Tushar N.

CEO

India3 yrs experience

Most Likely To SwitchAI Enabled

Key Highlights

Successfully raised over $10 million for AI initiatives.
Built and launched TAL from scratch.
Passionate about product management and team collaboration.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS Product Manager with strong fundraising and strategic consulting skills.

Contact

Skills

Core Skills

Product ManagementProduct StrategyFundraisingStrategy Consulting

Other Skills

AI IntegrationTeam LeadershipAI DevelopmentCollaborative Problem SolvingCross-functional Team LeadershipGrant WritingInnovation ConsultingProject ManagementInvestment AnalysisMarket ResearchData AnalyticsData AnalysisResearchStrategic PlanningIoT Development

About

I studied Psychology at Ashoka University simply because I was fascinated by why people do what they do. After graduation, I did the sensible things. I worked in strategy consulting at Zinnov and then at Wadhwani AI (where I helped raise $10M+ for AI-for-good). While I learned a lot, the biggest takeaway was realizing I genuinely loved working in small teams. I wanted to be where the building happens, not just the planning. That clarity is what pulled me toward the startup world. I went to Mesa School of Business to make that transition. Along the way, I spent some time at Elevation Capital, which gave me a helpful perspective on how businesses are built. But I found my real footing at Grapevine (Peak XV). I joined as an intern, fell in love with the chaos of building 0-to-1, and haven't looked back. I think a lot about how products should feel. I wrote about it in The Joy Thesis if you're curious. When I'm not working, I'm probably writing, building something for fun, or falling into a new rabbit hole about LLMs.

Experience

Tal (by grapevine)

3 roles

Product Lead

Promoted

Oct 2025 – Present · 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

~ Open Mixpanel and Metabase before my morning run at Agara. Make of that what you will
~ Built and launched TAL from scratch
~ Found some genuinely great engineers and somehow convinced them to build with me
~ Use AI in 70% of my workflows — the other 30% is meetings
~ Confidently explain LLMs and multi-agent systems to people. Still figuring them out myself
~ Shipped a bunch of internal tools that people actually liked - NPS 9 (true story!)
~ Favourite part of the job: watching TAL grow

Product ManagementProduct Strategy

Founding Product Manager

Mar 2025 – Oct 2025 · 7 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

~ The role didn't exist before me, which was either exciting or a red flag
~ Picked up coding after a 3-year gap and immediately started pretending I never stopped
~ Built and scaled Round1 AI to 100K interviews
~ Saumil said "build TAL" - so I did
~ AI at 25% of workflows. Progress.

Product ManagementProduct Strategy

Product Intern

Dec 2024 – Mar 2025 · 3 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

~ Learned a lot - mostly that product is where I'm supposed to be
~ Spent most of my time in Product Ops and stared at Mixpanel until it started making sense
~ Quietly started using AI for 10% of my work before it was a personality trait

Product Management

Elevation capital

Intern

Sep 2024 – Dec 2024 · 3 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

> Researching and understanding founder perceptions across Consumer brands, Consumer tech, Enterprise & Fintech sectors towards Tier 1 funds, VC & Angel fundraising.
> Built a Report highlighting the landscape and our findings post evaluation.

Wadhwani ai

Associate - Strategy, Fundraising and Partnerships

Jun 2023 – Jul 2024 · 1 yr 1 mo · On-site

In my role as an Associate at Wadhwani AI, I successfully led grant proposals raising over $10 million for the AI for Social Impact initiative. Additionally, I developed relationships with global institutional philanthropic funds and lead the grants that secured a $3.3 million grant from Google.org for a National Pest Surveillance System and $1.5 million grant from Walmart Foundation for AI Grain Analyzer.

Collaborative Problem SolvingCross-functional Team LeadershipFundraisingStrategy Consulting

Zinnov

Associate Consultant - Investments, Open Innovation & Strategy

Jul 2022 – Jun 2023 · 11 mos · Gurgaon & Bangalore · Hybrid

In my role at Zinnov, I developed investment theses for clean energy projects, executed successful acqui-hiring strategies, and evaluated startups for industry reports and competitions.
Crafted investment thesis for a Japanese sogo shosha.
Executed acqui-hiring strategy for an International financial services giant.
Contributed to Zinnov-NASSCOM Startup report 2023.

Innovation ConsultingProject ManagementStrategy ConsultingProduct Strategy

Sattva consulting

Intern - Foundations (ACT Grants)

Dec 2021 – Feb 2022 · 2 mos · New Delhi, Delhi, India · Remote

Scouted 50+ high-impact innovations in the healthcare sector for ACT for health grants.
Spearheaded data analysis of ACT vaccine beneficiaries; shared randomly sampled data with last-mile callers to flag any post-dose reaction among beneficiaries.
Implemented an app script to automate the creation of acknowledgment receipts for vehicles carrying covid relief donations; boosted the efficiency of the pipeline by 98%.

Project ManagementData Analytics

Path

Digital Health Intern

Jun 2021 – Aug 2021 · 2 mos · New Delhi, Delhi, India · Remote

Collaborated with Deputy Director, Digital Health to drive strategic vision for PATH public health programs during India’s second Covid-19 wave
Developed a strategic framework for IoT based PSA monitoring system for an Indian state government in partnership with a global technology giant
Established a knowledge repository for mental health interventions in India for PATH-Foundation Botnar SAMYP initiative

Project ManagementData Analytics