Jagadeesh Krishnan

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Co-founder & COO at Orchard Labs · Supply chain software

Orchard Labs
Pune, India · IST (UTC+5:30)
11+ years experience
St. Xavier's College, Mumbai
English, Hindi, Marathi
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Overview

I started Orchard Labs to fix supply chain software for teams who were tired of the workarounds. Raised $9 million across 3 rounds. Before that: Airtel and EY.

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logisticsenterprise salesSaaSoperations
RaisingRaising capital
closes in 3 months

Series A round open - inventory forecasting for logistics fleets, 195 paying customers

Stage
Series A
Raising
$1M
Instrument
Priced round
Committed so far
Opening the round now
Lead investor
Lead in place
Traction
195 paying customers after 26 months
Use of funds
Product and compliance

195 paying customers after 26 months. Looking for investors who know mobility and can help with regulatory approvals.

Pune, India · remote OKenterprise saleslogisticsoperations

Experience

  1. Co-founder & COO
    Apr 2024 - Present
    Orchard Labs · 2 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Pune, India
    • Signed 211 paying customers, 13 of them enterprises.
    • Raised $4 million across 2 rounds.
  2. Associate Product Manager
    Jan 2022 - Apr 2024
    Airtel · 2 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Pune, India
    • Took logistics activation from 18% to 56% in three quarters.
    • Cut time-to-first-value for new logistics customers from 16 days to 4.
  3. Group Product Manager
    Oct 2018 - Jan 2022
    EY · 3 yr 3 mo · Contract · Pune, India
    • Grew logistics revenue from $9 million to $51 million ARR.
  4. Principal Product Manager
    Aug 2016 - Oct 2018
    Google · 2 yr 2 mo · Contract · Pune, India
    • Backed 60 founders at pre-seed and seed.
  5. Director of Product
    Jun 2015 - Aug 2016
    Salesforce · 1 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Pune, India
    • Grew logistics revenue from $6 million to $60 million ARR.

Projects

Write-up: supply chain software in practice
2022

A long-form guide to supply chain software for people starting out.

Open-source logistics toolkit
2022

A small library for supply chain software that 89 developers star on GitHub.

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Education

  1. St. Xavier's College, Mumbai
    B.A., Economics
    2009 - 2013

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