UnilazerVentures focusses on consumer internet and has key investments in ventures like Lenskart, Shopclues, Zivame. Ankit Shah, a bachelor of commerce also holds CA & CFA titles. Prior to UnilazerVentures, he worked with Everstone Capital and was an important part of investment team. Being there actively contributed to investment policies of several companies. His stint in Everstone Capital enhanced his vast experience as he dealt with various businesses from Financial services, Media, Education,FMCG, Beauty and Wellness sectors.
Ankit is a focused person who believes in giving best to work and life. He co-leads venture investing at Unilazer Ventures and plays crucial role in its development. Read more about him in this interview.
With vast experience in IT and management consulting services, Renu is one of the young entrepreneurs who possess strong business acumen. Prior to founding VanityCube.in, she has worked for retail, aviation, manufacturing etc. Having gained crucial experience in the field of research, business analysis, vendor management and planning, she is a confident professional and owns unrelenting approach towards work.
The thought of creating VanityCube.in occurred when she herself came across the dearth of door-to-door beauty services. With a friend, she co-founded this platform that happens to be one of the popular names in NCR today. Renu looks forward to offer mobile accessibility to book appointments and is focusing on increasing awareness. Read more about her venture.
After working in KPO industry for almost 16 years, Akhilesh Pandya entered online entrepreneurship with his grit to offer a unique delivery platform. He is the CEO & founder of GenieOnCall.com, which is a lifestyle management assistance company.
GenieOnCall was envisaged when he realized that many of modern needs remain unfulfilled due to lacking sources or lack of time. To fulfill such needs he thought of platform that could take care of day-to-day challenges of busy professionals and corporate folks. It was not easy to bring about a platform that was completely new to people. Initial response was favorable but not in terms of conversions. How this economics graduate ran the business model successfully is altogether an inspirational journey. Learn about the business experience of Akhilesh Pandya in the following interview.
Kranthi is an IIT graduate who co-founded migrera.com with few of his friends from similar industry. As software professionals, they faced huge trouble while shifting from one place to another. All the bad experiences that they gathered then motivated them to build a network of movers & packers so they are easily accessible to people. This is how Migrera, a portal that offers online solution to all shifting needs was brought to life. Migrera helps users choose quotes based on reviews and find a mover nearest to them.
Kranthi, a computer science and engineering graduate from IIT Delhi plays key role in the functioning of Migrera. He specializes in ROR, MySQL, JavaScript and HTML and contributes to this co-founded venture as lead platform developer too. There is much more to his life as an entrepreneur and travel enthusiast; this interview explores all.
Upasna Kakroo, a girl brought up in Kashmir but lived amid multicultural lives while growing up and working in various countries. She co-founded content marketing and branding company, Brandanew, which apparently is the outcome of her passion for ‘stories’. Being an avid reader, she can’t help mention books every now and then. In fact it’s her love for Gulzar and Mirza Ghalib that imbibed passion for content marketing in her.
Upasna has traveled more than 30 counties till now and has gathered diverse experience which makes her more determined and strong as an individual. She is a firm believer of quality and aspires to attain it in every sphere of life. Coming from an enlightened and close-knit background, she calls her family a strength that helps her make toughest decisions. Learn more about this young woman entrepreneur of India ahead.
Saurabh Gupta is known more as an adventurer. The founder and CEO of earth5r.com worked earlier as National Head of Employee Engagement and Organization Development at Cafe Coffee Day India. Earth5r is an effort to save environment by collaborating science, advocacy and education. Saurabh’s journey as the initiator of this unique business model was tough indeed. Bringing people together for a socially responsible venture that focuses on environment & energy conservation was never easy but he got through it with his firm beliefs and grit.
His keen desire to bring a change led him to found earth5r.com, although there is an interesting story behind the establishment of earth5r.com. Read about it in the interview ahead.
Vikram Varshney, bachelor of engineering, electronics & communications has played distinct roles as engineer & founding directors of various ventures. Before co-founding Urjakart, an online store for home improvement products, he was a part of Windiva Hybrid Energy (P) Ltd & Indoi Systems Pvt Ltd and contributed to both as founding director.
After completing engineering from Delhi College of Engineering, Vikram joined several organizations but his urge to explore hidden opportunities and innovate new ideas finally brought him to entrepreneurial world and he co-founded this home improvement e-store with Gaurav Singh Rana. Idea to build Urjakart.com came to life after the duo faced difficulty as customers of similar products. Though it was not easy to bring home upgrading tools & implements to online platform yet Urjakart succeeded and today is a prominent seller in its domain. Read more about Vikram Varshney’s experience.
Abdul Hadi Shaikh, the CEO of Fxkart.com is a firm believer of hard-work and has been persistently following this mantra in his entrepreneurial endeavours too.
Fxkart.com is a platform that facilitates foreign exchange trading and simplifies currency exchange for people travelling to and from India. The mobile app of Fxkart.com includes 1000+ dealers and is widely used across India. A commerce graduate from Sri Bhagawan Mahaveer Jain College (Bangalore), this lad has the acumen to attain the highest goals. As quoted in an interview, Abdul looks forward to conquer 100+ pan India dealers, 2000 branches and 6000 customers in near future. This young and zealous mind has lots to tell about this business journey. We explored all in this interview. Read ahead.
Rohin Samtaney is the co-founder and director of thesouledstore, a unique online marketplace that not only sells backpacks, tees, bags etc. but also brings like-minded people closer. The idea of creating thesouledstore came when four friends felt tired of 9-9 exertion and wanted to do something more than their exhausting job. Rohin was a financial analyst at that time and working in the same firm with his friends who are presently the co-founders of thesouledstore.
Rohin Samtaney, the engineer turned into entrepreneur along with his two more friends eventually to found a business that could give platform to artists. Rohin is a curious soul who contributes to thesouledstore with his innovation and passion. There is lot to his journey and business goals; Yo Success inquired all of it and found this inspirational story for you. Here is an interview with Rohin Samtaney.
Naman Sarawagi is a computer science graduate and more like a startup sage who founded findyogi.com, a leading price comparison portal of India. Starting his career with Freecharge, he learnt about product management and marketing for some time and later joined Zipdial. While working as product manager, he realized the true potential of ecommerce but saw a dearth of guidance with regard to shopping decisions. There came the idea of Findyogi and he founded this website that actually acts as a shopping consultant for online buyers.
The story of this zealous entrepreneur is incomplete without uncovering his own thoughts that have brought him this far. So, we interviewed him and gathered few interesting facts and business insights to share with you all. Read more to know about Naman Sarawagi and his venture findyogi.com.
