Akshay Nikhil Rao

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Founder at Arbor Care · automation, B2B SaaS

Arbor Care
Singapore · SGT (UTC+8)
11+ years experience
INSEAD Singapore
English, Mandarin
RaisingAdvising
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Overview

Founder of Arbor Care (AI agents for operations teams). 14 years of building before that. Previously built and sold a small AI agents for operations teams company. Raised $13 million across 2 rounds. Before that: Hyundai Motor and Bank Central Asia. Most at home with LLMs and product. Former debater; now I argue with spreadsheets.

Good reasons to reach out
  • Advice on AI agents for operations teams
  • Investors who back our stage and sector
  • Second opinions on automation decisions
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  • Offshore staffing offers
  • Generic networking requests
  • SEO and link-building offers

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Skills
open sourceproductB2B SaaSautomationfundraisingLLMs
RaisingRaising capital
closes in 3 months

Raising a $1.5M seed for inventory forecasting for independent clinics

Stage
Seed
Raising
$1.5M
Instrument
Priced round
Committed so far
Opening the round now
Lead investor
Looking for a lead
Traction
$7M ARR after 24 months
Use of funds
Engineering hires and the first sales team

$7M ARR after 24 months. Looking for investors who know insurance and can help with pricing.

Singaporeb2b saasproductopen source
Open
AdvisingOpen to advising
closes in 3 months

Office hours for founders preparing a seed round: AI agents for operations teams and open source

Topics
AI agents for operations teams, open source, product
Format
Office hours
Terms
Open to discuss
Capacity
One call a month
Best for
Seed to Series A teams

14 years of AI agents for operations teams. Can review plans, decks and hiring loops.

Singaporeb2b saasautomationllms
Open

Experience

  1. Founder
    Apr 2024 - Present
    Arbor Care · 2 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Singapore
    • Signed 304 paying customers, 12 of them enterprises.
    • Took Arbor Care from zero to $9 million ARR.
  2. Senior Account Executive
    Sep 2021 - Apr 2024
    Hyundai Motor · 2 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Singapore
    • Signed 10 channel partners that now source 38% of pipeline.
  3. Sales Manager
    May 2020 - Sep 2021
    Bank Central Asia · 1 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Singapore
    • Shortened the mid-market sales cycle from 7 months to 4.
  4. Senior Account Executive
    Jan 2019 - May 2020
    Commonwealth Bank · 1 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Singapore
    • Opened 12 new logos over $4 million ACV in the region.
  5. Regional Sales Director
    Oct 2015 - Jan 2019
    Sony · 3 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Singapore
    • Opened 4 new logos over $4 million ACV in the region.

Projects

Write-up: AI agents for operations teams in practice
2024

A long-form guide to AI agents for operations teams for people starting out.

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Education

  1. INSEAD Singapore
    MBA, Business Administration
    2012 - 2014
  2. Ateneo de Manila University
    BS, Business Administration
    2007 - 2011

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