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Rishabh Jain

MBA Candidate at Northwestern University

United States

Overview 

Rishabh Jain is a Venture Capitalist at Jump Capital, with a background as a Product Manager at Microsoft Azure and an MBA from Kellogg School of Management. He specializes in investing in Series A and Seed stage companies in sectors such as AI, Cybersecurity, and Cloud Infrastructure, demonstrating a strong track record in strategic thinking and new venture development.

Work Experience 

  • MBA Candidate

    2023 - Current

    Exploring the world a little more. Trying out new things, enhancing my current strengths, and having fun! Co-Chair - Kellogg Entrepreneurship Conference - Bringing to you Kellogg's inaugural event to elevate Entrepreneurial Discourse Graduate Teaching Assistant for two most sought-after courses in Full Time and Executive MBA Programs: - Launching and Leading Start-ups w/ Prof. Andee Harris - Selling yourself and your Ideas w/ Prof. Jodi Glickman and Prof. Suzanne Muchin Events @ South Asian Club - Throwing the two largest South Asian Carnivals - Diwali and Bollywood Bash Careers @ KSA - Helping people waiting to try out non-traditional career paths.

  • VC

    2024 - 2024

    Led $18 million Series A funding round for Gen-AI security startup Prompt Security. Fortunate to see it from ideation, thought leadership, sourcing, to investment. Security, Infra, and DevOps for AI products (GenAI and beyond). Seed to Series A. My thoughts: https://jumpcap.com/insights/securing-gen-ai/

Jump Capital is a thesis-led, sector-focused, and operating-centric venture capital firm specializing in Seed/Series A.

  • MBA Associate

    2024 - 2024

    Developing BGV's Deep Tech Thesis

Benhamou Global Ventures is a venture capital firm sourcing startups to build them into the next-generation of B2B technology companies.

Raised $150,000,000.00 from Nate Rosenthal.

  • Product Manager 2 (L62)

    2022 - 2023

    PM for Azure BCDR (Backup and Disaster Recovery), owning Backup and Site Recovery PnL for Azure VMs.

  • Product Manager 2 (L61)

    2020 - 2022

    PM for Azure Site Recovery (Disaster Recovery As A Service)

  • Product Manager

    2019 - 2020

  • Software Engineer

    2018 - 2019

    • Owned the Feature Roadmap and Technical Design of the Global Target Setting App for Microsoft Sellers • Represented the engineering team in Microsoft’s Annual Sellers’ Summit’19. • Led the collaboration between multiple verticals to ensure the landing of seller targets within 30 days of FY. (viz-a-viz 90 days earlier) • Awarded at All-Hands for showing exemplary Customer Obsession Part of the Incentive Compensation engineering team empowering Microsoft Global Sellers to achieve more every day with state of the art tools and applications.

Microsoft Advertising provides digital advertising solutions.

  • Financial Innovation Office

    2018 - 2018

    •Executed deep user and market research to identify fintech product opportunities; shaped a $150M investment strategy with 30% projected ROI and drove internal pilots that reduced OPEX by $20M •Coached the CEO's leadership team on FinTech and AI trends; mapped customer pain points across banking verticals and partnered with 6 startups, leading to 2 investments worth $80M with a projected 46% ROI •Influenced CEO against Wealth Management expansion in India through market and financial analysis, saving $250M

  • Software Development Intern

    2017 - 2017

    • Worked with the CFO (Amy Hood)'s team to create a web app for Cash Forecasting and Data Presentation. • Used ASP.Net MVC Framework with Angular 2. Hosted it on Azure with AAD Authentication.

Microsoft Advertising provides digital advertising solutions.

  • Teaching Assistant

    2016 - 2017

    Teaching Assistant for the courses: CS F111 : Computer Programming CS F212 : Database Systems ECON F211: Fundamental of Finance and Accounting Conducting weekly labs for 80 students. Designing and editing the lab sheets. Solving student queries in the Discussion Forum on eDX Platform.

  • Summer Employee

    2016 - 2016

    A Farmer NGO venturing into Value Added products. Worked as an assistant to the founding team (Mrs. Rajitha Vipparthi, Ex-VP, Deutsche Bank, and Prof. Trilochan Sastry, IIM-B) for • Setting up the product line and working on manufacturing outsourcing (Increasing profitability by 22%). • Market Research for expected demand and target customers. • A complete Supply Chain Analysis of Peanut Butter, Cold Pressed Oil, and Dry Chutney Powders. • Studying the Bangalore and regional markets for these products.

  • Project Intern

    2016 - 2016

    Preparing Financial Statements which are to be presented for fundraising. Survey Analysis. Researching on how Health Startups are innovating in the medical space, and how it can be incorporated in Yoddhas.

India's first online Cancer Support Community.

  • Panel Member

    2015 - 2016

    • Organising Panel Discussions pertaining to academics. • Taking initiatives to bridge the gap between the faculty and students. • Counselling students on academic and career related matters.

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