Jan 2025 – Present · 1 yr 2 mos

Jan 2024 – Present · 2 yrs 2 mos

Jan 2024 – Present · 2 yrs 2 mos

Jan 2023 – Present · 3 yrs 2 mos

Jan 2022 – Present · 4 yrs 2 mos

• Nexus Venture Partners (www.nexusvp.com) is India’s leading venture capital fund, with offices in India and Silicon Valley. It has over $2.5B under management across 7 funds and an active portfolio of over 200 companies.
• Working closely with as board observer:
• WhiteHat Jr (exited) (Learning platform for K-7 kids)
• Turtlemint (B2B2C Insurance)
• Rapido (Bike Taxi)
• Quizizz (Game-based learning platform)
• Kratos Gaming Network (Web3 gaming DAO)
• MyUpchar (Vernacular Health Content)
• Working closely with as board member:
• Urbanic (exited) (Cross-border lifestyle brand)
• Pratilipi (Indian language storytelling platform)
• Newton School (New-age university)
• Mudrex (Crypto asset management)
• Zet (Distributed agent network)
• Allo Health (Digital clinic for men's sexual health)
• Liquidnitro Games (Live services and Co-development Studio)
• Brightpoint Studios (Casual gaming)
• Slikk (Quick commerce for fashion)
• TMTC (Cross-border medical tourism)
• Sourced:
• Pando Corp (Logistics SaaS+marketplace)
• Observe.ai (Voice AI Platform)
• Unacademy (Education Platform)
• Comet (D2C Lifestyle Footwear brand)

Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 · 2 yrs

Apr 2017 – Jan 2020 · 2 yrs 9 mos

Apr 2015 – Apr 2017 · 2 yrs

Jan 2022 – Present · 4 yrs 2 mos

Jan 2021 – Present · 5 yrs 2 mos

Jan 2021 – Present · 5 yrs 2 mos

Jan 2019 – Present · 7 yrs 2 mos

Jan 2019 – Jan 2022 · 3 yrs

• Nexus VP co-led Series A round in the cross-border commerce company at the concept stage. The company raised at $385m post-money valuation and facilitated exit for early investors. ~10x MOIC on total investment in less than 3 years.

Jan 2018 – Present · 8 yrs 2 mos

Jan 2018 – Present · 8 yrs 2 mos

Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 · 2 yrs

• Proud that Nexus VP could lead seed and co-lead Series A round in Whitehat Jr. The company got acquired for $300m by Byju's making it amongst the largest cash exits ever in the Indian consumer tech landscape. ~14x MOIC on total investment in <3 years.

Jan 2017 – Present · 9 yrs 2 mos

Jan 2016 – Present · 10 yrs 2 mos

Jan 2015 – Present · 11 yrs 2 mos

Jul 2014 – Oct 2014 · 3 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Worked part time as a consultant with the technology team in Sliced Investing, a fast growing Y-combinator funded company based out of San Francisco
• Developed end to end product in co-ordination with tech team based out of Silicon Valley, Moscow and Bangalore.
• Skills Developed: Freelancing, Javascript.

May 2014 – Mar 2015 · 10 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Conceptualized a new content marketing platform for brands which will allow brands and SMEs access to high quality feature based content generated by high pedigree publishers.
• Developed the system for content curation, crawling, tagging and analytics
• Partnered with The Times of India, Economic Times, Sify, NDTV, Men’s Health, Cosmopoliton, Business Today, Outlook Traveller, Outlook Business, etc.
• Converted Gionee, Club Mahindra, ICICI Lombard and Maruti as paying clients
• Hired, mentored and managed a tech team of high quality tech associates
• Skills developed: B2B Sales, Team building, Fund raising, Negotiations, Natural Language Processing, Text Analysis

Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 · 0 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Sep 2013 – Mar 2015 · 1 yr 6 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Worked on "Context Aware Information Discovery".
• Developed scalable technology for web crawler, text content analytics engine, semantic search engine, semantic similarity api, article summarizer and social intelligence engine.
• The first product is a News Summary App - ZippedNews.
• Website Link- http://www.zippednews.com
• Link to app on Google playstore - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.zippednews
• Link to app on Amazon - http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00L49ZTQG
• Skills Developed: Natural Language Processing, Text Analysis, Search Engine Optimization, Text Summarization, Elasticsearch.

