Lekshmi Selvam

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Co-founder & CTO · B2B payments · fundraising

Thistle Analytics
Visakhapatnam, India · IST (UTC+5:30)
16+ years experience
IIT Bombay
English, Hindi, Telugu
Raising
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Overview

Co-founder & CTO of Thistle Analytics, working on B2B payments. Raised $28 million across 2 rounds. Before that: McKinsey & Company and Airtel. I teach a weekend class on fundraising.

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Skills
fintechproductfundraisingB2B sales
RaisingRaising capital
closes in 4 months

Pre-seed round open - API security for gig workers, 63 paying customers

Stage
Pre-seed
Raising
$1M
Instrument
SAFE
Committed so far
Opening the round now
Lead investor
Looking for a lead
Traction
63 paying customers after 13 months
Use of funds
Go-to-market in two new countries

63 paying customers after 13 months. Looking for investors who know creator tools and can help with expansion into Africa.

Visakhapatnam, India · remote OKfundraisingfintechb2b sales
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Experience

  1. Co-founder & CTO
    Mar 2022 - Present
    Thistle Analytics · 4 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Visakhapatnam, India
    • Took Thistle Analytics from zero to $10 million ARR.
    • Raised $30 million across 3 rounds.
  2. Product Manager
    Jul 2019 - Mar 2022
    McKinsey & Company · 2 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Visakhapatnam, India
    • Ran 128 customer interviews before writing the first spec.
  3. Group Product Manager
    Oct 2015 - Jul 2019
    Airtel · 3 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Visakhapatnam, India
    • Took lending activation from 18% to 45% in three quarters.
  4. Senior Product Manager
    Jul 2012 - Jul 2015
    Amazon · 3 yr · Full-time · Visakhapatnam, India
    • Launched the growth product in 8 markets.
  5. Associate Product Manager
    Oct 2010 - Jul 2012
    Deloitte · 1 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Visakhapatnam, India
    • Ran 57 customer interviews before writing the first spec.
    • Launched the payments product in 6 markets.

Projects

Conference talk: lessons from company
2024

What went wrong and what worked while scaling B2B payments.

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Education

  1. IIT Bombay
    B.Tech, Business Administration
    2006 - 2010

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