Amit Raj Gogia

Co-Founder

Gurugram, Haryana, India27 yrs experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • 25+ years of experience in healthcare and consumer sectors.
  • Expert in GTM strategies and scale-up phases.
  • Mentor to over 2000 ventures via Shark Tank India.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a B2B healthcare and consumer sector expert with extensive startup mentoring experience.

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Skills

Core Skills

Early-stage Startups

Other Skills

Account ManagementArt ExhibitionsBrand ManagementBusiness DevelopmentBusiness PlanningBusiness StrategyCRMChannel Account ManagementChannel PartnersCompetitive AnalysisCross-functional Team LeadershipFMCGForecastingKey Account ManagementLeadership

About

Seasoned business leader | Startup investor | Healthcare & consumer sector specialist | GTM + Scale-up Expert With 25+ years across global brands (Sanofi, GSK, Medela) and disruptive startups, I bring a unique intersection of corporate rigour and founder agility. From building Medela India from scratch to advising 2000+ ventures via Shark Tank India, I’ve led businesses across zero-to-one and scale-up phases—focusing on category creation, P\&L ownership, and GTM innovation. 🔹 Founded HealthArk – a B2B medtech trading firm representing global brands 🔹 Country Director – Medela: Built ₹50Cr+ breast pump business in India from ground up 🔹 Strategy & investment evaluator – Shark Tank India (Seasons 2, 3 & 4) 🔹 Mentor & advisor to early-stage founders on fundraising, market entry, and growth strategy 🔹 Angel investor with deep interest in eldercare, femtech, and digital health 🔹 Ex-officio at IIHMR University – bridging industry and academia 🔹Venture Scout with several US funds - supporting fund raising for early stage startups I thrive at the confluence of mission-driven ventures, capital allocation, and high-trust relationships Let’s connect if you’re building in health, wellness, or emerging India. 🌐 [www.amitrajgogia.com] | 📩 [team@amitrajgogia.com]

Experience

Horizons

Advisor

Nov 2025Present · 4 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India · Remote

  • supporting growth of ventures abroad (hiring & payroll management)

Harvard alumni entrepreneurs

2 roles

Venture Scout

Promoted

Oct 2025Present · 5 mos

full member

Jun 2025Present · 9 mos

  • Harvard Alumni Entrepreneurs (Harvard AE) is a volunteer-managed, locally organized non-profit organization with chapters worldwide, connecting over 19,000 Harvard alumni, faculty, staff, and friends from across the University and throughout the world.
  • To learn more about HarvardAE go to Harvardae.org.

Enquire ai

Expert

Jun 2025Present · 9 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India · Remote

  • Enquire AI is a digital expert network seamlessly integrating AI and human intelligence within a unified and automated platform. Enquire provides real-time, custom insights for decision-makers and knowledge professionals by combining human analysis with its patented knowledge automation platform, which fuels its proprietary Q&A dataset.

Openai

Member

Jun 2025Present · 9 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India · Remote

  • Collaborated with a global network of over 21,000 professionals to advance AI research and engineering initiatives.
  • Engaged in knowledge-sharing sessions that fostered innovation and best practices in AI education.
  • Contributed to discussions and projects that shape the future of AI, enhancing my strategic thinking and problem-solving skills.

Xoxoday

Consultant

Mar 2025Jul 2025 · 4 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India · Remote

  • SaaS product suite to digitise "Rewards, Incentives & Loyalty" programs.
Early-Stage Startups

Onebeat

Consultant

Jan 2025Jul 2025 · 6 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India · Remote

  • One beat is a global enterprise (Israel HQ) helping retailers manage inventory via SaaS solution powered by AI

Outlander vc

Venture Scout

Nov 2024Present · 1 yr 4 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India · Remote

T-hub

Business Mentor

Oct 2024Present · 1 yr 5 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India · Remote

  • T-Hub was created as a public-private partnership, with backing from the Telangana government – the state where Hyderabad is based – as well as support from industry leaders and top tier educational institutes. T-Hub’s Board of Directors includes representatives from all three sectors. It has not-for-profit status and is built on a self-sustaining model and doesn’t seek grants from either the government or the private sector.
  • Phase one of T-Hub was launched in 2015, the same year that Telangana become a state. It was designed to be a magnet and startups from all over India have been feeling the pull ever since, paying a fraction of what top tier accelerators in Silicon Valley or Europe charge for co-working space, mentoring and networking.
  • my role as a Mentor is to support startups being incubated at the hub.

