Shantanu Jain
Educating Investors @ Markets by Zerodha Hindi | CA (AIR 10) | Ex-Swiggy, Grant Thornton
- Role
- Mentor at Naarica
- Location
- Kolkata, WB, IN
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Shantanu Jain
I am an avid reader and a passionate writer.I lead ReadOn, a company obsessed with imparting financial literacy. It started as a passion project - to make financial content simpler and easy to understand. We are now a 7 member team, serving only 1 client. This client help us educate India’s retail investors with high-quality content.I invest in early-stage ideas, mostly impact first. Clean food, clean energy, clean capital, clean financial advisory are subjects I deeply enjoy. I have tried to give these investments a formal structure through Opportunities Ventures, where 3 other like minded serial entrepreneurs lend me their brains and help me source, evaluate and close deals.My decade-long experience includes- cashflow management for different business- process excellence, esp. for service oriented business- capital allocation decisions- MIS structuring and review - Fundraise plan (including how much to raise, at what valuation)- Investor relations- Financial modelling- Valuation reportI love teaching. I have had the privilege of taking guest lectures on Strategic Financial Management and Personal Finance at- Christ College, Bangalore (2020)- Lady Shree Ram College, New Delhi (2020)- NMIMS, Mumbai and Hyderabad (2021)- Ramjas College, DU (2021)- IIM, Kozhikode (2022)- MDI, Gurgaon (2023)- NIT, Jamshedpur (2023)I have been associated with the following to help them review pitches and invest in startups- iStart, Kota/Jaipur, Rajasthan- AIC-BHU, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh- Hult Prize, St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata, WBFor a better part of the day, I just read :) Annual reports, random blogs, Frieda McFaden murder mysteries and what not!If you have any interesting reads to share, any thoughts to exchange, any companies to dive deep into - feel free to reach out :)
Experience
Mentor
Apr 2023 — Present
An international quality, Indian smart underwear brand. First product - period underwear.
Education
The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India
Chartered Accountant, Finance and Financial Management Services
2014 — 2018
Rukmani Birla Modern High School
High School, Commerce
2008 — 2012
St. Xavier's College (Autonomous), Kolkata
Bachelor of Commerce - BCom, Finance and Financial Management Services
2014 — 2017
Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan's
Higher Secondary, Commerce
2012 — 2014
Skills
- Financial Economics
- Marketing
- Product Management
- Finance
- Mathematics
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