Lakshmi Anjali Mehta

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Co-founder & COO, Northwind Foods - marketing · consumer brands · supply chain

Northwind Foods
Dallas, TX · CT (UTC-6)
13+ years experience
Harvard Business School
English
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Overview

Co-founder & COO of Northwind Foods, working on D2C food brands. Signed 21 paying customers, 16 of them enterprises. Most at home with supply chain and marketing. Learning to draw.

Good reasons to reach out
  • Candidates for the role I'm hiring for
  • Investors who back our stage and sector
  • Second opinions on supply chain decisions
  • Thoughtful intros to people in my field
Please don't message about
  • Offshore staffing offers
  • Agency or outsourcing pitches
  • Unpaid work or spec projects

Answers in batches on Fridays

Skills
supply chainconsumer brandsmarketing
HiringHiring for a role
closes in 3 months

Hiring our first product designer at Northwind Foods - Dallas

Role
Product designer
Level
Senior
Type
Full-time
Work mode
Hybrid
Compensation
$152k-$191k + equity
Team
Founding team, 12 people
Start
This quarter
Must have
A portfolio of shipped product work Comfort working directly with engineers Good judgment about what not to build
Process
Intro call, technical deep dive, team chat

Comp $192k-$231k. We decide within ten days. Message me with one thing you shipped that you're proud of.

Dallas, TXmarketingsupply chainconsumer brands
Open
RaisingRaising capital
closes in 3 months

Seed round open - school fee payments for Indian SMBs, 25 paying customers

Stage
Seed
Raising
$1.5M
Instrument
SAFE
Committed so far
Opening the round now
Lead investor
Looking for a lead
Traction
25 paying customers after 17 months
Use of funds
Engineering hires and the first sales team

25 paying customers after 17 months. Looking for investors who know media and can help with regulatory approvals.

Dallas, TXmarketingconsumer brandssupply chain
Open

Experience

  1. Co-founder & COO
    Dec 2022 - Present
    Northwind Foods · 3 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Dallas, TX
    • Took Northwind Foods from zero to $12 million ARR.
    • Grew the team to 70 people across 4 countries.
    • Raised $40 million across 2 rounds.
  2. Financial Analyst
    Apr 2021 - Dec 2022
    Reddit · 1 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Dallas, TX
    • Saved $7 million a year renegotiating vendor contracts.
  3. FP&A Manager
    Oct 2018 - Apr 2021
    Pinterest · 2 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Dallas, TX
    • Saved $1 million a year renegotiating vendor contracts.
    • Ran diligence on 11 acquisitions.
  4. Financial Analyst
    Mar 2017 - Oct 2018
    BlackRock · 1 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Dallas, TX
    • Saved $6 million a year renegotiating vendor contracts.
    • Ran diligence on 9 acquisitions.
  5. Controller
    Aug 2013 - Mar 2017
    Deloitte · 3 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Dallas, TX
    • Saved $8 million a year renegotiating vendor contracts.

Projects

Write-up: D2C food brands in practice
2025

A long-form guide to D2C food brands for people starting out.

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Education

  1. Harvard Business School
    MBA, Business Administration
    2011 - 2013
  2. Columbia University
    BA, Engineering
    2003 - 2007

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