Chandan Dash

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Associate, Clearwater Capital - venture capital · developer tools · open source

Clearwater Capital
Noida, India · IST (UTC+5:30)
3+ years experience
Manipal Institute of Technology
English, Hindi
InvestingAdvising
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Overview

I invest in developer infrastructure at Clearwater Capital, usually at pre-seed and seed. Led or co-led 30 investments, 9 of them now at Series B or later. Most at home with open source and venture capital.

Good reasons to reach out
  • Advice on commercial contracts
  • Founders building in commercial contracts
  • Speaking or podcast invitations
  • Thoughtful intros to people in my field
  • Second opinions on open source decisions
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  • SEO and link-building offers
  • Courses and coaching offers

Answers in batches on Fridays

Skills
open sourceventure capitaldeveloper tools
InvestingLooking to invest
closes in 3 months

Writing $1M cheques into Series A developer infrastructure in Africa

Cheque size
$1M
Stages
Seed
Sectors
Commercial contracts
Geographies
MENA
Lead or follow
Any
Decision time
Within a month
How I help
Intros to operators in our network

Happy to follow a strong lead. Former operator - I help with hiring and GTM.

Noida, Indiadeveloper toolsventure capitalopen source
Open
AdvisingOpen to advising
closes in 3 months

Open to advising seed teams on developer infrastructure

Topics
commercial contracts, venture capital, open source
Format
Async reviews
Terms
Equity
Capacity
A few async reviews a month
Best for
Seed to Series A teams

3 years of developer infrastructure. Prefer specific questions over coffee chats.

Noida, India · remote OKopen sourceventure capitaldeveloper tools
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Experience

  1. Associate
    Sep 2025 - Present
    Clearwater Capital · 1 yr 1 mo · Full-time · Noida, India
    • Negotiated 571 commercial agreements a year.
    • Built the privacy programme for launches in 10 countries.
    • Secured 6 payments licences.
  2. Embedded Engineer
    Oct 2023 - Sep 2025
    Infosys · 1 yr 11 mo · Full-time · Noida, India
    • Wrote the developer tools service that now handles 15 million requests a day.
    • Reduced cloud spend on ML platform by 39% in two quarters.

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Education

  1. Manipal Institute of Technology
    B.Tech, Engineering
    2019 - 2023

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