Investment Manager

• Sep 2023 - Present

JAFCO Asia is one of the oldest and largest VC investors in Asia with >$2Bn in AUM. Currently focused on Seed to Series-B stage investing in India/SEA. Reach out to me at - aishwary.thakur@jafcoasia.com JAFCO Asia is one of the oldest and largest VC investors in Asia with >$2Bn in AUM. Currently focused on Seed to Series-B stage investing in India/SEA. Reach out to me at - aishwary.thakur@jafcoasia.com

Investment Professional

• Mar 2022 - Aug 2023

Deals -During my tenure worked on 2 deals - CBREX (WBV led the Pre-Series A round) and BimaKavach (WBV led the Seed round) - and performed fundamental research, market sizing, financial analysis, Tech-DD, competitor analysis, etc Sourcing -Built outbound sourcing playbooks for WaterBridge to improve the quality of sourcing across sectors (primarily HealthCare, B2B SaaS/Deeptech, and Consumer-Tech) over multiple quarters handling around 20% of sourcing volume Portfolio Work (BFSI, Edtech, ConsumerTech, Gaming) -Conducted sector-scoping, market-sizing, competitor analysis, and ecosystem building Identified synergies and worked with portfolio companies on follow-on fundraising Strategized company-specific initiatives to enhance performance. (Bitclass, Downtown Club, YellowMetal, Fairside Stories) Thesis Building & Knowledge Management -Led founder conversations, conducted sector-specific research, and developed quantitative and qualitative models to build dedicated theses on Marketing-Tech and Sales-Tech (SaaS) Created quarterly reports for industry benchmarking around founders, funds, and deals to present to the entire team which helped sharpen the investment lens Institution Initiatives Conceptualized, created, and published fund-level insights and thought-ware across social media Show less

Associate

• Jul 2021 - Feb 2022

Helped a Fortune 500 healthcare company realize revenue growth by optimizing their salesplanning and generating critical data-driven insights across segments such as on-fieldsalesforce analysis,supply-demand analysis, market analysis, employee training, etc.Also helped ZS in business development by launching and capturing new industry verticalslike finance and compliance in the client space as part of a pilot team of 6.

Business Associate

• Jan 2021 - Jul 2021

Used big data tools such as PySpark, AWS EMR, MySQL for prescriptive analytics; wroteoptimized SQL and python scripts ran them on AWS EC2 clusters, extracted/createdcritical business intelligence reports from existing data sources, and providedperformance tracking insights to the client sales and marketing team. Used and worked on Airflow,JIRA,AWS EC2 etc

Co-Founder

• Jun 2019 - Jan 2021

Utily was an online B2C and C2C based rental e-commerce platform in three rental categories namely musical equipment, photography equipment, and outdoor sports equipment. Designed the website and an ML computer vision model (image-recognition system) using OS frameworks to verify product quality without human intervention. Designed the DAG system to hold these images and show the product's rental lineage and legitimacy Partnered up with 40+ stores across Bangalore to serve as supply partners and product quality verification partners. Created a managed marketplace for a B2C side and created a strong reverse logistics system to enable C2C renting. Gained more than 200 customers in the pilot month with 0 marketing spend. Also raised angel investment as a part of the pre-seed round. Show less

Undergraduate Researcher - Crucible of Research and Innovation (CORI)

• Jan 2019 - Jun 2019