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Startup CFO

Finance

A Startup CFO at an Indian Series A-D company is the CEO's financial co-pilot — not a back-office accountant, but the person who runs fundraise processes (data-room assembly, investor diligence, term-sheet negotiation), owns the 13-week cash runway model updated every Monday, designs the ESOP pool, and translates unit economics into board decks that institutional investors actually believe. Unlike a listed-company CFO carrying quarterly disclosure and SEBI compliance load, the startup CFO operates lean: 4-8 person finance team, Zoho + QuickBooks + Tally for ops, and Excel / Google Sheets for the financial model that is revised in real-time during Series B LP calls. Notable practitioners include Harshil Mathur's CFO hires at Razorpay (now pre-IPO), the finance leadership at CRED, Groww, Meesho, Cars24, BharatPe, ShareChat, Lenskart, and boAt who shepherded cap tables from Seed rounds through to DRHP filing. ESOP vesting outcomes can dwarf cash comp for pre-IPO CFOs who join early — the real calculus is joining in the Series B window, surviving the Series D fundraise, and timing the IPO or secondary sale.

What you'll do

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Career Interests
7 min
Tells us if the day-to-day activities of this role energize you.
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Personality Profile
8 min
Reveals whether the working style this role demands fits how you naturally show up.

What you'll get — free

A clear fit verdict for Startup CFO — strong, good, worth exploring, or stretch.
The 2-3 reasons it fits (or doesn't), based on what this role actually demands.
An honest signal on whether to keep exploring this path or look elsewhere.

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