Nabanita Kar

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Angel Investor at Independent · Consumer

Independent
Noida, India · IST (UTC+5:30)
11+ years experience
NIT Trichy
English, Hindi
Investing
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Overview

Angel investor, backing consumer companies. Sit on 5 boards. Previously an operator for 6 years before investing. Before that: KPMG and Qualcomm. I mentor students through university programmes.

Good reasons to reach out
  • Founders building in consumer
  • Second opinions on venture capital decisions
  • Thoughtful intros to people in my field
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Skills
marketplacesventure capitalbrandsproduct
InvestingLooking to invest
closes in 3 months

Investing in seed consumer founders across Europe

Cheque size
$100k-$500k
Stages
Series A
Sectors
Consumer
Geographies
India and Southeast Asia
Lead or follow
Any
Decision time
10 business days
How I help
First enterprise customers and pricing

Typically lead or co-lead. Former operator - I help with hiring and GTM.

Noida, Indiaventure capitalbrandsmarketplaces
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Experience

  1. Angel Investor
    Jul 2023 - Present
    Independent · 3 yr 3 mo · Contract · Noida, India
    • Sit on 3 boards.
    • Backed 15 founders at pre-seed and seed.
    • Led or co-led 29 investments, 5 of them now at Series B or later.
  2. Staff Backend Engineer
    Jul 2021 - Jun 2023
    KPMG · 1 yr 11 mo · Full-time · Noida, India
    • Moved 68% of search traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
  3. Director of Engineering
    Dec 2019 - May 2021
    Qualcomm · 1 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Noida, India
    • Built the experimentation framework 32 product teams use to ship changes safely.
  4. Senior Backend Engineer
    Nov 2017 - Dec 2019
    Boston Consulting Group · 2 yr 1 mo · Full-time · Noida, India
    • Led the migration of 12 services to brands.
    • Grew the firmware team from 4 to 24 engineers.
  5. Senior Engineering Manager
    Apr 2016 - Nov 2017
    Salesforce · 1 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Noida, India
    • Led the migration of 36 services to product.
    • Grew the iOS team from 5 to 20 engineers.

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Education

  1. NIT Trichy
    B.Tech, Computer Science
    1993 - 1997

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