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Siddhesh Parekh

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Founder & CEO at Quartz Bio | ex-Paytm

Works at
Quartz Bio
Location
Mumbai, India · IST (UTC+5:30)
Experience
7+ years experience
Education
IIT Delhi
Languages
English, Hindi, Marathi
Raising
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Overview

Founder & CEO of Quartz Bio, working on D2C food brands. Raised $14 million across 3 rounds. Previously built and sold a small D2C food brands company. Kannada theatre fan.

Good reasons to reach out
  • Investors who back our stage and sector
  • Second opinions on supply chain decisions
  • Working sessions on marketing
  • Thoughtful intros to people in my field
Please don't message about
  • Generic networking requests
  • Fundraising consultants

Travels often; replies within 48 hours

Skills
marketingconsumer brandsproductsupply chain
RaisingRaising capital
closes in 3 months

Raising a $15M seed for cold-chain monitoring for kirana stores

Stage
Seed
Raising
$15M
Instrument
Priced round
Committed so far
$808k from operators in the space
Lead investor
Looking for a lead
Traction
$144k MRR after 20 months
Use of funds
Engineering hires and the first sales team

$144k MRR after 20 months. Looking for investors who know e-commerce and can help with hiring.

Mumbai, Indiamarketingsupply chainproduct
Open

Experience

  1. Founder & CEO
    Feb 2025 - Present
    Quartz Bio · 1 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Mumbai, India
    • Raised $31 million across 2 rounds.
    • Signed 361 paying customers, 8 of them enterprises.
    • Grew the team to 117 people across 3 countries.
  2. Senior Financial Analyst
    Jul 2022 - Feb 2025
    Paytm · 2 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Mumbai, India
    • Took forecast accuracy to within 2% for 4 straight quarters.
    • Ran diligence on 5 acquisitions.
  3. FP&A Manager
    Jul 2020 - Jul 2022
    Nykaa · 2 yr · Full-time · Mumbai, India
    • Took forecast accuracy to within 1% for 9 straight quarters.
    • Saved $7 million a year renegotiating vendor contracts.
  4. Finance Manager
    Jul 2019 - Apr 2020
    Flipkart · 9 mo · Full-time · Mumbai, India
    • Ran diligence on 3 acquisitions.
    • Built the operating model the board used for a $85 million raise.

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Education

  1. IIT Delhi
    B.Tech, Engineering
    2015 - 2019

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