Samyukta's Profound AI Rep
The short version: she takes vague mandates and builds structure fast. The longer story is in the bio.
Samyukta Prabhu
About Me
Samyukta is a strategy and operations consultant working across consumer businesses, D2C brands, and social impact organisations. She specialises in taking ambiguous mandates and building structure fast, from market entry to five-year strategy to category launch.
Current Work and Focus
Samyukta is currently running two independent consulting engagements. At Futurewagon, a D2C creative stationery brand, she identified the DIY crafts category as a growth opportunity, pitched the mandate herself, and is now leading the company's first entry into the US market and a new product category from concept to pilot launch. At the Udaiti Foundation, she is building a five-year organisational strategy for a nonprofit focused on women's economic empowerment in India, working directly with a board that includes senior partners from BCG and Bain.
Career Arc
Before going independent, Samyukta spent a year at InnoVen Capital, a Temasek-backed venture debt fund, where she closed $30 million in venture debt across three companies: a fine jewellery retailer, an apparel brand, and a data intelligence platform. She structured deal terms and ran full portfolio operations post-close, including managing a sensitive relationship with a portfolio company navigating a public listing.
Earlier, she completed a consulting stint at Bain and Company and held an investments role at Villgro Innovations Foundation, where she sourced and evaluated companies in the health vertical. Her academic background spans an MBA from IIM Calcutta, a CEMS MiM from the University of Cologne, and a BA plus PGD in Economics and Media Studies from Ashoka University.