores) from a few Indian and Indian American entrepreneurs.• Pivoted to enterprise products on WAP & Mobile Internet, selling to global corporations. • Put together a crack tech team of 15 engineers.• Went bankrupt in 2001, following the dotcom crash. Let the team go their own way, retaining only 3 engineers with low salary but high ESOP incentives.• Bootstrapped the business focusing on selling SMS & WAP products to Indian carriers like Airtel, Idea (then Birla AT&T), Vodafone (then Maxtouch), Spice, Reliance.• Built great relationships with CEOs and CMOs at the above mentioned carriers that last even to this day.• Made saleable products on every trending tech buzzword of the day like SMS, USSD, WAP, Sim Toolkit, Bluetooth, SyncML, On-Device-Portal, etc. • Got into services business and productized wherever possible, leading to white labeled offerings to Indian carriers like Airtel, Idea, Vodafone, MTNL, BSNL and Spice, and enterprises like Nokia, Yahoo, Microsoft (MSN), Star TV, ESPN, Discovery.• Achieved Breakeven by 2003 and got to revenues of over $2 million with high-margin profits of over $1 million by 2006, with a small team of 8.• Ranked 3 years in running among the Deloitte Fast 50 companies in APAC.• Strategically merged with a pre-IPO company, Onmobile, leading to over 10x returns to angel investors and great lifestyle upgrades to all early employees.

• Worked as Programmer in Visual Basic, Excel Macros, MS Access.