Rohan Gandhi

Founder & CEO at Spindle Foods · B2B payments · product, fintech

Spindle Foods

Mumbai, India · IST (UTC+5:30)

12+ years experience

SRM Institute of Science and Technology

English, Hindi, Marathi

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Overview

Founder of Spindle Foods (B2B payments). 18 years of building before that. Raised $2 million across 3 rounds. Previously built and sold a small B2B payments company. Before that: Goldman Sachs and BrowserStack. I speak at conferences a couple of times a year.

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Early customers and design partners
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Skills

fundraisingproductfintechD2C

RaisingRaising capital

closes in 3 months

Raising a $2M pre-seed for credit underwriting for dental practices

Stage: Pre-seed
Raising: $2M
Instrument: SAFE
Committed so far: Opening the round now
Lead investor: Looking for a lead
Traction: $363k MRR after 30 months
Use of funds: Product and compliance

$363k MRR after 30 months. Looking for investors who know robotics and can help with enterprise sales.

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HiringHiring for a role

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Hiring our first founding engineer at Spindle Foods - Mumbai

Role: Founding engineer
Level: Senior
Type: Full-time
Work mode: Remote within country
Compensation: ₹42-55 LPA
Team: Founding team, 4 people
Start: Within two months
Must have: Production experience with fintech Production experience with D2C Good judgment about what not to build
Process: 3 conversations, no take-home

Comp ₹34-53 LPA. Four conversations, no take-home. Message me with one thing you shipped that you're proud of.

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Experience

Founder & CEO
Feb 2024 - Present
Spindle Foods · 2 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Mumbai, India
- Took Spindle Foods from zero to $12 million ARR.
- Grew the team to 24 people across 2 countries.
- Signed 309 paying customers, 11 of them enterprises.
Senior Account Executive
Aug 2021 - Feb 2024
Goldman Sachs · 2 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Mumbai, India
- Signed 24 channel partners that now source 33% of pipeline.
- Opened 7 new logos over $2 million ACV in the region.
Regional Sales Director
Feb 2020 - Aug 2021
BrowserStack · 1 yr 6 mo · Contract · Mumbai, India
- Signed 11 channel partners that now source 37% of pipeline.
- Closed 227% of quota two years running.
Account Executive
Aug 2018 - Feb 2020
Asian Paints · 1 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Mumbai, India
- Signed 12 channel partners that now source 34% of pipeline.
Senior Account Executive
Mar 2015 - Aug 2018
Tata Motors · 3 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Mumbai, India
- Shortened the partnerships sales cycle from 10 months to 6.
- Signed 28 channel partners that now source 30% of pipeline.

Projects

Side project: a budgeting app

2025

Built with fundraising and fintech. 226 people used it last year.

Conference talk: lessons from company

2024

What went wrong and what worked while scaling B2B payments.

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Education

SRM Institute of Science and Technology
B.Tech, Economics
2003 - 2007

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