Ishaan Malhotra

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General Partner, Banyan Seed Fund - product · applied ML · venture capital

Banyan Seed Fund
Bengaluru, India · IST (UTC+5:30)
16+ years experience
IIIT Bangalore
English, Hindi, Kannada
Investing
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Overview

General Partner at Banyan Seed Fund, backing AI applications companies. Backed 52 founders at pre-seed and seed. Led or co-led 15 investments, 3 of them now at Series B or later. Before that: McKinsey & Company and Walmart Global Tech.

Good reasons to reach out
  • Founders building in AI applications
  • Speaking or podcast invitations
  • Thoughtful intros to people in my field
  • Questions about AI applications
Please don't message about
  • Offshore staffing offers
  • SEO and link-building offers
  • Fund-of-funds solicitations

Answers in batches on Fridays

Skills
venture capitalfintechproductapplied ML
InvestingLooking to invest
closes in 3 months

Writing $2M cheques into seed AI applications in India and SEA

Cheque size
$2M
Stages
Series A
Sectors
AI applications, fintech
Geographies
Global
Lead or follow
Any
Decision time
Within a month
How I help
Hiring the first ten people

Usually the first cheque in. We reply to every founder.

Bengaluru, India · remote OKfintechapplied mlproduct
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Experience

  1. General Partner
    Aug 2022 - Present
    Banyan Seed Fund · 4 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
    • Backed 52 founders at pre-seed and seed.
    • Led or co-led 36 investments, 4 of them now at Series B or later.
  2. Senior Engineering Manager
    Oct 2018 - Aug 2022
    McKinsey & Company · 3 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
    • Brought on-call pages for ML platform down from 26 a week to 1.
    • Grew the ML platform team from 4 to 19 engineers.
  3. Staff Software Engineer
    Jul 2015 - Oct 2018
    Walmart Global Tech · 3 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
    • Mentored 4 engineers through their first promotion.
  4. Senior Engineering Manager
    Jan 2014 - Jul 2015
    Asian Paints · 1 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
    • Brought on-call pages for payments platform down from 32 a week to 4.
  5. Senior Backend Engineer
    Mar 2011 - Jan 2014
    Arcadia Consulting · 2 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
    • Cut p99 latency on the public API services from 468ms to 168ms.
    • Grew the public API team from 4 to 20 engineers.

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Education

  1. IIIT Bangalore
    M.Tech, Finance
    2007 - 2009
  2. NIT Surathkal
    B.Tech, Finance
    2003 - 2007

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