Ishaan Jha

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Founder & CEO at Loom Energy · marketing, consumer brands

Loom Energy
Noida, India · IST (UTC+5:30)
15+ years experience
IIT Roorkee
English, Hindi
Raising
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Overview

I started Loom Energy to fix D2C food brands for teams who were tired of the workarounds. Raised $22 million across 3 rounds. Before that: Capgemini and LTIMindtree. Most at home with marketing and supply chain. I write a small newsletter about D2C food brands.

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Skills
supply chainconsumer brandsmarketing
RaisingRaising capital
closes in 3 months

Pre-seed round open - compliance automation for shipping lines, $2M ARR

Stage
Pre-seed
Raising
$2M
Instrument
Priced round
Committed so far
Opening the round now
Lead investor
Looking for a lead
Traction
$2M ARR after 25 months
Use of funds
Go-to-market in two new countries

$2M ARR after 25 months. Looking for investors who know robotics and can help with regulatory approvals.

Noida, Indiaconsumer brandssupply chainmarketing
Open

Experience

  1. Founder & CEO
    Aug 2022 - Present
    Loom Energy · 4 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Noida, India
    • Signed 176 paying customers, 11 of them enterprises.
    • Grew the team to 78 people across 2 countries.
  2. Senior Financial Analyst
    Jun 2019 - Jun 2022
    Capgemini · 3 yr · Full-time · Noida, India
    • Saved $9 million a year renegotiating vendor contracts.
  3. FP&A Manager
    Jul 2017 - May 2019
    LTIMindtree · 1 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Noida, India
    • Took forecast accuracy to within 4% for 4 straight quarters.
    • Ran diligence on 10 acquisitions.
  4. Financial Analyst
    Sep 2013 - Jul 2017
    Zerodha · 3 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Noida, India
    • Saved $8 million a year renegotiating vendor contracts.
  5. Financial Analyst
    Aug 2011 - Sep 2013
    Hindustan Unilever · 2 yr 1 mo · Full-time · Noida, India
    • Closed the books in 5 days, down from 14.
    • Ran diligence on 7 acquisitions.

Projects

Write-up: D2C food brands in practice
2023

A long-form guide to D2C food brands for people starting out.

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Education

  1. IIT Roorkee
    B.Tech, Business Administration
    2003 - 2007

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