Vikram Goel

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Founder & CEO at Maple AI | ex-Groww

Maple AI
New Delhi, India · IST (UTC+5:30)
14+ years experience
BITS Pilani
English, Hindi
HiringRaising
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Overview

Founder of Maple AI (supply chain software). 14 years of building before that. Previously built and sold a small supply chain software company. Grew the team to 40 people across 5 countries. Most at home with enterprise sales and operations. Plant-based cook and baker.

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  • Candidates for the role I'm hiring for
  • Investors who back our stage and sector
  • Second opinions on enterprise sales decisions
  • Thoughtful intros to people in my field
  • Questions about supply chain software
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Skills
SaaSoperationslogisticsenterprise sales
HiringHiring for a role
closes in 4 months

Hiring our first account executive at Maple AI - New Delhi

Role
Account executive
Level
Senior
Type
Full-time
Work mode
On-site
Compensation
₹36-55 LPA
Team
Founding team, 7 people
Start
As soon as possible
Must have
A record of closing B2B deals Experience selling to the buyers we sell to Clear written communication
Process
3 conversations, no take-home

Comp ₹35-81 LPA. Three interviews over a week. Message me with one thing you shipped that you're proud of.

New Delhi, Indiaenterprise salesoperationssaas
Open
RaisingRaising capital
closes in 7 weeks

Pre-seed round open - micro-pensions for community banks, 103 paying customers

Stage
Pre-seed
Raising
$2M
Instrument
SAFE
Committed so far
Opening the round now
Lead investor
Lead in place
Traction
103 paying customers after 20 months
Use of funds
Go-to-market in two new countries

103 paying customers after 20 months. Looking for investors who know biotech and can help with regulatory approvals.

New Delhi, Indiasaasenterprise salesoperations
Open

Experience

  1. Founder & CEO
    Sep 2023 - Present
    Maple AI · 3 yr 1 mo · Contract · New Delhi, India
    • Raised $13 million across 3 rounds.
    • Grew the team to 77 people across 4 countries.
  2. Engineering Manager
    Jun 2022 - Sep 2023
    Groww · 1 yr 3 mo · Full-time · New Delhi, India
    • Built the experimentation framework 19 product teams use to ship changes safely.
    • Moved 88% of storage traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
  3. Principal Engineer
    Jul 2019 - Jun 2022
    Microsoft · 2 yr 11 mo · Full-time · New Delhi, India
    • Led or co-led 33 investments, 8 of them now at Series B or later.
    • Sit on 7 boards.
  4. Senior Engineering Manager
    Jul 2016 - Jul 2019
    Persistent Systems · 3 yr · Full-time · New Delhi, India
    • Reduced cloud spend on developer experience by 26% in two quarters.
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 41 minutes to under 6.
  5. Principal Engineer
    Dec 2012 - Jul 2016
    Samsung R&D · 3 yr 7 mo · Full-time · New Delhi, India
    • Previously an operator for 11 years before investing.

Projects

Supply chain software benchmark
2025

Reproducible benchmarks comparing logistics and enterprise sales on real workloads.

Write-up: supply chain software in practice
2023

A long-form guide to supply chain software for people starting out.

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Education

  1. BITS Pilani
    B.E., Business Administration
    2007 - 2011

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