Arun Aravind Srinivasan

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Associate at Teak Venture Partners | ex-Mphasis

Teak Venture Partners
Chennai, India · IST (UTC+5:30)
5+ years experience
IIT Kharagpur
English, Hindi, Tamil
InvestingAdvising
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Overview

I invest in consumer at Teak Venture Partners, usually at pre-seed and seed. Previously an operator for 9 years before investing. Before that: Mphasis and Visa. Most at home with brands and venture capital.

Good reasons to reach out
  • Founders building in fintech regulation
  • Advice on fintech regulation
  • Speaking or podcast invitations
  • Questions about fintech regulation
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  • Crypto token projects

Replies on weekday evenings

Skills
open sourcemarketplacesbrandsventure capital
InvestingLooking to invest
closes in 3 months

Writing $2M cheques into Series A consumer in MENA

Cheque size
$2M
Stages
Seed
Sectors
Fintech regulation, B2B SaaS
Geographies
US and Europe
Lead or follow
Co-lead
Decision time
One meeting and a partner call
How I help
Intros to operators in our network

Typically lead or co-lead. Decisions within 2 weeks.

Chennai, Indiaventure capitalopen sourcemarketplaces
Open
AdvisingOpen to advising
closes in 3 months

Office hours for first-time founders: consumer and open source

Topics
fintech regulation, marketplaces, brands
Format
Async reviews
Terms
Equity
Capacity
Two calls a month
Best for
Teams scaling past 50 people

5 years of consumer. Small equity or paid hours - flexible.

Chennai, India · remote OKopen sourcemarketplacesbrands
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Experience

  1. Associate
    Sep 2024 - Present
    Teak Venture Partners · 2 yr 1 mo · Full-time · Chennai, India
    • Secured 8 payments licences.
    • Built the privacy programme for launches in 17 countries.
    • Negotiated 589 commercial agreements a year.
  2. Director of Product
    Feb 2023 - Sep 2024
    Mphasis · 1 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Chennai, India
    • Ran 140 customer interviews before writing the first spec.
  3. Director of Product
    Oct 2021 - Feb 2023
    Visa · 1 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Chennai, India
    • Launched the marketplace product in 9 markets.

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Education

  1. IIT Kharagpur
    B.Tech, Engineering
    2017 - 2021

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