Kushagra Sachdeva

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Founder at Basil Finance · product, developer tools

Basil Finance
Gurugram, India · IST (UTC+5:30)
11+ years experience
ISB Hyderabad
English, Hindi
Raising
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Overview

Founder of Basil Finance, working on developer tooling. Signed 206 paying customers, 7 of them enterprises. Before that: Visa and Microsoft. Coffee nerd.

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Skills
productcommunityRustdeveloper tools
RaisingRaising capital
closes in 3 months

Raising a $6M seed for event ticketing for pharmacies

Stage
Seed
Raising
$6M
Instrument
Priced round
Committed so far
$247k from operators in the space
Lead investor
Looking for a lead
Traction
29% month-on-month growth after 26 months
Use of funds
18 months of runway to Series A milestones

29% month-on-month growth after 26 months. Looking for investors who know robotics and can help with enterprise sales.

Gurugram, India · remote OKrustproductdeveloper tools
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Experience

  1. Founder
    May 2025 - Present
    Basil Finance · 1 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Gurugram, India
    • Took Basil Finance from zero to $3 million ARR.
    • Signed 131 paying customers, 12 of them enterprises.
  2. Financial Analyst
    Sep 2021 - May 2025
    Visa · 3 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Gurugram, India
    • Closed the books in 6 days, down from 18.
    • Built the operating model the board used for a $103 million raise.
  3. Finance Director
    Jun 2018 - Sep 2021
    Microsoft · 3 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Gurugram, India
    • Took forecast accuracy to within 2% for 7 straight quarters.
    • Built the operating model the board used for a $133 million raise.
  4. Finance Manager
    Oct 2015 - Jun 2018
    Dream11 · 2 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Gurugram, India
    • Closed the books in 4 days, down from 11.
    • Built the operating model the board used for a $126 million raise.

Projects

Developer tooling benchmark
2023

Reproducible benchmarks comparing product and Rust on real workloads.

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Education

  1. ISB Hyderabad
    MBA, Business Administration
    2018 - 2020
  2. PSG College of Technology
    B.E., Economics
    2011 - 2015

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