Ananya Iyer
curriculum vitae

Curriculum vitae

Investment researcher covering early-stage Indian consumer companies. Ten years across film production, content operations and curriculum design before that, which is where the pattern recognition came from. Available from 1 October 2026.

Experience

  1. Chief Research Officer, Skylife Research

    May 2026 to September 2026 · Mumbai

    Research Analyst, promoted August 2026

    • Ran the Indian equity and market research function, sixteen research themes shipped from scouting through published report.
    • Built the research method the desk used, theme scouting, primary-source verification, staleness checks and epistemic tagging on every claim.
    • Grew the firm's LinkedIn research audience from roughly 1,300 to 2,065 followers over the period.

  2. Independent researcher, venture and consumer, Self-directed

    October 2025 to May 2026 · India and Southeast Asia

    • Eight months studying venture, private markets and Indian D2C, published as short research pieces with the sources attached.
    • Roughly ten founder conversations, recorded and written up, across beauty, food and consumer AI.
    • The archive on this site is the output of that work and what followed it.

  3. Marketing and Content Associate, Spin A Tale Pictures

    March 2025 to October 2025 · Mumbai

    • Took the company's channels from zero to more than 7.5 million views in under eight months, mostly YouTube, on under ₹10,000 of paid spend.
    • Owned the content calendar, formats and performance review end to end.

  4. Acting conservatory programme, Jeff Goldberg School of Acting

    June 2024 to October 2025 · Mumbai

    • Full-time conservatory training. Assisted on several productions and led some in-house.

  5. 2nd Assistant Director, Spin A Tale Pictures, for Crimes Aaj Kal (Amazon)

    August 2023 to February 2024 · Mumbai

    • Second AD across the series. Also led costume and visual direction on one episode.
    • Introduced AI-assisted workflows into the production process.

  6. Creative Director, previously Content Associate and Direction Mentor, Purple People Labs and Picture Paathshala

    2018 to July 2021 · Maharashtra

    • Designed and ran filmmaking curricula for CSR-backed education programmes, roughly 200 students across ten villages.
    • Reached 300 or more young people through those programmes and produced 30 or more student films.

Education

  1. BA, Films, Television and New Media, Usha Pravin Gandhi College, Mumbai

    Completed December 2024

What I work with

  • Primary-source research and verification
  • Consumer and D2C unit economics
  • Venture fund mandate analysis
  • Research writing and publication
  • SQL, Excel and Python for analysis
  • Content operations and editorial planning