Dravisha Katoch

Co-Founder

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India7 yrs 3 mos experience
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Key Highlights

  • Founded India's largest community for next-gen founders.
  • Led growth strategies for multiple consumer tech startups.
  • Created impactful workshops for 6000+ underserved students.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Consumer Tech and Educational Technology expert with strong skills in growth and marketing.

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Skills

Core Skills

InvestmentsVenture CapitalCommunity BuildingMarketing StrategyGrowth StrategiesBrand StrategySocial EntrepreneurshipMarketingPublic-private PartnershipsContent MarketingMental Health

Other Skills

AdministrationAdvertisingCommunity OutreachConsumer TechContent DevelopmentContent StrategyCreative WritingCustomer AcquisitionCustomer ExperienceDecision-MakingEmail MarketingEnglishEvent ManagementEvent MarketingEvent Planning

About

An investor at Antler India, backing ambitious founders building in consumer tech. I also founded Before Day Zero (beforedayzero.in), Antler’s invite-only platform for pre-idea and pre-team founders - a space where India's top 1% talent sharpens conviction, finds co-founders, and starts building. I currently work closely with consumer + consumer tech founders from idea to scale, with a focus on growth, GTM, and brand. 0 → 1 I’m a builder at heart and love creating around causes I care about: → Aida (mental health): a listening platform for adults navigating loneliness → Learn for Less (education): $1 personal branding workshops for 6,000+ underserved students across 6 countries → Dunkin’ Ducks (sports): India’s most active basketball community with 1,300+ members, and a platform to support underserved basketball players in Karnataka 1 → 10 Before VC, I spearheaded growth and marketing at consumer tech startups backed by investors such as Better Capital, Rainmatter, Enzia Ventures, and marquee angels. 10 → 100 Now at Antler, I support founders through Before Day Zero and by investing in long-term consumer AI bets. Always open to chatting with founders early into tinkering with an idea.📩 dravisha.katoch@antler.co

Experience

Antler

Investing

Sep 2023Present · 2 yrs 6 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

  • Backing early-stage founders from day zero. Also founded Before Day Zero, India’s largest invite-only community for top 1% next-gen founders (spread across 35+ cities globally and 8+ sectors). Personal focus areas: consumer tech investments, next-gen founder scouting and nurturing, portfolio growth, and fund marketing including flagship events like Antler Showcase.
  • Portfolio: Freshcon (f&b, seed), Gladful (f&b, pre-Series A), XTCY (f&b, pre-seed), Aina (AI hardware x productivity, pre-seed), HiFy (sports tech x AI, pre-seed)
InvestmentsVenture CapitalConsumer TechGrowth StrategiesBrand Strategy

Basis

2 roles

Growth Lead

Mar 2023Sep 2023 · 6 mos

  • Led multi-channel growth and engagement to build a thriving, loyal user community. Managed teams and agencies to scale efficiently, while working with product and engineering to create growth funnels and elevate customer experience.
Growth StrategiesCustomer AcquisitionTeam Leadership

Growth Marketing Manager

Dec 2022Mar 2023 · 3 mos

  • (Concluded above)
Growth MarketingCustomer ExperienceGrowth Strategies

Leap.club

Brand Marketing & Partnerships

Apr 2022Dec 2022 · 8 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India · Hybrid

  • Owned top of the funnel acquisition (organic) across channels – website sign-ups, event marketing, brand + community campaigns, partnerships with brands such as Levi’s (Conversion went up by 4%, acquisition aka community members went up by 175% in a span of 6 months)
  • Owned content and lead gen KPIs for socials across 3 platforms. (Social followers went up by 2x and traffic sourced for acquisition from socials went up by 15.9% in a span of 6 months)
  • Worked cross-teams with product, community, events to plan and execute all launches such as product or feature launches, planned and executed marketing efforts for all flagship events with a footfall up to 2000+ members offline.
Brand StrategyCommunity BuildingEvent Marketing

The signal

Marketing & Growth

Nov 2021Apr 2022 · 5 mos · Delhi, India · Remote

  • Built and executed strategies to increase the social imprint, conversions across all 3 platforms. (Social imprint went up by 89.5%, profile visits went up from 9,000 to 54,200 in 2 months.)
  • Strategised and managed all growth channels for acquisitions including paid advertisements, collaborations, influencer marketing. (Subscribers went up by 43,000 in 3 months)
  • Optimised website conversions (Built the website UX from scratch), managed ad clients, and wrote ad copies to optimise CTR. (Optimised the website conversion to 48%, increased ad CTR to 7%)
Marketing StrategyGrowth Channels

Learn for less

Founder

May 2020Jun 2022 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Delhi, India

  • My first try at social entrepreneurship, ran a not-for-profit during the pandemic to teach marginalised students personal branding with $1 workshops to build job equity for them. Built a community of up to 6000+ students from 6+ countries in 1 year.
  • Strategised and managed all content, design, socials, built landing pages for organic lead gen for acquisition.
  • Built a team of 5 volunteers, partnered with 5+ organisations/colleges for pilots
  • Built the revenue model for a not-for-profit ed-tech, workshop models for better impact and learning.
Social EntrepreneurshipCommunity BuildingContent Strategy

