Debabrata Anirban Acharya

Overview

Partner at Thornfield Capital, backing healthcare companies. Previously an operator for 10 years before investing. Before that: Razorpay and Mphasis. Most at home with regulation and healthtech.

Experience

1. Partner

   Aug 2022 - Present
   Thornfield Capital · 4 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Kolkata, India
   • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 23 minutes to under 3.
   • Built the experimentation framework 16 product teams use to ship changes safely.
   • Moved 66% of infrastructure traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
2. Senior Product Manager

   Sep 2020 - Aug 2022
   Razorpay · 1 yr 11 mo · Full-time · Kolkata, India
   • Ran 133 customer interviews before writing the first spec.
   • Grew growth revenue from $8 million to $31 million ARR.
3. Senior Product Manager

   Jul 2017 - Sep 2020
   Mphasis · 3 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Kolkata, India
   • Took marketplace activation from 22% to 57% in three quarters.
4. Director of Product

   Sep 2015 - Jul 2017
   Freshworks · 1 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Kolkata, India
   • Killed 5 features nobody used and shipped the 4 that customers asked for.
5. Principal Product Manager

   Oct 2013 - May 2015
   Nykaa · 1 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Kolkata, India
   • Led or co-led 17 investments, 2 of them now at Series B or later.

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Education

1. Jadavpur University

   B.E., Engineering
   2005 - 2009