SaaS Founders Meetup in Surat

Building Refrens.com- a market network for B2B service providers. 

Independent Director - E2E Networks Limited - IPO 2018. 
Early Investor- Cashfree, DailyNinja, Holidify, SpringRole, BBetter, Sugoi, Walrus, Piggyride, Arintra. 


Last startup - FindYogi.com - profitable, sold to Way2 News. 

Earlier, I helped build Freecharge.in from an idea to its first 100K users. As the first hire, I was handling product, marketing, and technology single-handed. The customer acquisition cost and rate of growth that I commanded is never heard of in Indian eCommerce space - 2K transactions/day in less than 100 days from launch @ less than Rs.4/user. Sorry, couldn't make it sound more modest. :)

I left Freecharge to join ZipDial. The "missed call" idea behind ZipDial is something I had worked on back in college. We built a prototype and won couple of awards at BPlan competitions. ZipDial was taking it commercial and it seemed a promising team to work with. At ZipDial as well I was the first hire. I started as a product manager, moved into enterprise sales and marketing. 

All this while I also blogged about startups and consumer web in India at NextBigWhat.com, contributing 250+ articles.

At the age of 16, with 256 Kbps Internet speed, I started my career as a self-taught graphic designer. 

After landing a few projects, I was hungry to keep learning more, and that's how I landed in web development. 

At the age of 18, while still pursuing my education, I launched my first product around WordPress security, which did wonder. It not only paid for my entire education but helped me become financially independent as a teenager.

However, I exited that project and continued with my college and freelance development. 

At the age of 20, I met my first co-founder Oscar Hernandez (He has been my co-founder ever since in everything that we do), known as Power Up Hosting; I ran the company for over 7-years before exiting. 

At 24, I started India's first PBN Hosting platform, which I later exited in 2017. 

My life changed when I launched my third startup, which failed severely and changed my whole life. 

It taught me some of the most valuable life lessons, including management, team hiring, and more. 

The failure of my third startup gave me the idea of PitchGround (My most successful startup to date, currently valued at $20m as of 2022). PitchGround is a SaaS Marketplace that bridges the gap between early-stage SaaS companies and early adopters, small-medium-sized businesses. 

With over 92% of the SaaS companies failing in the first three years of their business, our mission was to resolve this unresolved market worth over $200 billion. 

During this journey, I met my second co-founder Lukas Liesis, building the company's core foundation. 

Launched PitchGround on the 25th of September 2018, PitchGround has done over $5m in sales as a bootstrapped company, something our entire team is proud of. 

PitchGround has helped hundreds of companies and has seen over 80% of companies succeeding who are launching with us, out of which 15% of the companies can successfully raise capital post launching their SaaS on our platform. 

At PitchGround, we firmly believe in our 3P philosophy for any founder who wants to achieve a product-market fit - Product, People & Pricing (Same format). 

In 2021, I started Angel Investment, and so far, I have invested in 34 startups; I mentor some of them to give back to the community. 

In 2022, I rebuilt my previous failure, known as https://firstsales.io, which is doing $700k ARR as of October 2023. 

If you are a small business, do check out PitchGround and save up to 95% on your software bills - https://pitchground.com/deals

If you are looking to resolve your sales issues then check out - https://firstsales.io

Got any questions or want to connect with me? Please send me an email at [email protected].

I am the Co-founder of Chamestudio Pvt Ltd. Currently, we are working on two products: 

1. Iconscout: We help individuals, SMEs or big brands with ready to use high-quality design assets such as icons, illustrations, and stock photos. Iconscout is India's first full-fledged design resource marketplace. Iconscout is the world's only product to get a grant from Adobe (twice) and InVision under their program Adobe fund for design and Design forward fund respectively. 
With Iconscout our next target is to create the photography marketplace which solely focuses on Indian images by which we will empower thousands of Indian Photographers. 

2. Myscout: With Myscout we are solving the design resource collaboration problem faced by individuals and companies. With our powerful integrations for major design tools, we will make it easy for any brand to manage and share their design resources with their team members. 

You can reach out to me at [email protected].