Jan 2024 – Present · 2 yrs 2 mos

• Transitioned my role from General Partner to Venture Partner. Now advising on Rebright investments in Deep Tech, AI, Healthcare and Cross Border Enterprise Software. Also advise portfolio companies building in AI.

Jan 2019 – Jan 2024 · 5 yrs

• Venture Capital Investor at Rebright Partners, an early stage Japanese Venture Capital Fund investing across Deep Tech, Healthcare, Mobility, Enterprise SaaS, B2B products and Internet/Mobile.
• Headed India Investments with 25 portfolio companies and $75 AUM with success like Inshorts, Medibuddy, Numocity and others.

Jan 2015 – Dec 2018 · 3 yrs 11 mos

• Rebright Partners is a Japanese venture capital based in Singapore. It is backed by publicly listed Japanese IT companies and prominent individual angel investors. Rebright has been actively investing in promising startups in Seed-to-Series-A stage in South-East Asia and India since 2012 and primarily invests in A) Tech enabled businesses solving large problems for the India market B) Core Product Tech startups in AI, Robotics, IoT and related areas with deep intellectual property.

Sep 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 6 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

• Building AI Agents.

Feb 2019 – Present · 7 yrs 1 mo · India

• Helped create & engage a network of over 300 Global Venture Capital Investors, Family offices and Limited Partners investing in the India market.

Mar 2017 – Dec 2023 · 6 yrs 9 mos · Mumbai Area, India

• One of India’s largest B2B Medical Supplies E-commerce marketplace with over 3,500 hospitals and 50,000 products being sold to 2500 customer every month.

May 2015 – Dec 2023 · 8 yrs 7 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• India’s leading last mile logistics marketplace for hiring intra city trucks.

Aug 2013 – Apr 2015 · 1 yr 8 mos · Bangalore

• GSF Accelerator is India's first multi-city accelerator program for early stage tech product startups and is backed by 30 leading founders and 5 funds. As part of the founding team and Operating Partner, I lead the GSF centers in Bangalore and Chennai and focus on:
• Designing & implementing the Accelerator program, Conferences and other initiatives.
• Building deal flow and evangelizing the accelerator program with startups, investors and mentors.
• Helping GSF portfolio companies with product strategy, business development, go to market strategy and venture funding plan.

Aug 2012 – Aug 2013 · 1 yr · Bangalore

• GSF Accelerator is India's first multi-city accelerator programme for early stage tech product startups and is backed by 30 leading founders and 5 funds. As part of the founding team at GSF India Accelerator:
• Design & implement and intensive, workshop driven, co-located Accelerator program
• Evangelize the GSF initiatives and build Mentor & Advisory network
• Selecting startups for the Accelerator and managing deal flow
• Work with startups on Product Strategy, Go-to Market, Business Development and Fundraising.

Jul 2013 – Dec 2023 · 10 yrs 5 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Smartphone app based medical consultation platform in India which provides specialist doctor consultation for patients over phone and mobile chat in less than 30mins
• Advising the founders since their GSF Accelerator incubation and through Rebright Partners seed investment.
• Recently helped close $7M Series A round from Bessemer Venture Partners and DeNA, TechMatrix from Japan.

Dec 2012 – Mar 2014 · 1 yr 3 mos · Bangalore, India

• Little Eye is a performance analysis and developer productivity tool for Mobile App developers and testers. It creates real-time analysis and visualization of an App's impact on a device's power/battery usage, data consumption, memory utilization.
• Help streamline licensing process, revenue model and product strategy
• Setup infrastructure to track customer pipelines and lead generation
• Market and evangelize the product to build strategic partnerships

Sep 2011 – Aug 2012 · 11 mos · Bangalore India

• Mobile and Tablet App Development Company focusing on products related to Customer Relationship Management and Product Feedback Analytics for the Retail Industry.
• Successfully implemented the product at a Global Fashion and Apparel retailer’s India operations in Bangalore
• Lead initiatives on Sales, Business Strategy & Marketing
• Hands on work in technology implementation and Product Strategy.

Nov 2005 – Aug 2011 · 5 yrs 9 mos

• Pramata is the enterprise contract intelligence company. Its solution provides the ability to capture, access and report across all contract data regardless of complexity ands help global companies reduce risk, achieve revenue assurance and enable operational excellence.
• Joined founding team as 2nd employee and actively involved in Product and go-to Market Strategy, pre-Sales and Engineering.
• Executed setup of a Global Development Center for US based technology startup in Bangalore and helped grow it from 2 to 100 employees in 5 years.
• Lead a team of Business Analysts, Quality Analysts and Software Developers to effectively plan and deliver new iterations and modules based on Agile Product Development methodologies.
• Helped create technology product with 2 US technology patents (pending) and listed as contributing inventor

Nov 2005 – Nov 2006 · 1 yr

• Helped conceptualize, architect and develop a SaaS Product based on the Ruby on Rails Software Platform
• Core platform engineer specializing in front-end UI design and data modelling

Apr 2005 – Oct 2005 · 6 mos · Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Developed an Insurance Policy builder tool for Life Insurance Sales Agents based on the ASP.NET platform
• Involved in architectural design and database review with the project team.
• Developed Reporting and Analytics tool for Life Insurance Sales Agents based on the ASP.NET platform

Sep 2003 – Apr 2005 · 1 yr 7 mos · Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Principal Software Engineer on a 10 year research project involving tracking of insect migration data by over 1000 field data collectors.
• Developed and maintained Web application based on ASP.NET platforms together with a Data Analytics module for drill-down analysis of data for the researchers