Santosh Panda - Co-Founder, Foundership

Santosh Panda

Co-Founder, Foundership
  • Bangalore, India

More about Santosh Panda

Hello! ๐Ÿ‘‹ I run Foundership - The Web3 Launcher๐Ÿš€

We help Web3 startups with Coaching, Capital and Community. Taking Top Web3 Founders into the Next Orbit.
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Find more about Foundership. https://foundershiphq.com/

With my new endeavor Foundership, I'm now on a mission to help/enable Web3 Projects /Startup Folks to succeed & scale.

Before Foundership, I started my Startup journey back in 2007, much before startups were "cool." I built Explara for India - an event ticketing and management platform by developing a SaaS solution while living in London and having a day job.ย 

I relocated to India in 2011-12 and grew Explara by hustling and bootstrapping to VC funding to $11m in gross revenue. Back in the day, I didn't have the ecosystem to support me or correct my mistakes. But, lucky for you, it's all there today!ย 

With a shoestring budget, I built a successful business & brand Explara, serving thousands of customers worldwide. Explara was my 3rd Startup that went through years of perseverance to withstand numerous failure and shutdown modes to become profitable in 2019.ย 

I started 2 businesses in London during 2005 & 06, both failed. Before starting up Explara, I was a software product engineer in eBay UK, BBC iPlayer, William Hill Betting platform and TouchNote. Before that, I was part of several startups during the dotcom era of the 2000s in the USA.

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Featured speaker at previous eChai events:
Bengaluru

web3 Builders Meetup in Bangalore

Draper Startup House Flagship
September 10, Sat, 05:00pm (GMT+05:30)
86 slots booked
web3 Builders Meetup in Bangalore
Bengaluru

web3 Builders Meetup in Bangalore

Draper Startup House Flagship
July 09, Sat, 05:00pm (GMT+05:30)
153 slots booked
web3 Builders Meetup in Bangalore
Ahmedabad

web3 Builders Meetup in Ahmedabad

CIIE.CO
July 09, Sat, 10:00am (GMT+05:30)
86 slots booked
web3 Builders Meetup in Ahmedabad
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Bhavin S Bhagat - Co-founder of Indiabizforsale and IBGrid, TiE Ahmedabad President
Bhavin S Bhagat
Co-founder of Indiabizforsale and IBGrid, TiE Ahmedabad President
"The eChai platform has been super valuable for me - it has helped me gain a deeper understanding of domains in the startup and tech ecosystem. What stands out most is the celebration of knowledge, professional growth, and entrepreneurship - itโ€™s one of the best for the Indian ecosystem. Along the way, Iโ€™ve also been fortunate to make some great friendships and connections too."
Shalin (Shawn) Parikh - Founder, MyCPE One
Shalin (Shawn) Parikh
Founder, MyCPE One
โ€œWhen we launched LegalWiz.in back in 2016, concept of procuring legal and compliance services through a digital commerce platform wasn't as prominent in India. eChai played a significant role in providing the early adopters, and building significant positioning in the startup fraternity. Overtime, eChai grew to be a massive network of like-minded entrepreneurs and extended that benefit to all the members in a true "co-rise" spirit. I personally love to attend eChai events, learn from subject matter experts who share relatable and actionable insights and experiences. For startup journeys, it is so important to be surrounded by people who can add relevance, perspective, and push you to do better. Most importantly a group of people where you aren't being judged about things going right or wrong, but be a motivational force that keeps you going, yet keeping you in check. eChai is that place for me!โ€
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Founder at LegalWiz.in and H4H Consulting

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