Rahul Khatri

Founder

Hyderabad, Telangana, India3 yrs 7 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchAI ML Practitioner

Key Highlights

Founder of an innovative AI SaaS platform.
Top performer in multiple startup accelerators.
Expert in social media engagement strategies.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS entrepreneur with expertise in social media and startup acceleration.

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Skills

Core Skills

Start-up LeadershipBusiness StrategyProduct ManagementResearchSocial Media ConsultingEntrepreneurship

Other Skills

3D Computer VisionAIBusiness DevelopmentBusiness Intelligence (BI)Career CounselingCommunity ManagementConsultingEducational LeadershipGrowth StrategiesInterpersonal SkillsLeadershipLean MVP buildingMachine LearningPresentation SkillsPrompt Engineering

About

"The companies which can't sell their stories cannot sell their products." ~ Rahul K. With the little knowledge and zeal that I have. I've realised, the business landscape of the world is severely affected with the mediocrity syndrome for which entrepreneurship offers a solution, providing individuals with the opportunity to elevate their standard of living and drive positive change in the world. I desire to build something which involves critical brainstorming to develop strategies with their scope ranging from an apple, a symbol of simplicity and wholesomeness, to "The Apple" - the tech giant that has changed the way we live, work and communicate My goal is to make a nano-impact that ripples through the entire system, creating a wave which floods every level of the entire system with nothing but immense contentment. I'm here to build.

Experience

Jagriti yatra

Fellow

Nov 2025 – Nov 2025 · 0 mo · India · On-site

▪︎ Selected with a scholarship amongst 525 Yatris from 70,889 applicants (0.7% selection rate).
▪︎ Jagriti Yatra is World's largest entrepreneurial train journey, a 15-day, 8000-km entrepreneurship train journey to inspire youth (21-27 years) to become entrepreneurs.
▪︎ Won BGT (Biz-Gyaan-Tree), a competition within the Yatra, to collaborate with your team (allocated randomly) to solve a problem for the Middle India while having a business model & a revenue model, all while being on a moving train.

Cie iiit hyderabad

Cohort Founder

Jan 2025 – Jun 2025 · 5 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India · On-site

▪︎ Selected for Avishkar by CIE, IIIT Hyderabad (Deeptech Accelerator).
▪︎ Part of an utra-exclusive cohort of Top 4 Startups
▪︎ Backed & Funded by CIE, IIIT Hyderabad
▪︎ Accelerating our Mediatech roadmap with IIITH research experts to scale our tech stack.

Iit jodhpur, rajasthan

Research Intern

Jun 2024 – Aug 2024 · 2 mos · IIT Jodhpur · On-site

▪︎ Researched & worked on the newest AI/ ML research in 3D Computer Vision & Extended Reality (XR).
▪︎ Experimented & worked with the SOTA for Gaussian Splatting & Neural Surface Reconstruction for 3D models.
▪︎ Worked with iHub Drishti, India's leading institution for research in Computer Vision, Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality & Mixed Reality.

Nsrcel

Incubatee | IIM Bangalore

May 2024 – Mar 2025 · 10 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

▪︎ Selected for the Campus Founders cohort 2 consisting of 18 startups across India.
▪︎ Part of an exclusive cohort of young startup founders, domain experts & IIM Bangalore mentors.
▪︎ Graduated from the cohort as one of the cohort's Top 3 startups and was awarded a grant for the same.

T-hub

Portfolio startup | T-Hub

Feb 2024 – Jul 2024 · 5 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India · Hybrid

▪︎ Selected for the Rubrix program which has a staggering 3.89% acceptance rate.
▪︎ Building a deep-tech MVP (with pilot) under 100 days.
▪︎ Part of an exclusive community of startups, domain experts & industry mentors.
▪︎ Learning & building cool stuff!

Aurax

Founder & CEO

Jul 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 8 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India · On-site

Chief Everything Officer, working everyday from R&D to sales.
AuraX is an AI SaaS platform for brands to generate visual marketing assets - social media & catalogue ready shoots, ads, photos & videos that drive sales. 3x better, 10x faster!

Start-up LeadershipBusiness StrategyBusiness Intelligence (BI)EntrepreneurshipProduct Management

Xartup

2 roles

Alumni & community member

Mar 2023 – Feb 2024 · 11 mos · India

Xartup Fellow | Cohort 9 & 11

Aug 2022 – Mar 2023 · 7 mos · India

▪︎ Selected 2 times for the Xartup Fellowship in the Aug'22 & Oct'22 cohort.
▪︎ The cohort was mentored by experienced entrepreneurs including YC Alumni.
▪︎ Built MVPs and lean MVPs for a variety of ideas.
▪︎ My plan was evaluated to be worth $20,50,000 using the Berkus Method.
▪︎ Awarded 200,000$ in Technical credits for startup acceleration.
▪︎ Worked on actionable insights from the AARRR framework to logically drive the growth of the startups by monitoring several aspects of growth and value parameters.

Centre for social entrepreneurship and development

Senior Core Member

Dec 2022 – Jul 2024 · 1 yr 7 mos · Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India · On-site

▪︎ Worked with a team of passionate young people to organise events with social entrepreneurship as the center piece - bigger, better and valuable.
▪︎ Organised competitions with key focus on Social Entrepreneurship.

Campus express

Growth & Strategy

Nov 2022 – Mar 2023 · 4 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

▪︎ I directed Growth and sales for the Vellore division.
▪︎ I established a customer base of over 40,000+ students.
▪︎ I managed, executed & sponsored my college's largest fest as the representative of Campus Express in the first semester.
▪︎ I set direction & executed the B2B sales & marketing teams to increase market share & achieve common goals.

Collegestuff

Co-Founder (Now Shut Down)

Sep 2022 – Apr 2023 · 7 mos · India

Built CollegeStuff in 1st semester of college. We offered student discounts over 250+ brands to 80k+ students every month & generated a revenue of $6500 before we shut it down.

Instagram

Social Media Strategist

Aug 2022 – Jun 2024 · 1 yr 10 mos · India · Hybrid

▪︎ Started the tradition of introduction pages in my college to solve the problem of 7,000+ freshers getting to know each other, since then every batch has upheld this tradition.
▪︎ Built the college's most happening page on Instagram which crossed 14 million views, 4,500+ followers and maintained a 310% engagement rate based on impressions.
▪︎ Partnered with local brands and startups in Vellore to help them reach young audiences more effectively.
▪︎ Managed a community of 20,000+ students across Instagram & WhatsApp.

Blogspot.com

Blogger

May 2017 – Jul 2017 · 2 mos

▪︎ Started my blog at age 13 during summer breaks.
▪︎ Extensively covered topics around Negativity, Self doubt, Who am I, The joy of life etc.
▪︎ Blogged at rahulniketkhatri.blogspot.com