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    Gautam Rao

    Gautam Rao

    Startup investor & 3x product/engineering entrepreneur, with products touching 1M+ users and 1000+ small businesses.

    SaaS/Fintech expertise.

    10+ year global career spanning startup ecosystems in 6 continents.

    Product Manager San Francisco Bay Area Stanford University
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    Achievements

    - Sourced and led due diligence for 32 investments (24 early, 8 late) across fintech, enterprise, future of work, ecommerce and more. Deal co-investors include Sequoia Capital, A16Z, Tiger Global and others. $5.8M+ deployed in companies across 15 countries since Aug 2021.

    - Launched and scaled the invoice financing industry’s 1st SaaS platform, leading and recruiting a cross-functional, distributed team of 10+ designers, engineers and data scientists. Built technical architecture from scratch, prototyped design, iterated product through customer feedback and metrics, and oversaw pivot from marketplace to SaaS. Over $1Bn in loan volume processed and >1000 SME’s funded.

    - Drove vision and strategy, designed, developed, launched and product managed – a dynamically calculated income tax calculator, credit repair tool and chatbot, an ML driven home loan recommendation product, financial education platform & personal loan product, all addressed to the 1Bn+ Indian consumer market.

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    Skills
    Product Management Software Development Software Architecture Business Strategy Business Development Leadership Team Player Mentoring People Management
    Locations
    San Francisco Bay Area Los Angeles New York City Seattle Miami Chicago
     
    Experience
    GoingVC Partners
    GoingVC Partners
    Venture Partner and Principal
    Alchemist Accelerator
    Alchemist Accelerator
    Advisor
    Wipster
    Wipster
    Advisor
    Qotient
    Qotient
    Advisor
    Global From Day One (GD1)
    Global From Day One (GD1)
    Advisor
    Harambeans
    Harambeans
    Venture Advisor
    mymoneykarma
    mymoneykarma
    Director of Product Engineering
    Pursuit
    Pursuit
    Founder, CTO and Head of Product
    Pursuit helps the world’s brightest & most economically valuable people find better lives and opportunities via a single common application. We bring transparency to global... more immigration for highly skilled workers.
    Finvoice
    Finvoice
    Founder, CTO and Head of Product
    Zestbuds
    Zestbuds
    Founder, CEO
    Founder
    Finvoice, Zestbuds, Pursuit
    Employee
    mymoneykarma, Harambeans, GoingVC Partners
    Investor
     
    Incubator
     
    Advisor
    Global From Day One (GD1), Qotient, Wipster, Alchemist Accelerator
    Attorney
     
    Board Member
     
    Mentor
     
    Member
     
    Acquired
     
     
    Education
     
    Projects
    Pursuit
    The common application for skilled migration.
    Product · Just last month we began our vetting process in order to find the best foreign developers to match with growing Canadian tech companies. To… · More date, over 200 candidates have come our way with more than a hand-full that have been successfully vetted and are ready to move to Canada.

    With high-quality developers ready to go, we have matched them with Canadian companies which has led to multiple interviews. Considering the success of our candidates currently moving through recruitment processes and feedback we've received from Canadian companies, we are likely just a few weeks away from our first hire.

    Expect the first successful Pursuit candidate to make his or her way to Canada in March of 2018!
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    Zaki Mahomed
    With Zaki Mahomed, Josh Schachnow
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