Jan 2025 – Present · 1 yr 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Please note: We invest in great founders, you do not have to be an IITian, or KGPian to raise money from us. If you're building something exciting please drop me a message.
• 2.2 Club is IIT Kharagpur's angel investment syndicate that supports great founders from India & globally, with access to our capital, our relationship with various VC funds, and our network access to potential customers. We're a bunch of founders, ex-founders, and senior operators who volunteer their time to run this community helping founders with product, go-to-market, PLG playbooks, scaling, and hiring.
• We've written 4 cheques together as a community:
• Rekise (Deeptech) - backed by Sameer Brij, and several family offices (raised $4Mn Seed).
• Gushwork (Get leads from AI Search Engines)- backed by LightSpeed, SIG, BCapital, Beenext (Seed, $9Mn)
• Refold AI (previously Cobalt): AI System Integration for Enterprises - raised $6.5Mn seed, backed by Eniac Ventures.
• Please use the relevant links below:
• For Founders, pitch at: https://lnkd.in/gdpXd4FY
• For Kgp Angels and Operators, join 2.2Club: https://lnkd.in/gr9BS3n3
• We're a bunch of founders, ex-founders, and senior operators who volunteer their time to run this community.
• Please note: We invest in great founders, you do not have to be an IITian, or KGPian to raise money from us. If you're building something exciting please drop me a message.

May 2023 – Apr 2024 · 11 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

• 📈 In less than 2 years, Jar has helped over 15Mn investors start their savings journey. We're now stepping into a new era for Jar, where we're building out a multi-asset investment platform tailored to the next 300 Mn investors 🌏 . This will help Jar's users transition from the savings phase to the investment phase of their financial journey, potentially enabling millions to create wealth and financial well-being.💰
• 🤝 We're backed by Tiger Global Management, and investors from around the world. Due to our steady and rapid growth, Tiger doubled down on their investment in Jar last year, and we're currently valued at over $300Mn. Read our TechCrunch story: https://lnkd.in/gRyuyE2n
• 📈 Disclaimer: I'm also an angel investor in Jar.

Jan 2021 – Apr 2023 · 2 yrs 3 mos

• HealthPlix is a Series C healthtech SaaS platform backed by Avataar Ventures, SIG, LightSpeed Ventures, Kalaari, JSW Ventures, and Chiratae Ventures We've raised over $40Mn to help doctors digitize their patients' health data and improve their health outcomes.
• Doctors use our software to create digital prescriptions / electronic health records (EHRs) for their patients and manage their clinics. We've grown 4x in the last 12 months, generating 110K prescriptions every day, and 70Mn prescriptions in the lifetime. Today, we're the largest platform for doctors with 25Mn patients (~2% of the Indian population) across the country.
• Every data entered by doctors is in a structured format, and hence we're the largest structured healthcare data platform in India. Our CDS models run on top of it to provide valuable actionable insights back to doctors in real time. Doctors spend ~5 hours every day using the HealthPlix suite of products.

Apr 2020 – Mar 2022 · 1 yr 11 mos

• Project StepOne became the backbone for 23 State Governments during COVID time, to telescreen citizens, and identify COVID+ve patients across the country. In a very short span of time, we were able to get 1000+ volunteers, 7000+ doctors, and 3000+ mental health counselors across the country. We screened more than 50 Million citizens across the country, with 1Mn calls per day at its peak. We raised a couple of million USD from ACT Grants, Omidyar Network India, Dell Foundation, Sofina, and Wadhwani Foundation.

