Vinod Pradeep Raju

Co-founder & COO at Fern Security | ex-Cisco

Fern Security

Visakhapatnam, India · IST (UTC+5:30)

13+ years experience

NID Ahmedabad

English, Hindi, Telugu

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Building Fern Security in Visakhapatnam - climate analytics. Raised $10 million across 3 rounds. Before that: Cisco and Amazon. Most at home with climate tech and data. I tinker with 3D printers.

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climate techdataenterprise salescarbon accounting

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Fern Security is hiring 4 account executives in Visakhapatnam

Role: Account executive
Level: Senior
Type: Full-time
Work mode: On-site
Compensation: ₹42-80 LPA
Team: Founding team, 10 people
Start: This quarter
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 ₹28-63 LPA. We decide within ten days. Message me with one thing you shipped that you're proud of.

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Experience

Co-founder & COO
Apr 2022 - Present
Fern Security · 4 yr 6 mo · Contract · Visakhapatnam, India
- Grew the team to 39 people across 3 countries.
- Signed 117 paying customers, 7 of them enterprises.
Product Manager
Jun 2020 - Apr 2022
Cisco · 1 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Visakhapatnam, India
- Killed 6 features nobody used and shipped the 2 that customers asked for.
- Grew marketplace revenue from $6 million to $31 million ARR.
Senior Product Manager
Jun 2018 - Jun 2020
Amazon · 2 yr · Contract · Visakhapatnam, India
- Cut time-to-first-value for new payments customers from 13 days to 4.
Senior Product Manager
Sep 2015 - Jun 2018
Oracle · 2 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Visakhapatnam, India
- Killed 6 features nobody used and shipped the 4 that customers asked for.
Senior Product Manager
Nov 2013 - Sep 2015
PwC · 1 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Visakhapatnam, India
- Grew developer revenue from $2 million to $20 million ARR.

Projects

Open-source climate tech toolkit

2025

A small library for climate analytics that 96 developers star on GitHub.

Side project: a recipe search engine

2024

Built with data and enterprise sales. 4549 people used it last year.

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Education

NID Ahmedabad
B.Des, Business Administration
2008 - 2012

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