Jan 2023 – Aug 2024 · 1 yr 7 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Scouting, mentoring & advising the best entrepreneurs.
• Investments:
• 1. CodeAnt AI (Dev tools SaaS): YC, DeVC (Matrix) followon
• 2. Repello AI (AI security SaaS): General Catalyst followon
• 3. Hanomi AI (Hardware Design): Bessemer VP & HOF Capital followon
• 4. Contineu AI: SenseAI & Piper Serica followon
• 5. Insight XR: Followon raised: yet to be announced
• 6. Aule Space: Followon raised: yet to be announced
• 7. Iterate AI

Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 · 1 yr

Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 · 1 yr · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

• Alippo is India's first live upskilling academy for women to set up a home business in categories like food, baking, formulation, beauty etc. Backed by Blume Ventures, Inventus, 9Unicorns and some really cool angels.
• As VP, my goal was to help these upskilled women become micro-entrepreneurs/homepreneurs by helping them start home businesses. Our key metrics included helping them reach an MRR to live a sustainable lifestyle & moreover create a thriving business.

Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 · 1 yr · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

• Built for India's women entrepreneurs (starting with F&B). Think home kitchens instead of cloud kitchens.
• Daily subscription & door-step delivery of fresh, healthy, homemade food within 30 min of preparation, made by women around you (2.5 km radius hyperlocal settings in the city). 3 sided marketplace, built our own demand, supply from women entrepreneurs and delivery fleet.
• ・Scaled to ~500 orders/day across different F&B SKUs
• ・Served >2K repeat customers across 100+ societies in Bangalore
• ・60+ women entrepreneurs on supply side empowered
• ・40+ delivery agents/fleet
• ・250+ SKUs launched (juice, breakfast, soup, salads, paratha boxes, fermented drinks, dressings, etc.)
• ・Ops optimised to ~30 orders/hour/delivery agent

Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 · 1 yr · Greater London, England, United Kingdom

Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 · 1 yr

• As part of LinkedIn's Official Creator Program & Memo'd's Commissioned Creator Program, i write content on business, startups, 'Rising India' and more.

Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 · 2 yrs · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Built from 0 to 100K+ customer base of learners across 10 new-age skills
• Built a beautiful 32-member team ranging from Tech, Design, Product to Sales, Marketing and Operations
• Seed funded with 10 investors on board
• Acquired by Alippo (backed by Blume, Inventus Captial and 9Unicorns)

Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 · 0 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Intelligent Pricing Engine: Increasing the revenue for Rapido Captains by optimizing the surge price algorithm using advanced time series modeling
• Enabling near real-time parallelized forecasting of India's demand for Bike Taxis using the power of Spark

Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 · 1 yr · Bangalore, India

• Developed and led 4 conversational AI products for customers in Europe, America and Aisa.
• 1. Agent Diagnostics: Built this BERT based product which improves training data that goes into the NLP model of a chatbot.
• 2. Question Answering Model: Built this BERT based Question Answering product capable of extracting and answering on well-parsed text and business vocabulary from all embedded pages in a single base URL.
• 3. Unhandled Query Handler: Built this BERT based product which analyses and tags unhandled queries from a chatbot to improve user experience.
• 4. Semantic Text Similarity: Revamped the existing model for Text Similarity by implementing the then state-of-the-art tech for the same.

Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 · 0 mo · Singapore

Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 · 0 mo · Bangalore

Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 · 0 mo · Mumbai Metropolitan Region

Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 · 0 mo