Avish Rana

Chief Of Staff at Misfits

Avish Rana is an experienced professional currently serving as Chief of Staff at Misfits, a role undertaken since January 2023 as part of the founding team, focusing on helping individuals allocate funds to a quality portfolio of startups. Prior to this, Avish was Head of Product at Metal Square from December 2021 to December 2022, where efforts were directed towards developing a product for synthetic derivatives during the web3 ZIRP boom. Avish also worked as Product Manager for Udaan's Pharma vertical and served as a Management Consultant at McKinsey & Company, advising banking clients on operational efficiency. Previous experience includes significant product management roles at Shuttl, where development of a consumer app and B2B employee transportation solutions were spearheaded, and positions at UpGrad, Housing.com, and Objectify Technologies as a co-founder. Avish holds an MBA in Marketing & Strategy from the Indian School of Business and a dual degree in Aerospace Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur.

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Misfits is a community of folks bullish on tech and looking to invest in tech startups. Investments so far:- 1) Middleware | Devtool | https://www.middlewarehq.com/ 2) Codecrafters | Developer education | Co-invested with YC | https://codecrafters.io/ 3) DevRev | Developer CRM | Co-invested with Lightspeed, Khosla ventures | https://devrev.ai/ 4) Buystar | Fantasy cricket & trading | Co-invested with Leo Ventures, Chirate | https://www.buystars.com/ 5) ZFW Dark Stores | Same day deliver for D2C brands | Co-invested with Peeyush Bansal, Anupam Mittal, Kunal Shah | https://zippee.delivery/ 6) Sketchnote | Bundled SaaS | Co-invested with SOSV | https://sketchnote.co/ 7) OTO Capital | Two wheeler financing | Co-invested with Matrix Ventures | https://www.otocapital.in/ 8) Punt Partners | Marketing Tech | Co-invested with super angels | https://www.punt.partners/ 9) Airbound | Drone manufacturing & Logistics | Co-invested with Lightspeed India partners | https://airbound.co/ 10) Justbaat | Generational AI in Media Space | Co-invested with Venture Garage | https://justbaat.com/ 11) Brance | AI driven inside sales | Co-invested with India Quotient | https://www.thechatman.ai/ 12) BusinessonBot | D2C Enbler - WhatsApp Marketing | Co-invested with YC | https://www.businessonbot.com/ 13) Omnivio | Omnichannel Logistics Control tower | Co-invested with Blume, Supply Chain labs | https://www.omnivio.io/ 14) Postman | API platform for developers | Secondary transaction | https://www.postman.com/ 15) Skye Air | Drone logistics | Co-invested with Flipkart & Chirate | https://www.skyeair.tech/ 16) <Undisclosed> An Omnichannel platform for F&V | Co-invested with Blume 17) Sketchnote | All-in-one app for businesses | Co-invested with SOSV | https://sketchnote.co/ 18) OnFinance | AI for wealth managament | Co-invested with Rukam Capital, Silver needle | https://www.onfinance.ai/


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