Jan 2021 – Present · 5 yrs 3 mos · Remote

• We incubate and mentor startups in the Mithila region of Bihar. If you are building business in this region, do reach out to us for mentorship and funding.

Aug 2019 – Jul 2021 · 1 yr 11 mos · India

• iDrive Capital is a boutique investment banking firm which is in the business of advising early-stage startups to raise funding from seed, angel & VC investors.
• They are sector agnostic and advise startups for seed round to series A round of funding.
• I was hired as the first employee of the company. Built the business from scratch.
• Responsible for deal sourcing, investor onboarding, maintaining relationships with all the stakeholders, due diligence, negotiation
• Managing 4 analysts in the team
• Sourced and evaluated 200+ startups across multiple segments
• Well connected with 500+ investors across Seed to Series B stage
• Have closed funding for 16+ startups to the tune of $33 million

May 2019 – Present · 6 yrs 11 mos · Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India · Remote

Jun 2012 – Aug 2019 · 7 yrs 2 mos · Chennai Area, India

• Kobster provides a cloud based e-procurement platform for corporate to source their indirect materials in a highly effective manner.
• Kobster offers a seamless procurement platform that combines discovery, purchasing, delivering and intelligence in a single, end-to-end procurement solution.
• It has raised funding from marquee investors Incubate Funds, Let's Venture, Splice Advisors, and angel investors like the co-founder of Bharat Matrimony and many others. It was selected in the first batch of startups to be incubated by PayPal.
• Key Responsibilities:
• Responsible for ideating, developing and building the startup idea from scratch
• Scaled and set up offices in 6 locations across India including Chennai, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Mumbai, Pune & Delhi(NCR)
• Responsible to build and manage the P&L of the entire company across multiple cost centers and measuring various KPIs
• Onboarded 120+ corporate customers onto the platform namely Oracle, WeWork, CoWork, MindTree, Practo, and Kredx.
• Hired and led a team of 6+ core leadership members and 70+ mid and junior level executives
• built and managed PAN India B2B salesforce
• Worked on establishing city-wise supply chain and onboarded multiple vendors
• Pitched and raised Seed and Series A round of capital from investors like Let’s Venture, Incubate Fund(Japan-based) and others..
• Led the startup in the successful selection for PayPal Incubation Program

Feb 2011 – May 2012 · 1 yr 3 mos · Chennai Area, India

• ArrayShield(now ShieldSquare) is the provider of innovative two factor authentication product. I joined as one of the early employees. Carried various responsibilities ranging from product/project management, sales, marketing/branding, HR etc. Having a 360-degree view of how a start-up runs and businesses are built up.
• Joined as a fifth employee of the startup
• Hired and managed early sales team
• Build company’s first inside sales team and setup entire sales funnel using CRM like Zoho
• Responsible to do direct sales to CIOs/CEOs of large multinational companies including KAM
• Worked closely with the tech team to give customer inputs and help in refining the product
• hiring & recruitment plan and execution
• drafting product training and execution
• online marketing, generating leads through different medium, website traffic growth
• handling customers and key accounts

Dec 2009 – Feb 2011 · 1 yr 2 mos · Chennai Area, India

• Working as a software developer for the insurance project. Worked on INGENIUM product; developed by SOLCORP. Ingenium is a fully integrated, insurance processing solution that provides comprehensive client-focused support for the administration of individual life, health and annuity business.
• Responsibility:-
• To maintain and upscale the Ingenium application. To facilitate the smooth client enrollment into the Ingenium application. To provide the technical support to the insurer in handling huge records of the insured.
• Tachnical Responsibilities:-
• To understand pain points of the insured/insurer and give the optimum solution.
• To understand business requirement and come up with the business logic
• To convert business logic into small module/user stories to be coded
• To carry out the alpha/beta testing

Jun 2009 – Dec 2009 · 6 mos · Chennai Area, India

• Key Responsibilities:
• Conceptualizing and executing the events/workshops ranging from corporate events, personal event, team events among others.
• business development and strategy formation
• online and offline marketing
• client co-ordination etc.

Jan 2009 – Jun 2009 · 5 mos · Chennai Area, India

• WebArch is the web designing and development club of SRM University, with the sole idea of forming a team of like minded individuals who are passionate about web designing & development.
• I was one of the founding committee member of this illustrious club. The club was responsible for developing different website projects from various departments and industries from outside.
• Key Responsibilities:
• setting up the club
• bringing up the members, induction criteria etc.
• overall club vision planning and development
• co-ordination with different university staff members
• course content and training material preparation
• bringing up new projects

Jan 2009 – Feb 2009 · 1 mo

• E-Club is an organization of young and aspiring entrepreneurs across the country. E-Club, nurturres entrepreneurs by way of mentoring sessions, start-up showcases, seminars, workshops and a plethora of community events to meet the demands of an entrepreneurial mind!
• As a founding member of NEN E-Club Chennai, I was instrumental in setting up the Chennai chapter, induction criteria, membership enrollment strategy among others. Further more conceptualizing events/workshops, executing, event marketing, co-ordination with different stake holders etc.

Mar 2008 – Jun 2009 · 1 yr 3 mos · Chennai Area, India

• I worked as one of the Editor of this campus newspaper. This online news paper carries the news happening inside the SRM University campus.
• It carried article on sports, academics, personal achievement, student research, entrepreneurship, cultural activities etc.
• Was responsible for identifying, writing and reviewing the potential news to be published. To carry on the technical responsibility of uploading and maintaining the news item into the portal.

Mar 2008 – Oct 2008 · 7 mos · Chennai Area, India

• Served as Publicity Head of the Aaruush 09 edition- A Techno-Management symposium of SRM University.
• Key Responsibilities:
• responsible for online and offline publicity of different events
• event website conceptualizing, design and development
• hospitality and catering responsibilities

Jun 2007 – Jul 2009 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Chennai Area, India

• was responsible for the co-ordination between placement cell and students
• overall planning and monitoring the placements in the department
• placement guidance and assistance