Oct 2020 – Present · 5 yrs 5 mos · India

Nov 2017 – Jan 2022 · 4 yrs 2 mos · Mumbai, MH, India

Dec 2014 – Jul 2020 · 5 yrs 7 mos

• focused on growing Times Internet disproportionately via investments, acquisitions, and strategic partnerships. my team and I have led ~15 acquisitions and 10+ minority investments, making us one of the most active Corp VC / M&A arm in the India internet sector. Through my tenure, the company grew from ~50M users to over 550M monthly active users across the platform
• board member: MX Player, ET-Money, Dineout, Haptik, OML, Shuttl, Myra, and couple of stealth-projects
• investment portfolio: Delhivery, BYJUs, Uber, Airbnb, Shuttl, Myra (exit to Medlife), Ridlr (exit to Ola Cabs), OML, Pratilipi, and several others.

May 2013 – Dec 2014 · 1 yr 7 mos

Jan 2012 – Present · 14 yrs 2 mos

• Third Wave Coffee Roasters (India)
• Haptik (chatbot AI, India/US) - acquired
• Dilmil (dating for indian diaspora, SF Bay Area)
• Ayopop (fintech, Indonesia)
• Dataweave (competitive business intelligence; India/US)
• Ion Energy (energy storage startup, India)
• Medtrail (health tech, India)
• Invideo (automated video production, India)
• Exseed Space (low cost space logistics, India)
• Niveshi (AI hedge fund, India)
• Tookitaki (predictive analytics; Singapore/India)
• Xetum (new-age watch maker; SF Bay Area) - acquired
• Learning Outcomes (early education tech; India) - acquired

Sep 2011 – May 2012 · 8 mos

• led engineering at Neustar's Quova division (IP geo-location, and analytics)

Oct 2010 – May 2013 · 2 yrs 7 mos

• Helping some of the largest web-services understand "where" their users come from, and "who" they are from a demographics & psychographics perspective. our customers were the leading search, advertising, analytics, and security companies on the Internet (globally)

Jun 2007 – Nov 2010 · 3 yrs 5 mos

• Feeva built a revolutionary "addressable advertising" technology stack that enabled telecom providers become providers of "user context" to over the top services. I was leading engineer who envisioned and built the stack. starting out as engineer, i progressively graduated to being the Chief Architect & CTO of Feeva.
• best video to describe Feeva here --> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPXCNEm5QBE
• patents: https://patents.justia.com/assignee/feeva-technology-inc

May 2006 – May 2007 · 1 yr

May 2005 – Aug 2005 · 3 mos

• Summer Intern - I developed a prototype for a local search engine to work on low-cost mobile phones. Also worked with the business development to analyze market scope for such a product.

Aug 2004 – May 2007 · 2 yrs 9 mos

• My research focused on Location-based services middleware, and next generation information interaction techniques on ubiquitous computing devices. Recent work has focused on mobile augmented reality, community wireless initiatives, and creating a common API for application designers to leverage location awareness.
• Lead a team of over 20 students for the development of Location-Based Services middleware. Key innovations focus on new sensing techniques, and information visualisation methods. I was also responsible for fostering partnerships with other departments on campus and bringing in corporate partners.
• my efforts led to my being awarded "Outstanding Graduate Student of the Year, 2007" at VT Computer Science department. more here: http://webcore.cs.vt.edu/node/3737
• published 7 papers across multiple computer science & HCI publications.