Valerie Carvalho

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Co-founder & COO at Meridian Ops · D2C food brands · supply chain, consumer brands

Meridian Ops
Kochi, India · IST (UTC+5:30)
12+ years experience
IIT Bombay IDC
English, Hindi, Malayalam
Raising
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Overview

Co-founder & COO of Meridian Ops, working on D2C food brands. Took Meridian Ops from zero to $3 million ARR. Raised $23 million across 2 rounds. Most at home with mobile and supply chain. Kannada theatre fan.

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consumer brandsmarketingsupply chainmobile
RaisingRaising capital
closes in 3 months

Pre-seed round open - insurance claims for university students, 121 paying customers

Stage
Pre-seed
Raising
$1.5M
Instrument
SAFE
Committed so far
Opening the round now
Lead investor
Looking for a lead
Traction
121 paying customers after 9 months
Use of funds
Engineering hires and the first sales team

121 paying customers after 9 months. Looking for investors who know food delivery and can help with hiring.

Kochi, India · remote OKmarketingconsumer brandssupply chain
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Experience

  1. Co-founder & COO
    Feb 2024 - Present
    Meridian Ops · 2 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Kochi, India
    • Previously built and sold a small D2C food brands company.
    • Raised $32 million across 2 rounds.
  2. Engineering Manager
    May 2022 - Feb 2024
    Cisco · 1 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Kochi, India
    • Grew the developer platform team from 5 to 35 engineers.
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 45 minutes to under 3.
  3. Embedded Engineer
    Aug 2018 - May 2022
    LTIMindtree · 3 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Kochi, India
    • Cut p99 latency on the search services from 409ms to 78ms.
  4. Data Engineer
    Dec 2016 - Aug 2018
    Accenture · 1 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Kochi, India
    • Cut the time to a trustworthy experiment readout from 3 weeks to 3 days.
    • Wrote the metric definitions the leadership team reviews every week.
  5. Engineering Manager
    Feb 2015 - Sep 2016
    Salesforce · 1 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Kochi, India
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 43 minutes to under 4.

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Education

  1. IIT Bombay IDC
    M.Des, Computer Science
    2012 - 2014
  2. BITS Pilani
    B.E., Computer Science
    2007 - 2011

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