Ketaki Tejal Deshmukh

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Co-founder & CTO at Copper HQ | ex-Morgan Stanley

Copper HQ
Ahmedabad, India · IST (UTC+5:30)
8+ years experience
BITS Pilani
English, Hindi, Gujarati
Raising
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Overview

Founder of Copper HQ (B2B payments). 8 years of building before that. Raised $33 million across 2 rounds. Before that: Morgan Stanley and Dream11. Most at home with fundraising and B2B sales.

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closes in 3 months

Raising a $15M Series A for construction estimating for pharmacies

Stage
Series A
Raising
$15M
Instrument
SAFE
Committed so far
$246k from an existing fund
Lead investor
Lead in place
Traction
$2M ARR after 9 months
Use of funds
Engineering hires and the first sales team

$2M ARR after 9 months. Looking for investors who know gaming and can help with pricing.

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Experience

  1. Co-founder & CTO
    Aug 2023 - Present
    Copper HQ · 3 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Ahmedabad, India
    • Took Copper HQ from zero to $4 million ARR.
    • Raised $20 million across 2 rounds.
  2. Director of Engineering
    Sep 2019 - Jun 2023
    Morgan Stanley · 3 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Ahmedabad, India
    • Reduced cloud spend on developer experience by 20% in two quarters.
  3. Staff Software Engineer
    Oct 2018 - Sep 2019
    Dream11 · 11 mo · Full-time · Ahmedabad, India
    • Wrote the product service that now handles 7 million requests a day.

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Education

  1. BITS Pilani
    B.E., Engineering
    2013 - 2017

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