Rajat Sood

Managing Director at Goldman Sachs

📍 Mumbai, Maharashtra, India🔄 Updated September 2026💼 9 investments📅 8 years investing🗓 Last invested Nov 2025
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Board Member
Feb 2023
InsuranceDekho is one of India’s fastest-growing organisations, reshaping the future of insurance by delivering inclusive financial protection at scale to individuals and businesses across Bharat. With a robust omnichannel model that seamlessly integrates AI-powered technology, the platform ensures personalised onboarding, efficient servicing & dependable support throughout the customer journey. Operating across ~1,500 cities and covering 98% of Indian pincodes, InsuranceDekho is supported by 20 offices and a network of over 2.74 lakh+ partners. To date, it has insured 12,000+ businesses & continues to expand its reach across the country. Our growing portfolio spans motor, health, life, travel, pet & corporate insurance, offering 740+ plans from 49 insurers, enabled by a specialised team and a tech-driven service infrastructure enabling insurance for all by 2047 https://pos.insurancedekho.com/?utm_source=Social&utm_medium=linkedin&utm_campaign=ID-Linkedin-AccountDescription
late stageInsurance
Board Member
May 2021
Aragen is a trusted R&D and manufacturing partner to the global life sciences industry. From concept to commercial, we transform your ideas into solutions for better health. Whether large pharma or biotech, an agrochemical or animal health company, we provide you global resources and proven capabilities at every stage of the biopharma lifecycle, in small and large molecules. Our ability to offer end-to-end solutions or support standalone programs is underpinned by an innovation mindset, enabling technologies, and a partnership approach to every engagement. At Aragen, we recognize your work is vital, urgent and impacts lives. Our purpose, ‘In every molecule is the possibility for better health’ motivates us to drive the success of your programs, so that we can together transform hope into health for millions of people around the world.
Board Member
Aug 2020
Noveltech Feeds was established with the motto ‘Nutrition for everyone, everyday, everywhere’. We believe that quality of food (animal protein) begins with quality of feed. Hence, the need to create a world where people pay more attention to the food they consume. We help farmers to increase their income by providing excellent feed, technical and non-technical services including latest market information. Our journey started with a dream to provide the best animal feed to farmers. As we moved along this path, we were fortunate to be joined by partners who believed and shared our same vision. With our partners, we look forward to jointly achieve greater heights and milestones. Across all our units, we are bound together with a common goal - timely supply of consistent high-quality nutrition. Hence, we make continuous improvements in quality of our feed by incorporating the best technology along with our ground-level market study. Noveltech Feeds Private Limited is a Goldman Sachs invested Company in Animal Nutrition Sector and market leader in Commercial Poultry Feed . Headquartered at Mumbai the Company has 16 manufacturing units across the country with an all encompassing dealer / distributor network which caters to all customer segments .
Board Member
Aug 2020
Ambareesh Murty and Ashish Shah embarked on a journey called Pepperfry in 2011 without a precedent or a template to follow, armed only with a mission to spark a feeling called home across the world. They imagined a supercharged lovechild between technology and homely comfort to help them achieve exactly this. 11 years later with a dominant online presence and over 200 offline studios, Pepperfry has blurred the lines between online and offline. Warm and fuzzy feelings aside - Pepperfry is a pioneer with a penchant for taking on difficult problems. Whether its designing a sofa that can survive a nuclear apocalypse or creating a lamp that doubles as a margarita maker or creating Indias biggest big-box logistic network covering over 500+ cities, weve always tried to push the boundaries of whats possible. Weve long embraced and injected our eclectic tastes and quirky personality into everything we do. Fun fact: Our 200 offline studios dont actually sell anything, yet they contribute to 50% of the business. And when were not MacGyver-ing the furniture world, were looking to use technology to change the way our discerning customers shop for their homes, be it through reimagining the overall UX on how our discerning consumers buy for their homes or leveraging AR / VR to help them visualize products before buying or just using ML / Deep tech to build efficiencies in our internal processes.
Board Member
Nov 2018
KFintech serves the mission-critical needs of asset managers with clients spanning mutual funds, AIFs (alternative investments), pension, wealth managers and corporates in India and abroad. The company provides SaaS based end-to-end transaction management, channel management, compliance solutions, data analytics and various other digital services to asset managers across segments, as well as outsourcing services for global players.
Board Observer
Oct 2018
BYJU’S is a global ed-tech company, providing highly adaptive, engaging and effective learning solutions to more than 150 million students around the world. Founded in India in 2011, BYJU’S mission is to make high-quality learning accessible to students everywhere. The BYJU’S family of brands includes Disney-BYJU’S Early Learn, BYJU’S Future School, Epic!, Osmo, Tynker, Toppr and WhiteHat Jr, along with our beloved flagship product BYJU’S – The Learning App. Together, BYJU’S solutions support Pre-K – 12 education and a wide range of competitive exams. BYJU’S delivers a world-class learning experience with tools that sit at the cross-section of mobile, interactive content and personalized learning methodologies. BYJU’S geography-agnostic solutions and 12,000+ teachers make learning engaging, with visual and contextual programs that adapt to the unique learning style, skill level and pace of each student. In addition, we have innovative partnerships with some of the world’s leading companies, including Disney and Google, to drive engagement and help even more students become active and lifelong learners. BYJU’S is backed by blue-chip investors including the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, Sequoia Capital, Bond Capital, Silver Lake, BlackRock, Sands Capital Management, Alkeon Capital Management, Sofina, Verlinvest, Tencent, Prosus (previously Naspers Ventures), CPPIB, General Atlantic, Tiger Global, Qatar Investment Authority, Owl Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Times Internet, Aarin Capital and IFC. Since 2017, we have completed more than 15 acquisitions, including companies in the U.S., UK, Austria, India and Singapore. A 2021 Time 100 Most Influential Company, BYJU’S is headquartered in India, with operations in more than 21 countries globally and learning programs in multiple languages. For additional information, please visit www.byjus.com.
