Vantage Command

Senior operators for founder-led growth.

Operators, not advisors.

Senior operators who find what’s stuck, own the fix, and stand up the capital to scale — CXO firepower, without the full-time cost.

No decks. No jargon. A direct conversation about your growth problem.

The architecture · two layers that think, three arms that execute

Strategy layer

Growth Planning
Demand · ICP & cohort planning · funnel · KPIs
Brand Architecture & Positioning
Strategy · brand key · identity · playbook
▼ feeds execution

Execution arms

Sales & Revenue
P&L · GTM · pricing · pipeline
Media & Distribution
Planning · buying · content
People & Org
Org design · hiring · performance
The pull-out

Vantage Capital Advisors

Fundraising & Investor Readiness
  • Financial modelling
  • Pitch deck & IM
  • CDD & FDD support
  • Data room
  • Investor liaisoning
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Start with a diagnostic.

Capabilities

What we do.

Two strategy disciplines set the direction; three execution arms make it real. Fundraising runs separately as Vantage Capital Advisors.

Strategy layer

Growth Planning

  • Category & demand analysis
  • ICP & cohort planning
  • Funnel & growth roadmap
  • KPI & measurement framework

Brand Architecture & Positioning

  • Brand strategy & purpose
  • Brand key
  • Positioning & messaging
  • Identity (visual + verbal)
  • Portfolio architecture
  • Brand playbook

Execution arms

Sales & Revenue

  • Revenue & P&L diagnostics
  • GTM & sales strategy
  • Pricing & monetisation
  • Pipeline & process design
  • Channel & partnerships
  • Forecasting & enablement

Media & Distribution

  • Media planning — channel mix, audience, budget
  • Media buying — negotiation, programmatic, ad ops
  • Content planning & execution

People & Org

  • Org design & structure
  • Roles & accountability (RACI)
  • Hiring & talent plan
  • Incentive & comp design
  • Performance management
A Vantage Command practice

Vantage Capital Advisors

Fundraising & Investor Readiness

For founder-led businesses and funded startups raising seed to Series B — run by operators who’ve sat on the raising side, not just built decks.

The gap

  • Founders raise on instinct, not an investor-grade narrative
  • Models don’t survive diligence; data rooms are built in a panic
  • No one owns the process from story to signed term sheet

Our edge

  • Operators who’ve managed investor relations and built P&Ls
  • We diagnose the business first — the raise reflects a real plan
  • Backed by the Vantage Command bench: growth, brand and revenue under one roof

From story to signed — a raise-ready pipeline.

01

Financial modelling

Investor-grade model, scenarios and unit economics that hold up in diligence.

02

Pitch deck & IM

The narrative and investor memorandum that frame the opportunity honestly.

03

CDD & FDD support

Commercial and financial diligence readiness — coordinated, not improvised.

04

Data room

A clean, complete data room set up before investors ask.

05

Investor liaisoning

Targeting, outreach and process management through to term sheet.

Engagement aligned to the outcome that matters.

How you engage

Four ways to plug us in.

Fixed scope, premium delivery, measurable outcomes — and never a 200-slide deck with no one to execute it.

Diagnostic

3–4 weeks

An unflinching read on where you’re stuck, with a prioritised execution roadmap.

Intervention

4–12 weeks

A fixed-scope sprint to fix one thing: sales, GTM, brand, pricing or revenue ops.

Growth Office Retainer

Minimum 6 months

Your embedded fractional growth office — senior pod, monthly cadence, real execution.

Transformation

12–18 months

A multi-quarter reset for founder-led companies and PE/VC portfolio companies.

Our approach

Diagnose · Design · Deploy · Defend.

01

Diagnose

Read the business honestly — revenue, GTM, org and brand. No flattery.

02

Design

Architect the fix. Priorities, model and a plan you can actually run.

03

Deploy

Senior operators execute alongside you — hands on the work, not just advice.

04

Defend

Lock the gains. Capability transfer, reporting cadence, durable systems.

Case Studies

Proof, by outcome.

Selected engagements, grouped by sector. More added periodically.

D2C Healthcare Services

From stagnation to accelerated growth in 6 months.

Leading cosmetic clinic network, India

Situation

Growth plateau despite strong underlying demand. Inefficient marketing spends. Weak conversion and yield. High dependency on key individuals.

What we did

  • End-to-end GTM diagnostic; identified CAC inefficiencies and funnel leakages
  • Rebuilt the performance marketing engine
  • Redesigned pricing and packages
  • Strengthened sales processes and accountability
  • Installed CAC, ROAS and conversion dashboards
1.8 → 4.2
ROAS
200 → 900
Leads / Day
+7%
Yield
−4%
Cost Optimisation
Revenue ImpactH1: −1% YoY  →  H2: +28% YoY
Media & Broadcast — Digital Transformation

Building a monetisable digital business inside a legacy newsroom.

A leading news network, India

Situation

A traditional television news network moving into digital. It had built digital assets over the years, but they weren’t structured for monetisation or aligned to what the market was buying — editorial, marketing and sales were tangled, and the social, sales and ad-ops layers weren’t set up to convert audience into revenue.

What we did

  • Streamlined the social assets into structured, monetisable inventory and built a social-media playbook
  • Separated editorial from marketing/sales and aligned each to the right teams
  • Stood up the social team and per-brand clusters with a repeatable operating system
  • Built the digital sales strategy and clear rules of engagement between TV and digital sales
  • Set up ad operations end to end — team, systems and workflows
  • Built and operationalised the ad-sales, IP and branded-content teams
Digital revenue, 3 yrs
4
Functions stood up
New
Programmatic · syndication · partnerships
First
Branded-content IPs
OutcomeDigital revenue ~ over the engagement — on durable sales, ad-ops and IP systems built to run without us.
Music-Tech Startup — 0→1 Build

From idea to funding-ready: a marketplace for independent artists.

