Mar 2023 – Present · 3 yrs · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India · Remote

• prev. The Indian Startup Community
• Started and built 🇮🇳's largest startup super-community - The Indian Startup Community and now called Movement where we bring the top 1% of founders and investors in the country together 🙌🏻
• 20,000+ Founders & Investors 👥
• 18+ Sub-Communities across D2C, VC, Angel, SaaS, Fintech, AI & many more 🤌🏻
• 90+ Events with 6000+ attendees 👥
• 10+ Volunteers 🤝
• If you are a Founder / Investor (VC/Angel), apply to join the community here 👇🏻
• www.tis.community
• For partnerships/sponsorships/events, feel free to write to me at - tanishq@tis.community 📧
• P.S.: TISC is an entirely volunteer-driven initiative and a passion project. To volunteer - DM!

Jan 2022 – Aug 2023 · 1 yr 7 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

• Built Baazaar (baazaar.io) - 🇮🇳 ka marketplace as a hyperlocal commerce platform to enable anyone to go online in under 300 seconds and start selling to customers in their localities in over 30,000+ categories.
• Raised capital from notable investors 💰
• Raised the first-ever community funding round in 🇮🇳
• Built the 🌎's largest e-commerce categorization in a single marketplace
• Scaled to 20,000+ Merchants 💪🏻
• 25+ Team Members ⚡️
• Inc42 - "30 Startups to watch out for" 👀
• Featured in Entrepreneur, VC Circle, Outlook, Free Press Journal ✍🏻
• Pivoted to do offline distribution for new-age brands 🚛
• Signed up ~100 brands for the pilot

Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 · 1 yr · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India · On-site

• Started a Dhanda (mydhanda.com) to enable small business owners to create a digital store-front and manage their entire business - online! ⚡️
• Built features like Store-Front, Invoicing, Digital Payments, etc 📱
• Scaled to 10,000+ merchants 👨🏻‍💼
• Got a word trademark on "Dhanda" 🤓
• Eventually merged it into our second offering i.e Baazaar

Mar 2019 – Jan 2024 · 4 yrs 10 mos · Mumbai · On-site

• Built an umbrella of products including Dhanda and Baazaar

Dec 2018 – Jan 2020 · 1 yr 1 mo · Mumbai · On-site

• Fliege (Fliege UAV Concepts Private Limited) was one of the first few drone-tech startups in the country where we used to source and sell industrial-grade drone & anti-drone technology.
• Served clients like Mumbai Police, the Indian Air Force, and other governmental agencies 👮🏻‍♂️
• Trained over 500+ Drone Pilots 👨🏻‍✈️👩🏻‍✈️
• Built two training centers 🏢
• Structured a strategic exit 💪🏻

Jul 2017 – Feb 2019 · 1 yr 7 mos · Mumbai · On-site

• Core was one of India's first all-in-one surveillance brands where we manufactured, assembled, integrated, and distributed products under our brand name. In our due course, we were able to -
• Acquire 50+ Distributors 👥
• Sell 50,000+ Products 📦
• Complete 500+ Installations 🤝
• Scale to 20 People 👬
• And all of this bootstrapped ⚡️