Gladys Rodrigues

Partner, Tidewater Partners - open source · developer tools · venture capital

Tidewater Partners

Hyderabad, India · IST (UTC+5:30)

9+ years experience

Srishti Manipal Institute

English, Hindi, Telugu

Investing

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Overview

I invest in developer infrastructure at Tidewater Partners, usually at pre-seed and seed. Backed 25 founders at pre-seed and seed. Before that: JPMorgan Chase and PhonePe. Most at home with open source and venture capital. Trail runner and occasional climber.

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Founders building in embedded systems
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applied MLdeveloper toolsventure capitalopen source

InvestingLooking to invest

closes in 3 months

Writing $100k cheques into pre-seed developer infrastructure in the US

Cheque size: $100k
Stages: Series A
Sectors: Embedded systems, fintech
Geographies: India and Southeast Asia
Lead or follow: Any
Decision time: One meeting and a partner call
How I help: First enterprise customers and pricing

Typically lead or co-lead. We reply to every founder.

Hyderabad, Indiaventure capitalapplied mldeveloper tools

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Experience

Partner
Mar 2024 - Present
Tidewater Partners · 2 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Hyderabad, India
- Moved 94% of firmware traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
- Mentored 12 engineers through their first promotion.
Finance Manager
Sep 2022 - Mar 2024
JPMorgan Chase · 1 yr 6 mo · Contract · Hyderabad, India
- Saved $2 million a year renegotiating vendor contracts.
- Closed the books in 4 days, down from 17.
Finance Director
Jan 2019 - Sep 2022
PhonePe · 3 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Hyderabad, India
- Saved $1 million a year renegotiating vendor contracts.
- Built the operating model the board used for a $112 million raise.
Finance Manager
Sep 2017 - Dec 2018
Persistent Systems · 1 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Hyderabad, India
- Took forecast accuracy to within 3% for 10 straight quarters.

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Education

Srishti Manipal Institute
B.Des, Finance
2012 - 2016

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