Melvin Fonseca

Associate at Sandstone Growth · Developer infrastructure · venture capital, open source

Sandstone Growth

Kochi, India · IST (UTC+5:30)

4+ years experience

SRM Institute of Science and Technology

English, Hindi, Malayalam

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Associate at Sandstone Growth, backing developer infrastructure companies. Sit on 4 boards. Previously at HCLTech. Most at home with applied ML and venture capital. I tinker with 3D printers.

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venture capitalopen sourceapplied MLdeveloper tools

InvestingLooking to invest

closes in 3 months

Writing $50k cheques into pre-seed developer infrastructure in India and SEA

Cheque size: $50k
Stages: Pre-seed, Seed
Sectors: Commercial contracts, fintech
Geographies: LatAm
Lead or follow: Any
Decision time: Within a month
How I help: Hiring the first ten people

Usually the first cheque in. Decisions within 2 weeks.

Kochi, Indiaopen sourceventure capitaldeveloper tools

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Associate
Apr 2025 - Present
Sandstone Growth · 1 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Kochi, India
- Secured 4 payments licences.
- Negotiated 280 commercial agreements a year.
- Built the privacy programme for launches in 14 countries.
Finance Director
Oct 2022 - Apr 2025
HCLTech · 2 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Kochi, India
- Ran diligence on 6 acquisitions.

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Education

SRM Institute of Science and Technology
B.Tech, Engineering
2018 - 2022

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