Kaushik Subramanian

CEO

London, United Kingdom15 yrs 1 mo experience
Most Likely To Switch

Key Highlights

  • Built a profitable FX product at Stripe.
  • Grew Meta's ad network to multi-billion dollar scale.
  • Established thought leadership in global tech forums.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech and Ad Tech expert with strong leadership in product management.

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Skills

Core Skills

Product ManagementLeadershipStrategyBrand Management

Other Skills

Brand DevelopmentDue DiligenceE-CommerceGrowth StrategiesManagementMarket AnalysisMarketingMarketing CommunicationsPaymentsProduct DevelopmentProduct InnovationProduct MarketingTeam Management

About

http://www.kaushiks.me Kaushik is a venture capitalist who invests primarily in product led technology businesses. Previously, he built products to several $B of scale at Stripe and Meta. At Stripe, Kaushik built a $XB profitable business in FX/Multicurrency, and led several product teams and initiatives across Stripe Connect, invoicing and monetization in EMEA. At Meta, he grew its ad network to a multi billion dollar business by changing the plumbing of the ad tech industry. He’s an established voice in tech, with thought leadership in forums such as the World Economic Forum and Facebook f8. He’s had a past life with McKinsey and L’Oreal.

Experience

Beside

Board Member

Jun 2025Present · 9 mos · Paris, Île-de-France, France

  • Invested at Series A. AI chief of staff for the real economy.

Paid

Board Member

Jan 2025Present · 1 yr 2 mos · London Area, United Kingdom · Hybrid

  • Led Pre Seed round. Business engine for AI Agents
  • Seed led by Lightspeed

Bluebook

Board Member

Nov 2024Present · 1 yr 4 mos · Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden · Hybrid

  • Led Pre Seed. AI Agents for Accounting firms

Stacks

Board Member

Apr 2024Present · 1 yr 11 mos · Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands · Hybrid

  • Led Pre Seed round. AI for accounting teams
  • Seed led by General Catalyst

Griffin

Member Board of Directors

Mar 2024Present · 2 yrs · London Area, United Kingdom · Hybrid

  • Griffin is a tech company that is also a UK bank

Payrails

Board Member

Apr 2023Present · 2 yrs 11 mos · Berlin, Germany · Hybrid

  • Led Seed Round. Payments software for global enterprises
  • Series A led by HV Capital Growth

Eqt ventures

Partner

Mar 2023Present · 3 yrs · London, England, United Kingdom

  • EQT Ventures is entirely made up of ex-founders or operators. Founded in 2016, we're now investing out of our €1.1B fund 3, which is Europe's largest VC fund committed to early stage startups.
  • We invest in Europe and the US, from seed to Series B.

Entrepreneur first

Advisor

Sep 2022Present · 3 yrs 6 mos · London, England, United Kingdom · Remote

  • I work with the startups in the EF cohort and help them on product related topics

Stripe

Product Management Lead

Jul 2021Jan 2023 · 1 yr 6 mos · London Area, United Kingdom · Hybrid

  • I led product management with a charter for Money Movement/Payouts, Invoicing and Stripe Connect. I received a performance award in my first year as a result of my impact. A snapshot of impact:
  • Built a global product (FX and multicurrency) that grew to $XB volume profitably in 18 months
  • Improved Payout speeds and introduced Instant Payouts (ex-US)
  • Built a first ever EMEA roadmap for Stripe Connect, got company leadership buy in for investment
  • Set up an invoicing product team in EMEA to drive global PMF

Seedcamp

Mentor

Mar 2020Jan 2023 · 2 yrs 10 mos · London, England, United Kingdom · Remote

Team ManagementProduct DevelopmentProduct ManagementLeadership

Various companies

Advisor + Angel Investor

Jan 2019Present · 7 yrs 2 mos · London, England, United Kingdom · Remote

  • I invest and help startups with product: best practices, organisation, hiring and development. I am often involved pre seed onwards, before the institutional round.
  • Examples:
  • Fermat Commerce: Seed led by QED/Greylock, Series A led by Bain Cap, B by VMG
  • Payflows (Seed), Series A led by Balderton
  • Relay (Seed), Series A led by Plural
  • DeepOpinion (Seed), Series A led by RRW

Meta

Product Lead

Mar 2018Jul 2021 · 3 yrs 4 mos · London, United Kingdom · On-site

  • 3 roles in App developer monetization - helped lead app bidding from 0 to several billion $ annually in both senior IC and manager roles. Part of the team that ran the first ever FB-Google deal and co built the first FB-Google product.
  • Promoted ahead of time, and managed a team of senior colleagues (L5/L6). Part of the leadership team for Audience Network (100+ colleagues, $5B+ ads business) and accountable for product development, marketing, strategy and growth.
  • 2021: Lead for the Audience Network business (4+ teams), both advertiser and developer side. Part of a new leadership team that wrote a new strategy and executed on a reorg. Also helped with commerce/FB shops in highly regulated markets.
  • 2020: Team manager, on bidding and Onboarding/Monetization Manager (MoMa). Rewrote team charter and helped mitigate IDFA/iOS14.5 headwinds. Also helped take bidding to general availability/majority of network and ran alignment with the integrity/fraud team.
  • 2018-19: App and Web bidding. Scaled the web bidding platform, and wrote the GTM strategy and helped build the app bidding platform. Led product development, strategy, marketing and go to market on several products in the platform, effectively being part of the team that changed the plumbing of the in app advertising industry.

Mckinsey & company

Consultant

Oct 2016Mar 2018 · 1 yr 5 mos · London, United Kingdom · On-site

  • Worked on strategy projects across 5 countries, primarily across consumer and technology focused companies
Team ManagementProduct DevelopmentProduct MarketingProduct ManagementLeadership

L'oréal

Marketing/Brand Management/Innovation

Apr 2010Jul 2015 · 5 yrs 3 mos · Mumbai, Singapore · On-site

  • Started as an intern and grew to the lead for product development/strategy for Garnier South Asia
Due DiligenceE-CommercePaymentsGrowth StrategiesStrategy

Vistaar technologies

Intern

Jan 2009Jun 2009 · 5 mos

MarketingBrand ManagementBrand DevelopmentProduct DevelopmentProduct Innovation

Education

INSEAD

Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) — Business Strategy

Pune University

Bachelor of Engineering — Computer

MICA | The School of Ideas

PGDM — Brand Management

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