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Board Observer
Jun 2019
Founded in 2010, Cropin is a global Agtech pioneer who has built the worlds first purpose-built industry cloud for Agriculture - Cropin Cloud. Cropin Cloud enables various stakeholders in the agri-ecosystem to leverage digitization and predictive intelligence to make effective decisions that increase farming efficiency, scale productivity, manage risk and environmental changes and enhance sustainability. Cropin has partnered with over 250+ B2B customers and digitized 16 million acres of farmland, improving the livelihoods of more than 7 million farmers. Our work over the last decade has enabled us to spearhead a global Ag-intelligence movement with a crop knowledge graph of 500+ crops and 10000+ crop varieties in 92 countries that powers the Cropin Cloud. Cropin Clouds Intelligence platform has already computed and provided predictive intelligence for over 0.2 billion acres of farmlands across the globe.
Board Observer
May 2019
Vayana is Indias Largest Supply Chain Finance Platform offering a range of Trade credit and Trade enablement solutions for all the tiers of Supply Chains. Financing close to USD 42 Billion+ till date with over 3,00,000 enterprises across 3,000+ supply chains, Vayana is the preferred partner in supply chain finance. As an RBI licensed Payment Aggregator, Vayana operates as one of India’s largest B2B payment platforms.
Vayana connects corporates and their trade ecosystems to provide digital, convenient, and affordable access to credit for their payables and receivables. With its proprietary technology, Vayana has processed over 5 million financing transactions and offers a zero-change experience to customers. The network today spans across 600 cities and 2000+ pin codes in India and extends to 23 countries around the globe.
To enable credit flow to deep tiers of the supply chains, Vayana also offers risk assessment and monitoring solutions for supply chains. The company is increasingly catering to the smallest of MSMEs in the long tail of supply chains. Vayana is India’s largest GSP (GST Suvidha Provider), facilitating GST, E-Way bill filing and E-invoicing for numerous corporates and lakhs of SMEs. This platform has processed over 9 billion GSP API calls, with zero downtime since its launch with 1 in every 4 e-invoices being generated through Vayana.
To help businesses assess risk in their distribution networks and supply chains, Rubix Data Sciences, a Vayana group company, offers the award-winning Rubix ARMS™ Platform for monitoring credit, supplier, and counter-party risk of their customers, distributors, dealers, suppliers, and borrowers. 1300 corporates, banks, credit insurance companies, and fintechs depend on Rubix to annually assess and monitor the risk of over 300,000 businesses in India and overseas.
Furthering its objective of bringing Supply Chain Finance to every business, Vayana is one of the first entities to operationalise its ITFS platform.
Board Observer
May 2019
Bounce is Indias first smart mobility solution, with a mission of making daily commute stress-free, time-saving, reliable and convenient.
Heres how easy it is to bounce : Book a ride on the app, Pick up the bike, Enter the OTP, Ride to the destination and move on!
With a breakthrough technology that lets users access the bike with just an OTP, our state-of-the-art Keyless bikes, have not only done away with keys, but the whole process of renting a bike has just become devoid of any physical or human intervention.
Theres more than just this, to why we do what we do! We love the idea of being able to help bring people back to doing things that they love, like the ever-elusive guitar lessons or the family dinner at the dining table, by saving them the time that they spend on commuting.
With the keyless bikes, we are taking on the problems around commute, one city at a time. With a team of super-passionate people and some great ideas, we are riding towards becoming the most preferred mode of commute and changing the way people commute!
Board Observer
Mar 2019
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Tripoto is a Consumer Internet Company building the world's largest community of travelers. We aim to solve problems covering the entire lifecycle of a travel consumer with user generated content and community being the core of our product.
Tripoto aims to evolve Travel User Generated Content (UGC) beyond just reviews. We are making travel UGC more long form (itinerary), social, mobile, interactive, personalised and enriched using technology.
