Jun 2025 – Present · 1 yr

• Early, Pre-Seed, Seed and Series-A Investments
• Sectors including - B2B/SaaS, E-commerce, Ed-Tech, Fintech, Health-Tech, D2C
• Founder and Investor Calls
• Startup Advisory and Consulting
• Investments via FirstPort Capital

Jul 2021 – Apr 2023 · 1 yr 9 mos

• Plan, develop and lead projects based around key products and initiatives ensuing timely delivery, within budget and meeting project goals and vision.
• Analyse and solve moderately complex problems, create new solutions, leveraging and adapting existing methods and procedures.
• Effectively manage multiple projects, monitoring progress and ensuring completion within planned timelines.
• Collaborate and work with multiple stakeholders in the business at all levels to meet their needs and ensure success in the implementation and project delivery.
• Mobilize and coordinate efforts between various business teams and project stakeholders to work together effectively and accurately.
• Actively assess and manage risks in the project to ensure success.
• Drive and support the PMO( Project Management Office) and other senior project stakeholders in driving their projects and workstreams, reporting to PMO.
• Driving change management and communication management initiatives for assigned projects.
• Drive daily project management activities including meetings, discussions, regular project status updates and project team meetings.
• Make business presentations and necessary reports(Adherence, Variance, Project scope, delivery etc) and maintain transparent engagement with internal stakeholders.
• Prepare data-driven KPIs to monitor projects and evaluate impact and effectiveness.
• Prepare analytical reports and support the PMO function and Business Units (BU) with recommendable action.
• Plan to mitigate organisational risks and blockers.

Jun 2020 – Jun 2021 · 1 yr

• Building and mentoring a team of associates, which involves following up and giving feedback to ensure tasks are of expected quality and on time.
• Brainstorming and researching to generate new product ideas, driving collaboration with designers and engineers to get products ready to ship.
• Conceptualizing project scope and timelines, creating and assessing processes for the same and identifying and flagging blockers.
• Researching and identifying learning strategies for students of all backgrounds and cognitive abilities.
• Deciding and development of criteria to judge and enhance user's engagement and performance.
• Designing and conducting regular training sessions and process expertise for the team.
• Working closely with the end-users, chalking out the requirements, finding a product market fit, and illustrating the consumer demands into technical specifications.
• Improved productivity of client stakeholder management upto 2x by implementing Salesforce CRM to aid user adoption.
• Reduced Turn-Around-Time (TAT) for SLA to 15 mins from 24 hours prioritising customer inquiries and resolving product and service issues.
• Increased acquisition and retention of customers upto 60% by continually analysing business metrics and industry insights and measuring post implementation success of technical upgrades with user acceptance testing (UAT) driving change management.

Jun 2019 – May 2020 · 11 mos

• Maintaining and Managing the work tracking system for the entire team.
• Optimising the team efficiency with respect to the output of each individual and analysing the optimal use of that resource.
• Team co-ordination and follow-ups.Interacting with the entire team to deliver the project.
• Innovate with existing work structure to optimise output via data analytics.
• Designed product roadmaps while leading product strategy and delivered organization-wide presentations to senior management by displaying strong communication, interpersonal and cross-group collaboration skills in a fast-paced time-critical environment.
• Worked independently on client/market research for 8 educational products - Vidyartha, DSSL, Snapbook-feature, D4, BTLA, BYJUs Lab, IVL(Integrated/Interactive Video Layer),Goggles to develop product strategy.
• Spearheaded merger transition for three acquisitions - Toppr, WhiteHatJr, Digital Aristotle by actively engaging with internal and external business stakeholders and end-users.
• Increased process output by 60% by working cross-functionally on face-to-face customer interactions, customer surveys, email bursts, A/B testing across project management phases for conducting market surveys and competitor analysis.

Jan 2019 – May 2019 · 4 mos

• Dashboarding and Reporting - Adherence Reports, Variance Analysis and A/B Testing.
• Conceptualized launch of innovative customer-centric EdTech Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) products/platforms by writing product specs and test cases to address critical business challenges faced in building the best product-market fit.
• Enhanced customer experience by 83% with active feedback dashboards built working in partnership with the sales team and other cross functional team members for analyzing client data on customer points for reviewing and resolving intricate business issues.

May 2018 – Jul 2018 · 2 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

• Embedded microprocessor projects.
• Code burns in Intel 8085, Intel 8086 Microcontrollers.