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Stanford, Ca, Us

Burlingame, California, Us

Goodwater is the world's largest growth-equity, consumer-tech investor ($3B+ AUM) with investments in generational companies like Tiktok, Zepto, PocketFM, Toss, Monzo. Goodwater is a pioneer in data driven investing, with their sourcing exclusively driven via properitary AI/ML models.Built Goodwater’s India investment thesis allocating capital across sectors in world’s fastest growing consumer market:- Led customer and market diligence for a $6M Series B investment in an OTT platform building the “Netflix for Local India”- Conducted macro analysis and leveraged proprietary platform data to map the Indian consumer technology landscape- Developed high-value thesis areas in fintech, ecommerce, and gaming; Curated an engaged pipeline of 10+ growth deals- Conducted market, financial, and product diligence on 4 growth deals across fintech, ed-tech, and media

Worked with an ex-Lightspeed Ventures GP to set up a new early stage VC fund focussed on enabling outlier founders.

Mumbai, Maharashtra, In

Avanti is India’s largest ed-tech organization building at scale to improve learning outcomes for rural, public-school students; $5M+ funding in FY’23 with funders incl. Michael & Susan Dell Foundation, Sequoia, JP Morgan. - Led the Product & Analytics vertical, with a team of 7 including three direct reports, driving the digital infrastructure that powered learning programs across 6 states and covered 100k+ rural public school students p.a.- Built multiple student facing products from scratch including an interactive video platform, a quizzing platform, a custom authentication layer, and an analytics platform.- Helped raise $2M+ in grants from ACT, Schmidt Futures, MSDF, Capgemini, Infosys, ultimately driving operational scale by 10x.- Led partnerships and consulting projects with multiple State Governments

Mumbai, Maharashtra, In

Bengaluru, Karnataka, In

Swiggy is India’s largest online food-delivery marketplace (10M+ users), valued at $10B+ with investors incl. Soft Bank, Accel, Naspers- Led the Demand-Supply Planning charter for Pan-India operations (oversaw growth from 50 to 500+ cities) with a team of 100+ members, owning core KPIs including delivery speed, driver earnings and utilization-Managed various long term projects & experiments around increasing driver utilization, efficiency, and earnings-Responsible for Strategy and Planning of Overall Cost Per Delivery(CPD) - $400M/year line item. Helped achieve the lowest CPD in the history of the org.-Driving planning and performance for high stake events (IPL,NYE,Festivals,Rains etc). Led the NYE’20 & NYE'21 planning and execution - Achieved 150,000+ Delivery Partner logins on ground for NYE’20 (Pan India) - a record high for the company helping beat competition on NPS scores & number of orders delivered.- Cultivated and managed strategic partnerships, worth $12M+/year with multiple third-party logistics players, increasing their order share by 6pp (3x) and delivering cost savings worth $1M+ in the OND’20 quarter.

Bengaluru, Karnataka, In

Bengaluru, Karnataka, In

Bangalore, Karnataka, In

Early investor and advisor to a rocket-ship that is very close to my heart :)

Master Of Business Administration - Mba

Chartered Accountant

All 3 Levels Cleared

Bachelor’S Degree, Business/Commerce, General

Ds C18 Pgc March 2020 Prep Course, Data Science

High School, Business/Commerce, General