Sidharth Rao

Co-Founder

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India27 yrs 5 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Entrepreneur with over two decades of experience.
  • Founded multiple successful internet businesses in India.
  • Active angel investor in various startups.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a seasoned entrepreneur and investor in the digital marketing and startup ecosystem.

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About

Entrepreneur since 1998. Proud founder of a couple of really spectacular internet businesses in India. And then, at least 2x number of equally spectacular turkeys. And after 2 decades of all this chaos, still in the hunt and loving it.

Experience

27 yrs 5 mos
Total Experience
7 yrs
Average Tenure
13 yrs 5 mos
Current Experience

Punt_partners

Co-Founder

Sep 2022Present · 3 yrs 9 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

  • Building @Punt-Partners

Dentsu mcgarrybowen group india

Group Chief Executive Officer

Jul 2021Sep 2022 · 1 yr 2 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

  • The dentsuMB Group consists of a cluster of Dentsu agencies in India that include Dentsu Webchutney, Taproot Dentsu, Dentsu One, Dentsu India, and Dentsu Impact with over 650 people with a presence in New Delhi / NCR, Mumbai, Bangalore, Chennai, and Kochi.

Dentsu webchutney

2 roles

Chairman

Jan 2020Sep 2022 · 2 yrs 8 mos · Mumbai Metropolitan Region

  • Full-service digital marketing firm with over 330 people across Delhi, Bombay and Bangalore. Economic Times, India's leading Business Daily Ranked us as the Number 1 Digital Agency in India of the Year 8 times in a row. Webchutney raised financing from Capital18, the PE arm of Network18 in 2008. In May 2013, Dentsu Aegis Network acquired Webchutney. Dentsu Webchutney was the most-awarded Indian agency at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity in 2019 and 2021. Webchutney was also the global agency of the year at Cannes in 2022.

CEO and Co-Founder

Jul 1999Jan 2020 · 20 yrs 6 mos · Mumbai Metropolitan Region

Angel investor

Angel Investor

Jan 2013Present · 13 yrs 5 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

  • ScoopWhoop
  • Invideo
  • LoanZen
  • Register Book
  • Everpret
  • Mojocare
  • Pepper Content
  • VS Mani
  • Adaptive
  • CoHo
  • CrudeArea (acqui-hired)
  • FITH (acqui-hired)
  • Voxapp (shut down)
  • LocalOye (shut down)

Networkplay.in

Director

Apr 2008Mar 2012 · 3 yrs 11 mos

  • Webchutney Incubated NetworkPlay in late 2008. Within a year of launch, it became the largest brand adnetwork with partnerships with premium websites offering ad inventory like Linkedin, Bookmyshow.com, Makemytrip.com. Gruner + Jahr, a Bertelsmann company acquired NetworkPlay in Mar 2012.

Juxtconsult

Director

Jan 2005Jan 2012 · 7 yrs

  • Webchutney incubated JuxtConsult, India's pioneering ‘syndicated’ and ‘online’ research firm. In 2012 JuxtConsult was spun off as an independent firm and it further merged with Smart Mandate, a peer in the industry.

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Intern

Apr 1998Oct 1998 · 6 mos · Greater Delhi Area

Education

College Drop Out...

Jan 1997Jan 1997