Sep 2013 – May 2014 · 8 mos

• Worked part time as a consultant with the exceptional technology and modeling team in ZLemma, a fast growing algorithmic recruitment startup based out of San Francisco. ZLemma was funded by Nexus Venture Partners, and started by Managing Director at Morgan Stanley who had earlier hired me for my first job.
• Developed the system to understand the relatedness and dependency between any two skills relevant for a job, thus contributing to the efficiency of the proprietary job/candidate recommendation algorithms.
• Skills Developed: Freelancing, Natural Language Processing, Text Analysis, Recruitment.

Jul 2012 – Jun 2013 · 11 mos · Mumbai Metropolitan Region

• Conceptualized and developed the business model for India's first social e-commerce platform, developed the prototype and launched the product.
• Partnered with 10 e-commerce companies for affiliate marketing. Hired a full-time co-founder and CTO.
• Designed and developed the complete web and mobile product; Attempted various SEO / SEM / SMM / content marketing strategies; Learned while I failed to get users, hire people, position the product correctly; Realized that the time is not ripe for a social e-commerce product in the Indian context; Shut it down.
• Angel List Profile: https://angel.co/clipr
• Product Description: http://www.slideshare.net/pratikpoddar05051989/clipr-introduction
• Product: http://clipr.in
• Skills Developed: Business Development, Web Programming, Facebook App Dev, VC Fund raising, SMM, E-commerce

Mar 2012 – Jul 2012 · 4 mos · Mumbai Metropolitan Region

• I worked as an investment analyst in private equity team of Blackstone's Mumbai office
• Conducted business due diligence and developed financial models for investment opportunities across media, education, restaurant, consumer electronics and financial intermediaries
• Member of deal team on Blackstone investment in Financial Technologies - http://reut.rs/OBQb8J
• Skills Developed: Business Valuation, Fund raising, Financial Services, Microsoft Excel

Jul 2010 – Mar 2012 · 1 yr 8 mos · Mumbai Metropolitan Region

• I worked as an analyst at Morgan Stanley Strats and Modeling Division.
• I worked on two projects primarily:
• Mortgage Modeling - JHF Fixed Rate RMBS - developed the risk systems for trading in secondary market, developed prepayment model.
• Established new relationships with Tokyo business desk, helped setting the risk systems for trading JHF Fixed Rate RMBS in secondary market; single-handedly developed prepayment model; visited Tokyo office to educate the traders and strategists about mortgage models. Coauthored three internal papers: “Sensitivity calculation in presence of Monte Carlo Errors”, “Breakup of Duration” and “Self consistent Current Coupon Model”
• Algorithmic Trading - US Equity ETF Market Making - created strategies for improved hedging of intraday portfolio resulting from market making in ETF.
• Created strategies for improved hedging of intraday portfolio resulting from market making in ETFs; Strategies resulted in 3x improvement in variance reduction over existing strategy. Researched state-of-the-art machine learning techniques as part of the optimal hedging problem. Implemented the strategies in C++ for production leading to 9x improvement in time efficiency over benchmark methods in statistical packages.
• I got an opportunity to lead analyst recruitment program at MSSM Mumbai. My efforts were recognized and I was awarded "Outstanding Contributor to Asia Campus Recruiting Effort 2010-11" (amongst 4 analysts in Asia). I got an opportunity to conceptualize and lead the execution of "QED" at IIT Bombay for Morgan Stanley. QED is the first ever math-finance campus event of its kind, envisioned as a branding event for MSSM in campuses across India
• Skills developed: Machine Learning, Quadratic Programming, Mortgage Modeling, C programming, KDB/Q

May 2009 – Jul 2009 · 2 mos · Greater Paris Metropolitan Region

• I was an intern student at Microsoft Research INRIA Joint Center, Paris working with members of INRIA Rocq Algorithms Group. I was working on the problem of fast evaluation of coefficients of bivariate formal series

May 2008 – Jul 2008 · 2 mos · Hong Kong SAR

• I did an internship at Information Engineering Department of The Chinese University of Hong Kong working on Network Optimization problem