Ankit Pandey

I’m Ankit, founder of WALQ. I started at magicpin as a telecaller and spent nearly five years working my way into leading national brand partnerships across F&B, D2C and fashion categories. Along the way, I helped build the F&B business to ₹50 crore in GMV and worked on technology integrations, banking partnerships and powered brands on ONDC network.

Most of my learning came from doing sales, getting partnerships across the line, working with engineers and figuring out why something that looked good in a presentation wasn’t working on the ground.

I’m now building WALQ to make shopping at physical fashion stores more convenient for customers and give brands a measurable channel to grow store sales. It brings together what I’ve enjoyed most in my work understanding customers, building relationships and turning an idea into something people actually use.

I’d love to meet other founders who are comfortable sharing the messy parts of building, exchanging honest feedback and helping each other figure things out. I can contribute particularly on brand partnerships, enterprise sales and getting early commercial conversations moving.

I’m building WALQ to make shopping at nearby fashion stores as convenient as shopping online, while giving brands a measurable way to bring more customers into their stores. We’re starting in Gurgaon and working on getting brands onboard.