Shivam Pal

Co-Founder

Gurugram, Haryana, India8 yrs 6 mos experience
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Key Highlights

  • Founded multiple successful startups across diverse industries.
  • Expert in AI, growth, and strategy for startups.
  • Mentored over 100 startups, driving significant funding and revenue.
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Skills

Core Skills

FundingBusiness StrategyArtificial Intelligence (ai)Start-up LeadershipEntrepreneurshipContent CreationResearch And Development (r&d)

Other Skills

AJAXAngel InvestingArtificial Neural NetworksCC++CSSCreative StrategyDatabase Management System (DBMS)Deep LearningDigital MarketingDjangoEditingElectrical EngineeringFundraisingGrowth Hacking

About

šŸš€ Entrepreneur | Builder | Growth Strategist | IIT Kanpur Alum | Triathlete I thrive on building and scaling businesses—it's what gives me life satisfaction. Over the years, I’ve founded and scaled startups across AI, EdTech, FinTech, and Social Media, learning from both successes and failures. šŸ”¹ Built & Scaled ventures like UnchaAi ($100K ARR exit), Mvaak, and First500days šŸ”¹ Mentored 100+ startups, contributing to $10M+ in funding & $5M+ in revenue šŸ”¹ Expert in AI, Growth & Strategy—helping founders turn ideas into profitable businesses šŸ”¹ Worked with & scaled brands like Uolo & Park+ šŸ”¹ Raised government grants & bootstrapped multiple ventures At First500days, I help startups navigate growth, funding, and product development—focusing on impact over-valuations. If you're building something exciting, let’s connect! šŸ’” I know how to build. I know how to sell. I know how to lead. šŸƒā€ā™‚ļø Beyond startups? I’m a triathlete, and health is my top priority.

Experience

Mvaak ai

Founder

Jan 2024 – Present Ā· 2 yrs 2 mos Ā· Gurugram, Haryana, India

  • Mvaak is at the forefront of building cutting-edge multilingual speech recognition systems, revolutionizing how businesses interact through voice and text. Our technology powers conversational chatbots, real-time language translation, transcription, and deep chat analysis, enabling seamless and intelligent communication across languages.
  • Backed by IIT Kanpur, SIIC, and IndiaAI, Mvaak combines advanced AI models with deep linguistic expertise to deliver highly accurate, context-aware, and scalable solutions for enterprises.
FundraisingStart-up LeadershipArtificial Intelligence (AI)

First500days

Founder

Jan 2023 – Present Ā· 3 yrs 2 mos Ā· Gurugram, Haryana, India Ā· Remote

  • Most startups shut down in their first500days, and we’re here to make sure yours doesn’t.
  • Backed by Ex-founders and IITians, we provide capital + venture-building support to co-build and scale ideas into thriving businesses. šŸš€
  • Current Portfolio
  • UnchaAi
  • Mvaak
  • Vedic Vox
  • Swaasthfiit
  • InteriAR
  • Aarsh ReproHealth
  • 50+
Start-up VenturesFundingBusiness Strategy

Unchaai

Founder

Jan 2022 – Present Ā· 4 yrs 2 mos Ā· Gurugram, Haryana, India

  • At UnchaAi, we built a premium and complete mentorship marketplace platform where JEE Aspirants can get 1-1 mentorship with IITians.
  • We have built a profitable bootstrapped startup and scaled it to $100K ARR.
  • We have helped more than 10,000 students in clearing their exam.
Content CreationLeadershipEntrepreneurshipAngel InvestingEditingCreative Strategy

Uolo.com

Full-stack Developer

Jul 2020 – Dec 2021 Ā· 1 yr 5 mos Ā· Gurugram, Haryana, India

  • This is the place where I learned the corporate culture and how to develop a scalable tech product using the MERN stack which can serve millions of customers.
  • Worked on various EdTech micro-services to feed the needs of K-8 school students.
  • My work and responsibilities:
  • Develop required end-to-end APIs in NodeJS as per the needs with Postgres and Mongo database
  • Writing queries in SQL and Mongoose to get the required data from the database
  • Developing frontend in ReactJS and core HTML, CSS & Bootstrap to meet customer needs
  • Used additional technologies like git, phabricator, and docker
Leadership

