Eashita Maheshwary

Co-Founder

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India11 yrs 6 mos experience

Key Highlights

  • Founder of multiple gender diversity-focused initiatives.
  • Expert in building strategic partnerships for startups.
  • Strong advocate for diversity and sustainability in business.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Business Growth Strategist with a focus on gender diversity and startup ecosystems.

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Skills

Core Skills

InvestmentsBusiness Growth StrategiesStart-up Leadership

Other Skills

Account ManagementAdvertisingAngel InvestingBusiness DevelopmentCRMCommunicationCommunity DevelopmentCorporate CommunicationsCreative WritingDeal SourcingEditingEmployee EngagementEmployee RelationsEntrepreneurshipEvent Management

About

Creating partnerships and business growth opportunities out of my connections building intelligence that dives deep into the network that I've been building for almost a decade. I might not be the person who knows it all, but always know someone who would. Been founder thrice in the gender diversity, investing, and real estate- hospitality spaces respectively, now turned business growth strategist. Have closely worked with different stakeholders in the start-up ecosystem - founders, investors, corporates, and enablers to drive high-value strategic partnerships. A business growth strategist having worked with supporting startups to expand in geographies deeper within India and the Middle East while also closely supporting them on their business development and growth with partnerships being at the core. A strong inclination towards diversity across gender and geographies, sustainability while using the power of the network effect to enable growth.

Experience

Razorpay

Associate Manager, Community - Platforms

May 2024Present · 1 yr 10 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

Headstart network foundation

Partnerships and Corporate Innovation - Volunteer

Jul 2023Present · 2 yrs 8 mos

Independent

Partnerships & Business Growth Strategist

Jan 2023May 2024 · 1 yr 4 mos

Encubay angel network

Founding Member

Apr 2021Mar 2023 · 1 yr 11 mos

  • Built EAN as a gender diversity-focused angel network to encourage more women to start angel investing and in turn increase the available capital pool. Was fundamental in driving opportunities for high-quality deal flow, co-investment opportunities, and potential angel investors (supply and demand) through dedicated and collaborative initiatives. Also, partnering with communities, accelerators, angel networks, and enablers across tier 1, 2, and 3 India amplified the impact while fostering continuous growth for the company and its portfolio.
InvestmentsTeam LeadershipBusiness Growth StrategiesGrowth StrategiesDeal SourcingStrategic Partnerships+3

Encubay

Co-Founder

May 2020Feb 2023 · 2 yrs 9 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Co-founded Encubay to be a gender diversity-focused network to support women founders on their growth journey with access to - mentorship, partnerships, corporate POCs (proof of concepts), business continuity tools (boosters), financial growth support through grants, BFSIs, and investing.
  • Conceptualized and built various programs to support focused business and impact outcomes mainly outlined to product/ service awareness or customer acquisition for some of the most prominent SaaS, consumer, and BFSI companies including HSBC, AWS, Chargebee, Freshworks, Zoho, Unacademy, GITEX Dubai 2022, Stranger & Sons Gin across India and Dubai.
  • From design to data, business pitches to demo days, GST to grants, interviews to invoices, processes to partnerships, and from feeling like an intern to co-founder, all duties have had their due course often within the same day.
Start-up LeadershipTeam LeadershipProgram ManagementStrategic PartnershipsAccount ManagementVenture Capital+4

Collaborat-her

Partner

Mar 2020May 2021 · 1 yr 2 mos

  • Facilitating the growth of startups and existing businesses through mentorship, consultation, workshops, and various events. On the journey of assisting others to fulfill their dreams while fulfilling one's own.
  • Collaborat-her has launched Encubay a diversity-focused global network in 2020 in association with GreenHouse Capital Africa.
  • www.collaborat-her.com I www.encubay.com

91springboard

Sr. Community Manager

Jul 2019Oct 2020 · 1 yr 3 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Works closely on hub operations, customer acquisition, retention, and growth. Closely works on building the overall community and micro-communities. Handling on-ground crisis management. All this and more including amazing conversations and being amidst the masterminds of the startup ecosystem.

