Smit Sagar Sawant

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Principal, Silverline Seed Fund - venture capital · marketplaces · brands

Silverline Seed Fund
Mumbai, India · IST (UTC+5:30)
5+ years experience
VIT Vellore
English, Hindi, Marathi
Investing
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Overview

Principal at Silverline Seed Fund, backing consumer companies. Previously an operator for 7 years before investing. Sit on 7 boards.

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  • Founders building in consumer
  • Questions about consumer
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Skills
regulationbrandsmarketplacesventure capital
InvestingLooking to invest
closes in 3 months

Writing $500k cheques into seed consumer in MENA

Cheque size
$500k
Stages
Series A
Sectors
Consumer, AI applications
Geographies
US and Europe
Lead or follow
Any
Decision time
One meeting and a partner call
How I help
Hiring the first ten people

Usually the first cheque in. Former operator - I help with hiring and GTM.

Mumbai, Indiabrandsmarketplacesventure capital
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Experience

  1. Principal
    Nov 2024 - Present
    Silverline Seed Fund · 1 yr 11 mo · Contract · Mumbai, India
    • Sit on 3 boards.
    • Led or co-led 40 investments, 5 of them now at Series B or later.
  2. Finance Director
    Jul 2022 - Nov 2024
    Paytm · 2 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Mumbai, India
    • Ran diligence on 12 acquisitions.
    • Closed the books in 3 days, down from 11.
  3. Financial Analyst
    Oct 2021 - Jul 2022
    Postman · 9 mo · Full-time · Mumbai, India
    • Saved $6 million a year renegotiating vendor contracts.
    • Built the operating model the board used for a $123 million raise.

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Education

  1. VIT Vellore
    B.Tech, Computer Science
    2016 - 2020

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