Darpan Sanghvi — Co-Founder

Hey, I’m Darpan. I’ve built a Unicorn. I’ve also watched a company I loved fall apart. Both changed me. Both also gave me a life defining experience and now a singular purpose - to help others build. I started my first venture at 20. And now at 46, I have restarted again with CoFounder Circle, an AI-native acceleration platform to help founders and MSMEs go from idea to IPO (and everything in between). What does that mean - we are building a Y Combinator without Walls and on top of AI In my 26 years of entrepreneurial journey, I have: - raised $250M+ from folks such as Warburg Pincus, Accel, Bessemer, L'Occitane, Amazon - know the ins and outs of how to pitch, choose the right investor, negotiate a balanced SHA and repeat - a record 11 acquisitions in <1 year - and the scars that remind me to integrate before we accelerate - created a DTC engine from 0 to 18M orders/year, and the late nights fixing what broke at scale - hired 1200+ teammates in one quarter, and the humbling lessons in culture that you can't buy and what too much hiring too quickly can do to execution - from Rs 50cr to Rs 650cr in net revenue in 2 years, then facing hard truths when momentum hid fragility - built 1Billion+ monthly organic impressions across a content creator ecosystem but also the reminder that attention ≠ retention - US launch across 680 Ulta Beauty stores, and the reality of building in an international market that you dont know as well as yours - JVs and partnerships with icons like Serena Williams, Karan Johar, Manish Malhotra, Shraddha Kapoor - what works and what doesn't I don’t have all the answers. I do have the playbooks, the pitfalls, and the humility to say “here’s what I’d do differently.” That’s why we accelerate and incubate companies through CoFounder Circle and I also coach as a Judge & Mentor on “Pitch To Get Rich” (hosted by Karan Johar, alongside Manish Malhotra, Malaika Arora, Akshay Kumar, Saif Ali Khan and more). If you’re building, I’d love to help. Sign up on www.cofoundercircle.ai and if you have the time fill out the Pitch Tank application on CoFounder Circle. It will help me understand your business fully. I read all submissions personally. If you’ve failed, you’re in good company. If you’ve shipped, you’re in rare company. If you’re ready to learn fast and build something honest, my DMs are always open. Let’s get you compounding.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a B2C SaaS entrepreneur with extensive experience in scaling startups and building strategic partnerships.

Location: Singapore, Singapore

Experience: 19 yrs 6 mos