Bengaluru
Mars Shot is a personal, early-stage investment arm of the founders and the founding team of Razorpay.
Together, this group scaled Razorpay from 0 to $7.5Bn, $150Bn+ transaction volume with an org of 3,000+, building one of India's most respected tech companies along the way. Mars Shot takes that operating experience — org-building, product thinking, go-to-market, culture design — and deploys it alongside capital into early-stage startups.
We invest $25–100K per deal at pre-seed and seed, and have backed 100+ companies across India and the US, including Ultrahuman, Dhan, Bobba Bhai, Cheq, Eka Care, and Stable Money — as well as less conventional bets in areas like nuclear fusion energy, hardware AI, slack-first hospitals etc.
We are sector-agnostic. We invest in problem statements we care about and founders we have conviction in. Our process is intuition-led and fast — closer to founder-to-founder trust than a structured diligence machine. We lean towards complex, non-obvious categories where patient capital and hands-on operator support actually matter.
Over the next few years, Mars Shot is poised to evolve into a larger, more meaningful fund. We're exploring what that looks like, and this hire is central to that.
Mars Shot has been run in a scrappy, high-conviction way so far. We're hiring a founding team member on the investment side to own the strategy & operations of the fund, end-to-end. You will have a seat at the table in every investment discussion, and over time, you can earn decision-making authority.
The immediate need is someone who can bring operational rigour to a platform that runs on conviction and speed, without killing either, and expand the deployment of the fund.
On a longer horizon, the fund is at an inflection point, with an opportunity to make this into a large fund. This is an open-ended strategy question, that you will own.
You'll work directly with Shashank Mehta (ex Razorpay founding team, VP & GM – RazorpayX) & Vishnu Acharya (Head of Strategy & CorpDev, Razorpay), and have regular, direct access to the Razorpay co-founders and the rest of the group. The operating model is high-autonomy, low-hierarchy.
NOTE: This is a Bengaluru based role. Flexible possible for exceptional talent.
Run the investment pipeline
Take first meetings with founders. Form a view quickly. Prepare sharp, concise internal materials (one-slide summaries) to drive weekly partner discussions.
Coordinate diligence: founder references, market context, round dynamics, commercial assessment.
Own the pipeline from first conversation to signed cheque. Drive internal alignment and decision-making.
Build and maintain dealflow
Develop relationships across founders, operators, angels, and VCs to keep the top-of-funnel strong.
Leverage the 100+ company portfolio as a systematic source of high-quality referrals.
Develop a point of view on sectors and markets worth leaning into. Source proactively.
Collaborate deeply with Razorpay Ventures & Razorpay Rize
Manage the portfolio
Maintain a clean, current view of the full portfolio — rounds raised, key metrics, follow-on needs, risks.
Be the first point of contact for portfolio founders. Provide meaningful assistance & route them to the right people in our network.
Be value-accretive but lightweight: intros, thought partnership, fundraise preparation.
Collaborate closely with Razorpay’s startup activities (Rize, FTX, RazorpayX Conclaves etc.)
Setup and drive events and networking opportunities for portfolio and MarsShot partners to interact with each other and the ecosystem.
Build the operating layer
Put in place the systems, processes, and tooling that a 100+ company portfolio actually requires.
Own reporting, tracking, internal communication, and fund administration.
Work with the group on how Mars Shot evolves — fund structure, deployment pace, thesis, team.
Lead compliance & finance for Mars Shot
Shape the fund strategy
Work with Razorpay founders on identifying fund evolution opportunities, uniquely suited to Mars Shot
Build a point of view and drive the strategy for the next 5 years
You’ve preferably operated in a breadth-first role — chief of staff, strategy, business operations, founder, or something similarly unstructured. You're used to context-switching across customers, partners, vendors, internal chaos, and ambiguity.
You've spent at least 3-8 years in a startup or high-growth environment. An ideal candidate has relevant breadth-first experience, allowing for a rapid learning curve ahead, without being too entrenched in current style of working.
You are:
High-agency – You don't wait for instructions. You figure out what needs to happen and make it happen.
Operationally sharp – You're the person who makes systems work, follows up relentlessly, and doesn't let things fall through cracks.
A rapid learner – You may not have investing experience, that's fine. You learn fast, form opinions quickly, and aren't afraid to be wrong.
Analytically strong but intuition-friendly – You can build a model, but you also trust pattern recognition and soft signals when evaluating founders.
A clear communicator – You write crisply. You distill complex, messy conversations into sharp internal narratives.
Genuinely curious – You enjoy meeting founders, debating markets, pulling apart products, and forming contrarian views.
AI native individual — You are comfortable spinning up Claude Code or Codex and can leverage AI agents to build 10x flows
You are not a fit if your preferences are already entrenched — if you need established playbooks, large teams, or defined swim lanes to do your best work. This is a build-from-scratch environment with a tiny team and enormous surface area.
Prior investing experience is a plus, but we weigh operating depth, judgment, and bias for action far more heavily.
Work directly with the Razorpay founding team – Not advisory-board-level access — weekly calls, async reviews, real collaboration.
A front-row seat in early-stage investing – across 100+ companies, with exposure to sourcing, evaluation, portfolio management, and fund strategy.
Massive ownership – You'll be the operating backbone of the fund. The quality of everything, dealflow, portfolio experience, fund infrastructure, will reflect your work.
A path that grows with you – As Mars Shot scales, so does your role. The better you are, the bigger this becomes.
The rarest kind of learning environment – Operator-founders who built a $7.5B+ company, now deploying capital and judgment into the next generation of startups. There is no classroom equivalent.