Saurabh Singla

CEO

India11 yrs 10 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Successfully raised $2.4 million in venture funding.
Scaled multiple startups from inception to significant revenue.
Expert in building and managing high-performing teams.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a dynamic entrepreneur with expertise in Agritech and E-commerce sectors.

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Core Skills

EntrepreneurshipBusiness StrategyBusiness DevelopmentProduct StrategyGrowth Strategy

Other Skills

Content StrategyOperational StrategyProduct DevelopmentStakeholder ManagementTeam Management

About

2x Entrepreneur, IIT Guwahati Alum. Co-founded Pepperfarms, took the startup from 0 to 100+ people, 0 to $3mn in ARR raising ~$2.4mn in venture funding from Micro VCs and angels. Co-founded LazyLad, took the startup from 0 to 30+ people, 0 to $2mn in GMV raising $0.6mn in external funding from HNIs.

Experience

Pocket fm

Growth Director

Oct 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Global Audio Series OTT platform

Pepper farms

Co-Founder and CEO

Apr 2019 – Jun 2023 · 4 yrs 2 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India · On-site

Vertically Integrated Protected Farming platform.
Build India's largest fully managed protected farming network. Provided end-to-end virtual management, full-stack agronomy, and direct market linkages.
Took the startup from 1 to 100+ people, 0 to $3mn in ARR raising ~$2.1mn in venture funding.

EntrepreneurshipBusiness StrategyGrowth StrategyBusiness DevelopmentOperational Strategy

Shuttl

Entrepreneur in Residence

Aug 2018 – Mar 2019 · 7 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India · On-site

Shuttl is an app-based service that provides working professionals with a more affordable, comfortable & sustainable commute option for their daily travel.
Build F&B initiatives inside Shuttl buses, from concept to pilot.
Worked on business model design, partnerships and on-ground execution for in-transit F&B experiments
Scaled the service from 5 to 100 buses and managed the P&L.

Business DevelopmentProduct StrategyTeam Management

Self-employed

-1 to 0

Sep 2017 – Jul 2018 · 10 mos

Ran multiple zero-to-one experiments: product tech consulting, a small medicine distribution play, HUL distribution and fruits trading.
Used these as “learning loops” to understand ground realities of supply chains, cold storage, pricing, and working capital in physical businesses.
The fruits trading work helped crystallise the Agritech business model that later became Pepper Farms.

Overcart

Senior Business Manager

Oct 2016 – Aug 2017 · 10 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

Marketplace for over-stock, unboxed, refurbished, and preowned products
Contributed to growth and product.
Launched a new auction and wholesale platform Overcart for Business, targeting SME buyers in Tier 2 and 3 cities.
Scaled GMV from 0 to $100K/month within 2 months of launch of Overcart for Business.

Business DevelopmentGrowth Strategy

Lazylad

Co-Founder and CEO

Jun 2014 – Jul 2016 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Gurugram, Haryana, India · On-site

LazyLad — Hyperlocal Daily Essentials (30–60 min delivery)
Built and operated a full-stack hyperlocal platform for FMCG, fruits & vegetables, meat, stationery, and bakery.
Onboarded 400+ mom-and-pop retailers; enabled last-mile fulfilment + digital storefronts.
Scaled to ~$2M GMV; 700 daily orders (~1400 at peak); led P&L, ops and growth.
Grew org from 0 → 30+ across engineering, ops, and BD.
Raised $0.6M external funding.
Navigated multiple business model experiments, including a key B2B experiment selling F&V to vegetable retailers (which sparked deeper interest in Agritech).

EntrepreneurshipBusiness DevelopmentGrowth Strategy