Aditya Arora

CEO

New Delhi, Delhi, India8 yrs 6 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Recognized as a Young Entrepreneur on global platforms.
Bestselling author of 'Startups of Bharat'.
Angel investor in over 20 high-growth startups.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech and Education sector leader with strong investment and advisory skills.

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Skills

Core Skills

ManagementLeadershipInvestment ManagementAdvisoryMentorshipEvent Management

Other Skills

Curriculum DevelopmentFinancial AnalysisMicrosoft OfficePublic PolicyPublic RelationsPublic SpeakingResearchTeam Management

About

At the age of 28, Aditya has been recognized as a Successful Young Entrepreneur and Achiever on various National and International platforms. He has been invited to speak and deliver guest lectures at 200+ institutions globally and has won many prestigious awards for his work. Some of them include "Parliamentary Award", "Duke of Edinburgh International Award", "REX Karamveer Chakra by United Nations", "Indian Achiever Award 2020". Some of his succesful campaigns include "Education Yatra", "Entrepreneurship Mindset Curriculum (Govt of Delhi)", "Atal Innovation Mission - NITI AAYOG" among others. He has recently become a bestselling author with his book, Startups of Bharat, and is also an active content creator with over 4 lakh followers on social media platforms. Currently, he is the CEO at Faad Capital (SEBI registered CAT - 1 fund of 40 million dollars) and an Angel Investor in 20+ Startups. Till date, Faad has invested in over 125 Startups and recently featured in Economic Times Fastest Growing Investment Firms in India, Inc42 top 10 active investors of 2024 and India's Top 15 Startup Investors.

Experience

Supercharger ventures

Mentor

Oct 2020 – Jun 2022 · 1 yr 8 mos

Mentoring the Edtech Accelerator Batch of Supercharger Ventures - Asia's #1 Fintech Accelerator with more than 50+ Companies raising 500 mn USD+
Check more at: https://www.superchargerventures.com

Mentorship

Angellist

Limited Partner

Aug 2020 – Present · 5 yrs 7 mos

LP in syndicates such as Better Capital, First Cheque, Point One Capital, Huddle Ventures, DVC, SSV Ventures, Maxar VC, Expert Dojo and many others.

Investment Management

Angel investor

Angel Investor

Jan 2020 – Present · 6 yrs 2 mos

Invested personally in over 20+ high growth Startups.

Investment Management

Government of delhi

Advisor

Jul 2019 – Present · 6 yrs 8 mos

Advising on various entrepreneurship related initiatives for Delhi Government. Catalyst in rolling out the Entrepreneurship Mindset Curriculum Scheme and Business Blasters Programme under Govt of NCT of Delhi.

Advisory

Faad capital

Chief Executive Officer

Jan 2019 – Present · 7 yrs 2 mos · Gurgaon, India

Faad Capital is a SEBI-registered CAT -1 fund with a Corpus of 40 million dollars. We invest in early-stage startups with cheque sizes between 100K to 1 million USD across Seed to Series A rounds. Currently, Faad has invested in 110+ Startups. Check more at www.faad.in

ManagementLeadershipResearchTeam Management

Harvard project for asian and international relations (hpair)

Delegate of India

Aug 2018 – Aug 2018 · 0 mo · Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Worked on the Impact Challenge of Maybank - Malaysia's Biggest Bank. Also attended panel discussions and seminars on Entrepreneurship in South East Asia.

World business dialogue

Delegate of India

Mar 2018 – Mar 2018 · 0 mo

Represented India amongst 180+ Country Delegates across the World. Built Insurance Models with Zurich Insurance Group - A Fortune 500 Company.

Ficci

Intern

Mar 2017 – Jun 2017 · 3 mos

Conceptualized and hosted India's largest Media, Bollywood and Business event - FICCI Frames

Quora

Manager

Aug 2016 – Aug 2016 · 0 mo

Building Quorans across Delhi.
Conducted 45+ meetups including 3 World Quora Meetup, to discuss about some raging topics and themes from all around the world.

Mash project

Co- Leader

Jul 2016 – Oct 2017 · 1 yr 3 mos

Mash Project is a youth-led not for profit organisation which aims to create social change through the vehicles of technology. Nexus is a programme which provides subsidised and pro - bono consulting to beneficiary clients. The solutions are in lieu with the ones provided by the service experts and are therefore relevant and effective. We have already done many projects with organisations Pan India.These can be of website, brochure designing, communications handling, social media marketing and many more. My role is to lead the team which becomes the account managers of these projects.