Locale.ai

Marketing & Outreach

Apr 2020Jun 2020 · 2 mos

  • Strategised and executed content marketing and distribution that led 113.2% increase in blog visits.
  • Led social media marketing across Linkedin and Twitter that led to an increase of social imprints by 107%.
  • Wireframed CRO pages to increase user conversion by 5%.
  • Strategised, built, and wrote the Locale newsletter to 2000+ readers.
  • Built growth channels to increase conversions such as customer marketing, guest blogs, white papers, quizzes, etc.
Public-Private PartnershipsEvent Management

Harvard us-india initiative

Director, Marketing & Outreach

Dec 2019Jun 2020 · 6 mos

  • Majorly headed Outreach & Delegate Relations that led to an increase of applications from 500 to 5000+ in two weeks, organically.
  • Supervised the work of the IOC members.
  • Ideated delegate kits and managed the end-to-end pipeline from vendors to logistics.
  • Managed delegate communication.
  • Managed and conducted startup-related events.
Content MarketingSocial Media Marketing

Lokyatha

Advisor

Jul 2019Sep 2019 · 2 mos

  • Strategised the future action flow of the start-up which involved marketing, content flow et cetera.
  • Advised on the ideation and initial plan of action from scratch to execution.
Content Development

Leantrack: designing digital products

2 roles

Marketing and Project Lead

Jun 2019Dec 2019 · 6 mos

  • Planned and executed marketing strategy that led to 30x revenue increase.
  • Created a B2B sales funnel.
  • Handled digital footprints on all social media platforms, including content.
  • Managed project communication with the founder.
  • Helped with client acquisition.

Marketing & Project Management

Jan 2019Jun 2019 · 5 mos

MarketingProject Management

Future city summit

Partner (India)

Jun 2019Nov 2021 · 2 yrs 5 mos

  • Joined Future City Summit as a delegate initially to work on Public-Private Partnership by Youth in Bali to co-create sustainable tourism lab with the Bali Government backed by WEF.
  • Managed complete growth and outreach of the events, which led to a 8x Increase in delegates.
  • Managed collaborations and strategised the expansion of FCS to India.
MarketingContent Development

Insino ventures pvt. ltd.

Marketing Strategist

Apr 2019May 2019 · 1 mo · Gurgaon, India

  • Curated marketing strategies (online & offline branding).
  • Handled digital footprints marketing.
  • Planned A to Z event marketing strategies.
  • Strategised product marketing.
Marketing

Letter to strangers + aida

President

Jan 2019Jun 2020 · 1 yr 5 mos · New Delhi Area, India

  • L2S + Aida is the first Indian Chapter of a California based nonprofit organization called Letter to Strangers.
  • Our motto : We want mental health made personal, because each person deserves to be treated as the individual they are.
MarketingEvent Management

Harvard project for asian and international relations (hpair)

Delegate for Energy & Environment Sustainability

Dec 2018Feb 2019 · 2 mos · Cambridge, Massachusetts

  • Selected as one of the 300 delegates from all over the world for the HPAIR : Harvard College Conference held at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.
  • Track: Environment & Sustainability.
Marketing

Future city summit

Delegate

Dec 2018Jan 2019 · 1 mo · Denpasar Area, Bali, Indonesia

  • Selected as one of the 120 delegates for PPP by youth and work on projects for sustainable tourism with Bali Government and other partners during the Summit.
  • Co-created the tourism lab funded by Bali Government backed by World Economic Forum.
Mental HealthProduct Development

Linkedin

Campus Editor

Nov 2018Nov 2019 · 1 yr

  • Selected as one of the Campus Editors 2018-19 by LinkedIn to create, innovate, and share content on LinkedIn as a student.
  • Apart from that, to make student voices heard and motivate others to publish and leverage LinkedIn in the best way possible.

E-summit, iit roorkee

City Director

Nov 2018Jan 2019 · 2 mos

  • Invited by IIT, Roorkee to be their City Director for the E-Summit'19, IIT, Roorkee.
  • Recruited 50+ Campus Ambassadors.
  • Managed the event outreach.
  • Optimised social media marketing.
  • Conducted information sessions in colleges.

World youth forum, egypt

Delegate

Oct 2018Nov 2018 · 1 mo · Sharm el-Sheikh, South Sinai Governorate, Egypt

  • • Selected as the youngest attendee from India for WYF'18 out of more than 5 lacs applicants held (1-6 Nov) at Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt which was fully funded by the Egyptian government.

Aida

Founder

Sep 2018Feb 2019 · 5 mos · Gurgaon, India

  • Ideated, and built an MVP within 54 hours to help people especially employees via AI to improve mental health during work.
  • Lead a team of 5 team as the youngest member at Techstars Startup Weekend; selected as top 3 ideas.

Harvard project for asian and international relations (hpair)

Delegate for Innovation & Technology

Aug 2018Aug 2018 · 0 mo · Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

  • Selected as one of the 600 delegates for Harvard Conference (HPAIR) - Asia held at Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
  • Track: Technology and Innovation.
  • Won a 8-week internship program with Maybank, Malaysia.
  • Won the impact challenge of Maybank.

Savemonk

Content Development

Jan 2018Apr 2018 · 3 mos

  • • Wrote SEO optimised store descriptions of top e-commerce companies like Amazon, Flipkart, etc.

Education

Ashoka University

Bachelor of Science (Honours) — Computer Science and Entrepreneurship

Sushant University

Bachelor of Technology - B.Tech. — Computer Science

The Army Public School

High School — Non Medical

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