Vijay Mahesh Babu

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Principal at Driftwood Seed Fund · board work, due diligence

Driftwood Seed Fund
Chennai, India · IST (UTC+5:30)
8+ years experience
IIM Bangalore
English, Hindi, Tamil
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Overview

8 years around startups; now investing in fintech. Sit on 4 boards. Most at home with venture capital and due diligence. I teach a weekend class on venture capital.

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venture capitalboard workdue diligence

Experience

  1. Principal
    Aug 2022 - Present
    Driftwood Seed Fund · 4 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Chennai, India
    • Led or co-led 38 investments, 6 of them now at Series B or later.
    • Sit on 3 boards.
  2. Director of Product
    Apr 2020 - Aug 2022
    Deloitte · 2 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Chennai, India
    • Ran 186 customer interviews before writing the first spec.
  3. Director of Product
    Dec 2018 - Apr 2020
    Morgan Stanley · 1 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Chennai, India
    • Cut time-to-first-value for new creator customers from 18 days to 1.
    • Killed 8 features nobody used and shipped the 4 that customers asked for.

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Education

  1. IIM Bangalore
    MBA, Business Administration
    2020 - 2022
  2. University of Delhi
    B.Com, Engineering
    2014 - 2018

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