Building the Operating System for Global Trade

Angel Investor since 2015, focused on helping early-stage ventures in the consumer, marketplace, B2B and fintech space. Fortunate to have worked closely with numerous founders and learnt a lot in due course. Some of the investments: - GoPigeon: on demand, technology enabled end-to-end logistics management company | Investors: Nexus, others; acquired by Narvar Inc- Trell: a mobile first visual blogging platform and social commerce platform | Investors - Sequoia, Fosun, others
- Mcaffeine: India's First Caffeinated Personal Care Brand | Investors - RP-SG Venture, others- Sureclaim: India’s first health insurance claim advisor | Investors - Astarc Ventures, others- Leap Technologies - International education loan and counselling platform | Investors - Sequoia, others- Nurtr: data driven ed-tech platform for career mentoring and skilling targeting K-12 students | Investors: Rebright Partners, others- Explorex (erstwhile Eatable): Personalizing service experience in the restaurant space via B2B2C platform | YC 2020- Truly Madly: Matchmaking app for individuals seeking long term meaningful relationships- Orange Health: India's fastest community driven diagnostics service platform | YC 2020- Rocketium: SaaS based creative automation platform- Businessonbot: Automated user acquisition & selling on WhatsApp for businesses | YC 2021- BASIC Home Loan: Building India's first Neo Housing finance CompanyOthers: Stockal, Nimbleedge, Bluejay (Hunar.ai), Artinci, Oyela, Facets, Sanfe, Playbook, Hair Originals, Terra Foods

At Cogoport our mission is to make the wheels of international trade turn smoother. We do this by providing digital and technology-enabled solutions that enable freight to move faster, cheaper and more efficiently from point to point.The Cogoport solution will ultimately incorporate Big Data analytics and Artificial Intelligence to deliver a transparent and frictionless experience for its customers.

Fixed Income & FX Sales, Asia - Managed e-FX Sales (Autobahn Platform) for Institutional clients in India along with voice sales for custody, interbank clients, sovereign wealth funds- Facilitated and monetised client flows in FX spot, Forwards & options

Mappr is an online platform that establishes a learning commune by seamlessly connecting schools, teachers, parents and students in a secure environment. This learning commune stimulates peer-to-peer learning to bring the hesitant learners mainstream. It also enables personalised attention without increasing the teacher’s work-load, ensures proactive parental engagement and focuses on multi-dimensional development of the student.

Global Equities - Institutional Derivatives Group- Published charts & trade ideas in Merrill Lynch daily market commentary; analyzed Equity & FX trends- Received Bank of America Recognition Award for outstanding performance (Best Rating) in Q1 and Q3 ‘09

- Developed Risk Management product for financial institutions using Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence- Received recognition for exceeding expectations for my work in my first year as an Associate Engineer