Ashwini Shah

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Co-founder & CTO, Gather Learning - agriculture · fintech · rural distribution

Gather Learning
Pune, India · IST (UTC+5:30)
7+ years experience
XLRI Jamshedpur
English, Hindi, Marathi
Raising
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Overview

I started Gather Learning to fix agritech for teams who were tired of the workarounds. Raised $8 million across 3 rounds. Signed 83 paying customers, 8 of them enterprises. I mentor students through university programmes.

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Slower in the last week of each quarter

Skills
agriculturesupply chainfintechrural distribution
RaisingRaising capital
closes in 3 months

Raising a $4M seed for tutoring for solar installers

Stage
Seed
Raising
$4M
Instrument
Convertible note
Committed so far
Opening the round now
Lead investor
Lead in place
Traction
185 paying customers after 30 months
Use of funds
Product and compliance

185 paying customers after 30 months. Looking for investors who know gaming and can help with pricing.

Pune, India · remote OKfintechagriculturesupply chain
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Experience

  1. Co-founder & CTO
    Feb 2025 - Present
    Gather Learning · 1 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Pune, India
    • Signed 111 paying customers, 14 of them enterprises.
    • Raised $4 million across 3 rounds.
    • Previously built and sold a small agritech company.
  2. Associate Partner
    Jul 2021 - Feb 2025
    Adobe · 3 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Pune, India
    • Reduced cloud spend on ML platform by 24% in two quarters.
  3. Senior Consultant
    Sep 2019 - Jun 2021
    American Express · 1 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Pune, India
    • Ran commercial diligence on 22 deals.
    • Led a cost programme that saved a client $47 million.

Projects

Open-source supply chain toolkit
2022

A small library for agritech that 856 developers star on GitHub.

Agritech benchmark
2022

Reproducible benchmarks comparing rural distribution and agriculture on real workloads.

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Education

  1. XLRI Jamshedpur
    MBA, Business Administration
    2022 - 2024
  2. Amity University
    B.Tech, Business Administration
    2015 - 2019

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