Tejinder Khaira

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Founder & CEO at Slate Energy · Developer tooling · Rust, product

Slate Energy
Bengaluru, India · IST (UTC+5:30)
12+ years experience
IIM Ahmedabad
English, Hindi, Kannada
Raising
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Overview

Founder & CEO of Slate Energy, working on developer tooling. Signed 81 paying customers, 12 of them enterprises. Before that: TCS and Qualcomm. Gardening and composting evangelist.

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Skills
productcommunityopen sourceRustdeveloper tools
RaisingRaising capital
closes in 7 weeks

Raising a $4M pre-seed for data labelling for pharmacies

Stage
Pre-seed
Raising
$4M
Instrument
Convertible note
Committed so far
$604k from an existing fund
Lead investor
Looking for a lead
Traction
$2M ARR after 8 months
Use of funds
Go-to-market in two new countries

$2M ARR after 8 months. Looking for investors who know wealth management and can help with pricing.

Bengaluru, India · remote OKopen sourcerustcommunity
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Experience

  1. Founder & CEO
    Nov 2023 - Present
    Slate Energy · 2 yr 11 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
    • Took Slate Energy from zero to $9 million ARR.
    • Grew the team to 79 people across 4 countries.
  2. Sales Development Representative
    Feb 2021 - Jul 2023
    TCS · 2 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
    • Closed 251% of quota two years running.
  3. Sales Development Representative
    Dec 2019 - Feb 2021
    Qualcomm · 1 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
    • Shortened the partnerships sales cycle from 10 months to 3.
    • Opened 3 new logos over $5 million ACV in the region.
  4. Sales Development Representative
    Jun 2016 - Dec 2019
    Myntra · 3 yr 6 mo · Contract · Bengaluru, India
    • Closed 229% of quota two years running.
  5. Senior Account Executive
    Oct 2014 - Jun 2016
    Tata Motors · 1 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
    • Built the enterprise team from 2 to 25 reps.

Projects

Side project: a reading list app
2026

Built with developer tools and open source. 1027 people used it last year.

Open-source community toolkit
2024

A small library for developer tooling that 522 developers star on GitHub.

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Education

  1. IIM Ahmedabad
    MBA, Business Administration
    2015 - 2017
  2. IIT Guwahati
    B.Tech, Economics
    2010 - 2014

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