Ayesha Huma Qureshi

Co-founder & COO at Kestrel Labs | ex-Persistent Systems

Kestrel Labs

Mumbai, India · IST (UTC+5:30)

8+ years experience

IIT Hyderabad

English, Hindi, Marathi

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Overview

I started Kestrel Labs to fix agritech for teams who were tired of the workarounds. Signed 114 paying customers, 25 of them enterprises. Before that: Persistent Systems and Deloitte. Bird-watcher and amateur naturalist.

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supply chainrural distributionagriculturefintech

Experience

Co-founder & COO
May 2023 - Present
Kestrel Labs · 3 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Mumbai, India
- Took Kestrel Labs from zero to $6 million ARR.
- Grew the team to 87 people across 5 countries.
- Raised $36 million across 3 rounds.
Group Product Manager
Nov 2019 - May 2023
Persistent Systems · 3 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Mumbai, India
- Took logistics activation from 23% to 54% in three quarters.
- Ran 166 customer interviews before writing the first spec.
Director of Product
Dec 2018 - Nov 2019
Deloitte · 11 mo · Full-time · Mumbai, India
- Ran 53 customer interviews before writing the first spec.

Projects

Agritech benchmark

2025

Reproducible benchmarks comparing supply chain and agriculture on real workloads.

Conference talk: lessons from company

2024

What went wrong and what worked while scaling agritech.

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Education

IIT Hyderabad
B.Tech, Engineering
2013 - 2017

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