Vyshak Babu

Overview

15 years around startups; now investing in AI applications. Backed 53 founders at pre-seed and seed. Sit on 2 boards. Most at home with applied ML and venture capital.

Answers in batches on Fridays

Experience

1. Partner

   Dec 2022 - Present
   Banyan Seed Fund · 3 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Coimbatore, India
   • Grew the public API team from 5 to 23 engineers.
   • Moved 61% of public API traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
   • Led the migration of 72 services to applied ML.
2. FP&A Manager

   Dec 2020 - Dec 2022
   Uber · 2 yr · Full-time · Coimbatore, India
   • Built the operating model the board used for a $80 million raise.
   • Took forecast accuracy to within 1% for 6 straight quarters.
3. Finance Director

   Sep 2018 - Dec 2020
   Philips · 2 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Coimbatore, India
   • Ran diligence on 6 acquisitions.
4. Controller

   May 2017 - Sep 2018
   Nykaa · 1 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Coimbatore, India
   • Took forecast accuracy to within 1% for 9 straight quarters.
5. Senior Financial Analyst

   May 2014 - May 2017
   Persistent Systems · 3 yr · Full-time · Coimbatore, India
   • Closed the books in 4 days, down from 11.
   • Built the operating model the board used for a $222 million raise.

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Education

1. NID Ahmedabad

   B.Des, Computer Science
   2007 - 2011