Vidya Gayatri Ramachandran

Co-founder & COO, Axis Foods - agriculture · supply chain · fintech

Axis Foods

Coimbatore, India · IST (UTC+5:30)

11+ years experience

IIT Kharagpur

English, Hindi, Tamil

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Overview

Co-founder & COO of Axis Foods, working on agritech. Signed 85 paying customers, 20 of them enterprises. Raised $38 million across 2 rounds. Before that: Paytm and Uber. Most at home with fintech and supply chain. Kannada theatre fan.

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Skills

rural distributionfintechsupply chainagriculture

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closes in 3 months

Series A round open - compliance automation for shipping lines, 228 paying customers

Stage: Series A
Raising: $3M
Instrument: SAFE
Committed so far: $225k from operators in the space
Lead investor: Lead in place
Traction: 228 paying customers after 26 months
Use of funds: 18 months of runway to Series A milestones

228 paying customers after 26 months. Looking for investors who know gaming and can help with expansion into India and SEA.

Coimbatore, India · remote OKrural distributionfintechsupply chain

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Experience

Co-founder & COO
Nov 2024 - Present
Axis Foods · 1 yr 11 mo · Contract · Coimbatore, India
- Signed 346 paying customers, 9 of them enterprises.
- Previously built and sold a small agritech company.
Associate Product Manager
Sep 2022 - Oct 2024
Paytm · 2 yr 1 mo · Full-time · Coimbatore, India
- Ran 106 customer interviews before writing the first spec.
Director of Product
May 2019 - Sep 2022
Uber · 3 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Coimbatore, India
- Took logistics activation from 19% to 50% in three quarters.
- Ran 52 customer interviews before writing the first spec.
Director of Product
Sep 2017 - May 2019
Capgemini · 1 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Coimbatore, India
- Launched the logistics product in 3 markets.
- Ran 79 customer interviews before writing the first spec.
Associate Product Manager
Nov 2015 - Sep 2017
Boston Consulting Group · 1 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Coimbatore, India
- Ran 92 customer interviews before writing the first spec.
- Killed 6 features nobody used and shipped the 4 that customers asked for.

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Education

IIT Kharagpur
B.Tech, Economics
2008 - 2012

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