Meet Gaikwad

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Angel Investor, Independent - venture capital · healthtech · regulation

Independent
Mumbai, India · IST (UTC+5:30)
16+ years experience
IIIT Hyderabad
English, Hindi, Marathi
Investing
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Overview

Angel investor, backing healthcare companies. Sit on 3 boards. Most at home with healthtech and regulation. I teach a weekend class on healthtech.

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Skills
healthtechventure capitalbiotechregulation
InvestingLooking to invest
closes in 3 months

Investing in pre-seed healthcare founders across India

Cheque size
$25k-$100k
Stages
Seed
Sectors
Healthcare, B2B SaaS
Geographies
India and Southeast Asia
Lead or follow
Any
Decision time
One meeting and a partner call
How I help
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Usually the first cheque in. We reply to every founder.

Mumbai, India · remote OKventure capitalhealthtechregulation
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Experience

  1. Angel Investor
    Sep 2023 - Present
    Independent · 3 yr 1 mo · Full-time · Mumbai, India
    • Sit on 4 boards.
    • Led or co-led 23 investments, 4 of them now at Series B or later.
  2. Consultant
    Apr 2020 - Jun 2023
    Freshworks · 3 yr 2 mo · Contract · Mumbai, India
    • Ran commercial diligence on 26 deals.
  3. Senior Consultant
    Dec 2016 - Apr 2020
    Nykaa · 3 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Mumbai, India
    • Designed the operating model for a 10 thousand-person transformation.
    • Ran commercial diligence on 19 deals.
  4. Consultant
    Sep 2013 - Dec 2016
    Cisco · 3 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Mumbai, India
    • Ran commercial diligence on 24 deals.
    • Designed the operating model for a 16 thousand-person transformation.
  5. Associate Partner
    Oct 2010 - Sep 2013
    Dream11 · 2 yr 11 mo · Full-time · Mumbai, India
    • Brought on-call pages for Android down from 33 a week to 1.
    • Led the migration of 66 services to regulation.

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Education

  1. IIIT Hyderabad
    B.Tech, Economics
    1998 - 2002

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