Nov 2024 – Present · 1 yr 4 mos · New Delhi, Delhi, India · On-site

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Oct 2021 – Nov 2024 · 3 yrs 1 mo · India

• Seed stage tech investor in consumer internet, Gen-AI and enterprise businesses. GSF is a pioneering early stage investor India, with 120+ investments in tech-focused startups that have a $3B combined valuation. We also run India’s largest accelerator program, since 2012.
• I led investments in:
• 1. Holiday Tribe - personalised holiday experiences
• 2. FlexifyMe - chronic pain management with certified instructors
• 3. Arivihan - AI based learning for JEE etc
• 4. QuickReel - short video clips for creators, with Gen AI
• 5. QuickReply - whatsapp marketing automation
• 6. Kirana Club - community product for kirana stores / local retailers
• 7. HyperGro - AI enabled growth marketing
• 8. Athina - LLM developer platform
• 9. MoneyApp - influencer management
• 10. OnMeta - web3 on/off ramp
• 11. Drivio - two-wheeler financing at point of sale
• 12. Petmojo - full stack pet services
• 13. Zekardo - automobile PDIs for new and used cars
• 14. CarePay - BNPL for elective surgeries
• 15. APPEQ - sales enablement SaaS
• 16. Wherehouse - hyperlocal warehousing for brands
• 17. SOCLY - compliance SaaS across SOC2, GDPR++
• 18. Blockfenders - enterprise data management on blockchain
• 19. Settlin - property purchases made easy
• 20. we360 - employee productivity SAAS
• 21. 50Fin - loan against mutual funds

May 2019 – May 2020 · 1 yr · Gurugram, Haryana, India

• Heading video strategy and execution at India's largest video e-commerce marketplace, with 10K sales a day across categories. Videos drive >5x the sales conversion of the standard e-commerce experience.
• Peak XV (fka Sequoia India) and InfoEdge funded, Bulbul was sold to Good Glamm Group.

May 2015 – Feb 2019 · 3 yrs 9 mos · Greater Delhi Area

• BetterButter is India's largest cooking platform, catering to the 2nd most searched category of content by 100M+ Indian women online - - recipes. Launched in 2015, the community-driven platform allows users to discover and share recipes. BetterButter has 10M+ monthly visits with 150,000 user created recipes and videos in English and 6 other languages, making it the largest recipe platform in India.
• BetterButter raised funding across three rounds from growX Ventures, M&S Partners, strategics from Japan and was acquired by ad-tech platform Silverpush in 2019.

Jun 2014 – May 2015 · 11 mos · Greater Delhi Area

• India's first co-living startup, providing high quality student accommodation catering to 500,000 university students in the Delhi NCR region. Self funded, opened and operated 3 properties, profitable. Decided the future was in digital and started BetterButter.

Nov 2012 – May 2014 · 1 yr 6 mos · New Delhi, Delhi, India

• Investing across sectors at India's leading impact VC with $500M AUM.

Mar 2010 – Nov 2012 · 2 yrs 8 mos · London and Singapore · On-site

• Managing fund commitments and co-investments across Asia at Federated Hermes Private Equity, including a dozen fund positions and direct deals in India.
• Federated Hermes Private Equity is a global PE investor across funds and directs with $12B in commitments till date.

Oct 2008 – Mar 2010 · 1 yr 5 mos · City Of London, England, United Kingdom · On-site

• Private equity fund-of funds, worked across fund commitments and direct co-investments. The firm merged into Federated Hermes Private Equity in 2010.

Jun 2006 – Jul 2006 · 1 mo

May 2004 – Jun 2004 · 1 mo

Jun 2003 – Jul 2003 · 1 mo

May 2000 – Jun 2000 · 1 mo