Jan 2020 – Present · 6 yrs 2 mos

• Part-time seed-stage investor in startups across India/ US/ South East Asia.
• Ticket size <$50K
• Asymmetric opportunities with strong Founder/ Product/ Market fit
• Sector agnostic

Feb 2019 – May 2021 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Singapore

• Led the product vision and strategy for Product Growth and Personalization — 4 PMs, ~50 XFNs across Singapore, Austin, and Tokyo. Coached PMs, shaped org structure, and drove executive alignment.
• Product Growth: Scaled existing products and launched new ones by identifying untapped growth channels — growing MAU +20% YoY (+4Mn MAU)
• Personalization: Built ML-powered salary estimation to improve job-applicant matching — drove +10% sponsored job-applies YoY (+$30Mn/y revenue)
• Platforms: Built scalable APIs enabling internal teams and 3rd-party partners to access job content and personalization signals

Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 · 1 yr · Singapore

• Built out the product and team from scratch to launch and scale a new video-on-demand app in the GoJek ecosystem — GoPlay (Netflix for Localised Indonesian Content).
• Built, launched and scaled the subscription VoD product from 0 to $Xk+ MRR.
• Partnered with leading content providers, and built CMS tools to enable easy content management by 3rd parties.
• Worked closely with senior-leadership, reporting directly to the Group-CEO of GoJek.
• GoJek is the fastest growing 🦄 in S+SE Asia valued at $12Bn+
• 1Mn+ Drivers
• 30Mn+ Monthly Active Users
• 100Mn+ Monthly Orders
• $5Bn+ Raised from Tencent, Google, Sequoia, KKR, Warburg, etc

Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 · 1 yr · New Delhi Area, India

• Joined Hike via the acquisition of my startup (InstaLively/Pulse) — the biggest social media acquisition in India at that time. Responsible for all things product/ tech in the Stories & Camera verticals at Hike.
• Led the Stories and Camera product areas - product strategy, roadmap, product development, user research, go-to-market strategy, product growth, 3rd party partnerships
• Launched and scaled Hike stories to 5x DAU
• Drove the roadmap and execution for Camera 2.0 - Added support for Night Photography, Animated Face-Filters, Real-time facial beautification, Augmented Reality experiences
• Worked with stakeholders to rearchitect/ redesign the Stories creation/consumption/sharing flows to improve key metrics by X%
• Grew the team from 20 to 50. Actively sourced & screened key product/engineering/design hires to build a strong IC and leadership team
• Drove key vendor partnerships in the areas of Computer Vision, Image Processing, Augmented reality.
• Hike is India’s largest homegrown social media/ messaging app supported by Softbank, Tiger Global & Tencent - 100Mn+ users exchange 40Bn+ msgs/ month and spend over 120 minutes per week on Hike.

Jan 2014 – Jan 2017 · 3 yrs · New Delhi Area, India

• InstaLively is a mobile live-streaming app for users to share their live video directly from the mobile camera onto social media channels.
• When launched in 2014, it was the first mobile LiveStreaming app in India and one of the pioneers of LiveStreaming in the APAC region. Our mission was to enable users to easily broadcast/watch live content anywhere using just a mobile phone, thereby democratising LiveStreaming. The product was optimized for low bandwidths and low-end phones, thereby enabling live content creation/consumption for users across Tier 1 cities to Tier 4 towns.
• Additionally, InstaLively seamlessly integrated with one's Youtube channel, thereby managing DRM and enabling Video Monetization.

Jan 2014 – Jan 2017 · 3 yrs · New Delhi Area, India

• Pulse is a hyperlocal social network for colleges. It enables consumers (primarily millennials) to create & consume engaging localised-stories.

Jan 2012 – Jan 2014 · 2 yrs · San Francisco/ New Delhi

• Info Assembly is a B2B SaaS platform which leverages machine learning to offer data analytics products to the financial services industry.
• We use Machine Learning & Natural Language Processing to process millions of market signals and provide detailed insights about private companies, thereby helping financial institutions save time on their market research.
• The team had raised a seed round of ~$170,000 from US investors - http://bit.ly/1sHbojW

Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 · 1 yr · Mumbai, India

• Worked with the Infrastructure & Industrials team on transactions including M&A Advisory, Private Placements of Equity and Convertible Instruments and Restructuring Advisory Services.
• Scope of work included:
• Deal Origination: Identifying and evaluating opportunities, presenting to potential investors and pitching to clients.
• Deal Execution: Conducting the entire deal process that includes creating detailed valuation models and deal structures, financial analysis of companies, drafting legal agreements/ information memorandum / teasers, handling all client communication and negotiations, and coordinating work of lawyers / consultants towards deal closure.