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Kaushik Subramanian

Partner at EQT Ventures

London Area, United Kingdom

Overview 

Kaushik Subramanian is a Partner at EQT Ventures in London, with a background in marketing, brand management, and product innovation. He has a strong track record of investing in and advising early-stage companies, with notable investments in companies like Payrails and Locale.ai. Having held leadership roles at companies like Stripe and L'Oréal, Kaushik has leveraged his expertise in product management and growth strategies to drive success in the startups he advises.

Work Experience 

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EQT Ventures

  • Partner

    2023 - Current

    EQT Ventures is entirely made up of ex-founders or operators. Founded in 2016, we're now investing out of our €1.1B fund 3, which is Europe's largest VC fund committed to early stage startups. We invest in Europe and the US, from seed to Series B.

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Paid

  • Investor (Pre Seed)

    2025

    Business engine for AI Agents

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Bluebook

  • Investor (Pre Seed)

    2024

    AI Agents for Accounting firms

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Stacks

  • Investor (Pre Seed)

    2024

    AI for accounting teams Seed led by General Catalyst

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Payrails

  • Investor (Seed)

    2023

    Payments software for global enterprises

G

Griffin

  • Member Board of Directors

    2024

    Griffin is a tech company that is also a UK bank

VC

Various Companies

  • Advisor + Angel Investor

    2019

    I invest and help startups with product: best practices, organisation, hiring and development. I am often involved pre seed onwards, before the institutional round. Examples: - Fermat Commerce (Seed), Series A led by Bain Cap - Payflows (Seed), Series A led by Balderton - Relay (Seed), Series A led by Plural - DeepOpinion (Seed), Series A led by RRW

NV

Native Voice

  • Member Board Of Directors and Advisor

    2020

Native Voice is a software SDK for audio device manufacturers to integrate their SDK to create the next generation of listening devices.

Raised $14,000,000.00 from TechNexus Venture Collaborative, Tech Square Ventures, Revel Partners, Ideaship, Gutbrain Ventures, Signal Peak Ventures, PBJ Capital, TechNexus Venture Collaborative, Revel Partners and Maccabee Ventures.

nativevoice.ai
EF

Entrepreneur First

  • Advisor

    2022

    I work with the startups in the EF cohort and help them on product related topics

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Stripe

  • Product Management Lead

    2021 - 2023

    I led product management with a charter for Money Movement/Payouts, Invoicing and Stripe Connect. I received a performance award in my first year as a result of my impact. A snapshot of impact: - Built a global product (FX and multicurrency) that grew to $XB volume profitably in 18 months - Improved Payout speeds and introduced Instant Payouts (ex-US) - Built a first ever EMEA roadmap for Stripe Connect, got company leadership buy in for investment - Set up an invoicing product team in EMEA to drive global PMF

Stripe is an API technology company that provides online payment processing and commerce solutions for Internet businesses.

Raised $9,440,247,725.00 from E1 Ventures.

stripe.com

Education 

Investments 

Payrails

Seed

Total funding: $21M

Payflows

Seed

Total funding: $33M

Fermat Commerce

Seed

Total funding: $29M

DeepOpinion

Seed

Total funding: $2M

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