The company was founded by Alumni from IIT Delhi and the Indian School of Business. It is backed and funded by IDG Ventures, Outbox Ventures, Founders of SnapDeal, MakeMytrip, and early team members of Whatsapp. Some of our current partners and clients include Airbnb, Yatra, Booking.com, Cox&Kings, SOTC.
Board Observer
Mar 2019
LBB is Indias favourite lifestyle guide to discover & explore #SomethingDifferent. With LBB, you can:
> ACCESS new brands & products in Fashion, Home, Beauty & more
> READ & watch expert recommendations and reviews
> EXPERIENCE the best of local life through our City Guides
> WIN Giveaways, Freebies and try new brands and products
> ATTEND Curated Events
> EXPLORE curated shops
Over 20 million urban millennials trust LBB for its curation & recommendations. From celebrity home tours to influencer style tips to inspire you, LBB’s got the best of lifestyle finds for you.
LBB has raised over 7 Million USD from Indias Top Investors such Chiratae Ventures, Athera Ventures, Blume Ventures & tech stalwarts like Rajan Anandan, Niraj Singh, Sachin Bhatia. In 2022, LBB was successfully acquired by Nykaa, Indias premier lifestyle (Beauty, Fashion, Home) retailer.
LBB continues to operate and grow independently.
Board Observer
Feb 2019
Peel-Works Private Limited was founded in 2010 to bridge the vast gaps in the Indian retail space with the help of intelligent and intuitive technology coupled with impeccable services. We pride ourselves on a decade-long understanding of the Indian Cornerstore market, which has helped us identify and offer practical solutions to the problems retailers and consumer goods companies face.
1SF: Salesforce management services division of Peel-Works that connects contractual sales teams with the vision and ambition of the company. Since 2010, we have offered comprehensive solutions for performance management of indirect salesforce via a highly experienced team of professionals and a proprietary cloud-based platform. Over these years, we have worked with leading brands from across various categories including FMCG, content distribution providing platforms, OTT, restaurant aggregator and food delivery, cosmetology, and many more.
Greyhound: We are a distribution company. We offer features of modern distribution and a comprehensive solution ready as appropriate for the customers. We help distribution companies to lease portions of a current distribution chain from us - logistics, sales staff, warehousing, and other modules.
Taikee: ISO-certified AI/ML-powered, highly intuitive, and user-friendly android mobile application which is a one-stop shop for Kirana store owners for all their store needs. It is a B2B ECommerce platform that makes it convenient for traditional grocery retailers to source a wide assortment at low prices through a single app instead of interacting with salespeople of multiple brands. Taikee solves inventory management, out of stock and working capital issues for retailers by assuring next day delivery, thus empowering them to offer their consumers a delightful shopping experience.
Having crossed several milestones, Peel-works continues to stay committed to providing #betterlives to India's #cornerstores.
Board Observer
Jan 2019
We want to build Earth’s best intracity logistics company, by solving the toughest problems for our customers. We provide innovative logistics solutions for a wide variety of customers, ranging from large e-commerce companies to small convenience stores and even individuals.
Organisations, large and small, are using Blowhorn for both their regular and cutting edge logistics requirements.
Board Observer
Nov 2018
POPxo creates stories, videos and social media content about the things young Indian women care about. We talk about everything from fashion and beauty to weddings and work. We even talk about sex, from a female perspective.
We run the popular POPxo.com website and are huge on social media (check us out on Facebook, Instagram and YouTube). We also have iOS and Android apps where users post without filters, and without judgments - asking and answering questions and creating a community for like-minded girls.
POPxo was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Gurugram.
Board Observer
Oct 2018
Policybazaar.com is one of Indias leading online insurance platforms. It is the flagship platform of PB Fintech, which owns the fintech brand, Paisabazaar.com, and the lending & insurance marketplace in the UAE region, Policybazaar.ae. The Policybazaar.com Group has backing from a host of investors including the likes of PE funds and other family offices. Policybazaar.com started with the purpose to educate people on insurance products and with its offerings has addressed the large and highly underpenetrated online insurance markets.
