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Rajiv Srivatsa
Partner & Investor Antler India - Co-founder Urban Ladder - 5 X Fortune 40 Under 40 - Podcast @OneLifeTheory
Rajiv Srivatsa is a seasoned professional in the technology industry with approximately 20 years of experience.
He has a diverse background in building scalable products and companies across B2C commerce, B2C tech, mobile, and supply chain sectors.
Currently, he is leading the deployment and operations of the Global early-stage VC firm Antler in India.
Rajiv also hosts a podcast named OneLifeTheory focusing on happiness, potential, and careers.
He is notably known for co-founding Urban Ladder, a leading omni-channel furniture brand in India, where he dedicated about 7.5 years towards its growth.
During his tenure at Urban Ladder, Rajiv focused on technology, strategy, and team development, successfully raising substantial capital from prominent VC firms and investors.
Prior to his role at Urban Ladder, Rajiv served as a Senior Product Manager at Yahoo!, concentrating on cutting-edge online and mobile products in emerging markets like India, LATAM, and SE Asia.
His expertise spans media products across entertainment, education, news, finance, and regional languages.
Before venturing into consumer-facing roles, Rajiv spent over 6 years in the corporate IT services industry, working on software engineering, business analysis, pre-sales activities, marketing, product management, and more in various global locations.
Additionally, he gained hands-on coding experience, client interactions, use-case development, and website creation pre-MBA.
Rajiv's key areas of expertise include B2C commerce, B2C technology, and B2B tech services, showcasing his skills in building consumer brands, product management, business analysis, strategy development, and client management.
His educational background includes a B.Tech in Naval Architecture Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, an MBA with specializations in Systems, Marketing, Ops, and Strategy from the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, along with computer science studies at P. S. Senior Secondary School.
Currently affiliated with Antler as a Partner and Investor, Rajiv Srivatsa has held roles at notable organizations such as Urban Ladder, Yahoo!, Cognizant Technology Solutions, and Infosys Technologies Ltd.
Highlights
Delhi / NCR - 'Founder Mode' on for Sep 12 (Thurs) / Sep 13 (Fri) @AntlerIndia Residency Fastrack!
Fastrack to Antler Residency is coming to Delhi / NCR next week. After an incredible response in Bangalore and Mumbai over the past 4 weeks—where we received 350+ referrals from 175+ unique champions across the ecosystem—we’re bringing the excitement to Delhi / NCR, and this time, we’re going even bigger! We've had the pleasure of speaking with over 40+ teams, meeting 34 brilliant founders, and today, 8 of them are now working with us!
Now, with the incredible support of AC Ventures (@a1purva & team) and Alluvium Capital (Pranav Obhrai & team), we’re ready to supercharge the impact in Delhi!
Calling all exceptional founders—whether you’re solo or with a team— @nitinsharma1 and I are spending time on the 12th (Thursday) and 13th of September (Friday) to meet with you!
How do you become a part of this? You just need to reach us through someone who knows you - and knows us too!
Read on for more details -
Why are we doing this - we announced in July that we are investing $500k ($250k first cheque + $250k rolling) in 20 companies amounting to $10Mn in the 2nd half of 2024. This is our endeavour to deliver faster and bigger on this promise!
What we promise - is a decision into the Residency within 24 hours of us meeting you (and a decision to invest within 2-4 weeks from then on). Please note that we will only accommodate referrals received up until 10th September for the IRL event.
Here’s how it will work -
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Find someone in our networks (cue: some of them would have shared this post on their LinkedIn / Twitter) or would have engaged with us in the past
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Show us you are super resourceful :) Ask them to email us / tweet to us / message us on LI - any of the Antler team members that they know (there’s 18 of us!) - to give a warm intro to you. Convince them to write a good line or two :) This is a must-have for this initiative!
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All shortlisted individuals and teams will get a direct slot with Antler India on September 12/13 to meet us IRL (happening mostly in Gurgaon)
You will get a decision to get into the Antler India Residency before September 15 and an investment commitment of $500k from Antler India post 2-4 weeks of working with you!
Looking forward to interact and engage with a lot of the Delhi / NCR ecosystem! Do retweet in your networks.
Vaibhav and team at Insurance Padosi are trying to make insurance accessible to everyone. We are super excited to partner with them on this journey.
