Chhavi Srivastava

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Partner at Oakmont Capital · Developer infrastructure

Oakmont Capital
Jaipur, India · IST (UTC+5:30)
15+ years experience
ISB Hyderabad
English, Hindi
InvestingAdvising
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Overview

Partner at Oakmont Capital, backing developer infrastructure companies. Sit on 4 boards. Led or co-led 13 investments, 2 of them now at Series B or later. Before that: PhonePe and Intuit.

Good reasons to reach out
  • Founders building in embedded systems
  • Advice on embedded systems
  • Second opinions on open source decisions
  • Working sessions on developer tools
  • Thoughtful intros to people in my field
Please don't message about
  • Recruiters for roles outside my stack
  • Generic networking requests
  • Unpaid work or spec projects

Slower in the last week of each quarter

Skills
open sourcedeveloper toolsventure capital
InvestingLooking to invest
closes in 3 months

Investing in Series A developer infrastructure founders across India

Cheque size
$25k-$100k
Stages
Series A
Sectors
Embedded systems
Geographies
Europe
Lead or follow
Co-lead
Decision time
One meeting and a partner call
How I help
Hiring the first ten people

Typically lead or co-lead. We reply to every founder.

Jaipur, India · remote OKventure capitalopen sourcedeveloper tools
Open
AdvisingOpen to advising
closes in 3 months

Happy to advise first-time founders on developer infrastructure

Topics
embedded systems, open source, venture capital
Format
Office hours
Terms
Free for early founders
Capacity
Two calls a month
Best for
Seed to Series A teams

25 years of developer infrastructure. Can review plans, decks and hiring loops.

Jaipur, Indiaopen sourceventure capitaldeveloper tools
Open

Experience

  1. Partner
    May 2023 - Present
    Oakmont Capital · 3 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Jaipur, India
    • Built the experimentation framework 23 product teams use to ship changes safely.
    • Moved 83% of firmware traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
  2. Product Manager
    Jan 2022 - May 2023
    PhonePe · 1 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Jaipur, India
    • Launched the developer product in 11 markets.
  3. Senior Product Manager
    Mar 2019 - Jan 2022
    Intuit · 2 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Jaipur, India
    • Took logistics activation from 21% to 39% in three quarters.
  4. Principal Product Manager
    Jun 2015 - Mar 2019
    BrowserStack · 3 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Jaipur, India
    • Backed 50 founders at pre-seed and seed.
    • Sit on 2 boards.
  5. Group Product Manager
    Apr 2012 - Jun 2015
    Freshworks · 3 yr 2 mo · Contract · Jaipur, India
    • Cut time-to-first-value for new creator customers from 13 days to 4.

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Education

  1. ISB Hyderabad
    MBA, Business Administration
    2002 - 2004
  2. IIT Guwahati
    B.Tech, Engineering
    1996 - 2000

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