Tara Asha Reddy

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Angel Investor at Independent | ex-Allianz

Independent
Vienna, Austria · CET (UTC+1)
10+ years experience
École Polytechnique
English, German
Investing
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Overview

Angel investor, backing fintech companies. Sit on 7 boards. Before that: Allianz and Feedzai. Most at home with venture capital and board work.

Good reasons to reach out
  • Founders building in fintech
  • Speaking or podcast invitations
  • Questions about fintech
  • Working sessions on venture capital
Please don't message about
  • Offshore staffing offers
  • Decks without a clear ask
  • Agency or outsourcing pitches

Replies on weekends

Skills
venture capitalboard workdue diligence
InvestingLooking to invest
closes in 3 months

Writing $250k cheques into Series A fintech in MENA

Cheque size
$250k
Stages
Seed
Sectors
Fintech, B2B SaaS
Geographies
India and Southeast Asia
Lead or follow
Co-lead
Decision time
About two weeks
How I help
First enterprise customers and pricing

Usually the first cheque in. Decisions within 2 weeks.

Vienna, Austriaventure capitaldue diligenceboard work
Open

Experience

  1. Angel Investor
    Oct 2024 - Present
    Independent · 2 yr · Full-time · Vienna, Austria
    • Previously an operator for 7 years before investing.
    • Backed 49 founders at pre-seed and seed.
  2. Staff Platform Engineer
    May 2023 - Oct 2024
    Allianz · 1 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Vienna, Austria
    • Brought on-call pages for storage down from 40 a week to 3.
    • Built the experimentation framework 12 product teams use to ship changes safely.
  3. Senior Engineering Manager
    Feb 2022 - May 2023
    Feedzai · 1 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Vienna, Austria
    • Brought on-call pages for storage down from 15 a week to 2.
  4. Full-Stack Engineer
    May 2018 - Jan 2022
    McKinsey & Company · 3 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Vienna, Austria
    • Shipped 16 launches on the payments platform team without a rollback.
    • Reduced cloud spend on payments platform by 33% in two quarters.
  5. Software Engineer
    May 2016 - May 2018
    Uber · 2 yr · Full-time · Vienna, Austria
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 44 minutes to under 4.
    • Moved 92% of firmware traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.

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Education

  1. École Polytechnique
    Ingénieur, Economics
    2009 - 2013

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