Rahul Subramanian

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Principal at Driftwood Seed Fund · Healthcare · venture capital, biotech

Driftwood Seed Fund
Chennai, India · IST (UTC+5:30)
9+ years experience
Manipal Institute of Technology
English, Hindi, Tamil
Investing
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Overview

I invest in healthcare at Driftwood Seed Fund, usually at pre-seed and seed. Led or co-led 17 investments, 3 of them now at Series B or later. Before that: Persistent Systems and Airtel.

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Travels often; replies within 48 hours

Skills
biotechventure capitalhealthtechbrandsregulation
InvestingLooking to invest
closes in 3 months

Writing $25k cheques into Series A healthcare in MENA

Cheque size
$25k
Stages
Series A
Sectors
Healthcare, B2B SaaS
Geographies
India and Southeast Asia
Lead or follow
Any
Decision time
One meeting and a partner call
How I help
Intros to operators in our network

Usually the first cheque in. Decisions within 1 weeks.

Chennai, Indiabrandshealthtechregulation
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Experience

  1. Principal
    Jan 2026 - Present
    Driftwood Seed Fund · 9 mo · Full-time · Chennai, India
    • Previously an operator for 9 years before investing.
    • Led or co-led 6 investments, 7 of them now at Series B or later.
    • Sit on 5 boards.
  2. Senior Account Executive
    Jun 2024 - Jan 2026
    Persistent Systems · 1 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Chennai, India
    • Opened 6 new logos over $3 million ACV in the region.
    • Shortened the mid-market sales cycle from 11 months to 4.
  3. Sales Manager
    May 2021 - Mar 2024
    Airtel · 2 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Chennai, India
    • Closed 143% of quota two years running.
  4. Regional Sales Director
    Sep 2019 - May 2021
    ICICI Bank · 1 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Chennai, India
    • Closed 160% of quota two years running.
  5. Senior Account Executive
    Oct 2017 - Sep 2019
    Tata Motors · 1 yr 11 mo · Full-time · Chennai, India
    • Built the healthcare team from 5 to 35 reps.
    • Shortened the healthcare sales cycle from 9 months to 3.

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Education

  1. Manipal Institute of Technology
    B.Tech, Finance
    2012 - 2016

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