Vandana Kaushik

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Partner, Hawthorn Partners - applied ML · product · venture capital

Hawthorn Partners
Jaipur, India · IST (UTC+5:30)
14+ years experience
Delhi Technological University
English, Hindi
Investing
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Overview

Partner at Hawthorn Partners, backing AI applications companies. Previously an operator for 12 years before investing. Backed 35 founders at pre-seed and seed. Before that: Dream11 and Flipkart. Most at home with applied ML and regulation. Trail runner and occasional climber.

Good reasons to reach out
  • Founders building in data pipelines
  • Second opinions on venture capital decisions
  • Thoughtful intros to people in my field
  • Questions about data pipelines
Please don't message about
  • Unpaid work or spec projects
  • Crypto token projects
  • Offshore staffing offers
Skills
venture capitalproductapplied MLregulation
InvestingLooking to invest
closes in 3 months

Investing in Series B AI applications founders across the US

Cheque size
$500k-$2M
Stages
Pre-seed, Seed
Sectors
Data pipelines
Geographies
MENA
Lead or follow
Co-lead
Decision time
10 business days
How I help
First enterprise customers and pricing

Happy to follow a strong lead. Portfolio support on pricing and enterprise sales.

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Experience

  1. Partner
    May 2023 - Present
    Hawthorn Partners · 3 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Jaipur, India
    • Mentored 8 engineers through their first promotion.
    • Shipped 29 launches on the data platform team without a rollback.
    • Moved 62% of data platform traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
  2. Partnerships Manager
    Nov 2020 - Apr 2023
    Dream11 · 2 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Jaipur, India
    • Shortened the partnerships sales cycle from 10 months to 3.
  3. Partnerships Manager
    Jul 2018 - Nov 2020
    Flipkart · 2 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Jaipur, India
    • Signed 8 channel partners that now source 17% of pipeline.
  4. Account Executive
    Mar 2015 - May 2018
    Mahindra Group · 3 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Jaipur, India
    • Shortened the enterprise sales cycle from 11 months to 6.
  5. Sales Development Representative
    Jul 2012 - Mar 2015
    HCLTech · 2 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Jaipur, India
    • Signed 22 channel partners that now source 21% of pipeline.

Projects

Side project: a habit tracker
2026

Built with applied ML and regulation. 3653 people used it last year.

Data pipelines benchmark
2024

Reproducible benchmarks comparing venture capital and applied ML on real workloads.

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Education

  1. Delhi Technological University
    B.Tech, Finance
    2002 - 2006

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