Jaineel A.

Co-Founder

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India16 yrs 6 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Founded and scaled India's leading pop-culture merchandise brand.
  • Expert in merging technology, entertainment, and commerce.
  • Strong background in private equity and strategic consulting.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a B2C entrepreneur with expertise in consumer brands, gaming, and IP licensing.

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Skills

Core Skills

EntrepreneurshipBusiness StrategyBusiness DevelopmentStrategic PartnershipsFinancial AnalysisInvestmentsManagement Consulting

Other Skills

Business AnalysisCommunicationConsultingConsumer Brand ManagementContract NegotiationCorporate FinanceCustomer ExperienceDigital Business DevelopmentDue DiligenceEarly Stage VenturesEmerging MarketsEntrepreneurship DevelopmentExecutive ManagementFinanceFinancial Modeling

About

🚀 2x Entrepreneur | Ex-Private Equity & Strategy Consultant | Consumer, IP Licensing & Gaming Expert With 15+ years in strategy, finance, consumer brands, and IP licensing, I specialize in building and scaling businesses that merge technology, entertainment, and commerce. 💼 Career Journey: Started my career in Private Equity (Baring Asia, now EQT Group) and Strategy Consulting (The Parthenon Group, now EY-Parthenon), gaining deep expertise in investments, business strategy, and operational scale-ups. Founded Planet Superheroes, one of India's OG brands for officially licensed pop-culture merchandise. Scaled it into Pan India omni-channel distribution before successfully exiting to India’s largest esports company in 2022. 🎮 What I’m Building Now: Founder of PlayVerse Ventures, a venture studio focusing on the joy economy. Our current portfolio includes: 1) PlayVerse Toys - Next-gen toy brand revolutionizing play and learning with innovative, high-quality products. Our STEM toys focus on accelerating learning milestones among young learners 2) Billions Quest - A browser-based Strategy game, where Monopoly meets Wall Street. 3) Dreamcric - A Fantasy platform for amateur community tournaments for organizers to increase engagement Always open to collaborating with founders, investors, and operators building disruptive, high-impact ventures. You can reach me at jaineel@playverse.in

Experience

Playverse

Founder

Apr 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 11 mos · India · On-site

  • At PlayVerse, our mission is to spread joy to the world through the power of play, content, and technology.
  • As a Venture Studio focused on the "joy economy", we incubate and grow innovative ideas from the ground up. Our current focus is on STEM Learning Toys, Gaming, Sports and Media.
  • Headquartered in India, we are backed by Akatsuki Inc., a listed gaming company based in Tokyo, Japan.
  • Please reach out to us at inbound@playverse.in
Venture StudioSTEM Learning ToysGamingSportsMediaEntrepreneurship+1

Planet superheroes

Cofounder & CEO (Exited)

Oct 2014 – Mar 2022 · 7 yrs 5 mos · Mumbai Area, India

  • Planet Superheroes is India's leading omnichannel consumer brand dedicated to licensed merchandise across IPs ranging from Characters (Superheroes), sports, gaming and various other forms of pop culture.
  • In January 2022, Planet Superheroes was acquired by Nodwin Gaming, a subsidiary of NSE-listed Nazara Technologies with a shared vision to increase the merchandising capabilities across its asset portfolio
Licensed MerchandiseOmni-channel DistributionConsumer Brand ManagementBusiness DevelopmentStrategic Partnerships

Baring private equity asia

Investment Associate

Jan 2012 – Sep 2014 · 2 yrs 8 mos · Mumbai

  • Awarded Private Equity Firm of the Year 2013, India
Private EquityInvestment AnalysisDue DiligenceFinancial AnalysisInvestments

The parthenon group

Senior Associate

Jun 2009 – Dec 2011 · 2 yrs 6 mos · Asia

  • Private Equity Due Diligene projects across APAC, Latin America & Middle East
Private EquityConsultingMarket ResearchManagement ConsultingBusiness Strategy

Education

Duke University

Master of Engineering — Engineering Management

Jan 2007 – Jan 2009

Dwarkadas J. Sanghvi College of Engineering

Bachelor of Engineering — Electronics

Jan 2003 – Jan 2007

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