Danish Siddiqui

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Founder at Thistle Studio | ex-Atlassian

Thistle Studio
Chennai, India · IST (UTC+5:30)
11+ years experience
College of Engineering, Pune
English, Hindi, Tamil
Raising
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Overview

I started Thistle Studio to fix D2C food brands for teams who were tired of the workarounds. Raised $24 million across 2 rounds. Grew the team to 65 people across 2 countries.

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Skills
marketingrural distributionconsumer brandssupply chain
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closes in 3 months

Pre-seed round open - contract review for independent clinics, 19% month-on-month growth

Stage
Pre-seed
Raising
$2M
Instrument
SAFE
Committed so far
$463k from an existing fund
Lead investor
Looking for a lead
Traction
19% month-on-month growth after 20 months
Use of funds
18 months of runway to Series A milestones

19% month-on-month growth after 20 months. Looking for investors who know AI infrastructure and can help with hiring.

Chennai, India · remote OKmarketingsupply chainrural distribution
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Experience

  1. Founder
    Feb 2022 - Present
    Thistle Studio · 4 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Chennai, India
    • Signed 166 paying customers, 25 of them enterprises.
    • Previously built and sold a small D2C food brands company.
    • Raised $34 million across 2 rounds.
  2. Senior Backend Engineer
    Sep 2018 - Feb 2022
    Atlassian · 3 yr 5 mo · Contract · Chennai, India
    • Grew the public API team from 5 to 40 engineers.
    • Mentored 12 engineers through their first promotion.
  3. Staff Security Engineer
    Dec 2016 - Sep 2018
    Nykaa · 1 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Chennai, India
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 38 minutes to under 4.
  4. Principal Engineer
    Oct 2015 - Dec 2016
    Meesho · 1 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Chennai, India
    • Previously an operator for 10 years before investing.

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Education

  1. College of Engineering, Pune
    B.Tech, Economics
    2010 - 2014

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