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2025
Board Member
Nov 2025
MoEngage is an agentic customer engagement platform for the customer-obsessed marketers and product owners. We help you delight your customers and retain them for longer. With MoEngage, you can analyze customer behavior and engage them with personalized communication across the web, mobile, and email. MoEngage is a full-stack solution consisting of powerful customer analytics, AI-powered customer journey orchestration, and personalization - in one dashboard From Fortune 500 enterprises such as Deutsche Telekom, Samsung, and Ally to mobile-first brands such as Flipkart, OLA, and bigbasket, MoEngage has helped amplify customer engagement for all. Product managers and growth marketers can use MoEngage to deliver a personalized experience across the customer lifecycle – from onboarding to retention to growth. What makes MoEngage different is a full-stack solution consisting of powerful customer analytics, AI-powered customer journey orchestration, and personalization capabilities - in one dashboard.
Board Member
Apr 2025
PeopleStrong is Asia’s leading, and the most comprehensive Human Capital Management SaaS platform. Backed by Goldman Sachs Alternatives, the HR technology company focuses on delivering a unique employee experience, data-driven decision-making, and agility for businesses. Voted as a Great Place to Work, PeopleStrong has simplified worklife at over 500+ large enterprises across the emerging economies of Asia Pacific, empowering the lives of 2 million+ employees with a mobile-first, AI and ML-powered talent operating system. Their tech capabilities span across the employee lifecycle from hire to exit, including Human Capital Management, Payroll, Talent Acquisition & Management, and Collaboration. PeopleStrong is rated among the Top 5 in the Asia Pacific at Gartner’s Peer Insights and voted as Customers’ Choice of HR Tech in the Gartner ‘Voice of Customer’ Report for 1000+ employee enterprises for 3 consecutive years (2022, 2023 & 2024). It is also awarded as the Solution Provider of the Year by Economic Times Human Capital Awards and HR Tech Provider of the Year Gold at People Matters InfiniT Awards 2025. PeopleStrong is also the highest-rated HCM app globally with 4.8 star ratings on the Play Store and appstore.
2023
Board Member
Feb 2023
InsuranceDekho is one of India’s fastest-growing organisations, reshaping the future of insurance by delivering inclusive financial protection at scale to individuals and businesses across Bharat. With a robust omnichannel model that seamlessly integrates AI-powered technology, the platform ensures personalised onboarding, efficient servicing & dependable support throughout the customer journey. Operating across ~1,500 cities and covering 98% of Indian pincodes, InsuranceDekho is supported by 20 offices and a network of over 2.74 lakh+ partners. To date, it has insured 12,000+ businesses & continues to expand its reach across the country. Our growing portfolio spans motor, health, life, travel, pet & corporate insurance, offering 740+ plans from 49 insurers, enabled by a specialised team and a tech-driven service infrastructure enabling insurance for all by 2047 https://pos.insurancedekho.com/?utm_source=Social&utm_medium=linkedin&utm_campaign=ID-Linkedin-AccountDescription
late stageInsurance
2021
Board Member
May 2021
Aragen is a trusted R&D and manufacturing partner to the global life sciences industry. From concept to commercial, we transform your ideas into solutions for better health. Whether large pharma or biotech, an agrochemical or animal health company, we provide you global resources and proven capabilities at every stage of the biopharma lifecycle, in small and large molecules. Our ability to offer end-to-end solutions or support standalone programs is underpinned by an innovation mindset, enabling technologies, and a partnership approach to every engagement. At Aragen, we recognize your work is vital, urgent and impacts lives. Our purpose, ‘In every molecule is the possibility for better health’ motivates us to drive the success of your programs, so that we can together transform hope into health for millions of people around the world.
2020
Board Member
Aug 2020
Noveltech Feeds was established with the motto ‘Nutrition for everyone, everyday, everywhere’. We believe that quality of food (animal protein) begins with quality of feed. Hence, the need to create a world where people pay more attention to the food they consume. We help farmers to increase their income by providing excellent feed, technical and non-technical services including latest market information. Our journey started with a dream to provide the best animal feed to farmers. As we moved along this path, we were fortunate to be joined by partners who believed and shared our same vision. With our partners, we look forward to jointly achieve greater heights and milestones. Across all our units, we are bound together with a common goal - timely supply of consistent high-quality nutrition. Hence, we make continuous improvements in quality of our feed by incorporating the best technology along with our ground-level market study. Noveltech Feeds Private Limited is a Goldman Sachs invested Company in Animal Nutrition Sector and market leader in Commercial Poultry Feed . Headquartered at Mumbai the Company has 16 manufacturing units across the country with an all encompassing dealer / distributor network which caters to all customer segments .
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