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title: "Rajat Sahni - Co-Founder in New York City Metropolitan Area | Tal"
description: "Meet Rajat Sahni, Founder @ Stealth | Ex-CEO CarDekho | IIT Delhi | Angel Investor based in New York City Metropolitan Area. AI stack includes cursor, langchain, and openai."
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# Rajat Sahni on Tal

## Headline

Founder @ Stealth \| Ex\-CEO CarDekho \| IIT Delhi \| Angel Investor

## About

Seasoned business leader with leadership & management experience across entrepreneurial and intrapreneurial environments across consumer internet, fintech domain\. My last stint was as CEO of Lending and Used Car Business at CarDekho\.com\. I helped transform the used car business from pure classifieds play to a transaction led business across buying and selling used cars\. We ran three marketplaces together – B2B/C2B Auctions, Finance & Insurance \(F&I\) Marketplace and Consumer Classifieds Marketplace\. I helped the business raise over $75Mn of venture capital including from Sequoia Capital and leading Indian Bank \(Axis Bank\) and as part of the top 5 leadership team, instrumental in setting the overall strategic vision for the company\. Subsequently I co\-founded and led the financial services vertical for the group, achieving over $$$ Mn of disbursements with partnerships with multiple leading financial institutions\. During my stint at Cardekho, I led the team to scale the business over 10x and built the leadership & management team to operate and grow the business at the next well\. I am an entrepreneur at heart and work like an owner\. In 2011, I co\-founded an education company that helped train people across skillsets ranging from sales, hospitality, service and leadership\. I received B\.Tech in Computer Science from IIT Delhi, and got my business education on the job first as a strategy consultant at The Boston Consulting Group and then working with Patu Keswani \(Founder, LemonTree Hotels\) as Chief of Staff, CEO’s office\. I like reading about entrepreneurship, science fiction and company S1s\!

## Location

New York City Metropolitan Area

## AI stack

cursor

langchain

openai

replit

## Work experience

Co\-Founder at Meant To Be Inc, Apr 2025 \- Present · 1 yr 5 mos

Angel Investor at Early stage startups, Mar 2014 \- Present · 12 yrs 6 mos, Angel Investor & Mentor to early age startups across consumer internet, marketplaces, SaaS, Fintech\.

CEO \- Fintech \(now Rupyy\) at CarDekho, Apr 2019 \- Jun 2020 · 1 yr 3 mos, \* Led CarDekho's automotive financing business \- launching and scaling retail, dealer and cross\-sell unsecured products \* Established partnerships with multiple leading banks including equity investments from 3 leading banks \(HDFC, Axis, Undisclosed\) \* Scaled up business to $X00 Mn\+ in annual disbursements across distribution, co\-lending and on balance sheet lending models \* Conceptualized & launched Industry first Buy\-Back Product \(MG 3\-60 Program\) \* Led a team of 150\+ across sales, operations, technology, credit & collections

CEO \- Used Cars at CarDekho, Oct 2014 \- Mar 2019 · 4 yrs 6 mos, Gurgaon, India, \* Transformed the Used Car Business from a pure play classifieds to a transaction platform to bring trust and convenience to used car buying and selling in India \* Delivered 10x revenue scale up in multi\-geography and multi\-marketplace model\. Ran 3 marketplaces Sell Side B2B Auctions Marketplace, Buy Side Dealer to Dealer \(D2C\) and Consumer to Consumer Marketplace \(C2C\) and Financing & Insurance \(F&I\) Marketplace\. \* Raised 70 Mn$ from institutional investors like Sequoia, HillHouse to fund the new strategy \* Built, managed and developed a team of 700\+ across sales, operations, product & technology development with business presence in over 25\+ cities

Entrepreneur in Residence at GSF Accelerator, May 2014 \- Sep 2014 · 5 mos, San Francisco Bay Area, \* Designed and program managed the San Francisco leg of GSF Global Program, India's leading technology accelerator with investor & mentor outreach\. \* Worked with startup founders of 11 portfolio companies – helped refine business model, go\-to\-market strategy and fund\-raise pitches including WhatFix, DailyRounds

Co\-Founder at HeadStart Institute Pvt\. Ltd\., Oct 2011 \- Jan 2014 · 2 yrs 4 mos, Gurgaon, India, Co\-founder at L&D Outsourcing and Skill and Talent development organization focused on customer service, sales and leadership skills to it clients across sectors\. \* Scaled the organization to 20\+ member team of trainers, IDs and graphic designers \* Enabled training of over 2000\+ people including people with disabilities \(Hearing & Speech Impairment\) \* Key Skills: Learnt how to sell, build & manage teams and importance of cash flows\. \* Experienced in L&D Program Design, Product Development, Learning Management Solutions, Train The Trainer Certifications

## Education

Bachelor of Technology \(B\.Tech\.\), Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi

KTH Royal Institute of Technology

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