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He began his career at McKinsey & Company where he advised large consumer and financial-services clients, then discovered venture investing during his MBA at the Indian School of Business. At Z47 he helps scale early-stage consumer, enterprise AI and fintech companies by combining operational rigor with founder-first support.
Rajat holds a B.Tech/M.Tech from Indian Institute of Technology Delhi.
Previously at Hotstar, he scaled subscriptions to 40M+ users as SVP Growth and built their ad-tech stack driving revenue to $200M. Earlier, he led product at Indus OS and founded Wings Intellect (gaming startup, successful exit). He has invested in >100 startups as an angel investor.
He holds a B.Tech from IIT Bombay and is passionate about system design and gaming.
He founded Verak Insurance (a YC W21 company) which was acquired by InsuranceDekho (ID) in 2023. At ID, he led their business insurance unit & spearheaded their ONDC integrations. Rahul had become an active Angel investor prior to joining DeVC.
Rahul holds a master’s degree in Statistics from the University of Warwick.
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