Rahul Samat

CEO

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India15 yrs 8 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Built successful FoodTech startups in India.
Expert in business strategy and product management.
Mentored early-stage tech startups globally.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a FoodTech and Fintech expert with strong entrepreneurial and strategic skills.

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Skills

Core Skills

Business StrategyProduct ManagementEntrepreneurshipBusiness DevelopmentMentorshipAnalyticsRisk ManagementTrading StrategyProject Management

Other Skills

Business ModelingBusiness OperationsC#Client ServicesConsultingDatabasesDue DiligenceFinanceFinancial ModelingFinancial ServicesFundingGrowthJavaManagementMarket Research

About

I'm passionate about technology, socio-economic development, and growing ventures/businesses to their true potential scale. Interests and expertise lie at the intersection of e-comm/marketplaces, gaming, blockchain tech, product, strategy, education, sports and job creation. I've built a couple of fast growing FoodTech startups out of India. Previously: an EIR at a couple of global accelerators, helping portfolio companies (early stage tech startups) with Business, Strategy, Product, BizDev, Marketing, Growth, Monetization and Fundraising. Before the startup life: Led teams at Capital One (DC Area) & Barclays Investment Bank (NYC) for about 4 years. Some highlights from the professional bucket list (sorted by ✔accomplished through • in the pipeline) ✔ Coach a soccer team, share my love for the beautiful game ✔ Be a national champion (alright, finalist - close enough!) • Feature on a national/global culinary contest • Be employed by Liverpool Football Club for at least 24 hours • Be involved-with\Lead a business focused on improving the future of children/young adults UPenn Alum, Stanford GSB Igniter, StartingBloc & iMentor Fellow.

Experience

Entrepreneurs first

Partner & India Head

Jun 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 9 mos

Swiggy

Head of Private & Strategic Brands (Strategy & New Initiatives)

Jul 2016 – Jun 2022 · 5 yrs 11 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Early member of the core leadership team and 1st hire brought in to build Swiggy's cloud kitchen, private brands & strategic brands businesses.
Built the verticals from pre-ideation and scaled through to tens of millions of transactions.

Business StrategyProduct Management

Innerchef

Co Founder

Nov 2014 – Oct 2015 · 11 mos · Bangalore, Delhi/NCR

InnerChef is a Venture Capital backed startup with presence across six cities, one of India’s first and most loved FoodTech companies delivering fresh, delicious & wholesome food through the day by leveraging technology across the board.
Co-founded the startup from inception. Built and ran all growth, analytics, marketing & brand orgs from the ground up.

EntrepreneurshipBusiness Development

Techpeaks startup incubator & gsf startup accelerator

Entrepreneur in Residence

Apr 2014 – Mar 2015 · 11 mos · Trento, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy

Techpeaks is an Italian startup incubator and accelerator associated with Seedcamp, Founder Institute & 500 Startups. GSF is India's largest and first multi-city accelerator backed by 30 leading founders and 5 funds.
As an Entrepreneur in Residence (EIR) on the core team running these accelerators, sourced, ran end to end diligence and mentored portfolio startups across e-commerce, consumer tech, healthcare, financial services, travel and foodtech on their product, go-to-market strategy, business/financial modeling, strategy & monetization.

Business StrategyMentorship

Capital one

Principal Associate Lead - Strategy

May 2013 – Apr 2014 · 11 mos · Washington DC-Baltimore Area

With $4B+ Business Banking group, led 2 cross-functional teams of 4 members each working across strategy, business operations and analytics. Aided Bank’s President and C-level leadership with key strategic decisions and frameworks.

Business StrategyAnalytics

Barclays investment bank

2 roles

Associate- Securitized Products Group (Trading & Risk)

Promoted

Nov 2011 – May 2013 · 1 yr 6 mos · New York City Metropolitan Area

Graduated into the Strategy & Risk team for the Securitized Products Group, worked within automated pricing & trading for the Mortgage Backed Securities desk. Also worked on Barclays Capital's CIO team for restructuring the Global Analyst Rotation Program.

Risk ManagementTrading Strategy

Analyst - Infrastructure Rotation Program

Mar 2010 – Oct 2011 · 1 yr 7 mos · New York City Metropolitan Area

Designed, directed and executed multiple projects and initiatives across the Vanilla Options (Fixed Income), High Frequency Trading (Equities) & Client Prime Services desks\teams as a Product Manager.

Project ManagementProduct Management

University of pennsylvania

Public Relations Officer

Dec 2008 – Dec 2009 · 1 yr · Philadelphia, PA

Elected to the executive board of UPenn’s Indian Student Association, Rangoli. Responsibilities included leading finance, operations and marketing for the 200 member strong student body.