Deepa Pereira

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Founder at Plume Finance · agriculture, supply chain

Plume Finance
Bengaluru, India · IST (UTC+5:30)
12+ years experience
IIT Guwahati
English, Hindi, Kannada
RaisingCo-founder
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Overview

Building Plume Finance in Bengaluru - agritech. Signed 160 paying customers, 13 of them enterprises. Before that: EY and Razorpay. Most at home with rural distribution and fintech. Cyclist - trying to do a century this year.

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Skills
fintechagriculturepayrollrural distributionsupply chain
RaisingRaising capital
closes in 3 months

Series A round open - credit underwriting for hardware startups, 26 enterprise pilots

Stage
Series A
Raising
$3M
Instrument
Convertible note
Committed so far
Opening the round now
Lead investor
Looking for a lead
Traction
26 enterprise pilots after 13 months
Use of funds
18 months of runway to Series A milestones

26 enterprise pilots after 13 months. Looking for investors who know robotics and can help with regulatory approvals.

Bengaluru, Indiarural distributionagriculturefintech
Open
Co-founderLooking for a co-founder
closes in 3 months

Looking for a technical co-founder for farm-input financing for kirana stores

The idea
Farm-input financing for kirana stores
Stage
Customer interviews
I bring
9 years in agritech
Looking for
Product-minded engineer
Commitment
Full-time now
Location
Bengaluru or remote

I bring 17 years of agritech (currently Plume Finance). Ideally you've sold to enterprises. Pre-product, some customer interviews done.

Bengaluru, Indiaagriculturerural distributionsupply chain
Open

Experience

  1. Founder
    Oct 2023 - Present
    Plume Finance · 3 yr · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
    • Grew the team to 30 people across 5 countries.
    • Raised $28 million across 3 rounds.
    • Signed 250 paying customers, 7 of them enterprises.
  2. Associate Product Manager
    Jan 2021 - Oct 2023
    EY · 2 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
    • Killed 4 features nobody used and shipped the 2 that customers asked for.
  3. Senior Product Manager
    Mar 2017 - Jan 2021
    Razorpay · 3 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
    • Took logistics activation from 21% to 55% in three quarters.
    • Ran 59 customer interviews before writing the first spec.
  4. Associate Product Manager
    Jan 2016 - Mar 2017
    Meesho · 1 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
    • Launched the logistics product in 9 markets.
    • Killed 8 features nobody used and shipped the 2 that customers asked for.
  5. Associate Product Manager
    Oct 2014 - Jan 2016
    Paytm · 1 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
    • Grew logistics revenue from $7 million to $46 million ARR.
    • Cut time-to-first-value for new logistics customers from 18 days to 3.

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Education

  1. IIT Guwahati
    B.Tech, Engineering
    2005 - 2009

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