Vaishnavi Wagh

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Founder & CEO, Alder Grid - lending · compliance · consumer fintech

Alder Grid
Pune, India · IST (UTC+5:30)
6+ years experience
Srishti Manipal Institute
English, Hindi, Marathi
Raising
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Overview

I started Alder Grid to fix consumer finance for teams who were tired of the workarounds. Took Alder Grid from zero to $12 million ARR. Before that: Flipkart and Siemens. Most at home with agriculture and consumer fintech. Big believer in written communication.

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Skills
compliancegrowthlendingconsumer fintechagriculture
RaisingRaising capital
closes in 3 months

Raising a $8M seed for rent collection for Indian SMBs

Stage
Seed
Raising
$8M
Instrument
Priced round
Committed so far
$310k from angels
Lead investor
Looking for a lead
Traction
23% month-on-month growth after 6 months
Use of funds
Go-to-market in two new countries

23% month-on-month growth after 6 months. Looking for investors who know fintech and can help with pricing.

Pune, India · remote OKcompliancegrowthlending
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Experience

  1. Founder & CEO
    May 2024 - Present
    Alder Grid · 2 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Pune, India
    • Raised $18 million across 2 rounds.
    • Previously built and sold a small consumer finance company.
    • Signed 38 paying customers, 14 of them enterprises.
  2. Business Analyst
    Feb 2022 - May 2024
    Flipkart · 2 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Pune, India
    • Cut p99 latency on the storage services from 838ms to 48ms.
    • Shipped 27 launches on the storage team without a rollback.
  3. Business Analyst
    Oct 2020 - Feb 2022
    Siemens · 1 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Pune, India
    • Moved 91% of ML platform traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.

Projects

Open-source growth toolkit
2026

A small library for consumer finance that 859 developers star on GitHub.

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Education

  1. Srishti Manipal Institute
    B.Des, Economics
    2015 - 2019

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