Experience

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  Ankur Capital Fund

  • Mumbai Area, India

  • Investment Analyst

    • May 2016 - Nov 2018
    • Mumbai Area, India

    Worked with the investment team at Ankur Capital, an early stage venture capital fund based in Mumbai. Ankur invests in technologies and product innovations in agriculture, healthcare, education and other areas with potential to create large scale impact. My work at Ankur Capital predominantly involved :- > Actively scouting for early stage startups; initiating conversations with entrepreneurs; analyzing business propositions; building a case & presenting to the investment committee; carrying pre-deal and post-deal diligence > Researching on upcoming business horizontals in Agri-tech and Fin-tech domains to progressively build Ankur’s investment thesis

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  AgroScann Technologies

  • Mumbai Area, India

  • Co-Founder

    • May 2015 - Mar 2016
    • Mumbai Area, India

    Begun as an academic project, eventually leading to my first entrepreneurial journey; AgroScann is a mobile app built for farmers with a mission to provide personalized agronomy support

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  Student Alumni Relations Cell, IIT Bombay

  • India
  • Education Administration Programs
  • 1 - 100 Employee

  • Overall Coordinator | Positions of Responsibility

    • Mar 2015 - Mar 2016

    Led a team of 17 uber-cool core team members, 30 secretaries and 100 volunteers to strengthen institute-alumni relations. Was the only student member in Board of Directors, IITB Alumni Association representing interest of 8000+ students. > Revamped the existing alumni outreach channels to increase the efficiency of engagements that resulted in a 100% Y-o-Y increase in the alumni endowments > Executed 6 Institute alumni reunions (vs. 4 in the previous year); celebrated by 800+ alumni > Jointly organized Yale-IIT Alumni Leadership Conference; attended by 50+ Yale and IIT alumni

  • Core Team Member | Events & Operations

    • Apr 2014 - Mar 2015

    Was part of events team in SARC, to conceptualize and execute student-alumni events. > Introduced dynamic events in Student Alumni Meet 4.0 based on the feedback from student community, that witnessed a 50% y-o-y increase in the crowd footfall

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  Citi

  • Mumbai Area, India

  • Analyst | Summer Internship

    • Apr 2015 - Aug 2015
    • Mumbai Area, India

    Worked with team HCRA on advanced human capital analytical projects involving predictive analytics and data mining. Received a letter of appreciation from the VP, Citi Bank in recognition of ownership taken to drive the projects! > Formulated a white paper on “Top 10 organizational KPI’s companies should keep track“ to assess the performance of human capital in the firm; quantified these KPIs for Citi India vis a vis peers in the industry > Projected the headcounts, hires and attrition for all the businesses in Citi India using Forward curve method; utilized historical monthly attrition and hiring rates to forecast in order to remove seasonality factors