Manoj Menon

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Associate at Banyan Ventures | ex-HDFC Bank

Banyan Ventures
Chennai, India · IST (UTC+5:30)
5+ years experience
IIM Lucknow
English, Hindi, Tamil
Investing
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Overview

5 years around startups; now investing in fintech. Led or co-led 25 investments, 8 of them now at Series B or later. Before that: HDFC Bank and BigBasket. Most at home with venture capital and due diligence. Coffee nerd.

Good reasons to reach out
  • Founders building in fintech regulation
  • Working sessions on board work
  • Second opinions on due diligence decisions
  • Speaking or podcast invitations
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  • Crypto token projects
  • Unpaid work or spec projects
Skills
venture capitalboard workdue diligence
InvestingLooking to invest
closes in 3 months

Writing $100k cheques into Series A fintech in the Nordics

Cheque size
$100k
Stages
Seed
Sectors
Fintech regulation
Geographies
India
Lead or follow
Follow
Decision time
About two weeks
How I help
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Typically lead or co-lead. Portfolio support on pricing and enterprise sales.

Chennai, India · remote OKboard workdue diligenceventure capital
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Experience

  1. Associate
    Jun 2025 - Present
    Banyan Ventures · 1 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Chennai, India
    • Secured 2 payments licences.
    • Negotiated 224 commercial agreements a year.
    • Built the privacy programme for launches in 22 countries.
  2. Staff Backend Engineer
    Feb 2023 - Jun 2025
    HDFC Bank · 2 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Chennai, India
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 43 minutes to under 2.
  3. Senior Engineering Manager
    Oct 2021 - Feb 2023
    BigBasket · 1 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Chennai, India
    • Grew the iOS team from 5 to 37 engineers.
    • Wrote the board work service that now handles 21 million requests a day.

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Education

  1. IIM Lucknow
    MBA, Business Administration
    2021 - 2023
  2. PSG College of Technology
    B.E., Engineering
    2016 - 2020

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