Nomadic trails food & hospitality pvt ltd

Co-Founder

Jul 2018Oct 2019 · 1 yr 3 mos · India

  • Co-founded Goa's First artists' community space & travellers hostel
  • Gained and enhanced knowledge-based on design, operations, social media marketing, and other aspects of running a space
  • Built a creative community space through interactions with artists while also hosted various events & workshops
  • Collaborated with local brands to offer offbeat customer experiences

Never grow up ®

2 roles

Sr. Business Partner & Minion

Jul 2017Jun 2018 · 11 mos

  • Never Grow Up ® is a People think-tank providing holistic employee engagement services to a very diverse clientele. We are actively engaged in the pursuit of happiness at work. While our services include employer branding, planning and executing CSR initiatives, workspace design, workshops and offsites, internal communication, quirky merchandising as well as HR solutions pertaining to digital, technology and content, we ensure we dig deep into what your organization requires.
  • Happyness Quotient™, a fun and flexible People Management Tool that provides a real-time indication of the level of happiness across your organization by analysing what drives individuals based on their personal and professional choices.
  • Growing up at Never Grow Up has brought in a whole lot of responsibilities. This Minion works hard to ensure in clientele, maintains a transparent internal work culture while the team expands across locations, has fun while driving an open culture of innovation and excellence and is constantly jumping around with thoughts for both our clients and the company too.
  • Spreading Happyness At Work! #BecauseImHappy
  • www.WillNeverGrowUp.com | www.HappynessQuotient.com I www.WillNeverGrowUp.co.in

Client Associate [ Minion ]

Dec 2014Jul 2018 · 3 yrs 7 mos

  • Worked on client acquisition, servicing, and retention. Also, closely worked with building the internal culture and growth of the organization.

Channel v

Channel V Representative Indiafest 2014

Nov 2013Feb 2014 · 3 mos · Bangalore

  • Working on the zonals and finals of the Channel V India fest 2014 among the 5 V representatives chosen in the city. It included –
  • Heading a team of 25+ students from over 10 different colleges across Bangalore
  • Ensuring extensive work was happening to generate registrations for 22 event categories over 3 months from initial registrations to combining online and offline registrations
  • Overlooked the continuous online publicity mainly via approximately 60 Facebook posts and memes every week that went viral backed by the same on WhatsApp and offline publicity on college campus through talking to students about the fest. Also included distributing passes of the event and ensuring event visibility through posters of the event put up across the city by the students resulting in a footfall of approximately 1500 people and complete participation for each event category.
  • There were instances of delay and other minor and major crisis situations that were handled. The finals included working on the logistics of travel and stay of all the participants from Bangalore in Goa and assisting the event flow at the location.

Letsintern

Campus Ambassador

Jul 2013Sep 2013 · 2 mos · Bangalore

  • Marketing the website and the start young campaign.Also selling the Startyoung premium account.

Dell

Online Marketing

Jun 2013Aug 2013 · 2 mos · Bangalore

  • The duties involved content direction on the Dell website for their Dell campaign which involved students writing about how technology has immensely changed their life or helped in following their dream and online marketing on Facebook for the Dell inspiron campaign. Generated about 10 stories while also assisting in building the team of the campaign.

Daily news & analysis (dna) after hrs

AfterHrs Journalist

May 2012Jun 2012 · 1 mo · Bangalore

  • Contributed to various beats in the supplement, including fashion, city trends, interviews and people profiles.

Maa communications ltd

Creative and Client Servicing

Nov 2011Dec 2011 · 1 mo · Bangalore

  • Worked on market research for Jockey, Peppermint hotel, INDOTEL, Maini & other brands.Also generated QR codes for a company and followed up the master worksheet of MAA for the month to help in ensuring that the tasks were following the given timeline.Assisted in the research and website audit process of different companies like Bodycraft.Compiled the history of MAA including the achievements acquired by the company throughout assisting in the content of the achievements column of the company website.

Education

Christ University, Bangalore

Pre University — Science

Jan 2009Jan 2011

NIEM

Master's Degree

Jan 2014Jan 2015

Jyoti Nivas College , Bangalore

Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) — Communication and Media Studies

Jan 2011Jan 2014

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