team

we’re a team of heavylifters
we have the know-how to deliver hands-on value

Pearl Uppal: Internet Startup & Growth Specialist

Experience:
13 years of building startups and high growth businesses in the Internet Industry across media and commerce. Leadership in high growth ventures across Internet platform companies ( led Yahoo!'s advertising business in India) and Startups. In her last avatar she kickstarted fashion and lifestyle ecommerce in India; founding and building India's leading online fashion retailer fashionandyou.com. She is now ready to infect the India startup ecosystem with her thoughts and actions around"think BIG, start LEAN, move FAST, build viral products, WIN the consumer".

Loves:
Consumer strategy, distribution, commercial acceleration, building products and brands that customer love, building startup teams, digital media, ecommerce, social, viral, working closely with Startups to turn them into Growth Machines

Gaurav Kachru: Growth Specialist, Strategist, Financial Wizard

Experience:
Gaurav has spent over 15 years building young businesses across sectors. Over the past three years, he has been focused on building businesses in the digital space and has helped build dealsandyou.com and fashionandyou.com. Gaurav was the CEO & Co-Founder of dealsandyou.com (india's second largest daily deals business) and oversaw the incubation of new businesses at the Smile Group. Over the past decade, he has been part of over 10 successful transactions and has helped raise over USD 70 Million dollars for businesses in the internet sector. Prior to this, Gaurav was an Asia Pacific Director for the Global Accounts Business for Manpower Inc. across 14 countries in AP and set up their Enterprise Sales Model in Asia driving over USD 200 Million of revenue. Gaurav spent a decade with GE in India, across businesses as a key member of teams that built GE in India.

Loves:
Unit Economics, Business Strategy, Strategic Sales & BD, Product & UX, Operational Metrics, FP&A & Business Planning, working closely with startups to sharpen their business strategy, capital strategy, business model and value creation process.