Sahil Makkar

CEO

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India10 yrs 8 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Expert in sourcing and managing seed investments.
Strong background in venture capital and private equity.
Proven track record in portfolio management.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Venture Capital expert with a strong focus on Fintech and SaaS investments.

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Skills

Core Skills

Venture CapitalPrivate Equity

Other Skills

Investment ManagementPortfolio ManagementStartup EvaluationFinancial ModelingPitch BooksProgrammingAlgorithmsSimulationsFinancial AnalysisCorporate FinanceFinancial ReportingCC++Microsoft ExcelMatlab

About

Pre-seed and Seed stage Investor at Indiaquotient with previous investing stints at Goldman Sachs and Trifecta capital (Series A to series D venture debt) Seeking to partner with hard problem solvers and bold dreamers and if you are working on one such exciting idea/problem please reach me at sahil@indiaquotient.in

Experience

Robin, an ai phone assistant

Seed Investor and Board Member

Jan 2026 – Present · 2 mos

Gimi michi

Seed Investor and Board Member

Nov 2025 – Present · 4 mos

Indiaquotient

3 roles

Partner

Promoted

Sep 2025 – Present · 6 mos

Sahil is a member of the investment team at IndiaQuotient, where he focuses across all stages of the investment cycle – from building investment thesis, sourcing, business diligence, deal management, value creation, and portfolio management.
Seed Investments sourced & managed - DPDzero (Fintech), Fyllo (Agri IoT+ SaaS), Robin (AI concierge), Gimmi Michi (Asian food brand), Fixmycurls (Haircare brand), Furnishka (omni chanel furniture retail), Navo (B2B apparel marketplace), True Diamond (Lab grown first focussed jewelry brand)
Portfolio management (Board Observer) - Consumer (Giva, CityFlo, Vibecity, Faballey), Fintech
(Lendingkart, LoanTap), B2B (Globalfair, Saveo, Oakter), Logistics (Blitz, Intoglo), SaaS
(Pagarbook, WebEngage, Reo.dev)
Led pre-Seed Investments ( 6 startups done via pre-seed fund)-
SaaS: Getcrux.ai(AI creative strategist for performance marketing, follow on led by Emergent & YC), 30 Sundays (Travel tech, follow on led by Infoedge), Datazip ( Data SaaS), Diagna.ai (Health AI SaaS), Predis
B2B :Khidki homes (material B2B marketplace)

Venture CapitalPrivate Equity

Vice President

Promoted

Apr 2022 – Sep 2025 · 3 yrs 5 mos

Senior Associate

Dec 2021 – Apr 2022 · 4 mos

True diamond

Seed Investor and Board Member

May 2025 – Present · 10 mos

Navo (formerly bizup)

Seed Investor and Board Member

Mar 2025 – Present · 1 yr

Kyzo (khidki homes)

Board Observer

Jan 2025 – Present · 1 yr 2 mos

Furnishka

Board Observer

Sep 2024 – Present · 1 yr 6 mos

Fyllo

Board Observer

May 2024 – Present · 1 yr 10 mos

Fix my curls

Seed Investor and Board Member

Mar 2024 – Present · 2 yrs

Reo.dev

Board Observer

Sep 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 6 mos

Dpdzero

Seed Investor and Board Member

Aug 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 7 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Webengage

Board Observer

Jan 2023 – Present · 3 yrs 2 mos

Giva

Board Observer

Jan 2022 – Present · 4 yrs 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Lendingkart

Board Observer

Dec 2021 – Present · 4 yrs 3 mos

Pagarbook

Board Observer

Dec 2021 – Present · 4 yrs 3 mos

Trifecta capital advisors

Investment Professional

Mar 2021 – Dec 2021 · 9 mos

Venture debt and growth equity in mid to late stage startups (series A to series D): Evaluated startups in SaaS, consumer internet/B2C(D2C brands, aggregator, e-comm, social-commerce), Ed-Tech (migration space), Agri Tech, HealthTech.
Portfolio deals:
Ed Tech (Leverage Edu, Entri)
SaaS (Pando, Builder.ai, Creliohealth) D2C (Kapiva, XYXX)
B2B marketplaces ( Infra.Market , Shadowfax)
B2C-Magicpin

Goldman sachs

Buy-side Associate at Goldman Sachs Asset Management

May 2017 – Feb 2021 · 3 yrs 9 mos

Investments in High Yield and Investment grade bonds (Developed markets)- Bottoms up company research involving direct interaction with the company, bankers and rating agencies, secondary research, in-depth financial modelling and periodic presentations to portfolio managers to pitch single company (primary and secondary ideas) and sectoral thematics.
Lead analyst (direct pitching bottom-up security ideas, sectoral themes to Portfolio managers) for Technology, Consumer (Tobacco, Staples and Discretionary), Retail sector ;
Supporting analyst for Telecoms, Infrastructure/Transportation (Toll roads, Telco towers, Airports, Bus &Train operators), Metals and Mining.

Reliance industries limited

RIL M&A and Strategy team

Apr 2016 – Jun 2016 · 2 mos · Nariman Point, Mumbai

Closed M&A transaction: Slump sale of Reliance retail dairy division to Heritage foods
Strategic analysis of renewable sector (solar & wind): multiple pan-India targets evaluated.

Samsung electronics

Senior Software Developer (Full stack coder)

Jul 2012 – May 2014 · 1 yr 10 mos

1) Product role intially with front end coding (JS, Node, React for frontend and mongodb etc for backend) - coded and managed multiple apps (conceptualizing UX to coding algo, debuggging and rollout) with my small team for customer on Samsung app store. Majority of apps developed were content, gaming, informative and entertainment apps. This was mainly front end development using APIs/Libraries.
2) Full stack development (modified some of liabraries in Samsung OS stack)- In the latter half of my time at Samsung got involved in full stack development with backend coding. Got understanding of embedded layer- Researched in the multimedia domain to developed innovative gesture based audio/video features.