Sandeep Ganesan

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Partner at Foxglove Growth · AI applications

Foxglove Growth
Hyderabad, India · IST (UTC+5:30)
9+ years experience
Christ University
English, Hindi, Telugu
Investing
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Overview

12 years around startups; now investing in AI applications. Backed 20 founders at pre-seed and seed. Sit on 2 boards. Most at home with applied ML and product.

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  • Founders building in iOS apps
  • Speaking or podcast invitations
  • Second opinions on venture capital decisions
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Skills
venture capitalproductapplied ML
InvestingLooking to invest
closes in 3 months

Writing $1M cheques into Series An AI applications in Africa

Cheque size
$1M
Stages
Seed, Series A
Sectors
IOS apps, climate
Geographies
US and Europe
Lead or follow
Any
Decision time
10 business days
How I help
Fundraising strategy for the next round

Typically lead or co-lead. Decisions within 3 weeks.

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Experience

  1. Partner
    May 2025 - Present
    Foxglove Growth · 1 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Hyderabad, India
    • Moved 74% of iOS traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
    • Led the migration of 21 services to applied ML.
  2. FP&A Manager
    Apr 2023 - May 2025
    Infosys · 2 yr 1 mo · Full-time · Hyderabad, India
    • Built the operating model the board used for a $50 million raise.
    • Took forecast accuracy to within 4% for 7 straight quarters.
  3. Finance Director
    Dec 2021 - Mar 2023
    Mastercard · 1 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Hyderabad, India
    • Closed the books in 5 days, down from 17.
  4. Finance Director
    Mar 2020 - Oct 2021
    Zoho · 1 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Hyderabad, India
    • Took forecast accuracy to within 4% for 6 straight quarters.
    • Built the operating model the board used for a $95 million raise.
  5. Finance Manager
    Feb 2018 - Dec 2019
    Mastercard · 1 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Hyderabad, India
    • Saved $9 million a year renegotiating vendor contracts.

Projects

IOS apps benchmark
2025

Reproducible benchmarks comparing product and venture capital on real workloads.

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Education

  1. Christ University
    BBA, Engineering
    2010 - 2014

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