Feb 2022 – Present · 4 yrs 2 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

• Metaverse-first company. Also built in Web3, Roblox, Sandbox and Decentraland. Launched a token. Developed by HustlPod, also led by Gaurav
• https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/funding/metaverse-gaming-platform-avatarlife-raises-1-5-million-from-info-edge-ventures-others/articleshow/101275657.cms?from=mdr
• https://www.entrepreneur.com/en-in/news-and-trends/metaverse-platform-avatarlife-raises-15-million-seed/454783

Aug 2020 – Feb 2022 · 1 yr 6 mos · New Delhi, Delhi, India

• Spent wonderful time at Bain
• Orchestrated funding in 10+ assets & funding amount of $1.5B+ through sector scans (health-tech, insurtech) to assess market landscape & differentiated models, and due-diligences across consumer tech., IT & B2B SaaS companies globally for PEs/HFs clients,
• Generated 150+ sales leads & 10+ sales worth $1M+ by optimising sales & GTM for 20+ portfolio cos. of a US HF
• Devised GTM & M&A strategy (inorganic growth worth $50M+) for a leading AI data-labelling player entering IDP in Logistics
• Developed international expansion strategy for a Europe based B2B wholesale marketplace
• Evaluated IT tech stack and capability maturity for a global alco-bev player to create their Asia IT strategy

Jun 2020 – Aug 2021 · 1 yr 2 mos · Delhi, India

• Productised tutoring service, onboarded 3 tutors & generated ~$35K in revenue
• Started a tutoring services company on Reddit to academically support domestic & international undergraduate and graduate students during Covid-19 pandemic.
• (The online set-up during covid particularly created a demand for one-to-one tutoring as students were not able to cope with online teaching and were falling behind academically)

Apr 2019 – May 2019 · 1 mo · New Delhi Area, India

• Offered a full-time role after a short stint with the Private Equity Group at Bain
• Evaluated two super interesting SaaS products for a global hedge fund client

Jan 2017 – Apr 2018 · 1 yr 3 mos · Gurgaon, India

• Fast track promotion to Senior Analyst position in 17 months (vs 24 months)
• Worked on projects in Healthcare, Real estate & Energy

Aug 2015 – Dec 2016 · 1 yr 4 mos · Gurgaon, India

• Conducted Due-diligence of an ortho. soft goods mfr. (Healthcare) & a spine & back clinic chain for deals worth 100 Cr
• Feasibility study for a luxury maternity chain to expand into North India
• Operatonalised a 400+ bed hospital for leading hospital chain in India- worked on pricing strategy, setting up hospital protocols, recruitment strategy, marketing strategy
• Conceptualised smart city (including tech. app) for a Bangalore based Real Estate player
• Diversification strategy for a 100B energy company

Jul 2014 – Dec 2014 · 5 mos · Bangalore

• Co-authored research paper in International peer-reviewed journal; Paper is titled "Structural and mechanical properties of reactively sputtered TiAlC nanostructured hard coatings" published in Surface and Coatings Technology
• Worked on developing and optimizing titanium aluminium carbide coatings for aerospace and automotive applications using indigenously developed four-cathode reactive DC unbalanced magnetron sputtering system at NAL.
• Carried out a total of 32 experiments varying 3 different parameters to analyse the effect of those parameters on the composition, mechanical properties and surface morphology of the coatings using various characterization techniques including XRD, XPS, FESEM, NHT.

May 2013 – Jul 2013 · 2 mos · Pune Area, India

• Department: Power Division.
• Small Business Unit: Medium Power Plants
• Worked on developing a computer-aided package for the engineering team using Advanced Microsoft Excel including VBA to help reduce the calculation time for chimney design.
• Went on further to include stack-wise analysis of steel chimneys to increase the scope of the developed package.
• The design time was significantly reduced