I worked as an investment analyst in private equity team of Blackstone's Mumbai office

Conducted business due diligence and developed financial models for investment opportunities across media, education, restaurant, consumer electronics and financial intermediaries

Member of deal team on Blackstone investment in Financial Technologies - http://reut.rs/OBQb8J

Skills Developed: Business Valuation, Fund raising, Financial Services, Microsoft Excel

Worked part time as a consultant with the exceptional technology and modeling team in ZLemma, a fast growing algorithmic recruitment startup based out of San Francisco. ZLemma was funded by Nexus Venture Partners, and started by Managing Director at Morgan Stanley who had earlier hired me for my first job.

Developed the system to understand the relatedness and dependency between any two skills relevant for a job, thus contributing to the efficiency of the proprietary job/candidate recommendation algorithms.

Skills Developed: Freelancing, Natural Language Processing, Text Analysis, Recruitment.

I worked as an analyst at Morgan Stanley Strats and Modeling Division.

I worked on two projects primarily:

- Mortgage Modeling - JHF Fixed Rate RMBS - developed the risk systems for trading in secondary market, developed prepayment model.
Established new relationships with Tokyo business desk, helped setting the risk systems for trading JHF Fixed Rate RMBS in secondary market; single-handedly developed prepayment model; visited Tokyo office to educate the traders and strategists about mortgage models. Coauthored three internal papers: “Sensitivity calculation in presence of Monte Carlo Errors”, “Breakup of Duration” and “Self consistent Current Coupon Model”

- Algorithmic Trading - US Equity ETF Market Making - created strategies for improved hedging of intraday portfolio resulting from market making in ETF.
Created strategies for improved hedging of intraday portfolio resulting from market making in ETFs; Strategies resulted in 3x improvement in variance reduction over existing str

Worked on "Context Aware Information Discovery". 

Developed scalable technology for web crawler, text content analytics engine, semantic search engine, semantic similarity api, article summarizer and social intelligence engine. 

The first product is a News Summary App - ZippedNews. 
Website Link- http://www.zippednews.com 
Link to app on Google playstore - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.zippednews 
Link to app on Amazon - http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00L49ZTQG

Skills Developed: Natural Language Processing, Text Analysis, Search Engine Optimization, Text Summarization, Elasticsearch.

Conceptualized and developed the business model for India's first social e-commerce platform, developed the prototype and launched the product. 

Partnered with 10 e-commerce companies for affiliate marketing. Hired a full-time co-founder and CTO.

Designed and developed the complete web and mobile product; Attempted various SEO / SEM / SMM / content marketing  strategies; Learned while I failed to get users, hire people, position the product correctly; Realized that the time is not ripe for a social e-commerce product in the Indian context; Shut it down.

Angel List Profile: https://angel.co/clipr
Product Description: http://www.slideshare.net/pratikpoddar05051989/clipr-introduction
Product: http://clipr.in
Skills Developed: Business Development, Web Programming, Facebook App Dev, VC Fund raising, SMM, E-commerce

I did an internship at Information Engineering Department of The Chinese University of Hong Kong working on Network Optimization problem

I was an intern student at Microsoft Research INRIA Joint Center, Paris working with members of INRIA Rocq Algorithms Group. I was working on the problem of fast evaluation of coefficients of bivariate formal series

Worked part time as a consultant with the technology team in Sliced Investing, a fast growing Y-combinator funded company based out of San Francisco

Developed end to end product in co-ordination with tech team based out of Silicon Valley, Moscow and Bangalore.

Skills Developed: Freelancing, Javascript.

Nexus Venture Partners (www.nexusvp.com) is India’s leading venture capital fund, with offices in India and Silicon Valley. It has over $1.8B under management across 6 funds and an active portfolio of over 100 companies.

If you have a great idea/business plan/startup please feel free to reach me at pratik@nexusvp.com

Worked closely with and exited:
- WhiteHat Jr (Learning platform for K-7 kids)

Working closely with:
- Turtlemint (B2B2C Insurance)
- Rapido (Bike Taxi)
- Quizizz (Game-based learning platform)
- Pratilipi (Indian language storytelling platform)
- Newton School (New-age university)
- Urbanic (Cross-border lifestyle brand)
- Mudrex (Crypto asset management)
- OneCode (Distributed agent network)
- Allo Health (Digital clinic for men's sexual health)
- DAOLens (DAO management)
- Mega (Social gaming)
- Unlu (Celebrity management)
- Namaste Credit (B2B2C SME Lending)
- Lifecare Health (Subscription pharmacy)
- MyUpchar (Vernacular Health Content)

Sourced:
- Pando Corp (Logi

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Pratik Poddar

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