Jan 2025 – Present · 1 yr 2 mos · Gift City, Gujarat

• GIFT IFIH, powered by Plug and Play, is the official BFSI-focused accelerator and incubator of GIFT City. We empower Indian and global startups to drive the next wave of growth and innovation in India’s BFSI ecosystem through support, promotion, and investment. https://www.giftifih.in/

Aug 2024 – Dec 2024 · 4 mos · India

Feb 2022 – Jun 2024 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

• Spearheaded the Activate initiative at Alteria Capital, bridging the gap between corporates, investors, and emerging technologies
• Orchestrated Alteria Day from inception to execution, hosting its inaugural annual event with over 350 attendees.
• Instrumental in fostering diverse business opportunities, from cultivating portfolio relationships to forging strategic partnerships, investments, and acquisitions.
• Worked hand-in-hand with portfolio and non-portfolio companies, contributing significantly to their growth
• Generated significant impact through effective venture building and strategic initiatives

Aug 2021 – Feb 2022 · 6 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

• Built partnerships with State and Central Government, incubators/ Accelerators, ecosystem enablers and startups across India.

Jun 2021 – Jun 2021 · 0 mo

Oct 2019 – Present · 6 yrs 5 mos · Mumbai Metropolitan Region

• Emerging capital introduction and fund placement firm.

Aug 2019 – May 2021 · 1 yr 9 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

• Startup Réseau is the entrepreneurial venture of 2 professionals from the startup ecosystem, who have earlier successfully built India's top meta- accelerator. The founding team boasts of rich and diverse experience, and a global network of startup ecosystem enablers, founders, investors, corporates, universities and governments.
• Built on the founding pillar of #StartupsFirst, our vision is to be the ultimate network of Enterprises, Capital, Markets and Services, for Startups. We see ourselves as an ecosystem builder in emerging economies and impacting 10,000 startups and 100 enterprises, globally. Startups are the future of enterprise innovation and nation building.

Sep 2016 – Jul 2019 · 2 yrs 10 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

• Co-created Fintegrate Zone, an annual 3-day multi-format FinTech conclave, bringing together the various stakeholders of India's BFSI ecosystem. Fintegrate Zone has a standalone P&L that is supported through industry sponsorship and ticket sales.
• Fintegrate Zone is a melange of Conference, Workshops, Exhibit Zone, Investors Zone, Pre-qualified B2B Meetings, Roundtables, CXO Dinner and a grand Demo Night.
• In a short span of 3 editions, Fintegrate Zone has emerged to be India's top most FinTech event. 3rd edition of Fintegrate witnessed over 1,400 attendees, including over 50 international attendees from 15 nationalities, 180+ speakers and 120 exhibitors and so on.
• Government of Maharashtra recognized and facilitated our efforts for being a catalyst to promote the Indian FinTech ecosystem on the global forum, and stimulating innovation and collaboration.

May 2016 – Apr 2019 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Mumbai Metropolitan Region

• Zone Startups is the global brand of own-branded startup accelerators, early stage venture funds and corporate accelerators & innovation programs operated by Toronto-headquartered Ryerson Futures Inc., a subsidiary of Ryerson University.
• Worked directly with the management to strategise India expansion and on a day to day basis managed India operations and finances for Zone Startups in India. While at Zone Startups, successfully co-created and executed India’s largest Fintech conference called Fintegrate Zone.

May 2015 – Apr 2016 · 11 mos · Mumbai Metropolitan Region

• Mayfield is one of the early funds that started in the US in 1969, has $2.5 billion under management and has successfully deployed 20 funds so far. Mayfield India was set up in 2006 and has $219 million under management.
• My role involved scouting for early stage deals, preliminary due diligence for the startups and finally seeing them through investments.

Jun 2014 – Apr 2015 · 10 mos

Apr 2012 – Jun 2014 · 2 yrs 2 mos

• Responsibilities
• Mentoring programs : responsible for organizing structured and on-demand mentoring for entrepreneurs by matching them with relevant mentors, looking at their stage and mentoring need
• Startup events : Managing marketing, content and operations for various startup meetups and large events, such as TiESmashup, TiE Summit, investor programs
• Capital Connect : Responsible for conceptualizing and managing this program which mentors startup to help them becoming fundable
• TiE-IQ Bootcamp : Managing day to day operations of the highly acclaimed startup accelerator in Mumbai. TiE-IQ Bootcamp is a 60 days no-contract, no-fee, highly structured and intensive program for early stage product startups in Mumbai & Pune. Responsibilities included application sourcing, screening, interviews, sessions, mentor mapping, investor connect and executing the demo day.

Apr 2011 – Mar 2012 · 11 mos

• Responsibilities :
• Planning outreach for regular TSS events
• Ideate and manage operations for all TiE Stree Shakti events
• Managing speakers and operations for TiE STree Shakti Awards and Conference in Oct 2012

Apr 2009 – Nov 2012 · 3 yrs 7 mos · Mumbai Area, India

• Founded Chocodesire in 2009 as a student enterprise and ran it till April 2010 while in college, in the process won 2 b-plan competition which helped fund the venture. Chocodesire made premium hand-made chocolates and chocolate bouquets. Another popular service of Chocodesire was surprise planing & personalised gifts.
• After completing MBA in Finance in April 2010 opted out of placement and took up Chocodesire as a full time venture. Successful ran the business till November 2012, till I discovered the passion of working in startup ecosystem with talented founders @TiE Mumbai.