Rahul Chowdhri

CEO

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India27 yrs 6 mos experience
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Key Highlights

  • Extensive experience in venture capital and investment.
  • Strong background in product management and strategy.
  • Proven track record in managing high-impact projects.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Venture Capital professional with extensive experience in investment strategy and product management.

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AnalyticsBusiness AnalysisBusiness DevelopmentBusiness IntelligenceBusiness PlanningCloud ComputingCompetitive AnalysisCross-functional Team LeadershipDistributed SystemsE-commerceEmerging MarketsEntrepreneurshipFinanceGo-to-market StrategyInvestments

Experience

Peeko

Investor

Sep 2025Present · 6 mos

Outzidr

Investor

Jan 2025Present · 1 yr 2 mos

Circuit house technologies

Investor

Oct 2024Present · 1 yr 5 mos

Cirkla inc.

Investor

Aug 2023Present · 2 yrs 7 mos

Dashtoon

Investor

Jan 2023Present · 3 yrs 2 mos

91squarefeet (yc w22)

Investor

Sep 2022Present · 3 yrs 6 mos

Nestasia

Investor

Dec 2021Present · 4 yrs 3 mos

Rigi

Investor

Oct 2021Present · 4 yrs 5 mos

Locofast

Investor

Sep 2021Present · 4 yrs 6 mos · Delhi, India

Zouk

Investor

Jun 2021Present · 4 yrs 9 mos

Allround.club

Investor

Dec 2020Present · 5 yrs 3 mos

Swiflearn

Investor

May 2020Nov 2021 · 1 yr 6 mos

Mamaearth

Investor

Sep 2018Present · 7 yrs 6 mos

Shop101

Investor

Jan 2018Jul 2021 · 3 yrs 6 mos

Stellaris venture partners

Investment Professional

Jan 2016Present · 10 yrs 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Id fresh food (india) pvt. ltd.

Investor

Sep 2014Dec 2015 · 1 yr 3 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • India's largest fresh food RTC brand

Bigbasket.com

Investor

Sep 2014Dec 2015 · 1 yr 3 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • India's largest grocery ecommerce company

Toppr

Investor

Mar 2014Dec 2015 · 1 yr 9 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Livspace.com

Investor

Jan 2014Dec 2015 · 1 yr 11 mos

Simplilearn

Investor

Aug 2013Dec 2015 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Helping working professionals prepare for their certification needs

Shopclues

Investor

Feb 2013Dec 2015 · 2 yrs 10 mos · India

  • Managed marketplace for unstructured and lesser known brands in India

Mysmartprice.com

Investor

Oct 2011Dec 2015 · 4 yrs 2 mos · Greater Hyderabad Area

  • India's largest product discovery platform.

Ylg india

Investor

Jul 2008Dec 2015 · 7 yrs 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • An organized salon chain for Indian consumers

Helion ventures

Partner

May 2007Dec 2015 · 8 yrs 7 mos · Bangalore

  • Helion is a $600M fund investing in consumer tech and enterprise tech focused companies. My focus areas at Helion included Ecommerce, Food, Auto & Education sectors.

Microsoft

Group Program Manager

Feb 2005Apr 2007 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Greater Hyderabad Area

  • At Microsoft, I was part of business planning team to build a web/mobile based offering targeted towards small businesses in emerging markets. As part of that effort, I had dual roles to play. I was managing the product team working on Office Live offering as well as interacting with the sales & marketing team for India go-to-market.
  • In parallel, I also led the team evangelizing MS ERP to Microsoft partners in India.

Marketrx

Associate Director

Apr 2003Feb 2005 · 1 yr 10 mos · New Jersey

  • As part of a strategic effort to set the market research group as a fully functional business unit, I created metrics & processes to assess our group’s profitability, forecasted P&L for new service offerings and created pricing tools for our offerings. I was also part of sales proposal creation, projecting resource requirements and managing vendors for outsourced activities.
  • I managed the development efforts, QA, international recruitment, fielding, multi-currency honoraria fulfillment and customer support to deliver customer projects for 2 out of 4 business lines of marketRx. In close to 2 years at marketRx, I managed delivery of projects worth more than $7M in US, major European and Asian countries for some of the global pharmaceutical clients of marketrRx.

I2 technologies

Senior Product Manager

Nov 2000Mar 2003 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex

  • I was personally responsible for specifying requirements for all the modules in initial releases of Distributed Order Management (OMx) & Supply Chain Event Management (SCEM) software product of i2 Technologies. As part of requirements gathering, I interacted with various customers/ potential leads, analyzed and prioritized their need, prepared product roadmap and prepared detailed requirements for development & QA team.
  • I managed the implementation efforts of i2’s distributed order management solution at two strategic accounts, The Home Depot Inc. and Siemens, Germany. As part of these projects, I interfaced with the client to analyze and elicit business requirements, authored functional specifications and use cases and led cross-functional teams to deliver business releases as per customer expectations. As part of The Home Depot project, I also received the Product Development Customer Satisfaction Award for “Operating as true partners by delivering a top-quality, timely, and scalable solution to support the Home Depot strategy”.

The boston consulting group

Management Consultant

Jun 1998Oct 2000 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Greater Delhi Area

  • At BCG, I was part of several strategy and operational projects spanning across multiple industries.
  • I helped reorganize one of the largest Indian banks to make it ready to face the changing competitive banking environment. I was part of the team responsible for implementing seven modules on the project – creation of corporate organization, credit policy department & large corporate branches, reorganization of treasury & marketing department, redesigning layout of retail branches and launch of recovery teams for bad debts recovery.
  • In another project, a software division of large diversified company was making losses in otherwise profitable software industry. I analyzed the domestic software industry, identified the success factors to reveal the capability gap and recommend a set of options going forward.
  • For a large Indian textile machinery manufacturer, I was responsible for redesigning the supplier management system and the purchase process.
  • I helped a large Indian conglomerate to formulate an entry strategy for the oil and gas exploration and production business. The project involved developing an overview of the industry, identifying client’s competitive position and evaluating business value potential for a set of options. I was responsible for analyzing domestic industry by identifying trends and opportunities, role of the key players and effect of the planned deregulation.

Education

Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta

MBA

Jan 1996Jan 1998

Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur

Bachelor of Technology (BTech) — Electrical Engineering

Jan 1992Jan 1996

St Paul's School, Kota

Jan 1979Jan 1992

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