Varun Deo

Varun Deo is a British-Indian operations and supply chain leader whose career at Wayfair gave him an intimate understanding of how global home décor supply chains work at scale — and how profoundly they fail smaller buyers. Alongside Abhik Ghosh, with whom he worked at Wayfair, Deo accumulated more than a decade of experience in category management, sourcing, logistics, and supply chain architecture across one of the world's most complex furniture and home goods marketplaces. This experience made the problem Trampoline was founded to solve feel both obvious and urgent.

The traditional model connecting Indian manufacturers with overseas independent retailers depended on fragmented intermediary networks that provided neither quality assurance, reliable delivery, nor any meaningful data infrastructure. For a small UK retailer trying to source handcrafted furniture or artisan rugs from Jodhpur or Gurgaon, the process was opaque, slow, and rife with inconsistency. Deo's operational instincts led him to the belief that owning quality control end-to-end — with robust factory audits, in-line inspections, and real-time reporting — was the non-negotiable foundation of a business that could serve global retail customers reliably at scale.

In December 2023, he co-founded Trampoline with Abhik Ghosh and Anushka Mahanti, taking the role of Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer. Deo leads the factory network and supply chain at Trampoline, overseeing partnerships with audited manufacturing partners across India and Vietnam, managing consolidation and logistics infrastructure, and building the digital systems that give brands real-time visibility across development, quality control, and production. The company has grown its factory network to over 20 partners and built warehousing operations in both India and the UK.

Under Deo's operational stewardship, Trampoline has scaled to over 1,000 SKUs across 25-plus home and living categories while maintaining the quality standards and lead-time predictability that independent retailers require to plan their buying confidently. The $5 million seed round in June 2024 — co-led by Matrix Partners India and WaterBridge Ventures with $2 million in venture debt from Alteria Capital — provided the capital to extend the factory network further and deepen the tech infrastructure underpinning Trampoline's supply chain operations.