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Feb 2023
Gushwork builds complex AI marketing agents to help small and medium businesses get inbound leads from AI search engines like Gemini, ChatGPT, Claude and Perplexity
2019
Associate
Aug 2019
Chiratae Ventures India Advisors is a leading India-focused technology venture capital fund. The funds advised by Chiratae Ventures India Advisors collectively have over $1.3 B under AUM across 7 funds, with 4 IPOs, 8 Unicorns and 56 Exits. Chiratae has invested in over 130+ companies across sectors including ConsumerTech, FinTech, HealthTech, DeepTech, SaaS, and others.
Board Observer
Jun 2019
Founded in 2010, Cropin is a global Agtech pioneer who has built the worlds first purpose-built industry cloud for Agriculture - Cropin Cloud. Cropin Cloud enables various stakeholders in the agri-ecosystem to leverage digitization and predictive intelligence to make effective decisions that increase farming efficiency, scale productivity, manage risk and environmental changes and enhance sustainability. Cropin has partnered with over 250+ B2B customers and digitized 16 million acres of farmland, improving the livelihoods of more than 7 million farmers. Our work over the last decade has enabled us to spearhead a global Ag-intelligence movement with a crop knowledge graph of 500+ crops and 10000+ crop varieties in 92 countries that powers the Cropin Cloud. Cropin Clouds Intelligence platform has already computed and provided predictive intelligence for over 0.2 billion acres of farmlands across the globe.
Board Observer
May 2019
Vayana is Indias Largest Supply Chain Finance Platform offering a range of Trade credit and Trade enablement solutions for all the tiers of Supply Chains. Financing close to USD 42 Billion+ till date with over 3,00,000 enterprises across 3,000+ supply chains, Vayana is the preferred partner in supply chain finance. As an RBI licensed Payment Aggregator, Vayana operates as one of India’s largest B2B payment platforms.
Vayana connects corporates and their trade ecosystems to provide digital, convenient, and affordable access to credit for their payables and receivables. With its proprietary technology, Vayana has processed over 5 million financing transactions and offers a zero-change experience to customers. The network today spans across 600 cities and 2000+ pin codes in India and extends to 23 countries around the globe.
To enable credit flow to deep tiers of the supply chains, Vayana also offers risk assessment and monitoring solutions for supply chains. The company is increasingly catering to the smallest of MSMEs in the long tail of supply chains. Vayana is India’s largest GSP (GST Suvidha Provider), facilitating GST, E-Way bill filing and E-invoicing for numerous corporates and lakhs of SMEs. This platform has processed over 9 billion GSP API calls, with zero downtime since its launch with 1 in every 4 e-invoices being generated through Vayana.
To help businesses assess risk in their distribution networks and supply chains, Rubix Data Sciences, a Vayana group company, offers the award-winning Rubix ARMS™ Platform for monitoring credit, supplier, and counter-party risk of their customers, distributors, dealers, suppliers, and borrowers. 1300 corporates, banks, credit insurance companies, and fintechs depend on Rubix to annually assess and monitor the risk of over 300,000 businesses in India and overseas.
Furthering its objective of bringing Supply Chain Finance to every business, Vayana is one of the first entities to operationalise its ITFS platform.
Board Observer
May 2019
Bounce is Indias first smart mobility solution, with a mission of making daily commute stress-free, time-saving, reliable and convenient.
Heres how easy it is to bounce : Book a ride on the app, Pick up the bike, Enter the OTP, Ride to the destination and move on!
With a breakthrough technology that lets users access the bike with just an OTP, our state-of-the-art Keyless bikes, have not only done away with keys, but the whole process of renting a bike has just become devoid of any physical or human intervention.
Theres more than just this, to why we do what we do! We love the idea of being able to help bring people back to doing things that they love, like the ever-elusive guitar lessons or the family dinner at the dining table, by saving them the time that they spend on commuting.
With the keyless bikes, we are taking on the problems around commute, one city at a time. With a team of super-passionate people and some great ideas, we are riding towards becoming the most preferred mode of commute and changing the way people commute!
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