Krishna Subramanian

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Principal at Banyan Partners · Consumer · marketplaces, venture capital

Banyan Partners
Bengaluru, India · IST (UTC+5:30)
9+ years experience
IIIT Bangalore
English, Hindi, Kannada
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Overview

Principal at Banyan Partners, backing consumer companies. Previously an operator for 6 years before investing. Led or co-led 38 investments, 9 of them now at Series B or later. Before that: Dream11 and Reliance Jio. Most at home with brands and marketplaces. Outside work: long runs and longer podcasts.

Good reasons to reach out
  • Thoughtful intros to people in my field
  • Second opinions on venture capital decisions
  • Working sessions on marketplaces
Please don't message about
  • Crypto token projects
  • Unpaid work or spec projects
  • Decks without a clear ask

Checks messages twice a week

Skills
marketplacesbrandsventure capital

Experience

  1. Principal
    Aug 2025 - Present
    Banyan Partners · 1 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
    • Backed 52 founders at pre-seed and seed.
    • Previously an operator for 11 years before investing.
    • Led or co-led 22 investments, 9 of them now at Series B or later.
  2. Staff Frontend Engineer
    Dec 2023 - Jun 2025
    Dream11 · 1 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
    • Moved 77% of iOS traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
  3. Software Engineer
    Sep 2021 - Sep 2023
    Reliance Jio · 2 yr · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
    • Brought on-call pages for developer platform down from 15 a week to 3.
    • Moved 87% of developer platform traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
  4. Engineering Manager
    Apr 2018 - Jul 2021
    PwC · 3 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
    • Brought on-call pages for infrastructure down from 37 a week to 3.
    • Led the migration of 18 services to marketplaces.

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Education

  1. IIIT Bangalore
    M.Tech, Computer Science
    2017 - 2019
  2. IIT Kharagpur
    B.Tech, Computer Science
    2013 - 2017

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