Startup Growth Networking Meetup in Mumbai

Building <h1>Apric- Empowering brands with robust solutions that blend creativity with technology.</h1><div><br>Highly passionate about developing sustainable digital products and personalised customer experiences while carefully tethering form and function. Curious to learn, network and build a community with creators and entrepreneurs from various different fields.</div>

Building <div>Khyati is the Founder, Senior Coach and Chief Body Language Consultant at Simply Body Talk - a company that has built a niche internationally in nonverbal communication. She has worked with the Elite forces from Indian military, as also senior leaders from international companies like Deloitte, Google, Adani, Capgemini, Wipro, Panasonic etc. Her newest venture, that she manages in addition to Simply Body Talk, is CueKids which aims to encourage nonverbal skills in kids.<br><br>Because of her passion for entrepreneurship, Khyati also mentors startups in the edtech space as a part of the IIT Mumbai Eureka program.<br><br>Khyati's thoughts have been covered by leading media like TOI, Economic Times, Dainik Jagran etc. and she has received various national and international awards for business excellence.<br><br>Prior to starting her own venture, Khyati worked for her family business and also has corporate experience as currency trader, portfolio manager and business analyst.</div>

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Building <div>Big ideas are a dime a dozen. It is only worth the efforts when they are executed right and reach the people they are intended to. This defining my core strengths, I am currently leading a hyperlocal sports broadcasting media and tech company - SportVot, with 2 other founders.<br><br>Till date, I have successfully developed brand and marketing strategies for 50+ brands of different sectors; specializing in Tech, FMCG, and Fashion &amp; Beauty industry. I also lead a handicraft online boutique named EthKnits, and give consultations to upcoming startups!<br><br>Networking is one thing, but I am a firm believer in learning the basic skills required in this industry - Market Research, Copywriting, Graphic Designing, WordPress, SEO, Media Planning &amp; Buying, Social Media Distribution, PR - which as a whole, helps me strategize Marketing campaigns for Brands as per the given objective.</div>

Building <div>At the age of 16, with 256 Kbps Internet speed, I started my career as a self-taught graphic designer.&nbsp;<br><br>After landing a few projects, I was hungry to keep learning more, and that's how I landed in web development.&nbsp;<br><br>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.<br><br>However, I exited that project and continued with my college and freelance development.&nbsp;<br><br>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.&nbsp;<br><br>At 24, I started India's first PBN Hosting platform, which I later exited in 2017.&nbsp;<br><br>My life changed when I launched my third startup, which failed severely and changed my whole life.&nbsp;<br><br>It taught me some of the most valuable life lessons, including management, team hiring, and more.&nbsp;<br><br>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.&nbsp;<br><br>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.&nbsp;<br><br>During this journey, I met my second co-founder Lukas Liesis, building the company's core foundation.&nbsp;<br><br>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.&nbsp;<br><br>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.&nbsp;<br><br>At PitchGround, we firmly believe in our 3P philosophy for any founder who wants to achieve a product-market fit - Product, People &amp; Pricing (Same format).&nbsp;<br><br>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.&nbsp;<br><br>In 2022, I rebuilt my previous failure, known as https://firstsales.io, which is doing $700k ARR as of October 2023.&nbsp;<br><br>If you are a small business, do check out PitchGround and save up to 95% on your software bills - https://pitchground.com/deals<br><br>If you are looking to resolve your sales issues then check out - https://firstsales.io<br><br>Got any questions or want to connect with me? Please send me an email at [email protected].</div>