Raj Kunkolienkar

Co-Founder

Goa, India9 yrs 2 mos experience

AI ML PractitionerHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Co-founded multiple ventures in consumer education.
Passionate about making business education accessible.
Strong background in theoretical physics and applied mathematics.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS entrepreneur focused on educational technology and innovative learning solutions.

Contact

raj@stoa.com LinkedIn

Skills

Core Skills

EntrepreneurshipMarketing StrategyLeadershipEducational LeadershipResearchLearning MethodologiesData Science

Other Skills

AI AgentsCollaborationCommunity BuildingCreative Problem SolvingGrowth StrategiesInterdisciplinary CollaborationMachine LearningMathematical ModelingNeurosciencePhysicsProduct DevelopmentPythonScience EducationTheoretical Physics

About

I like to learn and get other people learning. Built a bunch of ventures in consumer education because it enabled me to do the above. MBAs make business education inaccessible to many because of the time and capital investment. We're bringing the B-School experience online and helping a million Indians get better at understanding the basics of running a modern business. It's fun, relevant and you go home without a debt burden. We're backed by Vaibhav Domkundwar (Better Capital), Richa Kar (Founder, Zivame), Raveen Sastry (Co-Founder, Myntra), Ganesh Rao (Founder, Suryoday Bank) and other seasoned entrepreneurs. I have undertaken quite a few projects (some of which turned into businesses) : 🎓 Nova Semita (career accelerator for college students to break into startup tech roles) 💪🏼 Dominato.club (personal brand builder on Twitter, for founders) 🎉 Prex.club (Membership club for ambitious college students) 💸 Yuva.fund (Collective to support student founders) 🔎 Seeker Space (Co-learning space in Goa) 🤖 vrik.sh (bot to recommend learning resources) 🕹Fascination (NGO in the education space) I grew up loving astronomy and cosmology -- my time with physics was delightful. The hunger to expand my understanding across scales led me to applied math. Love talking about evolutionary processes, game theory, financial engineering, network science, and algorithmic thinking. The best way to reach me is via my Twitter DMs.

Experience

Stoa

Co-Founder (Marketing)

Aug 2020 – Oct 2024 · 4 yrs 2 mos · Goa, India

At Stoa, we're building a system which discovers, nurtures and vouches for the best business talent out there.
My role primarily involves thinking through creating a new category. You can find me obsessing over the finer details of brand building, content, incentive design and customer experience.
Won't rest till we become the go-to destination for young professionals to network, learn about how to make businesses work, earn credentials and reset one's career.

EntrepreneurshipMarketing StrategyLeadership

Nova semita

Co-Founder & CEO

Sep 2018 – Sep 2020 · 2 yrs · India

At Nova Semita, we helped ~40 final year undergraduates from non-metro colleges to break into web development / design roles, financed through income sharing agreements. Our graduates now work at YC, Sequoia, Lightspeed backed early stage startups.
Built out the team, brand, hiring partnerships and financing parts of the puzzle. Acquired by a team in stealth.

EntrepreneurshipLeadershipMarketing Strategy

Seeker space

Co-Founder

Jun 2018 – Apr 2019 · 10 mos · Panaji Area, India

At the Seeker Space, we are trying to build the future of learning for teenagers, in the offline setting. We are on the lookout for how education would evolve with technology and the nature of employment. I focus on turning our learnings inside our learning space into a replicable model, exploring new markets and thinking about how to impact learners at scale.
When I am not learning science along with the kids, I spread the word about the Seeker Space -- building communities, drawing the attention of the media as well the academia to what we are pulling off.

EntrepreneurshipEducational LeadershipCommunity Building

Vrik.sh

Co-Founder & CEO

Dec 2017 – Aug 2018 · 8 mos · Panaji Area, India

My first serious attempt at entrepreneurship. Tried building a smart learning companion to help learners find appropriate online learning resources. Bombed on um, all fronts - weak business model, no experience at user research, product or tech. Learned what 'Make something people want' is all about.
Biggest takeaway - I love being an entrepreneur.

EntrepreneurshipProduct Development

Locus.sh

Data Science Intern

Sep 2017 – Nov 2017 · 2 mos

Successfully scraped over ~50k hierarchically organised localities as well as ~20k handwritten addresses in Indian metros for use in developing and testing Locus.sh' proprietary geocoder. I started off not having any knowledge of Python, and ended up with a good understanding of web scraping, data wrangling and NLP. Maybe I’m great at sourcing data on the internet.

Data SciencePython

Vidyavriksh research

Researcher

Aug 2017 – Oct 2018 · 1 yr 2 mos · Panaji Area, India

Coordinating the research efforts of an independent and Interdisciplinary research group based out of Goa. I love thinking about math applied to biology, sociology, finance, and psychology though my heart lies in theoretical physics.

ResearchInterdisciplinary Collaboration

Vidyavriksh

Learning Facilitator

Jun 2016 – May 2018 · 1 yr 11 mos · Panaji Area, India

Experimenting with learning methodologies ready to meet the needs of the future of education -- learner-oriented, collaborative and decentralized.

Learning MethodologiesCollaboration

Universidade do porto

Visiting Researcher

Jan 2016 – May 2016 · 4 mos · Porto Area, Portugal

Worked at CFP, FCUP -- the theoretical physics unit at the University of Porto under Prof. Miguel Costa and Prof. João Penedones on Conformal Field Theory and Mellin Amplitudes.

ResearchTheoretical Physics