Abhiram Kini

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Founder at Drift Grid · Climate analytics · carbon accounting, enterprise sales

Drift Grid
Bengaluru, India · IST (UTC+5:30)
11+ years experience
NIT Surathkal
English, Hindi, Kannada
Raising
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Overview

I started Drift Grid to fix climate analytics for teams who were tired of the workarounds. Signed 130 paying customers, 15 of them enterprises. Grew the team to 43 people across 5 countries. Before that: Kotak Mahindra Bank and Visa.

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  • Investors who back our stage and sector
  • Working sessions on fintech
  • Questions about climate analytics
  • Early customers and design partners
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  • Unpaid work or spec projects
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Answers in batches on Fridays

Skills
carbon accountingfintechenterprise salesclimate techdata
RaisingRaising capital
closes in 3 months

Raising a $3M Series A for clinical documentation for solar installers

Stage
Series A
Raising
$3M
Instrument
Convertible note
Committed so far
Opening the round now
Lead investor
Looking for a lead
Traction
213 paying customers after 14 months
Use of funds
18 months of runway to Series A milestones

213 paying customers after 14 months. Looking for investors who know food delivery and can help with enterprise sales.

Bengaluru, Indiacarbon accountingfintechclimate tech
Open

Experience

  1. Founder
    Jan 2024 - Present
    Drift Grid · 2 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
    • Raised $29 million across 2 rounds.
    • Previously built and sold a small climate analytics company.
    • Took Drift Grid from zero to $12 million ARR.
  2. Finance Manager
    Jul 2022 - Jan 2024
    Kotak Mahindra Bank · 1 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
    • Ran diligence on 11 acquisitions.
  3. FP&A Manager
    Mar 2019 - Jul 2022
    Visa · 3 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
    • Closed the books in 5 days, down from 13.
  4. Finance Manager
    Apr 2017 - Mar 2019
    Mphasis · 1 yr 11 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
    • Saved $8 million a year renegotiating vendor contracts.
    • Took forecast accuracy to within 4% for 6 straight quarters.
  5. Financial Analyst
    Oct 2015 - Apr 2017
    Wipro · 1 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
    • Closed the books in 4 days, down from 14.

Projects

Conference talk: lessons from company
2025

What went wrong and what worked while scaling climate analytics.

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Education

  1. NIT Surathkal
    B.Tech, Economics
    2002 - 2006

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