Meera Kalpana Rao

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Principal at Saltwater Partners · Developer infrastructure

Saltwater Partners
Thiruvananthapuram, India · IST (UTC+5:30)
8+ years experience
IIT Bombay IDC
English, Hindi, Malayalam
Investing
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Overview

Principal at Saltwater Partners, backing developer infrastructure companies. Sit on 7 boards. Before that: Kotak Mahindra Bank and Walmart Global Tech.

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Answers in batches on Fridays

Skills
open sourceventure capitaldeveloper tools
InvestingLooking to invest
closes in 3 months

Writing $100k cheques into pre-seed developer infrastructure in Southeast Asia

Cheque size
$100k
Stages
Pre-seed, Seed
Sectors
Developer infrastructure
Geographies
Global
Lead or follow
Any
Decision time
10 business days
How I help
First enterprise customers and pricing

Usually the first cheque in. Former operator - I help with hiring and GTM.

Thiruvananthapuram, Indiaventure capitaldeveloper toolsopen source
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Experience

  1. Principal
    Feb 2026 - Present
    Saltwater Partners · 8 mo · Full-time · Thiruvananthapuram, India
    • Backed 15 founders at pre-seed and seed.
    • Led or co-led 40 investments, 7 of them now at Series B or later.
  2. Senior Consultant
    Aug 2022 - Feb 2026
    Kotak Mahindra Bank · 3 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Thiruvananthapuram, India
    • Ran commercial diligence on 29 deals.
  3. Business Analyst
    Apr 2021 - Aug 2022
    Walmart Global Tech · 1 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Thiruvananthapuram, India
    • Wrote the open source service that now handles 82 million requests a day.
    • Cut p99 latency on the developer platform services from 826ms to 45ms.
  4. Senior Consultant
    Jul 2019 - Feb 2021
    Infosys · 1 yr 7 mo · Contract · Thiruvananthapuram, India
    • Led a cost programme that saved a client $30 million.
  5. Senior Consultant
    Oct 2018 - Jul 2019
    Ola · 9 mo · Contract · Thiruvananthapuram, India
    • Delivered 19 engagements across 9 countries.
    • Ran commercial diligence on 32 deals.

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Education

  1. IIT Bombay IDC
    M.Des, Economics
    2017 - 2019
  2. IIT Kanpur
    B.Tech, Economics
    2013 - 2017

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