Jul 2025 – Nov 2025 · 4 mos

• Stint 4: Rural Acquisition

May 2024 – Jun 2025 · 1 yr 1 mo

• Stint 1: Central DAU RCA
• Stint 2: Regional Playbook
• Stint 3: Habit Formation & User Retention

May 2024 – Jul 2024 · 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Jun 2023 – Apr 2024 · 10 mos · Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India · On-site

• Started a new organisation on campus with the vision to instill 'build' culture on campus.
• The goal is to help insti junta build something that people want and our willing to pay for.
• We help insti folks build using nocode tools. The only metric that we look out for is, " How many teams launched their products in market successfully and moved beyond the deck"

May 2023 – Sep 2023 · 4 mos · Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India · On-site

• Another inflection point... I was part of a team which was recently acquired by them. Got opportunity to work with the founders (acquired startup's) directly and build products from 0 to 1.
• Built a secured credit card stack ( CC against FD ) & a Digital Underwriting Stack. Which was also launched in GFF'23.

Jul 2022 – Mar 2023 · 8 mos

• Inflection point in my career... got driver seat exposure to the industry. Truly understood the importance of good research and network.
• Spent lot of time doing DD in Fintech & SaaS Space. Later went on to explore ClimateTech.

Apr 2022 – Feb 2023 · 10 mos · Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

• Went from 1 to 10!
• Made the dream an reality, enter InternFair as a product. Built a full stack platform for hiring. Removed grunt work and eliminated literally every manual processes.
• Scaled operations from chennai to 6 metro cities.
• Scaled activities from 5 to 18 and formalised the concept of products as initiatives.
• Also our revenue multiplied by 2x, startup engagement by some 3.4x and we had over 25+ VC partnerships.
• All thanks to my lovely & dedicated team!

May 2021 – Apr 2022 · 11 mos · Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

• My Startup & VC 101.
• Introduced the concept of productising our work - we did internfair largely using gsheets and lot of grunt work & some events here and there largely focused on investments.
• One cool thing was SSP(Startup Service Program) which gave us an opportunity to work with startups and help them go 0 to 1.

Jul 2021 – Sep 2021 · 2 mos · Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

• Another startup experience. Completely out of comfort zone but loved it

May 2021 – Jun 2022 · 1 yr 1 mo · Thane, Maharashtra, India

• Started out, aim was to organise the adventure toursim market in India.
• 250+ paying customers, 4 pilots and few pivots.
• Recognised as 2nd best Startup in IIT Madras' 2020-21
• 2nd in Startup Series Conducted by E-Cell, IIT Madras
• Failed to scale up and eventually had to shut down. Lost lot of money in the third wave.
• Major learnings:
• Team building and cofounder dynamics are very important. Invest lot of time in understanding and choosing your team.
• 100 customers want 1000 things, if you try fulfilling everything you will end up satisfying none. Priortisation is key
• Spend time with your power users, understand not just their problem but how they think, live and operate.
• Having cashflow's early on always helps

May 2021 – Sep 2021 · 4 mos · Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India

• First experience working with startups