Tanmay's Profound AI Rep
Tanmay's view on investment research shows how he separates a clear recommendation from a comprehensive summary.
Tanmay Sharma
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Running End-to-End VC Research
Tanmay runs the full investment research cycle independently, from first founder meeting through IC memo, without needing a structured team around him. At ZeroPearl, he covered over a hundred startups across fintech and consumer tech, owning every stage: founder interviews, customer checks, competitor mapping, financial due diligence, and final investability assessment. His research on Frex contributed directly to an investment decision. His approach is to triangulate across multiple primary sources before forming a view. He interviews founders, customers, and competitors separately, then stress-tests the findings against market data and financial metrics before writing up. For a lean investment team, this means he can be handed a brief and return a structured, IC-ready output with minimal supervision.
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VC-Lens Market Mapping
Tanmay approaches sector research with a specific filter: not what is interesting in a market, but where early-stage capital can generate returns. His energy tech study is a clear example. He broke the sector into sub-segments, mapped growth trajectories and import dependency, and then separated capital-intensive infrastructure plays from the software and platform layers where VC money makes sense. The output was not a general market overview but a prioritized map of investable white spaces. He applies the same lens to deal-level research, always asking whether the market structure, unit economics, and founder-market fit combine to make a VC-scale outcome plausible. This makes his research directly useful to an investment team, rather than requiring a second pass to translate market observations into investment implications.
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Stakeholder-Driven Research Coordination
Tanmay builds research by going directly to primary sources across the full stakeholder map, from founders and customers to government officials and industry leaders. At eDC, he held conversations with officials from the Commerce Ministry, External Affairs Ministry, and the Finance Ministry, as well as with the Leader of the Lok Sabha, to inform programming and sector research. He also interviewed over a hundred founders during his time at IIT Delhi. At ZeroPearl, he ran primary research on every deal he touched, interviewing founders, customers, and competitors independently before synthesizing findings for the IC. For a research role that requires coordinating with government bodies, co-investors, and industry partners, this is a practiced muscle, not a new one.
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Tanmay Sharma
About Me
Tanmay Sharma is an investment research analyst and venture ecosystem builder, recently graduated from IIT Delhi. He has spent his entire college career at the intersection of startups, founders, and capital, building both the research and community muscle that early-stage investing demands.
He is currently pursuing full-time opportunities in venture capital, bringing hands-on experience in end-to-end deal research, stakeholder coordination with government officials and industry leaders, and large-scale community operations.
At ZeroPearl VC, he independently evaluated over a hundred startups across fintech and consumer tech, running the full research cycle from founder interviews and customer checks to competitive analysis, financial due diligence, and IC memo preparation. His research on Frex, a global remittance fintech, contributed directly to an investment decision.
As President of eDC IIT Delhi, he led a team of over 500 people across more than twelve verticals, scaled the Annual Entrepreneurship Summit to double its prior footfall, and drove a two-to-three times increase in program participation through sector research and curriculum design.
Tanmay Sharma
The best research output is a clear recommendation, not a comprehensive summary. If I can't tell you where to put the money, I haven't done the work.”
Tanmay Sharma
On investment research