Pradeep Narayanan

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Principal at Kiteline Ventures · B2B SaaS

Kiteline Ventures
New Delhi, India · IST (UTC+5:30)
8+ years experience
ISB Hyderabad
English, Hindi
InvestingAdvising
Messaging unavailable

Overview

8 years around startups; now investing in B2B SaaS. Previously an operator for 5 years before investing. Before that: Flipkart and Postman. Board member at a local non-profit.

Good reasons to reach out
  • Advice on B2B SaaS
  • Founders building in B2B SaaS
  • Questions about B2B SaaS
Please don't message about
  • Fund-of-funds solicitations
  • Generic networking requests
  • Crypto token projects

Answers in batches on Fridays

Skills
pricinggo-to-marketventure capital
InvestingLooking to invest
closes in 3 months

Investing in pre-seed B2B SaaS founders across India

Cheque size
$25k-$100k
Stages
Seed
Sectors
B2B SaaS, AI applications
Geographies
India and Southeast Asia
Lead or follow
Lead
Decision time
About two weeks
How I help
First enterprise customers and pricing

Usually the first cheque in. We reply to every founder.

New Delhi, Indiapricingventure capitalgo-to-market
Open
AdvisingOpen to advising
closes in 3 months

Office hours for founders preparing a seed round: B2B SaaS and pricing

Topics
B2B SaaS, go-to-market, venture capital
Format
Formal advisor role
Terms
Free for early founders
Capacity
Two calls a month
Best for
First-time founders

8 years of B2B SaaS. Prefer specific questions over coffee chats.

New Delhi, Indiago-to-marketventure capitalpricing
Open

Experience

  1. Principal
    Aug 2025 - Present
    Kiteline Ventures · 1 yr 2 mo · Full-time · New Delhi, India
    • Backed 24 founders at pre-seed and seed.
    • Sit on 4 boards.
  2. Principal Engineer
    May 2022 - Jun 2025
    Flipkart · 3 yr 1 mo · Full-time · New Delhi, India
    • Sit on 6 boards.
  3. Security Engineer
    Jan 2021 - May 2022
    Postman · 1 yr 4 mo · Full-time · New Delhi, India
    • Wrote the venture capital service that now handles 48 million requests a day.
  4. Senior Engineering Manager
    Oct 2018 - Jan 2021
    Bajaj Finserv · 2 yr 3 mo · Full-time · New Delhi, India
    • Grew the Android team from 3 to 33 engineers.
    • Cut cold-start time on low-end Android phones by 34%.

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Education

  1. ISB Hyderabad
    MBA, Business Administration
    2020 - 2022
  2. Manipal Institute of Technology
    B.Tech, Computer Science
    2014 - 2018

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