RK

Rohan Kohli

Helping early-stage companies unlock their growth potential

Mumbai Metropolitan Region

Invests in

Stages:

Locations:

  • Min Investment:

    $100,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $5,000,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $1,500,000.00

Education

Work Experience

2024

  • Chief of Staff

    2024

2024 - 2024

  • CEO's Office

    2024 - 2024

    - Joined the CEO's Office for a 3-month project, led due diligence and negotiation of valuation terms for Fundamento's pre-Series A fundraise - Crafted and executed a fundraise narrative, defining clear path to acquiring large $0.5Mn enterprise ACVs in a $30+ billion market landscape - Managed investor relations and oversaw external relationships with strategic partners in India and the US - Led the initiative to achieve SOC 2 certification, ensuring compliance with industry standards and strengthening credibility with enterprise clients

2022 - 2024

  • Portfolio & Platform

    2022 - 2024

    - Managed 20 pre-seed and seed portfolio companies within a total of 46, with a focus on establishing and monitoring company objectives, defining key performance indicators, and maintaining consistent week-over-week growth. - Developed effective fundraising frameworks for portfolio companies, optimizing their approach to seed round raises, ranging from $1.5 million to $3 million - Supported Antler founders in building high-performing teams, closing critical positions across portfolio companies - Spearheaded new initiatives centred around post-investment portfolio support and Antler India's first Portfolio Spotlight, engaging 100+ VCs in India - Scouted potential founders through VC networking, coffee catch-ups and targeted LinkedIn outbound to early-stage founders

2021 - 2022

  • Growth

    2021 - 2022

2021 - 2021

  • Fellow

    2021 - 2021

2017 - 2020

  • Principal, North America

    2019 - 2020

    Lynk is a Series B ($30m) B2B SaaS company unlocking expertise of experts for clients ranging from management consulting firms to hedge funds and PE groups • Led the Toronto office launch at Lynk (Mar-Oct'20) and was responsible for training new joiners, establishing best practices around workflow and processes and building key client relationships • Global Account Lead of two management consulting accounts responsible for P&L growth, business development and managing matrix teams across Toronto, Mumbai and Hong Kong offices for new market activation (APAC, EMEA and NA) • Responsible for account development of key management consulting accounts with focus on activating North Americas • Recruited and managed the India-US team of 6+ Associates, responsible for project delivery and execution of North Americas originated requests • Worked cross functionally across Lynk's product, sales, and marketing teams, directing client feedback on Lynk's SaaS product offerings to improve processes and systems

  • Senior Associate

    2019 - 2019

    - Moved to NYC in Q2 2019 to build Lynk’s North America operations in the New York office - Increased client engagement and participation rates for a key client account by 3x

  • Associate

    2017 - 2018

    Lynk Global is an expert network that connects industry professionals and thought leaders with global enterprises, consulting companies and investment firms. Responsibilities: • Responsible for contributing to revenue growth of consulting accounts regionally by formulating yearly account development and outreach plans. • Developing and maintaining CXO relationships with experts across geographies and industries such as Financial Services, Healthcare, Automotive, Consumer Goods & Services, Energy & Utilities, Technology, etc. • Working across projects (due diligence, strategy and expansion, implementation, proposals, market discovery, etc.) responsible for end to end project execution.

Finance, Investment and Commerce Cell

2016 - 2017

  • President

    2016 - 2017

    Finance, Investment and Commerce Cell is a student initiative of the Economics Department of St. Xavier's to promote financial literacy and entrepreneurial skills on and off campus. As the President of the Cell, I led the team to conduct financial literacy workshops for the non-teaching staff of St. Xavier's. We also facilitated interaction amongst students, industry experts, economists and entrepreneurs.

  • Internship

    2016 - 2016

    Research Intern, Responsibilities included reporting to the project head, performing ratio analysis and analyzing companies’ financials on the basis of quantitative and qualitative parameters.