Piyush Tripathi

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Principal at Tamarind Growth · Consumer · brands, marketplaces

Tamarind Growth
Pune, India · IST (UTC+5:30)
10+ years experience
FMS Delhi
English, Hindi, Marathi
Investing
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Overview

10 years around startups; now investing in consumer. Sit on 3 boards. Gardening and composting evangelist.

Good reasons to reach out
  • Founders building in consumer
  • Speaking or podcast invitations
  • Questions about consumer
  • Thoughtful intros to people in my field
Please don't message about
  • Unpaid work or spec projects
  • SEO and link-building offers
  • Decks without a clear ask

Travels often; replies within 48 hours

Skills
brandsventure capitalmarketplaces
InvestingLooking to invest
closes in 3 months

Investing in pre-seed consumer founders across MENA

Cheque size
$500k-$2M
Stages
Pre-seed, Seed
Sectors
Consumer
Geographies
MENA
Lead or follow
Lead
Decision time
Within a month
How I help
Fundraising strategy for the next round

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

Pune, India · remote OKbrandsventure capitalmarketplaces
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Experience

  1. Principal
    Dec 2024 - Present
    Tamarind Growth · 1 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Pune, India
    • Previously an operator for 10 years before investing.
    • Backed 45 founders at pre-seed and seed.
  2. Associate Product Manager
    Feb 2023 - Dec 2024
    JPMorgan Chase · 1 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Pune, India
    • Took marketplace activation from 22% to 42% in three quarters.
    • Grew marketplace revenue from $6 million to $42 million ARR.
  3. Senior Product Manager
    Feb 2021 - Feb 2023
    BrowserStack · 2 yr · Full-time · Pune, India
    • Grew marketplace revenue from $6 million to $45 million ARR.
  4. Product Manager
    Feb 2019 - Feb 2021
    Oracle · 2 yr · Full-time · Pune, India
    • Ran 76 customer interviews before writing the first spec.
  5. Director of Product
    Oct 2016 - Feb 2019
    Goldman Sachs · 2 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Pune, India
    • Killed 7 features nobody used and shipped the 4 that customers asked for.

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Education

  1. FMS Delhi
    MBA, Business Administration
    2016 - 2018
  2. IIT Delhi
    B.Tech, Finance
    2011 - 2015

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