May 2025 – Present · 10 mos

Dec 2024 – Present · 1 yr 3 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• AkashX is the world's #1 Storage-Accelerated Data Warehouse, that lowers your cloud data infra bills by 4X. Advising the founders on anything company building.

Dec 2024 – Present · 1 yr 3 mos · London Area, United Kingdom · Remote

• Weekend Fund is an early-stage fund backing your next favorite thing.
• I help the GPs source, evaluate and invest in deals. Pre-seed / Seed, $200-400K. Working on something? Ping me at rishabhkaul at gmail dot com

May 2024 – Present · 1 yr 10 mos · London Area, United Kingdom · Remote

• Scout for Village Global - a $400m fund backed by Reid Hoffman, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg and others.
• Village invests globally. Feel free to reach out to me incase you’re working on something cool

Mar 2024 – Present · 2 yrs · London Area, United Kingdom

• Helping grow a community of Indians in tech in Europe and advising the next generation founders building for the world.

Jul 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 8 mos · London Area, United Kingdom · On-site

Dec 2021 – Present · 4 yrs 3 mos · Remote

• CostCo for retail stores in India. One of the early investors. Follow on investors include 3State (Binny Bansal), Blume Ventures, Caratlane founder, Shubman Gill and others.

May 2021 – Feb 2024 · 2 yrs 9 mos · London, England, United Kingdom · Remote

• Popular open source platform to build internal tools.
• First GTM hire - responsible for building out and leading marketing and developer relations functions
• Led Appsmith's growth from Series A to Series B
• 10x'd user growth
• Initiated Appsmith's monetization efforts - from 0 -> $XM in pipeline
• Strong developer brand (HN, 40+ podcasts, 30K stars on Github)

Jan 2021 – Present · 5 yrs 2 mos · London Area, United Kingdom

• Run a syndicate called Goodfellas (https://angel.co/s/rishabh-kaul-2/x56RO). * indicates investment in the first round. Invested alongside and before investors like a16z, Sequoia, 20VC, YC, Plural, Crane, Village Global, Conviction, OpenAI, RTP Global, Gradient
• Sample investments:
• Duku- autonomous testing platform (Antler)
• Peec AI - AI search platform (20VC, Singular)
• PavoAI - AI agents for ML
• AkashX - storage acceleration for lakehouses (SVQ, Emergent)
• Collekt - global AI fintech (Village Global, Concept)
• Detail - solving tech debt with AI
• Budy - AI agents for senior living sales teams (RTP)
• Segwise.ai - optimising ROAS for gaming (Powerhouse)
• Arcjet - dev first security platform (a16z, Plural)
• Nudge: In-app customer engagement (Antler, s16VC)
• superk: Next-gen retail network for Bharat (Blume, Binny Bansal)
• WarpBuild: Managed github runners (Quiet Capital, YC)
• useopenwrench.com: SaaS platform for automating facilities management (Haystack, YC)
• Kodif: AI CX automation platform (Bling Capital, Village Global)
• Inuka Capital: micro vc investing in India
• bitespeed: Customer Engagement platform for Shopify brands (Sequoia India)
• Pagarbook: HR stack for India's unorganised SMBs (Sequoia India)
• Exits:
• Springtail - acquired by Shopify
• Requestly - acquired by Browserstack
• Taxscouts - acquired by Taxfin
• Partykit - acquired by Cloudflare
• Bicycle.ai - liquidation (Accel India)

Aug 2014 – Dec 2020 · 6 yrs 4 mos · London, England, United Kingdom

• Co-founder and Head of Marketing of AI powered HR Tech startup focused on mid market and enterprise segments across US, UK and APAC. Belong's customers included several F500/FTSE 100 and growth stage scale ups like British Telecom, Tesco, Uber, Amazon and others.
• Raised $15M from Sequoia, Matrix, Blume ventures.
• Dabble multiple hats including leading marketing, business development, operations, new initiatives, expansion and growth - leading company to 200+ employees, $XM revenues, global expansion.

Nov 2013 – Sep 2014 · 10 mos · Gurgaon, India

• Everything non-tech...kinda. Employee < 10. Firm currently valued at upwards of $800M.
• Sourced the company for my alma mater's investment network which kickstarted a crazy journey. Joined them a couple of years later.
• Recruited the early engineering team and put the initial recruitment processes in place
• Helped with fundraising for Series A with Tiger Global and some fantastic angels
• Helped with initial enterprise business development for international and domestic markets

Jun 2012 – Nov 2013 · 1 yr 5 mos · Mumbai Area, India

• Worked with the promoters and the investment team to support high growth businesses across Healthcare/Sanitation, Agribusiness and Financial Technology sectors. Deal sourcing, deal execution, portfolio management.
• Companies closely worked with:
• Milk Mantra (leading east Indian FMCG brand) - Follow on investment by Fidelity
• Saraplast (toilet as a service) - Follow on investment by ResponsAbility
• SKEPL (dairy electronics company) - Partial Exit by GBF
• EPS (ATM Managed Services Provider) - Follow on investment by FMO, APIS Partners

Jul 2010 – Jun 2014 · 3 yrs 11 mos · New Delhi Area, India

• Started @ Spark, under guidance from some fantastic folks. A fund run by BITSians for BITSians. Recruited the core team and got it up and running.
• Investments made:
• Grey Orange (which I sourced and then later joined as an early core member) (Raised $180M from Tiger, Mithril, Blume) - 66x mark up
• Tabtor (coinvested with Aarin Capital)
• Solartown
• Framebench (Acquired by Freshdesk)
• Exotel (co-invested with Blume)
• e-GMAT
• Eltropy