Indian institute of technology, kanpur

Master's Thesis

Jul 2019 – Jun 2020 Ā· 11 mos Ā· Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India

  • In today’s generation, knowledge is the real power and skills are the real tools. The one more equipped with knowledge and skills can be considered a strong person irrespective of gender.
  • But many are failing to get adequate skills and knowledge because education is not personal. They don’t get the way they need and understand.
  • During this project, I and my professor aim were to build an AI personal tutor which can teach the way, a student can understand based on learning style and speed.
  • My contribution:
  • To research and understand the state-of-the-art work done in this field
  • Researching and conceptualising the algorithm to beat the state-of-the-art methods to arrange the knowledge in a form of a pre-requisite graph
  • Building database for training the AI algorithm
  • Implementing and Training the algorithm, and Comparing it with other methods
  • Special Thanks to my professor and guide, Prof. Vipul Arora, IIT Kanpur
Research and Development (R&D)Artificial Intelligence (AI)EntrepreneurshipDeep Learning

Waysals

Co-Founder and CEO

Apr 2018 – Sep 2019 Ā· 1 yr 5 mos Ā· Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India

  • In India, most of the students are not certain to decide and plan career opportunities in job and career-related aspects.
  • Waysals provide a college-based social media community where students across different tiers of colleges can get the solution to their career and job related problems.
  • Personally, my roles and responsibilities were,
  • Conceptualized the product based on market feedback
  • Develop the social media platform for community interaction from scratch using state of the art web-framework tools
  • Launched the product in IIT Kanpur
  • If you need the source code of the platform, please let me know. I may help you to solve your product problem. Attached the screenshots of the platform.
LeadershipEntrepreneurship

Zero kelvin

Co-Founder

Jul 2017 – Apr 2018 Ā· 9 mos Ā· Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India

  • Zero Kelvin was my first step towards the entrepreneurship journey
  • It was founded to solve India's logistics and transportation problem in supply chain management, due to which India faces the loss of Rs 90,000 Cr per year.
  • Personally, my roles and responsibilities were,
  • Handling all technical work which includes hardware & software development
  • Developing a Telematics Device to track the vehicle location and monitor its inside parameters like temperature and humidity
LeadershipEntrepreneurship

Garuda prakashan pvt. ltd.

Full-stack Developer

May 2017 – Jul 2017 Ā· 2 mos Ā· Gurugram, Haryana, India

  • Garuda Publication is the leading online book publication house in India with a deep vision to promote the importance of the Hindi language at a world level for Indians
  • I truly believe in their vision and be a part of their mission during their initial days
  • Here I learned
  • the art of managing and leading people,
  • how to sell to employees, customers and stakeholders
  • Responsible for
  • Building an end-to-end e-commerce website for listing books on their web portal
  • Used state of the art Django applications and web frameworks to complete the project
Entrepreneurship

Multiple companies

Freelance Web Developer

May 2016 – Apr 2017 Ā· 11 mos Ā· India

  • I believe the best way of learning anything is to ask someone for a project, give the commitment and learn on the way with the goal of fulfilling the commitment.
  • It helps to learn more in less time, makes you professional, and enhances your personality.
  • I have worked as a full-stack developer on many projects which helped me to learn the art of building products and how to deal with people.
  • Projects-
  • https://www.iitk.ac.in/gviitk - For IIT Kanpur Professor
  • http://iitk.ac.in/simutech/ - For IIT Kanpur Club
  • Build a community website for non-profit school Alums interaction
  • and many more...
Entrepreneurship

Education

Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur

Master of Technology - MTech — Electrical Engineering

Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur

Bachelor of Technology - BTech — Electrical Engineering

Sanatan Dharam Public School, Punjabi Bagh, New Delhi

12th class

Jan 2012 – Jan 2014

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