Sachin Chhabra

Founder

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India16 yrs 3 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Founder of two successful startups.
Scaled operations to ₹50 Cr GTV in under a year.
Expert in building infrastructure for underserved markets.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS entrepreneur focused on the gig economy and marketplace solutions.

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Skills

Core Skills

Customer RetentionGig EconomyOnline Marketplace

Other Skills

FundraisingHR TransformationCustomer DevelopmentOrganizational EffectivenessLeadership DevelopmentEmployee EngagementBusiness StrategyStart-upsHuman ResourcesCRMStrategyBusiness AnalysisVendor ManagementPerformance ManagementTalent Acquisition

About

I am the Founder & CEO of Marketplace Company, building the infrastructure for India’s 100 million migrant workers. Our AI-native super app, Nia, integrates jobs, housing, meals, healthcare, essentials, and financial services, converting a fragmented workforce into a retained and monetizable ecosystem. In less than a year, we have scaled to ₹50 Cr GTV,, 3,000+ active workers, 20% MoM growth, 70% retention, and a 20%+ take rate. Previously, I founded Peel-Works, where I raised ₹150 Cr from Tier-A VCs and built digital products that brought kirana stores and blue-collar workers into India’s mainstream economy. Over the past 14 years, we have scaled across multiple states, served thousands of outlets, and developed SaaS solutions for underserved markets. When COVID-19 disrupted kirana retail and offline distribution, Peel-Works was wound down — but the experience taught me valuable lessons in unit economics, resilience, and infrastructural fragility. Those learnings directly shaped Marketplace Company’s design, with a sharper focus on retention, channel control, and defensibility. My career began at Unilever, where I spent 14 years in various roles, including HR, sales, and distribution, ultimately becoming a General Manager. Over the past 25 years, my work has been characterized by building at scale, raising capital with discipline, and executing in high-velocity environments. My purpose remains clear: to make migration humane by giving workers security, savings, and dignity, while building infrastructure that platforms cannot scale without.

Experience

Nia.one

Founder and CEO

Oct 2024 – Present · 1 yr 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

Delivering integrated rails: jobs, housing, meals, healthcare, essentials, finance. Scaled to ₹50 Cr GTV in under a year with 20% MoM growth, 70% retention, 20%+ take rate.
Goal: expand to 100K workers in 48 months.

Gig EconomyCustomer Retention

Career break

Travel

Aug 2024 – Sep 2024 · 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

A lot has happened over the last 28 working years. Most good, some awful.
It is time to take a few moments from the busy schedules before restarting a month or so later. I need this time to reconnect with the extended family, think about the fun college days, and meet up with those souls—the souls who would buy a combination of Sams, Gjams, and Nimbu Paanis in hot, sweltering Delhi summer for 5 INR. The INR 12.50/—monthly U Special Pass except for the days when I was allowed to ride to college.
The joy of being with extended social circuits in festivals. The joy of life. Some have gone unnoticed and unacknowledged while I was busy with my professional pursuits.
It is the right time to take a month or two out.
And breathe.

Peel-works outsourcing pvt. ltd.

Founder

Aug 2010 – Jul 2024 · 13 yrs 11 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Raised ₹150 Cr from Tier-A VCs; scaled across multiple states & thousands of kirana outlets.
Built SaaS + digital products for kirana stores and blue-collar workers.
Wound down during COVID due to offline retail disruption.
Lessons: importance of retention, infra control, and defensible unit economics — foundations applied to Marketplace Company.

Gig EconomyOnline Marketplace

Unilever

2 roles

Variety of roles

Apr 1997 – Jul 2010 · 13 yrs 3 mos

Unilever is one of the best places to start a career. The company has a unique way of blending processes and autonomy that only some entities can achieve. I interned with them for the summer of 1995 and received a pre-placement offer to join them as a management trainee.
My career took a significant turn when I transitioned from a 4-year stint in human resources at manufacturing sites to a cross-functional role in Sales and Distribution. This move was a game-changer, providing me with invaluable insights into business, distribution, and brand management, and highlighting the importance of interdependence in driving growth and profitability.
After my sales stint, I continued to enable the sales and marketing teams in India from the people practice standpoint.
For two years, I ran corporate HR, and with the passionate young team I oversaw, we relaunched their employer brand to move from 9th to 2nd in a year's timeframe (Nielsen scores). In 2008, I became the youngest General Manager HUL had produced.
In 2009, after my HR transformation stint, during which we handed over HR operations to Accenture, I began to feel restless. HR head jobs came along, but I needed to do something else—something that few were doing in 2010.
To venture out.