Manish Kalra

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Co-founder & CTO at Basil Finance · Climate analytics · enterprise sales, data

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

Co-founder & CTO of Basil Finance, working on climate analytics. Grew the team to 103 people across 4 countries. Before that: Zoho and Atlassian. Most at home with carbon accounting and enterprise sales. Yoga every morning.

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  • Investors who back our stage and sector
  • Early customers and design partners
  • Working sessions on carbon accounting
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  • SEO and link-building offers

Replies between meetings, usually same day

Skills
dataclimate techcarbon accountingenterprise sales
RaisingRaising capital
closes in 4 months

Seed round open - procurement for logistics fleets, 18 enterprise pilots

Stage
Seed
Raising
$3M
Instrument
Priced round
Committed so far
Opening the round now
Lead investor
Lead in place
Traction
18 enterprise pilots after 21 months
Use of funds
Product and compliance

18 enterprise pilots after 21 months. Looking for investors who know B2B SaaS and can help with expansion into Africa.

Bengaluru, Indiadataenterprise salesclimate tech
Open

Experience

  1. Co-founder & CTO
    Jan 2023 - Present
    Basil Finance · 3 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
    • Signed 306 paying customers, 21 of them enterprises.
    • Took Basil Finance from zero to $3 million ARR.
    • Raised $35 million across 2 rounds.
  2. Senior Financial Analyst
    Aug 2019 - Jan 2023
    Zoho · 3 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
    • Closed the books in 6 days, down from 17.
  3. Controller
    Dec 2016 - May 2019
    Atlassian · 2 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
    • Saved $6 million a year renegotiating vendor contracts.
    • Ran diligence on 10 acquisitions.
  4. Controller
    Oct 2015 - Dec 2016
    Morgan Stanley · 1 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
    • Ran diligence on 5 acquisitions.
    • Closed the books in 3 days, down from 12.

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Education

  1. ISB Hyderabad
    MBA, Business Administration
    2018 - 2020
  2. IIT Roorkee
    B.Tech, Engineering
    2011 - 2015

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