Valuation growth supported through strategic growth and investment work.
Selected proof
Proof that comes from lived operator work, selected mandates, and practical capital-side execution.
Capital raised across selected mandate and client support.
New business booked through relationship-led work and targeted introductions.
Salil Rana
Director, Senya Solutions
Operator experience before advisory language
- Salil Rana co-founded Living Things / Icapotech, an IoT energy-saving company serving banks and retail outlets
- Raised $274k in equity and $70k in grants during the company journey
- Built the product roadmap, navigated manufacturing challenges, led early customer execution for the IoT energy-saving product and secured top Indian banks as early customers
- Led growth and investment strategy for TriNANO Technologies, including investor positioning, fundraising narrative, and strategic stakeholder alignment
- Played a key role in TriNANO’s approx. $375k equity raise in 2024
- Worked across investor materials, valuation positioning, climate-tech fund conversations, and non-dilutive capital, including $44.5k in grant-linked support and an approx. $12k IEEMA Electraverse 2024 competition win
Specific outcomes, not abstract claims
- cGreen: supported a meaningful part of a ₹2.35 crore pre-seed round
- TriNANO Technologies: supported fundraising, investor materials, and alignment leading into a ₹3.1 crore equity raise
- Vaani Research: supported narrative refinement and investor introductions for an AI research company
- Adiabatic Technologies: helped unlock approx. ₹1.6 crore of business from new relationships
Proof from actual founder-side work
A closer look at the rooms, documents, planning sessions, commercial conversations, and founder trust behind Senya’s selected outcomes.
TriNANO Technologies
Senya’s work with TriNANO went beyond pitch preparation. It included investor positioning, fundraising support, strategic stakeholder alignment, business development, grant-linked opportunities, and founder-side follow-through.
Founder-side trust, documented
The recommendation letter gives formal validation to the role played across fundraising, investor engagement, business development, and continued strategic support.
SINE IIT Bombay investor interaction
Investor conversations require preparation, context, positioning, and judgment. Senya’s role is to help founders enter serious rooms like SINE IIT Bombay with more clarity.
Alignment after the first conversation
The real work often begins after interest is created: negotiation, stakeholder alignment, follow-up, and converting conversations into serious movement.
Momentum that supports credibility
Recognition moments like IEEMA BID Electraverse help strengthen the founder story when they are connected properly to the company’s market, technology, and growth narrative.
Founder work beyond formal rooms
Senya’s work is not limited to investor calls or pitch rooms. The Vaani session captures a more personal side of the process: sitting with founders, thinking through the company, refining the narrative, and helping clarity emerge wherever the founder is building from.
Fundraising planning before market movement
The cGreen work represents the preparation side of fundraising: understanding the company, sharpening positioning, discussing the process, and preparing for investor conversations with more discipline.
Commercial traction through relationship-led work
Track record is not only capital raised. It also includes business development outcomes, strategic introductions, and commercial relationships that make a company more bankable.
Active roles across founder referrals, fund distribution, and LP partnership work
Senya’s track record is not only built on mandate work. It is also shaped by Salil Rana’s active role inside selective capital and introduction ecosystems.
Boardy Deal Partner
Salil works as a Boardy Deal Partner, helping identify and refer relevant founders into the Boardy ecosystem where there may be a strong fit for high-signal introductions and capital-side conversations.
- Founder discovery and referral judgment
- Fit assessment before making introductions
- Careful positioning of founders and companies
- Attribution-safe referral workflow
Distribution Partner for fundraise and LP partnerships
Salil supports Suvan VC through an external distribution partnership focused on fundraise support, LP partnership development, capital partner mapping, and strategic ecosystem relationships.
- LP relationship development support
- Fund positioning and distribution conversations
- Capital partner mapping
- Relevant ecosystem introductions where appropriate
These affiliations reflect Salil Rana’s active capital-network roles. They should be understood as relationship and distribution roles, not as guarantees of funding, investment, LP commitment, or introductions. Every founder, fund, and capital partner is evaluated independently on fit, timing, and relevance.