Adithya Sundaram

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Co-founder & CTO at Karma Finance | ex-Nykaa

Karma Finance
Bengaluru, India · IST (UTC+5:30)
16+ years experience
XLRI Jamshedpur
English, Hindi, Kannada
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Overview

Founder of Karma Finance (climate analytics). 22 years of building before that. Raised $28 million across 3 rounds. Signed 383 paying customers, 13 of them enterprises. Before that: Nykaa and Cisco. Most at home with enterprise sales and data. Coffee nerd.

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Skills
enterprise salesclimate techcarbon accountingdatasales
RaisingRaising capital
closes in 3 months

Raising a $750k seed for invoice financing for CPG brands

Stage
Seed
Raising
$750k
Instrument
Priced round
Committed so far
$197k from operators in the space
Lead investor
Looking for a lead
Traction
$6M ARR after 24 months
Use of funds
18 months of runway to Series A milestones

$6M ARR after 24 months. Looking for investors who know gaming and can help with pricing.

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Experience

  1. Co-founder & CTO
    Oct 2021 - Present
    Karma Finance · 5 yr · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
    • Grew the team to 57 people across 2 countries.
    • Previously built and sold a small climate analytics company.
    • Raised $32 million across 3 rounds.
  2. Staff Site Reliability Engineer
    Jan 2019 - Jun 2021
    Nykaa · 2 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
    • Mentored 9 engineers through their first promotion.
    • Wrote the climate tech service that now handles 6 million requests a day.
  3. Principal Engineer
    Nov 2016 - Jan 2019
    Cisco · 2 yr 2 mo · Contract · Bengaluru, India
    • Led or co-led 36 investments, 5 of them now at Series B or later.
  4. Director of Engineering
    Dec 2013 - Nov 2016
    TCS · 2 yr 11 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
    • Mentored 11 engineers through their first promotion.
    • Cut p99 latency on the Android services from 300ms to 68ms.
  5. Senior Engineering Manager
    Jun 2010 - Dec 2013
    PhonePe · 3 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
    • Wrote the enterprise sales service that now handles 62 million requests a day.

Projects

Climate analytics benchmark
2024

Reproducible benchmarks comparing climate tech and enterprise sales on real workloads.

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Education

  1. XLRI Jamshedpur
    MBA, Business Administration
    2007 - 2009
  2. Srishti Manipal Institute
    B.Des, Engineering
    2000 - 2004

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