Harish Govindan

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Principal, Ironwood Ventures - open source · venture capital · developer tools

Ironwood Ventures
Pune, India · IST (UTC+5:30)
6+ years experience
IIIT Bangalore
English, Hindi, Marathi
Investing
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Overview

Principal at Ironwood Ventures, backing developer infrastructure companies. Sit on 2 boards. Led or co-led 23 investments, 7 of them now at Series B or later. Most at home with pricing and developer tools. I tinker with 3D printers.

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Skills
developer toolsventure capitalpricingopen source
InvestingLooking to invest
closes in 3 months

Writing $250k cheques into pre-seed developer infrastructure in the Nordics

Cheque size
$250k
Stages
Pre-seed, Seed
Sectors
Developer infrastructure, B2B SaaS
Geographies
Global
Lead or follow
Any
Decision time
About two weeks
How I help
First enterprise customers and pricing

Typically lead or co-lead. Decisions within 3 weeks.

Pune, Indiapricingventure capitalopen source
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Experience

  1. Principal
    Apr 2025 - Present
    Ironwood Ventures · 1 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Pune, India
    • Led or co-led 10 investments, 4 of them now at Series B or later.
    • Backed 40 founders at pre-seed and seed.
    • Previously an operator for 11 years before investing.
  2. Business Analyst
    Mar 2022 - Apr 2025
    Razorpay · 3 yr 1 mo · Full-time · Pune, India
    • Cut p99 latency on the ML platform services from 449ms to 128ms.
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 45 minutes to under 4.
  3. Business Analyst
    Dec 2020 - Mar 2022
    American Express · 1 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Pune, India
    • Moved 69% of ML platform traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.

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Education

  1. IIIT Bangalore
    M.Tech, Business Administration
    2022 - 2024
  2. SRM Institute of Science and Technology
    B.Tech, Business Administration
    2016 - 2020

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