Kirti Sood

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Co-founder & COO at Tandem Energy | ex-Adobe

Tandem Energy
Mumbai, India · IST (UTC+5:30)
9+ years experience
IIM Calcutta
English, Hindi, Marathi
Raising
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Overview

Co-founder & COO of Tandem Energy, working on edtech. Raised $10 million across 2 rounds. Grew the team to 103 people across 4 countries. Most at home with education and go-to-market. I play football every Sunday.

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Skills
educationmobilego-to-marketgrowthcontent
RaisingRaising capital
closes in 3 months

Raising a $4M Series A for inventory forecasting for CPG brands

Stage
Series A
Raising
$4M
Instrument
SAFE
Committed so far
$315k from operators in the space
Lead investor
Looking for a lead
Traction
13 enterprise pilots after 7 months
Use of funds
Go-to-market in two new countries

13 enterprise pilots after 7 months. Looking for investors who know logistics and can help with hiring.

Mumbai, India · remote OKgrowtheducationcontent
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Experience

  1. Co-founder & COO
    Apr 2025 - Present
    Tandem Energy · 1 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Mumbai, India
    • Grew the team to 54 people across 4 countries.
    • Signed 100 paying customers, 7 of them enterprises.
    • Previously built and sold a small edtech company.
  2. Partnerships Manager
    Aug 2021 - Apr 2025
    Adobe · 3 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Mumbai, India
    • Signed 25 channel partners that now source 38% of pipeline.
  3. Sales Manager
    Dec 2019 - Aug 2021
    Qualcomm · 1 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Mumbai, India
    • Opened 8 new logos over $4 million ACV in the region.
    • Built the enterprise team from 4 to 36 reps.
  4. Partnerships Manager
    Oct 2017 - Dec 2019
    Asian Paints · 2 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Mumbai, India
    • Signed 8 channel partners that now source 38% of pipeline.
    • Shortened the partnerships sales cycle from 7 months to 3.

Projects

Edtech benchmark
2023

Reproducible benchmarks comparing mobile and go-to-market on real workloads.

Side project: a reading list app
2022

Built with mobile and go-to-market. 810 people used it last year.

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Education

  1. IIM Calcutta
    MBA, Business Administration
    2018 - 2020
  2. Manipal Institute of Technology
    B.Tech, Computer Science
    2012 - 2016

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