Jan 2024 – Present · 2 yrs 4 mos · Europe · On-site

• Building a community for startup & tech folks - founders, operators and investors.
• Berlin & India roots.
• EU & India wings.

Aug 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 9 mos · Remote

• Appreciate Capital is a sector agnostic, venture capital fund investing in the earliest (pre-seed, seed) stages of world-positive, gender smart companies.
• $2.5mn fund, investing early, with a typical cheque size of $100k.
• Portfolio:
• Athlos
• Neuralzome Cybernetics
• Careflick
• Basil
• Samosa Party
• NexStem
• RavenMail
• Sharang Shakti
• The Happy Company
• Cranberry.fit
• Aulerth
• Teleport
• Crediwatch

Mar 2023 – Jan 2025 · 1 yr 10 mos · Remote

• Credit Saison is a Tokyo-listed $30B AUM consumer finance company, and one of the largest credit card issuers in Japan. As a Saison scout (a part time engagement), I support the corporate venture arm where we do direct and fund of fund investments.
• Saison's direct investments include Grab (Largest startup in SEA), where we helped to build its Finance business unit, Shopback (Softbank/Temasek-backed), and other startups such as Ula (B2B E-commerce), Bukukas (Digital Bookkeeping), or Koinworks (SME Lending) .
• Find out more at www.saisoncapital.com

Sep 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 8 mos · Casablanca-Settat, Morocco · Hybrid

• On Day -1, as Larbi and Youssef were thinking about building in the agri-supply chain space, they reached out. What started as a few conversations sharing my perspectives and insights on the space, grew rapidly to an advisory role with the company from before it was even a company.

Jan 2021 – Dec 2023 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Remote

• Led revenue, strategy and new venture building at SHEROES

Jun 2020 – Sep 2020 · 3 mos

Mar 2019 – May 2020 · 1 yr 2 mos

• I drive strategy at Ninjacart - addressing problems of today and tomorrow.
• I lead the CEOs Office team, a team of go-getters and problem solvers with whom I do this.
• Ninjacart is India’s largest B2B fresh produce supply chain company. A pioneer in the tech driven supply chain space for fresh vegetables and fruits in India, Ninjacart has raised over $150mn from Tiger Global, Accel US, Accel India, Syngenta and others.
• Over the last 4 years, our made-for-India technology and India centric solutions have disrupted the way fruits and vegetables move from farms to consumers plate. Today, we source fruits and vegetables from farmers across 20+ Indian states and deliver to 17,000+ local kiranas and restaurants across 7 major cities, every day, in less than 12 hours.
• Our vision is to build India’s most efficient and largest supply chain company, improving the lives of producers, businesses & consumers in a meaningful manner.
• Our focus is to make the Ninjacart innovation more accessible and leverage our strengths to innovate for new product categories and customer segments while solving complex supply chain problems.

Jan 2019 – Present · 7 yrs 4 mos

• I've been actively investing since 2016 - initially via OperatorVC (a seed fund I founded & run) which has been deployed since; since early 2020 I invest in my personal capacity + syndicate larger rounds; and now I only invest via Appreciate Capital - the new fund I am building.
• SC
• Virtualness
• Binks
• Dubverse
• Dhruva (now Accacia)
• Ente
• Ecovia
• Wildermart
• Personal Investments
• Spark Studio
• Kawa Space
• Rivia
• Khyaal
• Airboxr
• SBNRI
• Kahani Box
• Earth Sense
• Minicircle
• Vama App
• Terry Sent Me!
• Basis
• Naario
• GoPaani
• NexSTEM
• OperatorVC Investments
• Invideo (exited)
• Goldcast
• Purple Style Labs [= Pernia's Pop Up Shop]
• Wealthy.in
• Yulu
• Remitr
• CoHo
• Skillenza
• CashKumar
• Akiva
• Bulbul apps
• Snackible
• My Advo
• 9stacks [shuttered]
• EDLP Retail (Zaroor) [shuttered]
• Syona Cosmetics [shuttered]

Jan 2019 – Jan 2024 · 5 yrs · India

• D2c Insider is the leading community of 5000+ digitally native brands founders and ecosystem enablers/investors.
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Jan 2016 – Jan 2025 · 9 yrs · India

• Fully deployed (as of '19) micro fund. DPI 3 | TVPI 4
• OperatorVC is an angel fund.
• Setup and run by a set of founders themselves (and thus the name Operator), OperatorVC is a sector agnostic fund.
• We weight the following highly on our investment decisions - team, unit economics, size of the opportunity. We believe in smart capital and strive to add significant additional value to our portfolio (access, mentorship…).