Masters' union

Marquee Mentor

Oct 2024Present · 1 yr 5 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India · Remote

  • To guide students throughout their educational journey.

Masschallenge

Mentor

Oct 2024Present · 1 yr 5 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India · Remote

  • Headquartered in the Boston, United States with eight locations worldwide, MassChallenge equips bold entrepreneurs to disrupt the status quo and create sustainable change.

Global health impact network & funds

Member

Oct 2024Present · 1 yr 5 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India · Remote

  • Global Health Impact Network (GHIN) is the place where Healthcare Professionals collaborate on the future of Digital Health Innovation.
  • We’re a global community of like-minded healthcare professionals who share a common vision “empower healthcare professionals to actively participate in shaping the evolving digital healthcare revolution.”

Lvlup ventures

Venture Scout

Sep 2024Present · 1 yr 6 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India · Remote

  • LvlUp Ventures (US) is on a mission to redefine the startup landscape, and our Venture Scouts are at the heart of it!
  • We’re partnering with industry giants like Outlander VC, Santa Barbara Venture Partners, Pegasus Angel Accelerator, Expert Dojo, Capchase, NextUp, Musa Capital, Brilliant Minds, and many more to uncover the next wave of game-changing startups.

A1 advisory

Venture Scout

Aug 2024Aug 2025 · 1 yr · Gurugram, Haryana, India · Remote

  • A1 is a London (UK) based Advisory firm, We facilitate deal-flow between early stage companies and VCs. With 30 years experience working in finance, corporate, and tech, and having founded 14 companies between us, we understand the unique perspectives of both founders and VCs. Knowing the underlying needs of our clients and partners and upholding their reputation is what we do best.

Alchemist accelerator

Business Mentor

Jul 2024Present · 1 yr 8 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India · Remote

  • Alchemist is a global venture-backed accelerator focused on accelerating the development of seed-stage ventures that monetize from enterprises (not consumers). CB Insights rated Alchemist the top accelerator based on median funding rates of its grads (YC was #2). The accelerator's primary screening criteria is on teams, with primacy placed on having distinctive technical co-founders. The organization provides small investments into companies it admits (typically $36K), and provides founders a structured path to traction, fundraising, mentorship, and community over the course of a 6 month program. The accelerator seeds around 75 enterprise-monetizing ventures / year. Notable alums include LaunchDarkly, Privacera, Rigetti Quantum Computing, Volans-i, ClearMetal, mPharma, Matternet, Mightyhive, and MoEngage.
  • Funds that have invested in Alchemist companies include Accel, Andreessen Horowitz, Bessemer, CRV, Felicis, Floodgate, Forerunner, Foundation, Founders Fund, Greylock, Khosla, Menlo, NEA, Polaris, Redpoint, Sequoia, and USVP.
  • Alchemist's Limited Partners include many of the top corporates shaping the frontier of innovation, including Analog Devices, BASF, Cisco, Ericsson, GE, Johnson Controls, Juniper, and Volvo.

Goahead ventures

Venture Scout

Jul 2024Present · 1 yr 8 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India · Remote

  • Scouting for ventures fitting with investment thesis of GoAhead VC (global VC firm investing at early stage)

Startupbootcamp

Business Mentor

Jul 2024Present · 1 yr 8 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India · Remote

  • Startupbootcamp is #1 Accelerator in Europe with 1600 portfolio companies.
  • I'm a Mentor to the startups to help them succeed.

Sony pictures networks india

2 roles

Consultant Startup Ecosystem

Jun 2024Jan 2025 · 7 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India · Remote

  • Casting for Season 4 Shark tank India.

