Sachin Khanna

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Founder & CEO at Kestrel Labs | ex-ITC

Kestrel Labs
Gurugram, India · IST (UTC+5:30)
9+ years experience
IIT Hyderabad
English, Hindi
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Overview

Founder of Kestrel Labs (agritech). 9 years of building before that. Signed 315 paying customers, 20 of them enterprises. Previously built and sold a small agritech company. Learning woodworking.

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Skills
fintechrural distributioncompliancesupply chainagriculture
HiringHiring for a role
closes in 3 months

Looking for founding engineers to join Kestrel Labs early - agritech

Role
Founding engineer
Level
Senior
Type
Full-time
Work mode
Remote within country
Compensation
₹50-70 LPA
Team
Founding team, 6 people
Start
Within two months
Must have
Production experience with rural distribution Production experience with fintech Clear written communication
Process
Decision within 10 days

Comp ₹18-76 LPA. One technical chat and a paid trial day. Message me with one thing you shipped that you're proud of.

Gurugram, Indiafintechcompliancerural distribution
Open
RaisingRaising capital
closes in 3 months

Raising a $1.5M pre-seed for freight matching for real-estate developers

Stage
Pre-seed
Raising
$1.5M
Instrument
SAFE
Committed so far
Opening the round now
Lead investor
Looking for a lead
Traction
35% month-on-month growth after 20 months
Use of funds
Engineering hires and the first sales team

35% month-on-month growth after 20 months. Looking for investors who know fintech and can help with regulatory approvals.

Gurugram, Indiaagriculturefintechsupply chain
Open

Experience

  1. Founder & CEO
    Oct 2025 - Present
    Kestrel Labs · 1 yr · Contract · Gurugram, India
    • Previously built and sold a small agritech company.
    • Grew the team to 43 people across 4 countries.
    • Raised $9 million across 2 rounds.
  2. Senior Consultant
    Feb 2023 - Oct 2025
    ITC · 2 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Gurugram, India
    • Ran commercial diligence on 33 deals.
    • Designed the operating model for a 13 thousand-person transformation.
  3. Associate Partner
    Jun 2021 - Feb 2023
    Nykaa · 1 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Gurugram, India
    • Led the migration of 77 services to fintech.
  4. Business Analyst
    May 2019 - Jun 2021
    InMobi · 2 yr 1 mo · Full-time · Gurugram, India
    • Wrote the supply chain service that now handles 43 million requests a day.
  5. Senior Consultant
    Oct 2017 - May 2019
    Adobe · 1 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Gurugram, India
    • Led a cost programme that saved a client $81 million.

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Education

  1. IIT Hyderabad
    B.Tech, Engineering
    2012 - 2016

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