Nishtha Bahal.

Climate finance startup funding clean energy loans in Asia

• Drove 40% faster prospect sourcing and reached 100+ decision makers at 50 target customers by automating the company’s first end-to-end outreach loop using Airtable, Clay, n8n, and Lemlist.
• Achieved a 35% reply rate on China tour outreach to 25+ manufacturers using Clay’s waterfall enrichment.
• Built an AI agent to scrape and summarize daily green finance news across 10 Asian markets into ClickUp, cutting manual research by 10+ hours per week.
• Evaluated Clay data coverage across 20 financial institutions, identified unreliable enrichment and confidence signals for smaller lenders, and established manual-research guardrails to protect campaign quality.

Emissions data tools for Asian SMEs

• Repositioned messaging from emissions tracking to a cost-savings offer, informed by 20+ customer interviews with manufacturers and enterprise buyers.
• Defined the ideal customer profile by leading willingness-to-pay tests across 3 segments affected by new EU carbon rules.

Special situations investment fund

• Influenced $6M+ in portfolio reallocations by analyzing 40+ earnings calls and benchmarking holdings against global peers.
• Uncovered investment opportunities with 100%+ upside by authoring 10+ research reports built on valuation models.

Geospatial climate risk analytics platform

• Improved lead-to-customer conversion by 15% and inbound inquiries by 20% through A/B tests on audience segments, messaging, and calls to action.
• Led the go-to-market launch of Nika Planet through Mailchimp campaigns and thought-leadership content, generating its first paying customer within one week.

• Coursework: Analytics in the Age of AI, Management of Software Development, AI Applications, LLMs.
• Founder of NightShift AI, part of the Launchpad program at Tsai CITY, Yale’s startup incubator.
• Founder and President of SideQuest Yale, a builder community.

• Selected as the sole INSEAD student for the Yale dual degree; founded Entrepreneurs@INSEAD and Women’s Mentorship.

• Silicon Valley technology commercialization.

Aditi’s Wardrobe

Designed and shipped an AI app for my mother that catalogues sarees from photos and logs each wear.

Hoarding Wind Stress Simulator

Built a 3D tool for my father’s billboard business to explore structural responses to wind scenarios.