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title: "Shashwat Gautam - Associate - Founder's Office (Strategy & Ops) in Bengaluru | Tal"
description: "Meet Shashwat Gautam, M&A (Corporate Development & Strategy), Renegade Insurance Inc. | PGP Management, Masters Union Co ’24 | Ex - BridgeUp, Recur Club | University of London based in Bengaluru. AI stack includes antigravity, codex, and cursor."
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# Shashwat Gautam on Tal

## Headline

M&A \(Corporate Development & Strategy\), Renegade Insurance Inc\. \| PGP Management, Masters Union Co ’24 \| Ex \- BridgeUp, Recur Club \| University of London

## About

I am an MBA candidate at Masters' Union School of Business, Gurugram\. I have been awarded the Masters' Union Scholarship For Young Leaders and I am currently the President of the Consulting Club and Member of the Placement Committee\. I completed my undergrad from the University of London majoring in Banking and Finance with an Upper Second Class Honours\. During my undergrad, I have been the Vice President of the Entrepreneurship Society where I invited YC and Sequoia backed founders for events\. I worked in the Founder's Office role at a Fintech company BridgeUp which operates in the digital lending space\. Over a period of 1 year, I financially analysed over 3000\+ companies across IT, FMCG, Manufacturing, Digital Marketing Agencies and commodity trading companies\. At Masters' Union, I co\-built a successful dropshipping venture\. Remarkably, achieved the 3rd highest revenue of INR 67\.6K on a single day out of 40\+ teams\. We were awarded the title of best marketing team for the same\. Apart from this, I am passionate about participating in case competitions and B\-plan competitions\. This year, I stood second runner up at MU Finnov8 and SRCC 180 degrees Management Consulting Edition along with securing a Top 5 national rank at ISB Spark \(flagship annual B\-plan competition\)\. For work & business\-related inquiries, shoot me an email at shashwat\.gautam\[at\]mastersunion\[dot\]org

## Location

Bengaluru

## AI stack

antigravity

codex

cursor

## Work experience

Associate \- Founder's Office \(Strategy & Ops\) at Renegade Insurance, Apr 2024 \- Present · 2 yrs 5 mos, Atlanta, Georgia, United States, Program managing at and post close activities for all agency and broker acquisitions made by Renegade Insurance\. $40 million in premium integrated post acquisition\.

Investment Management Intern at Recur Club, Nov 2023 \- Mar 2024 · 5 mos, Gurugram, Haryana, India, Worked with the Investment Solutions team and Underwriters to perform due diligence across 4 debt financing deals in pipeline\. Along with this, compared different termsheets for the offers made to existing customers\.

Head, Placement Committee at Masters' Union, Jul 2023 \- Jun 2024 · 1 yr

President, Consulting Club at Masters' Union, Jul 2023 \- Jun 2024 · 1 yr, Elected as the President \(1/80\+ candidates in a batch after merit\-based rounds involving cases, guesstimates and elections\)\. During my tenure, I achieved \~1500 registrations \(ranked 1st/11 clubs\) for international case competition Strategem by outreaching at Tier 1B\-schools\. For the same, I bagged sponsorship worth INR 50K from CK Foods \(Golden Bird Rice\) and created a real consulting case based on them\.

Founder's Office at BridgeUp, Sep 2022 \- May 2023 · 9 mos, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, At BridgeUp, I worked across two teams \- Capital team and Risk Operations team\. I used to run the preliminary analysis on the companies that are eligible for revenue based financing\. This analysis was done based upon financial metrics like revenue, EBITDA, PAT, Debt and nature of revenue\. Risk Operations: Analysing and scrutinising Bank Statements and Financial Statements \(Income Statement and Balance Sheet\) of companies\. Inbound Qualification: I worked as the SPOC for the founders of the companies that need financing, talk to them and qualify/reject them based on revenue and debt related data\. Outbound Prospecting: Researching the industries and companies that might need working capital and use our platform to get it\.

Founder's Office Intern at BridgeUp, Jul 2022 \- Sep 2022 · 3 mos, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, BridgeUp provides recurring revenue companies with upfront capital by allowing them to trade their monthly revenue streams for their annual value instantly\. It has raised $1 million in seed capital\. As an intern, I worked across two teams \- Sales and Credit Risk Operations\.

Founder at Sociomata, Aug 2021 \- Jun 2022 · 11 mos, Remote, Sociomata is a social media content automation tool\. It lets you schedule your tweets and threads\. Give up on the hassle of daily posting by scheduling your content in advance\. Sign Up on sociomata\.com Tech Stack: Frontend built using Elm, backend built using NodeJS and infrastructure handled using AWS \(EC2, RDS, S3, Codepipeline, Codedeploy\) and Github\. My co\-founder Bhaskar Thakur was the sole engineer who built the product\.

## Education

Master of Business Administration \- MBA, Technology and Business Management, Masters' Union

Bachelor of Science \- BS, Banking and Finance, University of London

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