Casting Director

Mar 2024Apr 2024 · 1 mo · Gurugram, Haryana, India · Remote

  • We are building unscripted show around food and restaurant industry.
  • <show was put on hold by the channel>

Loyal vc

Advisor

Jun 2024Present · 1 yr 9 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India · Remote

  • Loyal VC- Toronto based Global VC firm has a portfolio of over 300 companies that span across numerous industries, geographies and business models.
  • My role as Advisor to portfolio companies in the areas they need support to scale up.

Stanford seed

Stanford Seed Consultant

Jan 2024Present · 2 yrs 2 mos · India · Remote

  • Consulting global cohort of Stanford Seed Program.

Club by founders network

2 roles

Founder

Nov 2023Present · 2 yrs 4 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

  • I have been building founder community called founders network since past 18 months as a side gig.
  • The community was built with sole purpose of supporting founders in the zero to one journey by way of references & contacts to scale up.
  • we built the community to 700 founders sector agnostics- pan nation.
  • now taking it to the next level by making it a paid only community called Club which also meets(offline) in all respective cities led by chapter leads.

Founder

Nov 2022Nov 2023 · 1 yr · Gurugram, Haryana, India

  • we execute monthly pitchathon events where 5 curated startups pitch to investors for raising seed rounds.

E-cell, iit bombay

Mentor

Nov 2023Jan 2024 · 2 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India · Remote

  • part of NEC (National Entrepreneurship challenge 2023) team.

Exitfund

Venture Scout

Oct 2023Aug 2025 · 1 yr 10 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India · Remote

  • Scouting for startups who are fund raising from pre-seed to series A stage.

Vc lab

VC Lab Cohort 12 member

Aug 2023Jan 2024 · 5 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

  • Learning the intricacies of launching & managing a VC fund.

Sony pictures networks india

2 roles

Consultant Startup Ecosystem

Jun 2023Nov 2023 · 5 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

  • Part of the team in building S3- Shark Tank India.

Consultant Start up Ecosystem

Jun 2022Nov 2023 · 1 yr 5 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

  • part of the team in building Shark tank india season 2.

Iihmr startups

Startup Mentor

Mar 2023Jan 2024 · 10 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India · Remote

Newchip accelerator

Mentor

Dec 2022Jan 2024 · 1 yr 1 mo · Gurugram, Haryana, India · Remote

  • Newchip is the world's largest remote & 100% virtual accelerator.

Founder institute

Mentor

Nov 2022Jan 2024 · 1 yr 2 mos · Greater Delhi Area

  • Mentor to startups part of FI cohort.

Hydroliq ag

Consultant

Apr 2021Jun 2022 · 1 yr 2 mos · India

Wadhwani foundation

2 roles

Impact Champion

Mar 2021Jun 2022 · 1 yr 3 mos

Business Mentor

Aug 2020Jun 2022 · 1 yr 10 mos

Www.amitrajgogia.com

GTM & Growth Facilitator

Feb 2019Jun 2022 · 3 yrs 4 mos · Gurgaon, India

  • Consulting Early stage ventures in finding traction and scaling up.
  • supporting clients from diverse sectors such as Logistics, Agriculture to healthcare.

Iihmr university

OSD (Officer on Special Duty)

Nov 2018Jan 2019 · 2 mos · Greater Jaipur Area

  • Responsible for All Areas including: Strategy, Admission, Placement, MDP, Marketing, Admin and Operations.

Healthark

Founder

Sep 2016Oct 2018 · 2 yrs 1 mo · gurgaon

  • B2B distribution offering world class healthcare solutions> www.healthark.in
  • https://www.indiamart.com/healthark/

The punjab kitchen

Cofounder

Sep 2016Jun 2018 · 1 yr 9 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

  • Cloud kitchen serving North Indian food via D2C as well as platforms such as Zomato, Swiggy.

Medela india pvt ltd

Country Manager

Nov 2008Aug 2016 · 7 yrs 9 mos · Gurgaon

  • In my role at Medela India Pvt Ltd, I led the business growth for Breastfeeding and Healthcare verticals, managing a team of 15. I was instrumental in establishing the company's operations in India, defining sales frameworks, and securing necessary approvals for legal registration. My responsibilities encompassed strategic planning, budgeting, and channel partner management, reporting directly to the Regional Director in Switzerland.

