Chitra Selvam

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Founder & CEO · D2C food brands · marketing

Orbit Cloud
Visakhapatnam, India · IST (UTC+5:30)
16+ years experience
University of Delhi
English, Hindi, Telugu
Raising
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Overview

I started Orbit Cloud to fix D2C food brands for teams who were tired of the workarounds. Took Orbit Cloud from zero to $5 million ARR. Before that: SAP and Paytm.

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Skills
supply chainmarketingconsumer brands
RaisingRaising capital
closes in 3 months

Raising a $1.5M pre-seed for tutoring for insurers

Stage
Pre-seed
Raising
$1.5M
Instrument
Priced round
Committed so far
$493k from angels
Lead investor
Lead in place
Traction
32% month-on-month growth after 8 months
Use of funds
18 months of runway to Series A milestones

32% month-on-month growth after 8 months. Looking for investors who know edtech and can help with expansion into the UK.

Visakhapatnam, Indiasupply chainmarketingconsumer brands
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Experience

  1. Founder & CEO
    Nov 2023 - Present
    Orbit Cloud · 2 yr 11 mo · Full-time · Visakhapatnam, India
    • Signed 253 paying customers, 15 of them enterprises.
    • Raised $15 million across 2 rounds.
    • Previously built and sold a small D2C food brands company.
  2. Senior Product Manager
    Jan 2020 - Nov 2023
    SAP · 3 yr 10 mo · Contract · Visakhapatnam, India
    • Cut time-to-first-value for new logistics customers from 12 days to 3.
  3. Principal Product Manager
    Sep 2016 - Jan 2020
    Paytm · 3 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Visakhapatnam, India
    • Backed 40 founders at pre-seed and seed.
    • Previously an operator for 7 years before investing.
  4. Group Product Manager
    Mar 2013 - Jun 2016
    Persistent Systems · 3 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Visakhapatnam, India
    • Took logistics activation from 33% to 46% in three quarters.
  5. Director of Product
    Apr 2011 - Feb 2013
    Adobe · 1 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Visakhapatnam, India
    • Ran 167 customer interviews before writing the first spec.
    • Took logistics activation from 31% to 39% in three quarters.

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Education

  1. University of Delhi
    B.Com, Engineering
    1998 - 2002

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