eChai Breakfast Social w/ FinTech Folks #GFF2023

Ahmedabad

Rushabh Shah

Managing Partner · STIR Advisors

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Solo founder and Advisor, Profitable, backing Strategic / corporate, in Vertical SaaS + AI/ML + Deeptech.

Building Working on a lot of interesting tech projects, alongside the Investment Banking firm

Building <div>Head - Ecosystem Banking at YES BANK, Banking, Strategy, Fintech, Startups, Alliances<br><br>I am regional head for transaction banking group for South and East for yes bank. Commerce graduate with an overall experience of close to 20 years in Banking, Broking and related realms.&nbsp;<br><br>Experience in the business of financial institutions, capital market participants etc. has given me a better perspective of the overall economy with which I would be able to garner better business ideas for the future.<br><br>Key Achievements and skills<br><br>Elevated to the highest potential segment of the division to ensure excellent service delivery to the key clients of the bank.<br><br>Have a complete understanding of the Capital Market Business and Financial Institutions Group.<br><br>Have handled major clients of the division also handled CMS and Trade related business of the capital market for the past 6 years.<br><br>Have been rated highest amongst the team twice, on account of trade limit utilization by the clients, business generation etc..&nbsp;<br><br>Subsequently recommended to head a region within one year of service with the bank.<br><br>Successfully completed 4 regulator and regular internal audits for Equity Derivatives segment with bare minimum comments.<br><br>Retained all accounts and added a few new clients in the capital market and commodity segment with excellent servicing, leading to record levels of income.</div>

Building <div>Entrepreneur | Consultant | Technologist | Author | Podcaster | Decoding Zindagi | Let's Make IT Simple<br><br>Learning through my experiences, I've become a reliable, data-driven innovatively efficient technologist who consistently improvises, adapts and simplifies real time convolutions globally.<br><br>MASTERSTROKES :<br><br>Author and Podcaster of two books -<br>1. Decoding Zindagi (Non-Fiction)<br>2. Let's Make IT Simple (Technical)&nbsp;<br>available on Amazon, Flipkart, Notion Press, Kindle, Spotify, Gaana, JioSaavn, Apple and Google Podcasts, etc.<br><br>A Worldwide Solar Angel, organized and managed 3 International Guinness World Records with IIT Bombay and SoULS<br>Curated Free and Open Source - FOSS Live Session Series on The Tech Platform<br>Secured 1st Rank in all four levels of Indian National Language Exams and Maharashtra State Language Exam<br>All India Times Fresh Face Top Finalist and a National Service Scheme - N.S.S. Cadet<br>Secured 1st Rank in Academics, 11 Scholarships and 8 Honours<br>Conducted corporate and technical training programs for Government of Maharashtra<br><br>"Being a creative dynamic person, I have my original unique vision and way of looking at things and instances that I come across. Blessed with a technical perspective, I like to explore, innovate, think, apply and work smartly. My nature is intelligible and explicit, my actions are premier, swift and deliberate! I have made errors before at some points since my dawn, but I believe, “Either we win, or we learn..the show must go on, efficiently!” and trust me..I will definitely make you recall me, by doing something worth and admirable!"<br><br>E-mail: [email protected]</div>

Building <div>At the age of 16, with 256 Kbps Internet speed, I started my career as a self-taught graphic designer.&nbsp;<br><br>After landing a few projects, I was hungry to keep learning more, and that's how I landed in web development.&nbsp;<br><br>At the age of 18, while still pursuing my education, I launched my first product around WordPress security, which did wonder. It not only paid for my entire education but helped me become financially independent as a teenager.<br><br>However, I exited that project and continued with my college and freelance development.&nbsp;<br><br>At the age of 20, I met my first co-founder Oscar Hernandez (He has been my co-founder ever since in everything that we do), known as Power Up Hosting; I ran the company for over 7-years before exiting.&nbsp;<br><br>At 24, I started India's first PBN Hosting platform, which I later exited in 2017.&nbsp;<br><br>My life changed when I launched my third startup, which failed severely and changed my whole life.&nbsp;<br><br>It taught me some of the most valuable life lessons, including management, team hiring, and more.&nbsp;<br><br>The failure of my third startup gave me the idea of PitchGround (My most successful startup to date, currently valued at $20m as of 2022). PitchGround is a SaaS Marketplace that bridges the gap between early-stage SaaS companies and early adopters, small-medium-sized businesses.&nbsp;<br><br>With over 92% of the SaaS companies failing in the first three years of their business, our mission was to resolve this unresolved market worth over $200 billion.&nbsp;<br><br>During this journey, I met my second co-founder Lukas Liesis, building the company's core foundation.&nbsp;<br><br>Launched PitchGround on the 25th of September 2018, PitchGround has done over $5m in sales as a bootstrapped company, something our entire team is proud of.&nbsp;<br><br>PitchGround has helped hundreds of companies and has seen over 80% of companies succeeding who are launching with us, out of which 15% of the companies can successfully raise capital post launching their SaaS on our platform.&nbsp;<br><br>At PitchGround, we firmly believe in our 3P philosophy for any founder who wants to achieve a product-market fit - Product, People &amp; Pricing (Same format).&nbsp;<br><br>In 2021, I started Angel Investment, and so far, I have invested in 34 startups; I mentor some of them to give back to the community.&nbsp;<br><br>In 2022, I rebuilt my previous failure, known as https://firstsales.io, which is doing $700k ARR as of October 2023.&nbsp;<br><br>If you are a small business, do check out PitchGround and save up to 95% on your software bills - https://pitchground.com/deals<br><br>If you are looking to resolve your sales issues then check out - https://firstsales.io<br><br>Got any questions or want to connect with me? Please send me an email at [email protected].</div>