Bilt

Deputy Manager Merchandiser

Apr 2008Sep 2008 · 5 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

  • Responsible for P3 store merchandising
  • Responsible for all categories including stationery, IT, gifting
  • Responsible for visual merchandising within stores
  • coordination with Operations, Sales, Marketing teams in order to achieve organizational sales volumes

Guardian lifecare

Sr. Manager Marketing

Jul 2007Mar 2008 · 8 mos · gurgaon

  • Heading a team of 2 Marketing assistants directly and about 25 Sales/ Operations Managers indirectly for marketing GNC brand through stores and other channels–Modern Trade—across the country.
  • Instrumental in the development and ensuring effective servicing of Key Accounts of Reliance and Dabur.
  • Have been engaged in creating and implementing joint promotion programmes, in partnership with strategic retailers. It helped in generating business volumes and awareness among customers.
  • Efficiently handling coordination with advertising agencies for designing and execution of in/ out store POP and merchandising tools.
  • Successfully managing Media planning (Print & Radio), which involves selection of appropriate medium for implementing marketing campaigns, thereby affecting the sales of the organization.
  • Hold the distinction for breaking through into 3 key Accounts in the first month of operations, viz., Dabur, Reliance, and Powerhouse chain of gymnasiums

Royal canin

Zonal Manager

Jan 2003Jun 2007 · 4 yrs 5 mos · Delhi

  • Spearheaded a team of 12 Marketing Executives directly and 25 indirectly, providing them mentoring and guidance for the achievement of allotted targets within specified timelines in West & South zones.
  • Hold credit for initiating the launch of new product category-German Shepherd and Labrador speciality range launch, as well as launch of the Veterinary range, targeted specifically to this segment.
  • Instrumental in developing the North Zone market from scratch which included recruitment and training of team members as well as channel partners.
  • Guided efforts towards turning the region into a profit centre by designing promotional material and creating a business plan to support the initiative.
  • Conducted new business development and marketing (including direct) for merchandising, press ads & POS material for both in and outdoor promotions. Ensured optimum utilization of allocated funds.
  • Merit of achieving target of Rs 3.6 Crores from 15 channel partners located in North Zone.
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Glaxosmithkline pharma gmbh

Sales Officer

Sep 2001Jul 2002 · 10 mos · Delhi

  • Functioned as Team Member for the Sales and promotion of OTC products-Horlicks, Boost, Maltova, Aqua Fresh, Eno, Crocin and Iodex--in Delhi.
  • Kept track of inventory levels, damages & expiry of the products at dealers warehouses. Accordingly refurbished inventory stocks.
  • Provided support to the channel partners in aggressive sales and promoting the products.
  • Achieved targets as allocated for the zone. Surpassed targets by 10%.
  • Made effective use of merchandising and promotional material to push sales and establish a strong place for the company’s products in the market.
  • Received appreciation letters from General Manager for coming up with creative ideas, which contributed to the generation of more business.

Sanofi

Scientific Services Officer

Apr 1997Dec 2000 · 3 yrs 8 mos · Delhi

  • Essayed a major role in organizing seminars and workshops, to carve out a new niche position in the market.
  • Developed and handled institution clients of the likes of AIIMS, Indian Army, Apollo Hospital, VIMHANS and Escorts.
  • Managed the concept selling of various cardiology, gynecology, neurology, orthopedic and pediatric drugs.
  • Contributed to attaining record profits by selling LSD’s to major institutions.
  • Distinction of being recognized as the star performer among all India team in 2000.

Education

Management Development Institute, Gurgaon

M.B.A — Marketing

Jan 2000Jan 2003

Indian School of Business

General Management Program

Jan 2014Jan 2014

Indian School of Business

Accelerated Management Program — General Management

Jan 2010Jan 2010

Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow

certificate — Finance for non Finance

Jan 2012Jan 2012

Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad

certificate — Pricing for Proft

Jan 2009Jan 2009

Nagpur University

B.Pharmacy — Pharmaceutical Sciences

Jan 1993Jan 1997

Don bosco, D.T.E.A Sr. Sec

higher secondary school — science

Jan 1991Jan 1993

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