Feb 2015 – Dec 2018 · 3 yrs 10 mos · Noida Area, India

• Bold Kiln is a one stop shop solution provider for startups and entrepreneurs.
• We help startups across lifestages, right from when someone has a vague sense of an idea, to when they've raised $5-10Mn.
• Broadly the following buckets to what we do:
• Information: We collect, curate and create a lot of information of use to startups. E.g. a database of investors, tagged by ticket size, sectors, location with contact details; a repository of templates of document, contracts, excel models, presentations; a highly curated set of actionable insight+gyaan based reads and more
• Services: We can help you with whatever you need. We do a lot of design (branding + UI/UX), development (web+mobile), digital marketing inhouse. And we've vetted partners for your other needs (legal, accounting, PR, videos etc.)
• Products: Wherever we have a hypothesis on a product that can be useful for startups, we're working on building it.
• Investment: We invest (via a partner fund) at the angel-seed stage in startups with strong teams, a solid MVP, genuine traction and a ambitious + clear vision.
• Co-working: We'd love to have you and your team come co-work with us at our Noida office.
• It's a startup - so I do what's needed to be done, across the board.

May 2010 – Feb 2015 · 4 yrs 9 mos · Mumbai

• I joined Monitor in 2010 as a Consultant in the Mumbai office. I have worked with clients across sectors - Media, Auto and FMCG, Agrochemicals and multiple methodologies - Growth Path, Memory Matters etc.
• Most recently I worked with an MNC player in the agrochemicals space as part of developing the detailed pilot and implementation plan for a revamp of their Go To Market and Channel strategy in India, aspects of which are to be replicated as a model in other markets as well.
• Before this, I was working for an FMCG client for assessing market opportunities for a nascent product category. Prior to that, I was working with the same client for new product development and GTM strategy in a new market under the Memory Matters approach which required a lot of detailed qualitative and creative thinking.
• I was previously part of a nationwide project in the automotive space, for one of the key players in the Indian market, to enhance front-end capabilities through upgrading its existing dealership network. The team was working to optimize current performance, identify capabilities required to manage an expanded product portfolio in the medium-term and outline longer-term capability requirements for realizing a longer term vision.
• I have also done a long duration project in the Media & Entertainment space, managing a large and complex multi-year growth strategy and transformation initiatives for the client. I was a part of the team that developed a strategy for a client facing stagnant revenues in a growing market and has then helped the client implement the strategy over 18+ months. I have experience in organization restructuring and has worked with companies in growing their revenues and enhancing profitability.

Apr 2009 – Jun 2009 · 2 mos

• Complex commodities trading - Quoted dispersion prices to traders, developed new pricers for exotic products.
• Structured Rates trading - Built a generic pricer for rate swaps as a significant improvement over previous tool. Developed an index for a certain risk exposure. Worked on industry reports for the inflation linked bond market.

Apr 2008 – Aug 2008 · 4 mos

May 2007 – Jul 2007 · 2 mos

• Worked towards saving energy; made proposals (currently under implementation) to save INR 2.8 mn per annum

Jun 2006 – Jul 2006 · 1 mo

• Assisted the technical study, appraisal and study of the financing requirements for two projects

May 2006 – Jul 2006 · 2 mos

• Survey ­ Health Providers; CSR Possibilities, Delhi; Worked with this UN funded NGO to explore the nature of private health service providers in selected slums of
• North Delhi; Studied household income & expenditure patterns to guide program interventions

Apr 2006 – Jul 2007 · 1 yr 3 mos