Building a Hands-on Accelerator for Services. AI companies
Ye meri kahaani hai! Definitely TL;DR, but here goes:
Ever since I was young, I knew I wasn't the smartest person in the room – but I always knew I’d outwork a lot of them!
At 19, while studying at BIT Mesra, I joined a startup at NSRCEL, IIM-B and climbed to the top in no time. No, we didn’t scale to hundreds of crores, but we hit a few crores – and I realized I love building things from scratch more than anything.
Another thing I figured out: I love giving back. Whether it was giving sessions at IIM-B on the magic of content writing, helping early-stage founders to build playbooks, or getting my alma-mater placed during the brutal Covid placement season – this stuff gives me life.
Life threw a curveball when I shifted to B2B SaaS, and once I worked with Almabase and Outplay, I knew this was my next big bet.
Since then, I’ve helped hundreds of founders build SDR teams and crack their US GTM – not the traditional way, but by really thinking out of the box. Oh, it's really out of the box. I honestly can’t remember a time when I shared my ideas with a team, and they weren’t surprised.
Life has gotten better always unexpectedly, which is how I met Sri – my co-founder at Shifu Ventures and former boss & Co-Founder of Almabase. A really nice vibe fit & I could see betting on B2B SaaS together with him for quite some time.
We’ve done quite some wild things together – like traveling across India to uncover the unheard B2B stories through B2B Yatra while also working with multiple Services.AI companies in Shifu.
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I'm more from 'JUST WORK'.
Sports is my meditation. My goal is to take on a new sport every three years and crush it! This year, it’s all about Triathlons, and I'm on my way to completing an Ironman.
Before that? I’ve represented my college in badminton, been a district swimming champion, a table tennis school champ, and so much more.
The best bet to schedule a meeting with me? Find a sport, and we shall play together! :)
This is me, always pushing, always evolving – both in work and in life.
Have been in touch with multiple folks in Odisha, and the startup ecosystem has been super duper helpful!
For everyone in & around Bhubaneswar - Do swing by our exhibition, there's ton of things happening here :)
What's the exhibition all about? Dropping in more info on this soon ;)
March 12th & 13th in Srusti Academy of Management (Autonomous) - See you there 🖖
Sakyasingha, Santosh, Subrat, Anil, Rashmi, B.P., Pootul - Thanks a lot for all the support :) You guys are rockstars! ❤️
Swing by the exhibition in Bhubaneswar - https://lu.ma/bsy-bhubaneswar
#BharatSaaSYatra #odisha
4 months ago, my co-founder Sri reached out to me with this crazy text and bag full of even crazier ideas. Without a second thought, I knew I was in.
And that's how from Day 0, both of us went all in.
And here we are today—I’m extremely excited to introduce to you, The Bharat SaaS Yatra!
Our vision? To celebrate the Rise of India SaaS, and cover hundreds of stories of SaaS Founders—The wins, the losses, the challenges and everything in between ❤️
Stories not just from the Tier 1 cities, but also the gritty tales from Tier 2 & Tier 3 cities.
Hitting the road for the next 4 months to travel across 20 cities and capture the Fan-SaaStic stories out there.
Wondering, where we’ll meet? In one of the finest immersive SaaS exhibitions that we’re setting up across all the 20 cities. I bet, you’re going to love it!
Hop in with us in the Yatra 🙂
Link to register for the exhibitions
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