Our Profiles:

Diwas Joshi:

Diwas is an MBA from IIM Ahmedabad (2009-11) and a B. Tech. from G. B. Pant University of
Agri. & Tech. (2004-08). He has over 12 years of experience in sales, distribution, marketing,
strategy and project management in India and abroad.

He started his career immediately after B. Tech. with IDMC Limited as a site engineer working
for installation and commissioning of beer processing plants producing brands like Carlsberg
and Tuborg. Post MBA, he joined Godrej Agrovet in 2011 as a management trainee. He grew
there fast to become a state head within a year handling a revenue responsibility of USD 5 Mn.
In 2013, he moved to Nigeria and joined Packaged Food Business of Olam International. During
his last assignment in Olam as a General Manager he was handling a revenue of USD 20Mn
with a team size of more than 150.

Since 2020, he has been doing consulting for multiple startups, helping them grow in their
category. He also has two businesses running in parallel in the gifting and B2B foods space.

Pranshu Gupta:

Pranshu has an experience of more than 14 years across different industries, functions and
geographies.

Pranshu is an electronics engineer from NIT Kurukshetra (2002-06) and an MBA from IIM
Ahmedabad (2009-11). As he started his career, Pranshu worked as a research engineer with a
government of India enterprise- CDOT- as a research engineer. But he soon realised that
working with government is not his cup of tea. So he went for his MBA and reignited his career
with a coveted campus placement at Accenture Strategy. In the 8 years there, Pranshu got a
chance to work with the whos-who of the businesses across geographies.

Armed with this experience, he jumped onto the startup bandwagon with Akiva Superfoods, a
D2C brand as the COO. After Akiva was acquired by a house of brands, Pranshu joined
Planetspark, a edutech company in the communications space, as the head of Revenue.
Pranshu helped the company scale 10x to around 20 Mn USD ARR.

What are we doing now?

We are working on a new age consumer tech platform where any sort of competitions,
academic or otherwise can be hosted and users can participate and vote. We feel there is a
need for such a platform since there is a market gap in terms of such a product. The existing
social/content platforms are not equipped to conduct competitions while a few vertical content
platforms lack consumer retention.

We believe that we have the essential ingredients in terms of the team, vision and execution
capabilities to make this a billion dollar enterprise in the next 5 years. We are actively engaging
with youth across the country to understand their challenges and co-creating the product with
them.