Danish Wasim Farooqui

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Founder at Glade Studio · AI agents for operations teams

Glade Studio
Pune, India · IST (UTC+5:30)
14+ years experience
IIT Bombay IDC
English, Hindi, Marathi
Raising
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Overview

Founder of Glade Studio, working on AI agents for operations teams. Signed 270 paying customers, 23 of them enterprises. Before that: Persistent Systems and Visa. Most at home with fundraising and LLMs. I mentor students through university programmes.

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  • Investors who back our stage and sector
  • Questions about AI agents for operations teams
  • Second opinions on B2B SaaS decisions
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  • Courses and coaching offers
  • Crypto token projects

Slower in the last week of each quarter

Skills
fundraisingproductfintechautomationLLMsB2B SaaS
RaisingRaising capital
closes in 4 months

Raising a $750k seed for inventory forecasting for construction firms

Stage
Seed
Raising
$750k
Instrument
SAFE
Committed so far
Opening the round now
Lead investor
Lead in place
Traction
$4M ARR after 17 months
Use of funds
Product and compliance

$4M ARR after 17 months. Looking for investors who know fintech and can help with pricing.

Pune, Indiaproductfintechb2b saas
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Experience

  1. Founder
    Jul 2024 - Present
    Glade Studio · 2 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Pune, India
    • Signed 56 paying customers, 24 of them enterprises.
    • Previously built and sold a small AI agents for operations teams company.
    • Took Glade Studio from zero to $4 million ARR.
  2. Senior Financial Analyst
    Apr 2021 - Jul 2024
    Persistent Systems · 3 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Pune, India
    • Ran diligence on 3 acquisitions.
    • Closed the books in 3 days, down from 10.
  3. Controller
    Jan 2018 - Apr 2021
    Visa · 3 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Pune, India
    • Took forecast accuracy to within 3% for 9 straight quarters.
    • Saved $2 million a year renegotiating vendor contracts.
  4. Senior Financial Analyst
    May 2016 - Sep 2017
    HCLTech · 1 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Pune, India
    • Closed the books in 6 days, down from 10.
  5. Finance Manager
    Nov 2012 - May 2016
    Mahindra Group · 3 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Pune, India
    • Saved $7 million a year renegotiating vendor contracts.

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Education

  1. IIT Bombay IDC
    M.Des, Engineering
    2010 - 2012
  2. St. Xavier's College, Mumbai
    B.A., Engineering
    2004 - 2008

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