Riddhi Sharda | Profound

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Riddhi's stories span consumer due diligence, IPO market sizing, and multi-workstream research delivery.

Riddhi Sharda

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Primary Research Validation

Riddhi's core research instinct is to treat a data discrepancy as a question, not a rounding error. When the numbers don't hold up, she goes back to the source. This pattern has shown up across her EdTech consumer due diligence, where she caught an affordability perception gap through primary callbacks, and her agri-tech market sizing work, where she validated a rebuilt methodology through expert interviews before presenting it to investment bankers. Her approach combines survey design, in-depth interview execution, and data triangulation. She does not stop at what secondary sources say; she builds the primary layer that makes the finding defensible. For a team building a live market view, this means the research that comes from her has been stress-tested before it lands.

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Structuring Ambiguous Market Briefs

When a research brief is vague or the market is poorly mapped, Riddhi builds structure from what is available rather than waiting for a cleaner starting point. Her approach is to run her own secondary diligence first, identify what can be validated through primary, and then align with the stakeholder on scope when genuine ambiguity remains. On the agri-tech IPO engagement, this meant rebuilding the methodology entirely when the first approach failed to capture the full market scope. She has applied this across IPO DRHP industry reports and commercial due diligence engagements, where the brief often requires the analyst to define the structure as much as execute it. For a fund building sector views from scratch, this is the instinct that turns an open question into a usable framework.

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Rapid Sector Immersion

Riddhi has built working knowledge of multiple sectors from scratch across her engagements: EdTech, agri-tech, BFSI, healthcare, and technology internet. Each project required her to develop enough sector depth to write a credible industry narrative, conduct expert interviews, and present findings to bankers or PE investors. Her approach to staying current combines macro-level reading with project-level synthesis. She tracks how macro indicators connect to specific companies and sectors, and she builds that context into her research outputs. This pattern is visible across her IPO DRHP work, where she has had to construct industry narratives for sectors she was not previously expert in, and her commercial due diligence work, where sector context shapes the validity of every finding. For a fund covering consumer, frontier tech, and industrial sectors, this is the ability to get up to speed fast and produce credible work without a long ramp.

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Riddhi Sharda

Career Stories

EdTech Consumer Due Diligence: Catching the Affordability Perception Gap

At 1Lattice as Analyst - Insights and Consulting

2023 - 2024

Agri-Tech IPO Market Sizing: Rebuilding the Methodology Mid-Project

At 1Lattice as Analyst - Insights and Consulting

2023 - 2024

Managing Three Parallel Research Workstreams Simultaneously

At 1Lattice as Analyst - Insights and Consulting

2023 - 2024

Building the CXO and Investment Banker Outreach Database

At 1Lattice as Analyst - Insights and Consulting

2023 - 2024

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