Astha Gupta

Partnerships Manager

India16 yrs experience
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Key Highlights

  • 12+ years of experience in growth and sales leadership.
  • Proven track record in scaling tech startups.
  • Successfully launched multiple products and partnerships.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech and SaaS expert with strong leadership in partnerships and growth strategies.

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Skills

Core Skills

Sales GrowthBusiness OwnershipStrategic PlanningOperational ExcellenceStrategic PartnershipsGtmPartnershipsCustomer RetentionSales ProcessesEntrepreneurshipStart-up Leadership

Other Skills

Account ManagementAccountingAuditingBusiness InitiativesBusiness StrategyBusiness-to-Business (B2B)Corporate FinanceCross-team CollaborationFinancial AccountingFinancial AnalysisFinancial ReportingIncome TaxInternal AuditMarket ResearchMarketing

About

Growth & Sales driven leader with 12+ years of experience, including 8+ years in tech startups. Proven track record in scaling strategies, high-impact partnerships, global GTM, and launching products. Twice an entrepreneur, I am a rank holding Chartered Accountant. Polygon- Worked in Founder's office- Strategy team. Founding member of Polygon DAO and led Polygon Village (1st native accelerator, job board, vouchers and grants for Polygon) Kuliza- Worked as Partnerships head at Kuliza (Lend.in) with focus on System Integrators (global as well regional), resellers, ecosystem partners, consultancy firms etc. Fyle- 1st enterprise sales hire to leading APAC sales & partnerships

Experience

Razorpay

Associate Director- Partnerships

Jun 2025Present · 9 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Heading Partnerships for RazorpayX (payroll, Neo-banking and Corporate Cards)

Capital market broking & advisory

Entrepreneur

Jul 2023Present · 2 yrs 8 mos

  • Introduced trading & investment products across index, stocks and commodities
  • New clients onboarded with peak AUM of $3m
Sales GrowthBusiness Ownership

Polygon labs

Founder's Office- Strategy

Apr 2021Jun 2023 · 2 yrs 2 mos

  • Decentralised Ethereum Scaling Platform
  • Launched Polygon Village: Flagship brand for Polygon community, Decentralised Autonomous
  • Organisation (DAO) and support for early stage projects (pipeline for all projects on Polygon)
  • Built Polygon’s 1st native accelerator Village Wonders with 50+partnerships, ~2mn users on
  • Polygon, demo day with 110+ investors, 20+ mentors, $5m revenue
  • Partnered with 60+ tooling and ecosystem partners with revenue potential of $5m+ for partners
  • Launched products like Polygon id, zk rollups, wagmi job board globally in collab with product,
  • events, marketing, BD teams
  • Built a team of 12+ overlooking marketing, content, program and execution
Operational ExcellenceProblem SolvingStakeholder ManagementStrategic InitiativesTeam ManagementProgram Management+8

Kuliza

VP- Partnerships & Alliances (Global)

Jan 2020Mar 2021 · 1 yr 2 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Set-up & headed global partnership with focus on System integrators, consultancy companies,
  • resellers, cloud partner and ecosystem product partners. Strategising partnerships for both global
  • and regional presence.
  • Onboarded SI and partners like Capgemini APAC, MS Azure, Accenture, Virtusa for product adoption with multi-million dollar pipeline.
  • Developed GTM strategies to expand fintech adoption, securing major enterprise banking clients.
PartnershipsMarketingNegotiationPartner acquisition & onboardingStakeholder ManagementSoftware as a Service (SaaS)+6

Fyle

2 roles

Director- Sales & Partnerships

Promoted

Sep 2018Jan 2020 · 1 yr 4 mos

  • Single-handedly quadrupled Fyle’s Monthly Recurring Revenue. Closed sales with leading players in
  • BFSI, management consulting and IT sector in APAC. Closed highest value deal at Fyle with annual
  • upfront payment
  • Executed strategic partnerships with accounting firms, vertical
Customer RetentionStakeholder ManagementProject ManagementSoftware as a Service (SaaS)Sales ProcessesBusiness-to-Business (B2B)+2

Enterprise Sales- Lead

Dec 2017Aug 2018 · 8 mos

Loktra

Co-Founder

Dec 2015Nov 2017 · 1 yr 11 mos · Bangalore

  • Stay Connected with your Field Workforce
  • Job role:
  • Overview - Co-founded company, overall vision set-up, strategy build-up and grew company from idea to 13 member organization
  • Business Development – Independently lead relationship development and management with leading players (ticket size from 50 to 3,000 users) with Pan India presence, predominantly in BFSI Sector; role involves managing overall B2B sales cycles from pitching to client, meeting/call set up, product demonstration, product improvisation basis client feedback, sales negotiation and closure, execution of requisite contracts, product installation, customer support, invoicing and revenue realisation
  • Team Building – Hiring and managing the team with diverse academic & professional background and individual work experience ranging from 2 to 10 years for various roles in the organization
  • Investor Pitch – Spearheaded conversations with Investors, maintained relationship and delivered information as and when required, lead Investment collateral and business plan preparation
  • Product road map - New concepts for future enhancements, requirement analysis and features, designing, UX research, bug testing
  • Accounts, Finance & Legal- Financial Planning & Analysis, accounts & invoice process set-up, compliance to company law, income tax, secretarial and other regulatory norms, review and drafting legal documents like NDA, sales contract, etc
  • From ideation to conceptualisation- built lead management solution for BFSI segment. Onboarded 8+ enterprise customers, team of 15, ARR of $250k
Market ResearchProduct IdeationProject ManagementStart-up LeadershipEntrepreneurshipBusiness Initiatives

Macquarie group

Executive

Mar 2013Nov 2015 · 2 yrs 8 mos · Gurgaon, India

  • Independent handling of accounting, reconciliation and reporting (IFRS) of share based payments
  • Forex evaluation and hedging for withholding tax payments, Diluted EPS and intercompany settlements
  • Stabilisation of foreign currency exposure evaluation and hedging process
  • Accolade - Awarded with Macquarie’s Quarterly Awards in area of Quality in Jan-Mar’ 14
Market Research

Ernst & young

Consultant in Tax and Regulatory Services

Mar 2012Feb 2013 · 11 mos · Gurgaon, India

  • Tax advices relating to taxability, and compliance issues with reference to Income tax Act, 1961 and Double Taxation Avoidance Agreement, business transfers and restructuring
  • Preparation of submissions, grounds of appeal, appeal effects before ITAT, CIT(A), DRP and AO
  • Presentation on budget amendments for telecom industry on behalf of Cellular Operators Association of India

S. bhandari & co.

Article Assistant

Aug 2008Jan 2011 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Jaipur Area, India

  • Core member of teams for services offered, including statutory audit, tax audit, concurrent audit and limited review

Education

The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India

Chartered Accountant

Jan 2008Jan 2012

University of Rajasthan

Bachelor of Commerce - BCom

Jan 2008Jan 2011

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