Raghu Murthy

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Partner at Kiteline Seed Fund · applied ML, product

Kiteline Seed Fund
Mumbai, India · IST (UTC+5:30)
10+ years experience
NIT Trichy
English, Hindi, Marathi
Investing
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Overview

I invest in AI applications at Kiteline Seed Fund, usually at pre-seed and seed. Sit on 4 boards.

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  • Founders building in platform engineering
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Skills
applied MLhealthtechproductventure capital
InvestingLooking to invest
closes in 3 months

Writing $50k cheques into Series An AI applications in India

Cheque size
$50k
Stages
Pre-seed, Seed
Sectors
Platform engineering, fintech
Geographies
LatAm
Lead or follow
Any
Decision time
About two weeks
How I help
Fundraising strategy for the next round

Usually the first cheque in. Former operator - I help with hiring and GTM.

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Experience

  1. Partner
    May 2025 - Present
    Kiteline Seed Fund · 1 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Mumbai, India
    • Grew the developer platform team from 3 to 31 engineers.
    • Reduced cloud spend on developer platform by 31% in two quarters.
  2. Product Manager
    Aug 2023 - May 2025
    Axis Bank · 1 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Mumbai, India
    • Grew platform revenue from $9 million to $38 million ARR.
    • Ran 99 customer interviews before writing the first spec.
  3. Group Product Manager
    Aug 2021 - Aug 2023
    Asian Paints · 2 yr · Full-time · Mumbai, India
    • Killed 3 features nobody used and shipped the 4 that customers asked for.
    • Launched the growth product in 7 markets.
  4. Associate Product Manager
    Nov 2018 - Aug 2021
    EY · 2 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Mumbai, India
    • Ran 108 customer interviews before writing the first spec.
    • Killed 6 features nobody used and shipped the 3 that customers asked for.
  5. Product Manager
    Jun 2016 - Nov 2018
    Siemens · 2 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Mumbai, India
    • Killed 6 features nobody used and shipped the 4 that customers asked for.

Projects

Side project: a habit tracker
2026

Built with applied ML and product. 1431 people used it last year.

Write-up: platform engineering in practice
2023

A long-form guide to platform engineering for people starting out.

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Education

  1. NIT Trichy
    B.Tech, Computer Science
    2004 - 2008

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