Vaanya Bhalla | Profound

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Vaanya's stories span investment research, field research, and urban policy across India.

Vaanya Bhalla

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Investment Research Analysts

Running primary research workstreams at investment firms.

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Consumer Sector Founders

Building in food safety or better-for-you products.

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Sustainability Startup Founders

Building in construction, materials, or waste management.

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Policy and Urban Mobility Researchers

Working on transport or urban infrastructure in India.

Vaanya Bhalla

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Qualitative Research Synthesis

Vaanya's core research skill is taking a large, unstructured body of qualitative information and turning it into something a decision-maker can act on. This pattern has shown up across HDFC Capital, where she synthesized interviews with dozens of professionals in the real estate tokenization space into a structured output that shaped the team's investment focus, and at voestalpine, where expert conversations informed a major market entry decision. Her approach is to find the common patterns across sources, surface the points of genuine disagreement, and distill the signal into a format that is clear and usable for the people who need to move on it. For a team running investment research, this means she can take a poorly mapped market and return with a structured picture of who the players are, what the risks look like, and where the opportunity sits.

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Field Research and Survey Design

Vaanya has conducted primary field research independently, going into the field, running surveys, and feeding findings back to the teams directing the work. At First Alpine's advisory arm, she ran solo classroom visits for a Harvard-affiliated project on student mental health, administering surveys and conducting conversations with students and teachers. When her field findings diverged from expectations, she maintained the survey methodology to protect the baseline while updating her qualitative reporting to the primary investigators. At the Centre for Public Policy Research, she contributed to survey design and ran initial test rounds to validate the instrument before full deployment across multiple cities. This combination of field execution and methodological discipline means she can be trusted to run primary research independently without compromising the integrity of the data.

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Independent Market View Formation

Vaanya forms views on markets and consumer trends by combining what she observes as a consumer with structured reading of industry and regulatory reports. On food safety and better-for-you consumer products, she tracked the FSSAI reports, WHO food standards, and independent reporting on food quality in India, layering that onto her own experience as a consumer to build a grounded perspective on where the market is heading and where the structural gaps remain. On sustainability, her time at HDFC Capital exposed her to startups building in areas she had not previously considered, from bricks made from waste material to drones for construction waste, which sharpened her view on where innovation in the space is actually happening. For an investment research role, this habit of tracking markets independently and forming views before being asked to research them is a meaningful signal of genuine curiosity.

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Career Stories

voestalpine: Building the MRTS Market Entry Thesis

At voestalpine as Associate

2024

DAI Advisory: Solo Field Research on Student Mental Health

At voestalpine as Associate

2024

HDFC Capital: Mapping Real Estate Tokenization Through Expert Interviews

At HDFC Capital Advisors Limited as Intern

2024 - 2024

Centre for Public Policy Research: Urban Mobility Research Across Five Cities, focusing on Jaipur.

At Centre for Public Policy Research as Urban Mobility Intern

2023 - 2024

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