Aakash Harshit Malhotra

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Co-founder & CTO, Beacon Commerce - fintech · rural distribution · supply chain

Beacon Commerce
Jaipur, India · IST (UTC+5:30)
15+ years experience
Anna University
English, Hindi
Raising
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Overview

Building Beacon Commerce in Jaipur - agritech. Raised $7 million across 2 rounds. Open-source contributor on weekends.

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  • Investors who back our stage and sector
  • Working sessions on fintech
  • Speaking or podcast invitations
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  • Crypto token projects
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Skills
operationsrural distributionsupply chainagriculturefintech
RaisingRaising capital
closes in 3 months

Raising a $8M Series A for invoice financing for solar installers

Stage
Series A
Raising
$8M
Instrument
SAFE
Committed so far
$712k from angels
Lead investor
Looking for a lead
Traction
233 paying customers after 28 months
Use of funds
Engineering hires and the first sales team

233 paying customers after 28 months. Looking for investors who know developer tools and can help with regulatory approvals.

Jaipur, Indiasupply chainfintechagriculture
Open

Experience

  1. Co-founder & CTO
    Aug 2022 - Present
    Beacon Commerce · 4 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Jaipur, India
    • Signed 139 paying customers, 14 of them enterprises.
    • Grew the team to 116 people across 4 countries.
  2. Director of Engineering
    Apr 2020 - Jun 2022
    MakeMyTrip · 2 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Jaipur, India
    • Mentored 13 engineers through their first promotion.
  3. Engineering Manager
    Jun 2016 - Apr 2020
    BigBasket · 3 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Jaipur, India
    • Took payment success rates from 94.2% to 96.3%.
    • Moved 74% of payments platform traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
  4. Engineering Manager
    Feb 2015 - Jun 2016
    Meesho · 1 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Jaipur, India
    • Reduced cloud spend on developer experience by 22% in two quarters.
  5. Staff Backend Engineer
    Oct 2011 - Feb 2015
    Amazon · 3 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Jaipur, India
    • Led the migration of 13 services to operations.
    • Mentored 7 engineers through their first promotion.

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Education

  1. Anna University
    B.E., Engineering
    2006 - 2010

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