Engage Music

Situation

Independent artists rarely earn enough on mainstream platforms like Spotify, which are built to reward major labels over independents. Engage Music — founded by two established DJs — set out as an honest marketplace where independent artists publish their music and reach the niche, discerning audiences who want it.

What we did

  • Streamlined the business and got it operational
  • Hired and placed the CTO
  • Put the product roadmap in place
  • Built the first MVP alongside the founders
  • Shaped and aligned the product to be funding-ready
0→1
MVP shipped
CTO
Hired & embedded
Funding-ready
Product & roadmap
Founder-led
Build
OutcomeA funding-ready product with leadership and roadmap in place — delivered as a focused, limited-period engagement.
Media & Publishing — Acquisition Readiness

Restructuring a legacy auto publisher into an acquisition-ready business.

A legacy automotive-publishing brand, India

Situation

A respected legacy automotive print brand at the start of its digital transition. Its early digital assets had grown organically and were due for modernising and consolidation. As a founder-led business, decision-making sat close to the owner, and the marketing and digital-video functions (including YouTube) had real room to be structured and aligned for scale. With a future acquisition in mind, the owner wanted to sharpen the business and present it at its best to prospective investors.

What we did

  • Built a proper org structure across sales, marketing and digital-video content
  • Built the marketing function ground-up
  • Realigned the digital-video team and YouTube operations
  • Fixed the revenue systems and brought in operating best practices
  • Cleaned up the business and its optics for acquisition
+28%
Revenue uplift
Acquired
& sold
Ground-up
Marketing built
Org redesign
Sales · marketing · video
OutcomeA restructured, acquisition-ready business that was eventually acquired and sold — delivered over a one-year engagement, with a ~28% revenue uplift along the way.

The firm

An advisory board of domain experts, led by two Managing Partners.

Operator-led. Outcome-accountable. Senior specialists deployed per mandate — with two partner firms extending the bench into people and experiences.

Managing Partners

Advisory Partners

Roshni Rao

Roshni Rao

Revenue & Commercial

Senior commercial leader with 25+ years driving revenue growth and sales transformation. Former SVP — Strategy & Revenue Management at Radio City for nearly two decades, and Founder of Nivaaya, a handwoven heritage textiles brand. Expertise in pricing strategy, yield optimisation, CRM automation and scalable monetisation systems.

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Aditya Anand

Aditya Anand

Digital Performance & Creator Ecosystem

Digital performance, influencer and creator-economy specialist with 10+ years. Ex-CRO & Business Head at Viral Fission (grew it from pre-revenue to $5M), West India monetisation lead at ByteDance (Helo), and regional BD head at Culture Machine. Builds creator-led, performance-driven campaigns across Meta, Spotify, PepsiCo and more.

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Geetika Johri

Geetika Johri

Content & Programming

Senior content and programming leader with 15+ years across radio, television and digital media. Former National Programming Head at BIG FM and Head of Programming at Zee Zindagi, with a strong track record in brand building, IP development and audience growth at scale.

LinkedIn
Oliver Fall

Oliver Fall

Global Affairs & Market Access

International commercial strategy and external-affairs leader with 15+ years. Vice President at Edelman Public & Government Affairs; built and led Landmark Public Affairs’ Asia practice through to its acquisition by Edelman. Expertise in geopolitical & regulatory risk, market access, trade policy and strategic communications across AMEA, the UK and North America.

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Abhijit Majumder

Abhijit Majumder

Editorial & Media

Editor, journalist and media entrepreneur with 25+ years across India’s leading newsrooms. Founder-Director of DONN Communications and co-founder & Editor-in-Chief of Earshot Media; former Editor-in-Chief of Asianet News Network and Managing Editor of Mail Today (India Today Group), where he led the paper’s editorial and financial turnaround. Former Resident Editor at Hindustan Times and Executive Editor at Mid-Day, with earlier roles at The Times of India and DNA. Author of “India’s New Right.”

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Ankit Vengurlekar

Ankit Vengurlekar

Speech Coaching & Personal Branding

Speech coach for CXOs and founders, with 20 years as a tech journalist. Former Executive Editor APAC at Amazon, Editor-in-Chief at CoinSwitch, and Managing Editor at LinkedIn. Founder of Antar Wellness. Specialist in executive presence, public speaking and founder storytelling.

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Hina Jafri

Hina Jafri

Communications & PR

20+ years in corporate communications and reputation management. Former VP & Head of Corporate Communications at Times Network, SVP at Ketchum Sampark, Sr. Client Services Director at IPAN Hill+Knowlton. Specialist in strategic communications & PR, crisis communications and stakeholder management.

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Vishesh Verma

Vishesh Verma

Brand Comms & Reputation

25 years in corporate communications and reputation strategy. Group Head at Arvind Mafatlal Group, former Director — Marketing Communications at Viacom18, and Associate Director South Asia at WarnerMedia. Expertise in crisis management, brand communications and corporate marketing.

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Partner Firms

Some of our valued partners

Talk to us

Let’s find out where the business is really stuck.

Two ways in: message us now, or book a focused 30-minute call. No decks, no jargon.

Shreyas Rao
Shreyas Rao
Founder & Managing Partner

Tell me where the business is stuck — I’ll tell you straight whether we can help, and how. Message me now, or grab a slot that works for you.

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