Manasvi Yadav | Profound

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Manasvi's stories span VC investment research, biotechnology market mapping, and B2B product synthesis.

Manasvi Yadav

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Running End-to-End Research

Manasvi picks up a research brief in a poorly-mapped market and works through it independently to a clear recommendation. At gradCapital, she ran this pattern twice: once on an AI co-scientist platform, synthesizing complex technical signals from Google DeepMind and AlphaFold into a pass recommendation the fund adopted; and once on a proposed biotechnology arm, where she scoped the entire workstream herself. Her approach is to anchor early on the structural question, map the landscape through sustained reading, and deliver a recommendation with the primary sources attached. The output is a call, with the evidence behind it.

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Synthesizing Qualitative Research

Manasvi takes large, unstructured qualitative datasets and works them down to a small number of clear, actionable outputs. At Tata Motors, she synthesized over 150 B2B commercial vehicle customer responses into three to four feature recommendations, including a smart search concept she developed with the ML team. At gradCapital, she screened hundreds of PhD candidates and identified the first hire for a new biotechnology arm. The challenge in both cases was the same: the raw material was behavioral and interpretive, not statistical. The output required judgment about what the data actually supported, not just what it said. Her synthesis process moves from raw inputs to a structured recommendation the team can act on.

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Building Sector Theses from Research

Manasvi reads deeply across sectors and builds her own theses from the ground up. On AI co-scientists, she traced DeepMind's structural shift and recommended passing. On climate, she concluded the sector was not investable and landed on an energy efficiency thesis instead. Her starting question for any nascent market: will AI let this sector exist, and will it exist profitably? The views she forms are grounded in primary sources and stated plainly.

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Career Stories

gradCapital Biotech Arm: End-to-End Research for a New Investment Vertical

At gradCapital as Founders' Office Intern

2025

gradCapital AI Co-Scientist: Market Research Leading to a Pass Recommendation

At gradCapital as Founders' Office Intern

2025

Tata Motors Smart Search: Turning B2B Survey Data into a Product Feature

At Tata Motors as Project Intern

2024 - 2024

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