Jul 2024 – Present · 1 yr 8 mos · India · Hybrid

• A strategic umbrella to build quality research & journalism in India run by student & young professionals. My role is to provide strategic direction, hiring right talent, and providing funds for each initiative so that the teams operate autonomously with lean processes. Projects: coveragemanaged.com, the Lucknow Edit (coming soon), 2 in planning stage

May 2024 – Aug 2024 · 3 mos · Hybrid

• Corporate, legal and transactional advisory services. Advising robotics & tech startups on pre-seed funding, conducting due-diligences. Also, structuring employment agreements, software & SaaS agreements, Privacy Policy, terms of use and conducting website audits.

Mar 2024 – Apr 2025 · 1 yr 1 mo · On-site

• Led a team of 3 to build 'Bloomberg for Insurance'.
• Launched a data + policy driven insights portal in insurance and insurtech industry reaching 85,000 members.
• Next phase was: developing an AI analyst 'Albus' for the insurance sector. Realized that India is too early for this.

Jan 2024 – May 2024 · 4 mos · Delhi, India

• A career break to follow some personal goals - fitness and creativity

Feb 2023 – Dec 2023 · 10 mos · Delhi, India · Hybrid

• Leo Capital is a Singapore HQ VC fund, investing in early stage, technology centric opportunities, primarily in India. Cheque size $500K – $2M in early seed rounds or pre-Series A rounds.
• I was responsibe for streamlining fund wise processes and operations, developing Leo's portfolio function and executing Annual Events & closed door portfolio events

Sep 2021 – Feb 2023 · 1 yr 5 mos · Delhi, India

• Executed various ecosystem initiatives - helped grow the membership 3x. I majorly developed and executed revenue pipeline for not-for-profit venture through sponsorship & IIA awards. On a daily basis I also streamlined processes & Operations across different buckets and initiatives under IIA, particularly for IIA Annual Events, Working Groups, Annual Reports

Dec 2020 – Jul 2021 · 7 mos · India

• Three major investment deals I contributed to
• 1. Reliance acquiring majority stake in Addverb - a robotics manufacturing company for 132mn$
• 2. Blackbuck's unicorn round with 67mn$ funding
• 3. Leading Accel's Series A investment in Captain Fresh

Jun 2018 – Oct 2020 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Delhi, India

• Developed a core expertise: Structuring, revenue models, licensing advisory to Insurers, startups & fintechs, regulatory audits of insurtech businesses. I also extensively published thought leadership on insurance regulatory regime in India in leading legal journals