Bahul Arora

Founder

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India15 yrs 1 mo experience

Key Highlights

  • Built a financial fitness platform for 400 million Indians.
  • Co-founded and scaled multiple startups with successful acquisitions.
  • Expert in product development and user experience design.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech and EdTech entrepreneur with expertise in product management and development.

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Skills

Core Skills

Product LeadershipProduct Marketing

Other Skills

AJAXAgile MethodologiesBusiness AnalysisCC++CSSData ScienceDatabase DesignHTMLJavaJavaScriptLeadershipLinuxMachine LearningMySQL

About

Currently, Building Jar - a Financial fitness platform for 400 Million Indians ✨ 📩: bahul@changejar.in ----- * Recently, built InstaSolv - Democratising education for Bharat 🇮🇳 which got acquired later by Vedantu * Previously, Co-founded mHire, which got acquired by Aasaanjobs (which later sold to OLX) * 4x Entrepreneur * Developed product for the bottom of the pyramid users with features like Job search on SMS. Miss-call subscription to jobs. * Hands-on with code (Ruby on Rails, Android). Built software products from scratch. * Hands-on with product prototyping & and design. Adept at UX design tools (Sketch, Photoshop), prototyping tools (Invision, Adobe XD) and design principles for Mobile, Web and mobile Web. * Product feature development backed by deep user research and usage data. A Techie at heart. I love challenging problems and creating products. During my free time, I prefer catching up on global product trends and wire-framing new product ideas.

Experience

Stealth startup

Building

Apr 2025Present · 11 mos

Jar

Senior Vice President

Jan 2023Mar 2025 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

  • In the age of consumerism and easy gratification that often leaves our souls and wallets both feeling empty, we want to help millions of Indians rediscover the undeniable, cumulative advantages of saving every single day. We want to reintroduce this generation to the concept of piggy banks by helping them build a saving habit.
  • If this excites you, join us at Jar : https://bit.ly/workatjar

Vedantu

Director of Product Management

Jan 2021Jan 2023 · 2 yrs · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

Instasolv (acquired by vedantu)

Founder

Jan 2019Dec 2020 · 1 yr 11 mos · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

  • Building Instasolv - Democratising education for Bharat 🇮🇳
  • Scaled from scratch to a million users in the first 9 months and looking forward to doing 10x growth in a year.
Product LeadershipProduct LaunchProduct Marketing

Transweb global inc

Product Manager

Oct 2016Dec 2018 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Noida Area, India

  • Intrapreneur​ created a self-sufficient team within the organization.
  • Build product, tech & marketing team from scratch for Askiitians mobile.
  • Spearheaded full ​product life cycle​ from​ Conception till the launch of the product.
  • Revamped tech to build efficiency
  • Assisted CEO in fundraising story and pitch deck preparation
  • Results :
  • Launched Askiitians App, which doubled the Verified Leads impacting the Revenue by 25% growth and 200K downloads in a year with a rating of 4.6/5.0 on PlayStore.
  • Using User Research, Conceptualized a new product, and launched Askiitians Tablet with offline functionality and parental controls.
Product Marketing

Mhire

Founder/CTO @ mHire - acquired by an OLX Company (Aasaanjobs)

Jan 2015Nov 2016 · 1 yr 10 mos · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

  • Acquired by an OLX company (Aasaanjobs)*
  • mhire.in is a marketplace to connect Employers, Blue-Collared Workers, Skill Development Institutes and Placement Consultants.
  • Our Mission: Make hiring blue-collared workers easy
  • Built the tech and product team launched and scaled it to 20L jobseekers, and 5000 Placement Consultants, proved early monetisation.
  • Our Achievements:
  • 1) Selected for the 3rd Phase of the NASSCOM's 10,000Start-ups initiative
  • 2) Finalists - NSDC Innovation for Skills Challenge 2014
  • 3) Accelerated by Startup Oasis, a Joint Initiative of CIIE IIM-A & RIICO
  • 4) Won the Villgro's Unconvention|L Social Enterprise Pitch Competition 2014-15 in the Jury Special Mention category in Jaipur

Startup leadership program

Fellow

Sep 2014Mar 2015 · 6 mos · Greater Delhi Area

  • Startup Leadership Inc is a not-for-profit organization founded in 2006 in Boston, USA. Its flagship program is the Startup Leadership Program (SLP) which brings together entrepreneurs in cities around the world and provides education and lifelong network.
  • Learnings: Learnt the art of building from first principle and lean methodology.

Pupilconnect

Founder

Jun 2013Nov 2014 · 1 yr 5 mos · Delhi

  • Problem Statement: While in college, realised our Director and Teachers had information dissemination problem.
  • Solution: Built an MVP for colleges to help teachers, management and students to communicate easily, without privacy issues, of sharing phone numbers of teachers and college management.
  • Execution: Pilot with 3 colleges, scaled to 50K messages per day. Iterated to campus commerce. couldn't bootstrap as colleges didn't pay for convenience.
  • Learnings: Learned the difference between Painkillers and Vitamins. And also the importance of buy-in of decision-maker for a successful sale.

Onze

Software Engineer

May 2012May 2013 · 1 yr · Bangalore

  • Learned ROR in a month.
  • Built Dashboard which was used by CMO and Marketing teams at HP, Yamaha, Lenovo, to analyse store level analytics which helped them map marketing campaigns to overall growth in footfall, impacting overall growth in revenue.
  • Worked with CEO closely to develop Product Strategy for the product evolution for the next phase.

Vilikh technologies pvt. ltd.

Founder

Aug 2010Mar 2012 · 1 yr 7 mos · Tamil Nadu, India

  • Side-hustle during undergrad days. Learned the art of 'getting things done' // https://catsystems.in
  • While working on multiple hack projects with like-minded electronic hobbyists at Robotics Club, we realised two problems.
  • 1) Lack of quality of knowledge and tech exposure in the student community.
  • 2) Lack of the latest Electronic Development Tools like Arduino, RaspberryPie, Lidar sensors.
  • Following the startup world advice and built for own itch started eCommerce for best tools, tying up with all the best manufacturers for tools. Starting the Open Hardware movement in India by introducing Arduino in India. Also did multiple workshops, tied up with 10+ Indian colleges, setting up college ambassadors, and robotics clubs.
  • In our final year, we did Rs. 40L GMV in 2012.

Education

SRM IST Chennai

Bachelor of Technology - BTech — Computer Science

Jan 2008Jan 2012

St Francis College Lucknow

High School

Jan 2007Present

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