The Role

The Investment Analyst will work closely with our Partners and Principals, helping Avaana in identifying India’s most exciting early-stage entrepreneurs, and then supporting them to scale up their ventures, thereby delivering extraordinary returns for our investors.

Key Responsibilities:

The Analyst will be responsible for:

• Supporting our portfolio companies by providing value adds to their growth plans and strategic initiatives, in conjunction with the Investment Manager
• Helping Avaana in prioritizing, and building an investment thesis for sectors and opportunities
• Supporting the Investment Manager on the investment evaluation process from start to end
• Helping source exciting start-ups through networks (college, friends etc) and / or through research
• Leading / supporting key initiatives and processes on the pipeline, portfolio or platform fronts

Required Qualifications and Attributes:

• Undergrad degree from a premier institute (IITs, NITs, BITS, Premier colleges – engineering or commerce).
• 1-3 years of work experience across consulting(Transaction Advisory) / IB or start-ups, understanding of business modelling, financial reports will be an added advantage.
• Passionate about early stage investing, technology and start-ups
• You are curious and have a strong orientation towards learning.
• Strong oral and written communication skills.

Please write to people@avaanacapital.com with your updated resume.

 The Company: Eggoz – Nupa Technologies Private Ltd.

Founded in 2017, Eggoz is a pre series A funded egg brand and agritech start up. It is funded by Avaana Capital and Rebright Partners.

Founded by Abhishek Negi, Uttam Kumar, Aditya Singh; Engineers from IIT – Kharagpur and Pankaj Pandey from College of Technology, G B Pant University.

Eggoz wants to be the preferred brand for both consumers and farmers. Eggoz aspires to be the “Amul for eggs”

Eggoz mission is to provide high-quality and freshly produced eggs through innovative technology and operational excellence by collaborating with small farmers across the nation. The company aims to supply freshest eggs to every household, local shop, and markets nearby. And to eradicate the malnutrition problem in our country by working with farmers from densely populated areas and address high rates of malnutrition. It thrives to play a pivotal role in achieving Nutritional Security of the Rural India.

Eggoz has sold over 3 crores of eggs across 8 cities, with over 150 thousand birds under management. The firm sells over 30L eggs per month and the sales are growing 20-25% month on month.

The Role

Eggoz is looking to hire an enthusiastic Finance Strategist to provide overall strategic leadership and play a key role in improving the financial management capability of the business, with the priority objective of supporting strategic growth plan of Eggoz. This role offers an exciting opportunity to build and lead financial function at Eggoz.

Key Responsibilities:

Reporting to : The Co-founders

• Define short/medium- and long-term finance strategies to support Eggoz’s overall strategy and objective.
• Creation of investor reports and fundraising.
• Providing leadership, direction and management to the finance and accounting team.
• Advising on long-term business and financial planning.
• Assisting cofounders in planning, budgeting and results management
• Effectively manage the cash position, capital budgeting, cash flow from operating and financing activities
• Manage the processes for financial forecasting and budgets and overseeing the preparation of all financial reporting.
• Interacting with the board of directors
• Providing strategic guidance around capital financing options to support the startup’s growth
• Develop appropriate key performance indicators to monitor and drive the financial performance of the organization
• Ensure smooth functioning of day-to-day financial operations.
• Oversee and monitor effective tax strategies and statutory and government compliance for the Corporation; GST / TDS / PF / ESIC/etc.
• Create, coordinate, and evaluate the financial controls and supporting information systems of the company, as well as automation of the finance function
• Build and manage the finance team
• Representing the company externally, as necessary, particularly in banking and lease negotiations
• Manage vendor relationships

Required Qualifications and Attributes:

• 7+ years of Experience in business/corporate finance or strategy role and proven ability to operate in a start-up environment.
• MBA in finance or CA by qualification
• Strong finance-based analytical skills
• Demonstrated leadership and interpersonal skills, people management and communications
• Strong Knowledge on Accounts, Accounting standards and Taxation.
• Experience in FMCG, Consumer Food, Retail industry or D2C required

Please write to people@avaanacapital.com with your updated resume.

About Intello Labs:

Intello Labs is Gurugram based agritech start-up founded in 2016 by IIT Bombay alumni. It taps the power of AI, ML, and computer vision to solve one of the biggest problems our world faces – cutting down food loss. We do this by digitizing the quality assessment of fresh fruits and vegetables. Our technology transforms quality processes, making them objective, efficient, and less wasteful.

From growers to packers, from exporters to food services, anyone can use our innovative, scalable solutions to digitize food quality, achieve fair pricing and reduce food wastage. Intello Labs gives the edge needed to make a food business thrive.

About Praman:

Praman is a digital exchange led by quality objectification for FnV and spices. Praman enables quality-based e-auctions and trading for sellers and buyers. At a daily GTV of $2mn, Praman is poised to scale and be the largest platform in the Agri-tech ecosystem.

Key Responsibilities:

As a category head, you will work with cross-functional teams to:

• Achieve product penetration, quality benchmark, and product PnL responsibilities 
• Own market intelligence, Price benchmarking, and Quality benchmarking across various markets for your portfolio product 
• Primary responsibilities include visioning, brand development, category management, and source and demand generation of the category 
• Drive product penetration and sale volume among customers through innovative campaigns and programs by leveraging data science 
• Own end to end PnL for your portfolio/category of products 
• Own geographical clusters for strategic seller onboarding

Required Qualifications and Attributes:

• Total 6-10 years of experience with premium educational background, MBA preferred.
• Work experience across Agritech, FMCG and or Retail in building a new segment, channel, or category from bottom-up.
• Strong Marketing, Sales background
• Demonstrated skills in Team building and Stakeholder Management (Internal as well as External Buyers, Sellers, Growers)
• Understanding of Rural/Agriculture/ farming sector in India
• Entrepreneurs/ candidates with Agri tech or farming background preferred
• Has relentless focus, strong prioritization skills, and the ability to multitask while working in a highly charged environment Strong communication and interpersonal skills Proven ability to work in ambiguous situations

Interested candidates may email their resume to people@avaanacapital.com.

The subject of the email should be “CV: Category Head – praman”.