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Manasi Mertia

IIMB ‘26 | Ex VC @ DST Global | Ex-Bain (PE/VC) | Economics - SRCC’20

Bengaluru, Karnataka

Invests in

Stages:

Locations:

  • Min Investment:

    $100,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $5,000,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $1,500,000.00

Work Experience

2022 - 2024

  • Venture Capital

    2022 - 2024

2020 - 2022

  • Senior Analyst- Private Equity

    2021 - 2022

  • Analyst - Private Equity

    2020 - 2021

  • Research Intern

    2020 - 2020

  • Project Intern

    2019 - 2019

    - Only selected intern from 133 applicants from Shri Ram College of Commerce for an 8-week internship - Worked with Global Investigations & Strategic Intelligence team on 2 multijurisdictional investigations to provide market-specific insights to multinational clients in South Asian countries India, Sri Lanka and Pakistan - Previous scams analyzed to detect financial trends & compute probability of fraud to assist CRAs and investors

  • Head Of Research

    2018 - 2019

    - Leading a team of 80 members; organizing the Shri Ram Economics Summit with footfall of 3500+ people - Organized 50+ research sessions, workshops etc. | Pioneered the creation of the official website, 19,500+ outreach| Founded SRCC’s first digital publication, ‘Ceteris Paribus’ | Initiated lecture series called “Discourse” - Conceptualized the National Economics Olympiad (2000+ students from 200 schools, revenue of Rs.2 lakh) - Organized the annual paper competition in SRCC with 150+ participants | Collaboration with Centre for Civil Society | Overhauled the format for the competition with a video theme : Economics across borders - Execution of a business strategy event with 5+ rounds| 3 days | 1300+ registrants | Partnered with PayTM - Undertook ideation for content and design of the magazine Artha with 120+ contributions | 11 segments

  • Research Executive

    2017 - 2018

  • Senior Coordinator and Head of Grievance Redressal Cell

    2017 - 2019

    - Inducting a team of 60+ | Organized recruitment drives with 100+ recruiters| Coordinated processes for 10+ companies including Parthenon EY and Nomura |Newsletter team: “In a Nutshell” for 8100+ students - Ideated alumnus connect campaign “Crack it with SRites”: reach of over 12,000 students across India - Heading 15 members to efficiently organize the daily traffic of 70+ student queries on Grievance Redressal Platform; equipping the newly launched website to handle queries and feedback from the stakeholders - Reduced the deadline for query redressal by 33%; instated an improved and systematic mechanism

  • Junior Coordinator and Team Member

    2017 - 2018

2018 - 2019

  • Financial Services and Risk Management Intern

    2018 - 2019

    - Produced a ‘Thought Leadership Report’, by doing a detailed analysis of debt capital markets in India and its impact on corporates (Buy and Sell side) in lieu of the IL&FS crisis and the worsening of the NPA problem - Modeled a strategy to identify white spaces & determine the critical path for remodeling corporate debt using Altman Z score, ratio analysis & compliance mechanisms; Exceeding expectations grade feedback received

2018 - 2018

  • Summer Intern

    2018 - 2018

    - 1 of the 6 selected interns for the Summer Internship Programme in the Mergers and Acquisitions vertical - Researching potential investments to prepare a database of 70+ companies across 5 industries - Developed a comprehensive City Report on Sikar for CSR funding of 20 lakh & on ground visit undertaken

  • Research Executive

    2017 - 2018

    - Entrepreneurship: 2 projects aimed to empower 29 women & train them to produce 95% smoke reduced incense sticks and installed a capital light hand rolled papad manufacturing unit through market linkage model (2018) - Dream Library: Operated 2 libraries with 2000+ books in schools for 500 underprivileged students (2018)

2017 - 2018

  • Corporate Communications Member

    2017 - 2018

    Corporate Communications Executive: Raising & allocating funds for organizing DU’s largest conference to empower youth