Tarun Davda — CEO
Tarun is an entrepreneur turned VC. He’s been fortunate to have got the opportunity to build and lead two Internet businesses in India. With over a decade of experience in the trenches, he enjoys partnering with promising entrepreneurs and using his experience to help them nurture, grow and flourish their business. Tarun has operating experience across a variety of functional areas including strategy, operations, marketing, business development and product management. He’s been around the block a few times and this has given him a deep appreciation of what it takes to create and run a successful Internet business in India. Prior to Z47, Tarun was the Co-founder, India CEO and Board Member at StepOut.com, a venture-backed startup. Under his leadership, StepOut became India’s #1 online dating site with over 5 Million users. He setup the India operations, built the team, transformed the product and brand to suit the Indian market and eventually took it to a stage where it could be monetized. StepOut was acquired by IAC / Match.com (NASDAQ:IACI) in September 2013. Before that, Tarun established BigRock.com (incubated by the Directi group) - India’s #1 provider of domain name registration and other web services. As business head, he built the business ground-up including setting up the product, striking important offline partnerships, running a hugely successful TV-ad campaign and scaling the team. BigRock and other Directi entities were acquired by Endurance International (NASDAQ:EIGI) for $110 Million in January 2014. Tarun started his career as a developer at Infosys where he was responsible for providing IT consulting and outsourcing services to Fortune-100 US clients. During this time, he gained extensive business development experience in the North American market and was instrumental in winning and executing a $25 Million deal. Tarun is an MBA from the Indian School of Business (ISB), Hyderabad and an Engineer from VJTI, Bombay.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a B2C SaaS and eCommerce investment expert with extensive operational experience.
Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Experience: 24 yrs 4 mos
Skills
- Business Development
- Investment Strategy
- Product Management
- Marketing Strategy
- Project Management
Career Highlights
- Led India's #1 online dating site to 5 million users.
- Achieved 9x revenue growth in 4 months at StepOut.
- Secured a $25M outsourcing deal with a Fortune-500 client.
Work Experience
Z47
Managing Director (1 yr 10 mos)
Matrix Partners India
Managing Director (11 yrs 10 mos)
StepOut.com (acquired by IAC/Match.com)
Co-founder & India CEO; Board Member (1 yr 2 mos)
BigRock.com (acquired by Endurance International)
General Manager & Business Head (2 yrs)
Directi
Director - Strategy & Business Development (2 yrs)
Infosys Technologies Ltd
Project Manager - Insurance & Healthcare vertical (7 yrs 6 mos)
Education
Post Graduate Programme in Management at Indian School of Business
Bachelor of Engineering at VJTI, Mumbai