Jan 2020 – Present · 6 yrs 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

• Backing bold builders across sectors for the last 5 years. We're a bunch of entrepreneurs who can pool in between $100-$125k. Here are a few notable ones:
• Spry Health - backed by Flourish Ventures, EightRoads, Together Fund (raised $15Mn Series B)
• Rapidclaims AI - backed by Accel, Together Fund (raised $10Mn Series A)
• Gushworks AI - backed by LightSpeed, Beenext, BCapital (raised $XMn Seed). Announcing soon.
• Exponent Energy - backed by Lightspeed, EightRoads (raised $26Mn, Series B)
• UrbanPiper - backed by Sequoia, Tiger Global (raised $24Mn in Series B)
• Jar - backed by Tiger Global, Arkam Ventures (raised $22Mn Series B)
• Log9 - backed by Petronas Ventures, Sequoia Capital, PeakXV (raised $40Mn Series B)
• Cart.com - backed by BlackRock, and several other notable investors (raised $475 million so far, valued at $1.6Bn)
• I'm also an Advisor to Venture Funds:
• Z21 Ventures
• Quain Investments Fund
• Feel free to send me your decks at subhadeep.iit@gmail.com. I'll be quick to say yes or no and provide you with our feedback. I'm always happy to speak to builders.

Jun 2017 – May 2020 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Bengaluru Area, India · On-site

• PregBuddy started as a content, and community platform for 2Mn+ women going through the journey of trying to conceive to motherhood. We raised a seed round from several HNIs and family offices from India & US. We were selected for the following programs: Google Launchpad, YourStory Tech30, FBStart, Apple Accelerator, Startup Chile, ZoneStartups, and a few others.
• Our work was recognized by Foxconn & Merck in Taiwan, nationally by the Central Govt of India as NEA 2019, and Forbes 30 Under30 Asia recognized us in the Healthcare category, by Shri Sudha Murthy & actor Akshay Kumar. We were constantly featured by Google PlayStore & Apple AppStore in India, and several countries.
• We also launched a B2B CRM platform called ConnectedCare - which made us profitable as a startup. More details are shared below. ConnectedCare was a CRM to provide care continuity to their patients for better patient care, proactive monitoring, and early interventions for high-risk patients. We scaled to 50+ hospitals across the country.
• Patients used to get personalized care and track their symptoms and vitals remotely, especially for their high-risk patients. We built our AI models to help doctors to manage their high-risk patients better, and provide proactive care with early interventions to all their patients. We tracked over 15 Million patient data and health records of our patients over the years.

Apr 2015 – May 2017 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Bengaluru Area, India

• SignEasy is a bootstrapped, Bangalore-based eSignature app, with over 10 million users globally.
• I used to work along with the founder and led their 20+ engineers, design, QA, and marketing teams to lead their efforts on the product, PLG, product-led sales, growth loops, and partner relationships with Apple and Google teams across India, US & Singapore.
• We were featured by the Apple AppStore and Google PlayStore in over 160+ countries both online, and even offline at their Apple retail stores globally. We grew 4x in revenue, 10x in terms of users, and increased product retention and reduce annual churn with high NPS product features.

Jul 2013 – Mar 2015 · 1 yr 8 mos · Noida Area, India

• Scaled Gaana to >6Mn MAUs, with a 400% increase in paid subscribers - back in days when both payment gateways weren't much penetrated, and paying for content wasn't mainstream.
• Managed the PnL for mobile apps for Gaana, with an advert revenue of ~1Cr/month.
• Launched Mini apps which helped Gaana get 50 million users across PlayStore at $0 marketing dollars.
• Managed 30+ engineers, 5 designers, marketing, support, ad-tech teams across several locations to get things done.

Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 · 1 yr · Globally · On-site

• I have been invited as a speaker or as a panelist at several national and international conferences such as Forbes30Under30 Asia (HongKong), TransAsia Healthcare (Taiwan), Startup Saturdays by HeadStart, Global Mobile App Summit & Awards (GMASA) on "Mobile Growth", Mobile Growth Bangalore, Yahoo Flurry Source, AppFest by IAMAI, The Future of Mobile Growth by Branch.io & Yahoo.

Jan 2012 – Apr 2013 · 1 yr 3 mos · Kharagpur Area, India

• PR Cell (now called BARC) is now an official organizational wing in IIT Kharagpur. When we started PR Cell back in 2012.

Jan 2011 – Dec 2013 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Kharagpur Area, India · Remote

• Flixstreet (www.flixstreet.in) was the IMDB for Bollywood movies. Built 0-1 to 20,000 users during my college years.

Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 · 1 yr · Kharagpur, West Bengal, India · On-site

Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 · 1 yr · Kharagpur, West Bengal, India · On-site