Mahesh Pai

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Co-founder & COO at Heron Energy | ex-Kotak Mahindra Bank

Heron Energy
Hyderabad, India · IST (UTC+5:30)
12+ years experience
BITS Pilani
English, Hindi, Telugu
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Overview

Founder of Heron Energy (D2C food brands). 21 years of building before that. Signed 168 paying customers, 22 of them enterprises. Previously built and sold a small D2C food brands company. I play football every Sunday.

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Skills
paymentsconsumer brandssupply chainmarketing
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closes in 3 months

Raising a $1.5M seed for inventory forecasting for cloud-native startups

Stage
Seed
Raising
$1.5M
Instrument
Convertible note
Committed so far
$538k from an existing fund
Lead investor
Looking for a lead
Traction
$3M ARR after 30 months
Use of funds
Go-to-market in two new countries

$3M ARR after 30 months. Looking for investors who know cybersecurity and can help with pricing.

Hyderabad, Indiaconsumer brandspaymentssupply chain
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Looking for account executives to join Heron Energy early - D2C food brands

Role
Account executive
Level
Senior
Type
Full-time
Work mode
On-site
Compensation
₹30-60 LPA
Team
Founding team, 4 people
Start
As soon as possible
Must have
A record of closing B2B deals Experience selling to the buyers we sell to Ownership of something end to end
Process
Two interviews and a paid trial day

Comp ₹19-78 LPA. Three interviews over a week. Message me with one thing you shipped that you're proud of.

Hyderabad, India · remote OKconsumer brandspaymentsmarketing
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Experience

  1. Co-founder & COO
    Mar 2025 - Present
    Heron Energy · 1 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Hyderabad, India
    • Raised $18 million across 3 rounds.
    • Signed 50 paying customers, 16 of them enterprises.
    • Grew the team to 90 people across 2 countries.
  2. FP&A Manager
    Jul 2023 - Nov 2024
    Kotak Mahindra Bank · 1 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Hyderabad, India
    • Ran diligence on 12 acquisitions.
  3. Senior Financial Analyst
    Oct 2020 - Jul 2023
    Mahindra Group · 2 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Hyderabad, India
    • Saved $8 million a year renegotiating vendor contracts.
  4. Finance Director
    May 2018 - Oct 2020
    Deloitte · 2 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Hyderabad, India
    • Saved $7 million a year renegotiating vendor contracts.
  5. Finance Manager
    Mar 2015 - Apr 2018
    Intuit · 3 yr 1 mo · Full-time · Hyderabad, India
    • Saved $4 million a year renegotiating vendor contracts.
    • Ran diligence on 6 acquisitions.

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Education

  1. BITS Pilani
    B.E., Engineering
    2000 - 2004

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