Aditya Rane

GTM Lead at Whatfix | INSEAD MBA | Voice AI, Whatfix Mirror | Strategy & Operations

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Whatfix

ex-J.P. Morgan

ex-Edelweiss Financial Services

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:) Previous lives - - INSEAD MBA - Venture Capital at a16z (Andreessen Horowitz), Atlantic Labs, Zamo Capital, Archerman Capital - Chief of Staff to the Chairman + Product Management, First Employee at Svakarma Finance, an NBFC - Head of Product Partnerships at Renegade Insurance (erstwhile Covered by SAGE), an Insurance Tech - Investment Banking at JPMorgan, - Strategy and Planning at Edelweiss Finance, Key projects - - Led product design and implementation of a Loan Management System for microloans - Worked on Tech M&As and a technology IPO of a Super App in Tokyo, Japan and Mumbai, India - Hired and built Partnerships team with employees from three countries from scratch at a (then) seed-stage InsurTech based in Atlanta, US - Helped in execution of Series B by ensuring accounts were in order at Renegade (led internal finance) Trying to learn more about - FinTech, Web3, Social Impact and SaaS Love - Running, Reading newsletters on substack, debating about business models and mentoring people.

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Job: J.P. Morgan — Investment Banking Analyst (Tokyo) · 2015 – 2017 · 2y — Technology, Media & Telecom Group - Acquisition of an Australian out-of-home advertising company by a Japanese media company. Scope of work: Initial pitch, financials, industry overview of the out-of-home advertising industry with special focus on the digitization trend.
Job: Edelweiss Financial Services — Junior Associate · 2014-06 – 2015-01 · 7 mo — Commodities Team:- Planning and Strategy. Strategy - For Edelweiss's refinery business (launched in 2014) using competitor analysis, sector reports and newsruns For another business (undisclosed) using sector reports, financial modelling and newsrun Financial Analysis - Trend Analysis for various commodities on the DGCX, NCDEX using historical data sets from Bloomberg to establish MTM and daily position limits Performance Management - Tracking performance of Arbitrage and Hedging strategies like Conversion Arbitrage, Multiple legged Arbitrage and reporting to CEO's office Information Management - Parameter tracking and database creation of financial reports for monitoring performance o…
Job: Svakarma Finance — Chief Of Staff (Chairman’s Office) · 2019-08 – 2020-03 · 7 mo — Promoted to a specially crafted role to act as a liason between Chairman's Office (Vivek Vig, ex Citibank exec and ex PNB Housing Finance director) and senior management
Job: INSEAD — MBA Candidate · 2022-01 – 2022-12 · 11 mo — Full-time MBA Candidate with two scholarships at INSEAD Fontainebleau, France Internships: Zamo Capital (London); Atlantic Labs (Berlin) and Fost Capital (Paris) and Received full time VC Associate offer w. 2 firms in EU.
Job: Svakarma Finance — Product Manager · 2019-04 – 2019-08 · 4 mo — Social Impact Financing Shepherded an ecosystem suite of SaaS products to enable low cost delivery of financial solutions to underserved SMBs (Small Medium Businesses). Created bespoke social impact digital financing products for farmers, agri-warehouses, weavers, etc. Acted as a liaison between the engineering teams and various other teams to translate customer requirements to a tangible tech product.
Job: GTM Buddy — Board Observer (for Archerman Capital) · 2023-09 – 2025-01 · 1y 4mo — AI powered revenue enablement platform that helps sellers take the right action at the right time
Job: BARC — Research Intern · 2013-04 – 2014-05 · 1y 1mo — 12 out of 400 - students selected from college. Worked during final year of engineering with BARC scientists. Developed and tested an automated position control system for a servo motor for use in radiation sensing robots using MATLAB
Job: Renegade Insurance — Head Of Partnerships (Product Management) · 2020-04 – 2021-09 · 1y 5mo — - Key projects - Sales: Initiated and implemented insurance referral partner program from scratch that helped in closing insurance deals for over 200 properties. Built product and spoke to customers through cold calls, linkedin based out reach and made it into a program. - Funding: Joined Renegade (at the pre-product stage) and helped in closing the Series B as the internal finance lead. Other roles: Product Manager
Job: Whatfix — GTM Lead, BFSI & AI Initiatives | Industry Strategy & GTM | · 2025-07 – present · 1y 1mo — Leading GTM and Industry Strategy teams for Financial Services team and AI initiatives (Voice AI related)
Job: Archerman Capital — Investment Professional · 2023-02 – 2025-01 · 1y 11mo — Investments led: GTMBuddy.ai and Infinity Fincorp (marked up/acquired subsequently in an investment by Partners Group) Board Observer: GTMBuddy.ai Other Portfolio (India): Delhivery; Kredit Bee
Job: Svakarma Finance — Senior Business Analyst · 2017-03 – 2019-03 · 2y — First employee of Svakarma Finance (now 70+ employee strong) and recognized as a founding team member. - Worked on the investor memorandum and multi-year business model and roadmap for investors and investment bankers - Engaged in market research through field visits. - Closed an end-to-end RFP for a USD2mm technology product in a two member team - Engaged with legal advisors for detailed commercial term sheets.
Job: Andreessen Horowitz — Investment Professional · 2021-08 – 2022-01 · 5 mo — VC Investing in Fintech
Job: J.P. Morgan — Investment Banking Analyst · 2015-01 – 2017-03 · 2y 2mo — Investment Banking Analyst, involved in Healthcare and TMT coverage - Working on presentations with senior bankers in various M&A investment banking deals (potential and mandated) involving sell-side advisory, buy-side advisory, corporate carve outs, spin-offs and deal financing - Implementing valuation methodologies (DCF, Comparable company analysis, Accretion-Dilution, SOTP) for transactions through creation of financial models - Creation of detailed pitching material in coordination with senior bankers comprising of industry landscapes, strategic rationale, peer benchmarking, SWOT, equity research commentary, company profiles and analysis of sector premiums - solo idea generation pre…
School: INSEAD — Master of Business Administration - MBA
School: CFA Institute — CFA Candidate
School: University of Mumbai — Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.)
School: SIES College of Arts, Science & Commerce SION(W) — HSC, Science
School: St.John the Baptist High School, Thane — Secondary School Certificate, SSC
School: Reforge — Advanced Growth Strategy

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