Saurabh Chauhan

CEO

San Francisco, California, United States12 yrs 5 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Co-founded a fast-scaling AI startup.
Led successful business turnarounds in Southeast Asia.
Advised Fortune 500 clients on strategy and operations.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and E-commerce executive with strong operational and strategic leadership.

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Core Skills

Business StrategyManagementCorporate StrategyBusiness ManagementCorporate FinanceManagement Consulting

Other Skills

Strategic PlanningMarket ResearchFinancial AnalysisAnalyticsFinancial ModelingTeam ManagementSocial EntrepreneurshipEconomics

About

Saurabh is the Co-founder and CEO of Peakflo (YC W22), a fast-scaling AI startup automating back-office operations for 100+ enterprises across APAC and the US. From manufacturing and logistics to insurance, f&b, and IT, Peakflo’s AI agents streamline financial ops for some of the most operationally complex industries. The company raised US$4.1M in seed funding in 2022 and was selected for the Google AI Accelerator in Singapore in 2024, marking it as one of the most promising AI ventures in the region. Prior to Peakflo, Saurabh served as Managing Director at two Rocket Internet portfolio companies: Daraz.lk (2015–2017) — scaled operations leading up to its acquisition by Alibaba Group Vaniday (2018–2020) — led business turnaround across Southeast Asia Saurabh began his career as a consultant at McKinsey & Company, where he advised Fortune 500 clients on strategy and operations.

Experience

Peakflo

Founder & CEO

Jan 2021 – Present · 5 yrs 3 mos · Singapore

Management ConsultingBusiness StrategyStrategic PlanningMarket ResearchFinancial AnalysisAnalytics+3

Entrepreneur first

Founder in Residence

Jul 2020 – Jan 2021 · 6 mos · Singapore

Rocket internet se

Venture Group MD (2018-2020) | Venture Country MD (2015-2017)

Sep 2015 – Apr 2020 · 4 yrs 7 mos · Singapore, Sri Lanka

► Group Managing Director - Vaniday (2018-2020)
► Managing Director - Daraz Sri Lanka (2015-2017)

Daraz

Managing Director, Daraz.lk (Acquired by Alibaba)

Sep 2015 – Jun 2017 · 1 yr 9 mos · Sri Lanka, Singapore

► Acquired by Alibaba Group for US$200m
► Launched and built Daraz Sri Lanka (0->1). Daraz Group, backed by Rocket Internet, is one of the fastest growing marketplaces across 5 countries in South Asia.
► As the Country Manager for Daraz Sri Lanka, I built and led a 60 member team. Drove core corporate strategy, commercials, operations and P&L. Achieved 3x growth in GMV and NMV YoY and launched mega campaigns such as black friday in a frontier market in partnership with strategic brands such as Hutch and Unilever.

ManagementCorporate FinanceTeam ManagementBusiness StrategyCorporate StrategyBusiness Management

Mckinsey & company

Analyst

Aug 2013 – Sep 2015 · 2 yrs 1 mo · New Delhi Area, India

► Rated 'Distinctive' (Top 5 percentile) in my 2014 year-end performance review
► Worked on general aviation, industrial and retail client engagements with focus on GTM strategy, channel management and financing:
6 month strategy engagement with a fortune 500 client in the general aviation industry. For the duration of the engagement, worked in USA, Australia and Dubai to closely assess client operations and build a long term action plan geared towards scaling-up business and revamping the client’s sales excellence, channel management & financing strategy.
Charting the Asia-inbound growth strategy for a large European industrial equipment manufacturer. Synthesized GTM strategy for India & SEA
Expansion and corporate strategy for an e-commerce client. Defined launch imperatives and GTM for select markets.
► Contributed to knowledge development effort through the 'Winning in Indonesia' KIP, an initiative that provides strategic imperatives to MNC clients on how to win in the world's fourth largest market.

Management ConsultingBusiness StrategyFinancial Analysis