Sep 2018 – Jun 2019 · 9 mos · Bangalore

• I worked for a few months with the investing and venture team of Accel Partners to meet new companies and help existing portfolio companies.

Oct 2015 – Aug 2018 · 2 yrs 10 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Co-founded Bicycle AI, leveraging deep learning and machine learning to automate customer service for fast-growing companies.
• Successfully recruited a talented team of ML engineers, including graduates from Stanford and UC Berkeley.
• Raised over $2M from Accel Partners, Hydrazine capital(Sam Altman's fund) and YCombinator, expanding our customer base to 8 clients.
• Achieved rapid growth with the MobShow app, reaching 100K+ daily active users and 1M downloads within 120 days.

Jun 2014 – Jan 2015 · 7 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Joined as the product guy after Ezetap acquired my startup. Short but exciting and challenging stint managing a hardware+software payments product.

Jun 2013 – Jun 2014 · 1 yr · Hyderabad Area, India

• Clink was a product in the transaction marketing space with the Gharpay team and investors(Sequoia, Blume, Kae).
• We built a product that took anonymous consumer transaction data from banks and provided personalized card linked coupons. RBL bank was a customer for whom we increased debit card activation and spends.
• We introduced two innovations in India:
• 1. Highly personalized offers on the basis of spend category, spend size and spend frequency on cards
• 2. No coupon codes but card linked offers. Customers just needed to swipe their cards for the discount to be applied.
• Acquired by Ezetap.

Jan 2011 – Jun 2013 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

• Built GharPay to let ecommerce companies collect cash payments. Lots of people can who want to buy simply can't pay online. Accepting cash is the most convenient way to reach out to that segment of the population.
• Grew revenue to $500k p.a. Increased presence to 1000+ pincodes with nearly 800 clients including some of the biggest internet companies in India. Grew transaction volume to INR 80 crores per annum. Funded by Sequoia Capital, Blume Ventures and Kae Capital. Bought out by Delhivery.

Jun 2010 – Dec 2010 · 6 mos

• Thesis project on bacterial genetics at India's foremost genetics laboratory.

Jan 2009 – Jul 2009 · 6 mos

• Bloomberg New Energy Finance is world's leading provider of renewable energy research and consulting.
• Spent a semester working in their Hyderabad office.

May 2008 – Jul 2008 · 2 mos

• At Intellecap, I worked with a team to build an innovative gateway for SME entrepreneurs to raise funding.