Saksham Mittal
Investment Team at Peak XV Partners
Bengaluru, Karnataka
Overview
Work Experience
Investment Team
2024 - Current
Investment Team
2022 - 2024
Growth & Product Strategy
2021 - 2022
Worked across Platform Ads & Returns reduction charters, devising business growth strategies & product improvement, managing seller targets & improving their platform experience
Summer Analyst
2020 - 2020
To present Investment Theses by doing sectoral research for investing US$20 Million seed fund in deep-tech B2B domains • Analysed multiple Consulting and Investment Reports such as TRACXN to identify key sub-sectors & sector market trends • Formulated Investment Theses on Semiconductor, Manufacturing Tech and Mobile Robots based on derived insights • Conducted Due Diligence by exploring Competitive Landscape of a prospective investment in AI Chip based startup • Evaluated various founders’ pitch decks in the initial screening process to determine their strategic fit with the fund
Project Lead
2020 - 2020
ShARE Startup Project To solve Case Study on Reselling Landscape in India for our client SHOP101 • To study user preferences, market trends and assess bottlenecks for users who resell using the SHOP101 app Strategy • Performed Competitive Benchmarking, based on app user interface and webstore management feature for resellers • Derived critical insights for various data correlations using 500+ data points collected from user feedback survey Conclusion • Presented interpretations on 10+ correlations like income, reselling platform, demography, etc. to the firm’s CEO • Identified roadblocks faced by approx. 9 Million resellers in the US$16 Billion sized Indian reselling market
Overall Coordinator
2019 - 2020
Leadership • Spearheaded a 4-tier team of 150+ students to encourage and foster entrepreneurship in IIT Kanpur campus • Organised E-Summit’19, cell’s flagship entrepreneurial event | Sponsorship of INR 2.6 Million (40% YoY) | Footfall of 8000+ Initiatives • Synergised with over 20 organizations including DST, Amazon, JK Cement, OYO, Paytm, TiE for on-campus initiatives • Initiated Upstart Startup Weekend (15 new campus startups pitched), Startup Expo, Startup101 (lecture series) • Connected 200+ startups and revamped UpStart - B-Plan competition by introducing prelims round in Delhi & Bangalore Impact • Increased participation of E-Summit’19 via 220% increase in net prize money & outreach through 650+ Colleges across India • Accelerated the development of 20 new campus startups, providing them mentorship & funding opportunities • Partnered with 50+ startups to provide internships to 80+ sophomore students through Student Internship Program (SIP) • Established a Pre-Seed Fund for providing student grants for prototype building, INR 4 million+ collected from alumni
Senior Executive
2018 - 2019