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Founder, EduWand | AI Education Ecosystem for Institutions | 3rd-generation educator | ex-TresVista

About

I'm a third-generation educator who took a detour through finance. My grandmother taught for 50 years, my mom for 20+ and counting. After my bachelors degree, I went into private equity. Four years working with investment teams across primary and secondary rounds, and I loved it: pulling businesses apart, understanding where value really comes from. Then AI arrived. I did a master's diploma in AI to understand the technology at its core, and realised the place it was needed most was the one I'd been watching my whole life. Helping my mom with reports and class content, I kept seeing the same gap: teachers don't lack creativity, they lack tools built for them. That's what I'm building now with EduWand: an AI platform that lets educators deliver personalised education at scale and automate administrative workflows, without becoming prompt engineers. The busywork shrinks; the hours go back to teaching. If you run a school or know someone who does, my inbox is open.

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

claude code

claude

cursor

elevenlabs

gemini

github copilot

Work experience

Founder at EduWand, Jun 2025 - Present · 1 y 5 mo, Bengaluru, Led product and operations for EduWand, built with the CTO: lessons and assignments personalised to each student, and an Attainment Report showing what each class has learned, by topic and by student; live on iOS (approved in 3 days) and Android Launched EduWand at ESFE 2026 (Education Supply and Franchise Expo) and spoke with 250+ educators, distributors and school owners; after the day-one price was rejected, tested new price points over the next two days and found a workable starting price Refocused the product on school administration, since schools make the buying decision, and planned the next version as an AI co-ordinator that would produce reports in each school's standard format at any point from live classroom data Generated 50+ leads for teacher workshops in a week from paid ads at about ₹40 each and ran four AI-training workshops for 50+ teachers, including one at an 850-student school that then entered commercial negotiations Set up the company: LLP incorporation, DPIIT recognition, GST, trademark filings, brand guide and $5K in AWS credits; won best pitch at a Bangalore startup competition (Aug 2026) Automated school outreach run by one person: personalised emails, day-3 and day-7 follow-ups, reply detection Wound down in Oct 2026 after cash ran out before school interest converted to revenue

Private Equity Associate at TresVista, Jan 2025 - Jul 2026 · 1 y 6 mo, Bengaluru, Promoted to Senior Analyst in 18 months, six months ahead of the standard track, and to Associate a year later; received the Shining Star award as the team's top performer for the half-year As Associate, led 3 analysts across 3 PE clients, owning scoping, timelines and final review of every deliverable before it reached the client; trained new analysts and wrote team SOPs Rated 5/5 in more than 60% of reviews, with no rating below 4/5 Secondaries fund of a top-3 global asset manager: built quarterly pricing models for LP portfolio bids, underwriting the top 80% of assets (up to 12 companies) in each fund covered with industry analysis and DCF exit valuations US endowment: built filterable Excel portfolio dashboards and GP profiles, and benchmarked fund performance against Bloomberg quarterly data for investment and GP relationship decisions Growth-stage SaaS VC: built a historical portfolio database and quarterly dashboards for follow-on decisions; created a market-sizing template now used for multiple TresVista clients and trained another team on it Private credit trading firm: tracked trading fees and macro indicators and supported portfolio ESG ratings

Senior Financial Analyst at TresVista, Jan 2024 - Jan 2025 · 1 yr 1 mo

Financial Analyst at TresVista, Jun 2022 - Jan 2024 · 1 y 7 mo, India

Portfolio Management Intern at GTM & Sons Advisory Pvt Ltd, Jun 2021 - Jun 2021 · 1 mo, India, • Researched and presented market opportunities for the business in accordance with its growth and development goals. • Worked closely with the founders and consultants in day-to-day tasks.

Co-Founder at The Hoodie Cartle, Aug 2020 - Feb 2021 · 7 mos, Nagpur, Maharashtra, India, • Started my own venture to provide an affordable and quality-centric brand for hoodies. • Managed a team of 4 and coordinated the supply chain and procurement of products. • Actively managed the social media marketing and publicity of the venture.

Management Intern at Bijlee Solar, Jun 2020 - Jul 2020 · 2 mos, Nagpur, Maharashtra, India, • Created content campaigns and actively managed social media channels for the expansion of business. • Created customer guidance videos and other materials for customer experience. • Curated tender documents and handled customer files, missing statements, and cash books.

Education

Generative and Agentic AI Development, Artificial Intelligence, Boston institute of analytics

BMS, Business Administration and Management, General, St. Xavier's College

Public links

melvyn-brodie-site.vercel.app: https://melvyn-brodie-site.vercel.app/

youtube.com: https://youtube.com/@eduwand