Varun Gowda

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Founder, Pillar Cloud - enterprise sales · carbon accounting · data

Pillar Cloud
Bengaluru, India · IST (UTC+5:30)
15+ years experience
IIM Bangalore
English, Hindi, Kannada
Raising
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Overview

Building Pillar Cloud in Bengaluru - climate analytics. Took Pillar Cloud from zero to $2 million ARR. Most at home with climate tech and carbon accounting. Former debater; now I argue with spreadsheets.

Good reasons to reach out
  • Investors who back our stage and sector
  • Questions about climate analytics
  • Early customers and design partners
  • Second opinions on enterprise sales decisions
Please don't message about
  • Generic networking requests
  • Offshore staffing offers
  • Agency or outsourcing pitches

Best reached early in the week

Skills
enterprise salescarbon accountingclimate techdata
RaisingRaising capital
closes in 3 months

Seed round open - loyalty programmes for farmer cooperatives, $5M ARR

Stage
Seed
Raising
$5M
Instrument
SAFE
Committed so far
Opening the round now
Lead investor
Looking for a lead
Traction
$5M ARR after 10 months
Use of funds
Engineering hires and the first sales team

$5M ARR after 10 months. Looking for investors who know travel and can help with hiring.

Bengaluru, Indiaenterprise salesdataclimate tech
Open

Experience

  1. Founder
    Jan 2024 - Present
    Pillar Cloud · 2 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
    • Raised $11 million across 3 rounds.
    • Previously built and sold a small climate analytics company.
    • Signed 336 paying customers, 16 of them enterprises.
  2. Senior Consultant
    Mar 2021 - Oct 2023
    Paytm · 2 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
    • Led a cost programme that saved a client $63 million.
    • Ran commercial diligence on 17 deals.
  3. Senior Consultant
    Jan 2018 - Mar 2021
    Zerodha · 3 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
    • Led a cost programme that saved a client $126 million.
    • Ran commercial diligence on 37 deals.
  4. Business Analyst
    Apr 2014 - Jan 2018
    Cognizant · 3 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
    • Shipped 16 launches on the payments platform team without a rollback.
    • Designed the reconciliation system that matches 1 million transactions a day.
  5. Senior Consultant
    Apr 2012 - Apr 2014
    BrowserStack · 2 yr · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
    • Delivered 14 engagements across 10 countries.

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Education

  1. IIM Bangalore
    MBA, Business Administration
    2008 - 2010
  2. IIT Roorkee
    B.Tech, Economics
    2004 - 2008

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