Pooja Dhwani Modi

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Associate at Tidewater Partners · Fintech · board work, venture capital

Tidewater Partners
Ahmedabad, India · IST (UTC+5:30)
5+ years experience
NID Ahmedabad
English, Hindi, Gujarati
Advising
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Overview

5 years around startups; now investing in fintech. Led or co-led 38 investments, 7 of them now at Series B or later. Backed 30 founders at pre-seed and seed. Most at home with due diligence and energy. I speak at conferences a couple of times a year.

Good reasons to reach out
  • Advice on fintech regulation
  • Questions about fintech regulation
  • Working sessions on due diligence
  • Thoughtful intros to people in my field
Please don't message about
  • Generic networking requests
  • Unpaid work or spec projects
  • SEO and link-building offers

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Skills
energyboard workventure capitaldue diligence
AdvisingOpen to advising
closes in 3 months

Office hours for angels writing a first cheque: fintech and energy

Topics
fintech regulation, board work, energy
Format
Formal advisor role
Terms
Open to discuss
Capacity
One call a month
Best for
Seed to Series A teams

5 years of fintech. Prefer specific questions over coffee chats.

Ahmedabad, Indiaenergyboard workdue diligence
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Experience

  1. Associate
    Feb 2026 - Present
    Tidewater Partners · 8 mo · Full-time · Ahmedabad, India
    • Secured 5 payments licences.
    • Negotiated 213 commercial agreements a year.
    • Built the privacy programme for launches in 17 countries.
  2. Group Product Manager
    Jun 2022 - Dec 2025
    Google · 3 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Ahmedabad, India
    • Ran 97 customer interviews before writing the first spec.
    • Cut time-to-first-value for new developer customers from 9 days to 1.
  3. Senior Product Manager
    Oct 2021 - Jun 2022
    Zoho · 8 mo · Full-time · Ahmedabad, India
    • Killed 7 features nobody used and shipped the 4 that customers asked for.
    • Cut time-to-first-value for new growth customers from 13 days to 2.

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Education

  1. NID Ahmedabad
    B.Des, Economics
    2017 - 2021

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