Himanshu Ahuja

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Principal at Monsoon Growth · Developer infrastructure · open source, venture capital

Monsoon Growth
New Delhi, India · IST (UTC+5:30)
8+ years experience
IIM Bangalore
English, Hindi
Investing
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Overview

8 years around startups; now investing in developer infrastructure. Led or co-led 25 investments, 6 of them now at Series B or later. Most at home with venture capital and open source. I volunteer with a food bank on weekends.

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Skills
open sourcedeveloper toolsventure capital
InvestingLooking to invest
closes in 3 months

Writing $500k cheques into seed developer infrastructure in India

Cheque size
$500k
Stages
Seed
Sectors
Developer infrastructure, AI applications
Geographies
Europe
Lead or follow
Follow
Decision time
About two weeks
How I help
First enterprise customers and pricing

Happy to follow a strong lead. We reply to every founder.

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Experience

  1. Principal
    Nov 2024 - Present
    Monsoon Growth · 1 yr 11 mo · Full-time · New Delhi, India
    • Sit on 6 boards.
    • Led or co-led 8 investments, 6 of them now at Series B or later.
    • Previously an operator for 8 years before investing.
  2. Associate Partner
    Apr 2023 - Nov 2024
    PhonePe · 1 yr 7 mo · Full-time · New Delhi, India
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 32 minutes to under 2.
    • Cut p99 latency on the storage services from 377ms to 66ms.
  3. Senior Consultant
    Mar 2020 - Dec 2022
    Reliance Jio · 2 yr 9 mo · Full-time · New Delhi, India
    • Ran commercial diligence on 24 deals.
  4. Engagement Manager
    Sep 2018 - Feb 2020
    Wipro · 1 yr 5 mo · Full-time · New Delhi, India
    • Designed the operating model for a 18 thousand-person transformation.
    • Led a cost programme that saved a client $68 million.

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Education

  1. IIM Bangalore
    MBA, Business Administration
    2021 - 2023
  2. Symbiosis International University
    BBA, Business Administration
    2014 - 2018

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