Saurabh Goel

CEO

India10 yrs 7 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Co-founded the largest student housing platform globally.
Achieved $500M in gross bookings value this year.
Led technology initiatives for startups and educational institutions.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a PropTech and Fintech entrepreneur with strong software development and product management skills.

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Skills

Core Skills

Product DevelopmentEntrepreneurship

Other Skills

CC++Data AnalysisEngineeringMatlabMicrosoft ExcelOpen Water DiverPADI Advanced Open Water DiverProgrammingRuby on RailsSimulationsSoftware DevelopmentSolidworks

About

Building the best next-gen rental experience, starting with students. Join us - visit amberstudent.com/careers or reach us at hr@amberstudent.com

Experience

Amber

Co-Founder & CEO

Jun 2017 – Present · 8 yrs 9 mos · Mumbai Metropolitan Region

Booking platform for long-term rentals staring with students (think booking.com for rentals)
Amber (amberstudent.com) helps 80M students worldwide, find and book full-time accommodations near their universities, without the hassle of negotiation, non-standardized and cumbersome paperwork, and broken payment process.
We are the largest and fastest-growing student housing platform globally, serving 4M+ students/year, available across 80+ cities, 400+ universities, with 1M+ units listed across the globe.
Already at a $500M in GBV (gross bookings value) run-rate this year, and targetting $1B GBV in next 2-3 years.

Product DevelopmentEntrepreneurshipSoftware DevelopmentData Analysis

Housing.com

Tech

Jun 2014 – Jun 2015 · 1 yr · Mumbai Area, India

3m

Summer Research Associate

May 2013 – Jul 2013 · 2 mos · Bangalore

Worked in the Research & Development Center located in Electronics City, Bangalore. I was associated with multiple projects - Optimization of RMEC, Analyzing HLDs.

Let'sventure

Core Team Member

Mar 2013 – Aug 2013 · 5 mos · Bangalore

LetsVenture enables startups and investors to discover and connect with each other to make the process of fund raise easy, efficient and transparent. There are 12000+ startups, 2200+ global angels, and 200+ venture funds and corporates on the platform.
Worked closely with the founders and helped setup product and technology platform.

Startuptoday

Co-Founder (acquired)

Oct 2012 – Apr 2013 · 6 mos

(Acquired) StartupToday is a business networking and crowdfunding web portal for startups, investors and entrepreneurs. Acquired and currently active as: https://letsventure.com/ (Owned and operated by LetsVenture Online Pte. Ltd)

Indian institute of technology, kharagpur

Technology Coordinator, Gymkhana

Aug 2012 – Apr 2013 · 8 mos · Kharagpur

Technology Students' Gymkhana is the hub of the numerous extra-curricular and co-curricular activities in IIT Kharagpur ranging from sports to socio-cultural. I was responsible for executing and managing the various technical requirements. This included development of the web application for TSG, Dynamic general championship standings, Backend panels for various societies, Mess Monitoring Committee web application. (http://www.gymkhana.iitkgp.ernet.in)