Vandita Purohit - Founder, TraWork and Mauji Cafe

Vandita Purohit

Founder, TraWork and Mauji Cafe

More about Vandita Purohit

Happiness ambassador, workaholic traveler, community builder, and a colossal creative think tank – these are just a handful of adjectives that define this young and vibrant entrepreneur. An engineering graduate with an unmatched passion for sales, Vandita Purohit began her entrepreneurial journey with Mint Tree, essentially focussing on lead generation. She attributes the learnings from her first venture to the best of their kind, which gave her the desired inertia to dream big, hustle, and never give up.

Bitten by the travel bug at the age of 27, Vandita set sail to a shore that held her passion for work and travels strong. With the clock ticking and ideas growing larger than life, it was time TraWork came into being – her brand-new venture. TraWork is curated especially for those working professionals who have a great passion for travel. These are the folks who are looking for opportunities to blend both work and travel without having to hamper their schedule - an idea that typically defines ‘work on the go’. She herself has traveled to 42 countries so far and now wants people from India to come to see the world her way.

A few years and many more diverse ventures down the line, she recently founded Mauji Time Cafe post the first lockdown, in Pune. Mauji is a unique concept cafe, which runs on time, which means you are billed for the time you spend here. With her community first approach Vandita wants to take this community cafe to different parts of India in the next couple of years. Along with Mauji, she has recently ventured into furniture & design with Kalapentry. Along with her cofounder, she has started refurbishing the old to create a new sustainable line of furniture and home decor. She believes that creativity feeds every soul in some way or the other, and with her ideas she wants the world to experience the same.

Education Qualification:
BE Electronics & TelecommunicationAAISP Certification, Draper, Tradecraft AlumniTedX Speaker, Spoke at the Coworking Europe Conference, Warsaw 2019

Ventures:

Mauji:
Launched in 2020, Mauji is a time-cafe, built to create a unique cafe experience for everyone. The idea to step out of the house can be so many things other than eating or having a coffee, Mauji serves all those other things along with serving great food and coffee that is on the house. It also has a workspace, event spaces, a store, studio, maker space, library, and meeting room. It is a very community-centric space that runs on the unique time-based concept, also is India's first BYO Cafe.

Kalapentry: Launched in 2021, Kalapentry is refurbishing, renovating, redesigning the old to create a new and sustainable line of furniture and home decor. It also is the design arm of Mauji and is creating a way around reducing furniture waste and making home decor bespoke, beautiful and sustainable.

TraWork:
TraWork gives its customers the unique opportunity to work while witnessing some of the most fascinating locations around the world. Once signed up, every Trawork-er is entitled to complete assistance with logistics that comprise essential elements such as accommodation, local experiences, inter and intra-city transport, and city exploration. For those with a focussed domain, the start-up gives its members some of the best collaboration and network opportunities abroad, making them a part of a much larger professional community world-over. Trackwork allows the travel lover in you to take your work on a holiday. This way you can be away for a longer time with nothing holding you back.

The Daftar: Launched in 2015, Daftar became on of the most sought after creative Coworking spaces in Pune. Vandita is one of the founders and focused on design, events & community. Not an active partner now, Daftar is one very defining venture for her in many ways.


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