Bullishly optimistic about India's next wave of consumer and consumer tech startups.

Unified financial wellness platform for assessing financial health, investing across asset classes, and borrowing/loans. Vittae is also building a customer relationship management platform for asset managers.

As the Executive Director of my family business Kanna Group of Companies, a leading provider of chemicals and dyes for the leather, footwear, and textile industries in South India, I drive growth in the following areas:- IT-Enabled Business Transformation: Leading the digitalisation of our operations to enhance efficiency, data-driven decision-making, and customer satisfaction.- Commercial Development: Strategising and implementing growth plans for existing customers while exploring new business sectors to expand our market presence.- Customer Relationship Management: Building and nurturing relationships with clients, ensuring their needs are met with our high-quality products and services.- Recruitment and Talent Management: Attracting, hiring, and developing top talent to foster a dynamic and innovative team.- Business Process Efficiency: Streamlining operations to improve productivity and reduce costs by leveraging best practices.- Marketing and Branding: Crafting and executing marketing strategies to enhance brand visibility and drive sales growth.

At Holocene, I’m focused on driving impact across Africa by supporting our mission to invest in the next generation of climate innovators. My key responsibilities include:- Fundraising: Assisting in raising capital for Holocene’s climate-focused fund, ensuring we have the resources to back groundbreaking solutions.- Portfolio Support: Working closely with our portfolio startups and entrepreneurs, providing strategic guidance on business development and product-market fit, to accelerate their growth and success.- Case Studies: Building world-class case studies of our portfolio startups, which in turn helps us tell Holocene’s story powerfully and attract new investable pipeline.

Engaged in a 12-week climate fellowship program, covering climate science, policy, and justice on climate mitigation and adaptation. Collaborating on projects that contribute to meaningful climate solutions and professional growth in the climate sector.

Climes is a climate-finance company moving capital to high-quality nature-based carbon removal projects in India.

IPlytics GmbH is a Berlin based software company founded by a team of economists, computer scientists and engineers developing the big data solution IPlytics Platform. IPlytics Platform is a SaaS-based market intelligence tool that empowers its users to analyze technology landscapes, market developments and a company’s competitive position for any industry. IPlytics Platform integrates multiple data sources and intelligent search algorithms to provide a mapping of e.g. patents to technology standards, products or M&A deals. IPlytics Platform also helps companies to make the right R&D investment decisions by providing actionable and trustworthy insights on relevant Intellectual Property (IP) assets. IPlytics sources worldwide data on technology and market information. Currently, IPlytics integrates over 120 million patent documents, 60 million scientific publications, 4 million company profiles and 4 million standard documents in its analyses.IPlytics Platform facilitates decision making such as patent positioning, patentability, investments, portfolio planning, licensing cost, standardization opportunities, emerging technologies, and new markets and alliances. IPlytics helps customers from any industry to answer critical business questions, such as:• How does competition develop and who are new market entrants?• Who holds the relevant IP and how valuable is it?• Who is the technology leader in a particular market segment?• What are new technology trends and who is investing?• Which partnerships between innovations exist?

MatchX manufactures superior LPWAN hardware and software, delivering comprehensive IoT cloud and reporting solutions. The Internet of Things has rapidly grown to enable device data transmissions. Our dependency on devices is surging at a rapid pace, even more so when it comes to connected devices. As a result, this is placing a substantial strain on existing network infrastructures such as Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. Data collision, network overcapacity and data loss are causing huge disruptions in performance, stability and sustainability.LPWAN (Low Power Wide Area Network) technology is a medium for data transmission that allows the relay of data over ranges of 20 km without the use of internet. MatchX provides a revolutionary breakthrough to the world's data needs, an end-to-end LPWAN solution that ensures increased data efficiency and data range, whilst significantly reducing energy consumption and costs. The solution comprises hardware, software and cloud reporting for enabling decentralised data transmission systems and facilitating commercial scalability and sustainability, thereby building a connected world. Key roles and responsibilities:• Enable, establish and execute MatchX engagement with global distributors and businesses.• Design and implement B2B growth and sales frameworks as part of the go-to-market strategy.• Evangelise, demonstrate and represent MatchX products. • Assist with advocacy and adoption of the solution. • Build and streamline internal processes to grow the brand. • Run customer insight campaigns, organise content releases and product updates.

The MXC Foundation is a purpose-driven non-profit doing research and development for the optimization of smart city wireless transmissions. MXC developed the Standard for Smart Cities and the Future of IoT, supporting low-power wide area networks, and improving them with the MXProtocol.

Freshdesk is a cloud-based customer support platform that was founded with the mission of enabling companies of all sizes to provide great customer service. Today in the fast paced environment, slow and steady no more wins the race. Customer needs a solution to their problems within a span of few minutes. Therefore the challenges like faster response time, traceability of issues, accountability of customer support analyst, and collaboration between internal teams etc. are not uncommon. Freshdesk not only helps you with these challenges but also increases the efficiency of your customer support team which results in profitability. Our goal is simple: make it easy for brands to talk to their customers and make it easy for users to get in touch with businesses.Key roles and responsibilities:• Interacting with prospective clients from different business verticals across the Central and Pacific regions of USA, understanding their business requirements and helping them implement an efficient customer support process through Freshdesk• Building and cultivating prospect relationships by initiating communications, establishing rapports in order to move opportunities through the sales funnel.• Assisting in bringing onboard new customers and logos working in tandem with Customer Support Managers, CXO Officers.• Commercial negotiations & RFP handling. • Customer Advocacy and Product Adoption• Accountable for meeting or exceeding monthly qualified lead objectives and quotas.• Coordinating with multiple stakeholders like the product, finance, and legal teams etc.• Liaising with Product Management to collect and provide feedback from clients about product improvements and feature requests to help shape the product roadmap.

During my internship at Stribr, I worked on a few KPIs with respect to customer engagament and was responsible for the following roles: 1. Inbound marketing2. Copywriting 3. Social media Engagement4. Customer support.

Worked with different sections of the manufacturing unit. The various units included manufacture of circuit breakers, switches and other electrical equipment.I was involved in analysing the pricing, planning and purchase, operations and export. Engaged with various stakeholders internally to collect and present data for forecasting.

Worked with different departments such as Risk Management, Human Resources, Marketing, Operations, Finance and Customer support of the Mutual Funds division. Analysed case studies and dealt with the processes involved in mutual funds, equity, debt.