Hi, I’m Sahili 👋
In the past, I’ve managed a macro portfolio at Goldman Sachs, developed ML and model-risk systems at Wells Fargo, and built revenue systems while leading go-to-market and partnerships at Mili, an AI startup for wealth advisors.
These days I consult startups and run Vanta Collective with two close friends, helping early-stage teams turn good products into growing businesses.
Goldman Sachs
Wells Fargo
UBS
WorldQuant
mili
BITS Pilani
IIT Delhi
I’m happiest when there’s something new to learn and build.
Markets, risk models, startups, communities. I’ve always liked problems that need both numbers and people, especially the ones that don’t belong neatly to one function.
I moved between markets, model risk, and startup operations. The setting kept changing, but the work kept asking the same things of me: learn the system quickly, make decisions with incomplete information, and do whatever the outcome needed.
Chief of Staff, AI for wealth advisors · 2025 – 2026
Built the revenue system leadership ran its weekly reviews on, took partnerships and conferences end to end, and mapped where Mili could embed inside advisor workflows. The year I learned how startups actually grow, from the inside.
3x
growth in qualified leads
Portfolio Manager, QIS Alternatives Macro · 2024 – 2025
Portfolio construction and risk decisions across 100+ instruments in equities, FX, fixed income, and commodities. Building signals, testing them, and deciding how much to trust them when the market disagreed.
$236M+
macro portfolio managed
Quantitative Analytics, Model Risk · 2021 – 2024
Stress-tested deposit and mortgage models, built a system that generated synthetic scenarios to test them harder, and designed the scoring tools that made model risk easier to assess across $150B of business. Spoke on AI in banking at IIT Madras.
1 of 400
first place in the global hackathon
Before all of that
Outside work, I co-founded an app about loneliness and a marketplace for India’s thrift stores, and started a creative studio built around women-led businesses.
Launched an anonymous social and dating app during Covid, when everyone was lonelier than they admitted and safety online mattered. Went from user research to a live product with a team of ten.
1,000+ downloads in week one
Built the marketplace that made India’s scattered thrift inventory discoverable, and helped young, mostly women-led sellers reach buyers far beyond their own Instagram storefronts.
800+ stores onboarded
A studio that designs intentional products and works only with women-led businesses. Its first project: an onboarding experience for Women In Product with The Product Folks, sourced entirely from women-led businesses.
A gathering for women building across healthtech, GenAI, and e-commerce to trade operating lessons and talk honestly about founder problems.
AI made building easier. Growth is still brutally hard.
I noticed something simple: with AI, almost anyone can build faster now. But a lot of startups still struggle with the part that makes a product travel, the messy middle between “we built it” and “people care.”
So I started Vanta Collective with two close friends, to help early teams figure out what makes their product worth paying for, put that into plain words, and get it in front of the right people. We take on a few clients at a time, and we care more about whether the business actually moved than about how many deliverables we shipped.
If you’ve built something good and want more people to find it, we should talk.
Book a discovery callI pick a subject I don’t understand yet, build myself a curriculum, go deep for a sprint, and publish what I learn: videos on SahiliTries, written series on LinkedIn.
a recent sprint
A month studying how countries design digital identity, housing, climate, and industrial policy. One country at a time.
things I keep coming back to
for founders
You’ve built a good product and it isn’t growing the way it should. That’s exactly what Vanta is for.
Book a discovery callfor teams
You have something important that doesn’t fit neatly inside one function. I’m good at getting close to the problem, finding the useful next move, and carrying it through.
Book a discovery call ↗for ideas, intros, everything else
The best conversations rarely begin with a polished brief. If something’s on your mind, tell me about it.
Book a discovery call ↗I’m curious by nature. I love learning new things and giving myself the time to go deep.
That probably explains the range of things I’ve chosen to do: manage an investment portfolio, build a thrift marketplace, create spaces for women building companies of their own, and quite a few other things along the way.
Outside of work you’ll find me travelling somewhere unfamiliar, dancing (a habit from the BITS dance club), finding excuses to bring people together, or a few weeks deep into a subject I’ll end up explaining on YouTube.