Abhishek Kakkar

At IAN Group, I spearhead sourcing early-stage investments across Pre-Seed to early Series A, with a sharp focus on high-conviction founders building in frontier sectors — including DeepTech, Enterprise Software, Life Sciences, HealthTech, ClimateTech, and Consumer Innovation.

Enabling fundraising and GTM support for early stage ventures

Backed by Emergent Ventures, BGV and Blume Ventures as anchor investors, Arka Venture Labs is an early stage cross-border accelerator enabling “Indian B2B tech-startups geared to go global” with capital, mentoring and deep access to the Silicon Valley & Indian start-up eco-systems. Sector Focus - Vertical SaaS, Digital Enablers for Small & Mid-sized Enterprises, Analytics & Forecasting for Enterprise, Digital Twins.

Program Lead for 91springboard's Incubation Program supported by Niti Aayog's Atal Innovation Mission (AIM) - Managed Portfolio of 25+ startups which included - leading 11 investments & 3 exits - Ownership of end-to-end deal pipeline management and execution of proprietary investments and co-investment opportunities for 91springboard Investment Syndicate - Key partnerships and new business opportunities (Partnered Programs) - Designed & delivered programs and support initiatives for growth frameworks and standardizing mentorship methodologies for short term acceleration of startups

• Product Operations and Business Planning: - Manage Stakeholders for all Partner Products (TimeRack & TrackMyTennis) - Monitor adequate cash flow to meet the organization's needs; - Development, improvement and establishment of operations and company processes; - Establishment of company policies and culture to support overall company objectives; - Evaluation the results of overall operations systematically; - Administrative functions, ensuring smooth daily operations. • Human Resource and Personnel management: - Recruitment, hiring, compensation and appraisals; - Development and establishment of personnel policies throughout the organization, policies, annual performance review program and employee benefit plans; - Setting operational and performance goals for each department; - Evaluation the performance of the company's departments to fulfill organizational requirements; - Team management and coordination, building the work processes; - Development of motivation system and KPI; - Development of team goals and tasks. • Business Development: - Search for potential clients / leads - Analyzing competent market activity and trends; - Implementing business development strategies in new market niches; - Proactive development and improvement products and services; - Forecast sales targets and monitoring they are met by the BD team.

Trackmytennis.com (TMT) is an easy solution that helps tennis directors organize, track and grow their tennis programs online. It is specifically designed to help tennis managers save a lot of time achieving these important functions: schedule classes, accept and process registrations, track student attendance and staff hours, easily get financial reports, and maintain accurate records. TMT will help tennis directors grow their programs faster while saving them time and money. Unlike existing alternatives, TMT delivers superior value because it was created by tennis pros for tennis pros. There's no more need to take a yoga system and try to make it work for tennis. As tennis pros, we deeply understand the challenges at hand, the simplicity needed to solve those challenges, and the need for an affordable pricing that crowns a great tool. We created TMT to make tennis directors' lives easier, and truly help them get the most out of their programs.

• Providing functional and technical documentation (business proposals, contracts, SRS, functional scope of work) • Performing market research, competent market activity, trends and analysis of new products • Active participant in discussion for future product direction and prioritization of tasks with entire team and worked directly with team to ensure all new functionality was tested prior to new product releases • Worked on different web based projects with research and detailed functionality specifications.

- Worked with Oxfam India's fundraising team to gain insights and hands-on experience of fund-raising operations with both CSR and High Net-Worth Donors. - Primary responsibilities included - working with the Operations team to analyse present and past data, locate trends, and enhance plans to support HNI Donors FR operations, including retention and upgrade strategy to optimize the life-time value of individual donors

- Active member of Not-for Profit Collegiate initiative - Youth United, focused on engaging enterprising fellow students to drive grass-root initiatives and planned interventions for Girl Child Education, Female foeticide, Equal Work Opportunities for under-privileged youth - Led fundraising efforts and donor development opportunities (both CSR and Individual donors) for flagship initiatives such as - Smiling Future, YU-MEAM, Periodic Publication - United Colors of Youth

Co-Author, Paper: Modeling of second order saponification reaction in an isothermal semi-batch reactor, submitted and sited at World Conference on Engineering & Computer Science 2010 (organized by International Association of Engineers) in October 2010 and presented at International Conference On Communication & Computing Technologies.