Shivam Malhotra

Co-Founder

New Delhi, Delhi, India3 yrs experience

Key Highlights

  • Founded one of India's largest student communities.
  • Acquired 37,000 jobseekers in 100 days with mauka.
  • Philip Kotler Awardee for Best Youth Media Platform.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Marketing and Entrepreneurship expert with a focus on youth engagement and startup growth.

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About

Shivam Malhotra is a serial entrepreneur, an independent consultant and a startup mentor. He earlier built one of India's largest student communities at DU Express - India's leading college news platform that he founded during his undergrad days at Delhi College of Arts & Commerce itself. His work at DU Express made him receive the Philip Kotler Award 2020 under the category 'Best Youth Media Platform'. He later went on to build mauka - a linkedin like product for India's blue-grey collar workers backed by 100X.VC. He has also worked as an independent consultant to startups across seed to Series A stage in the domain of Robotics, Blockchain & Social backed by marquee global investors. He loves mentoring youngsters who are looking to startup and has been a mentor to many such ideas at Techstars Startup Weekend by Google for Startups, Delhi Government's Business Blasters, Young Business Tycoons Challenge, etc. He recommends everyone to startup early in their life especially to youngsters instead of choosing career options which currently are where the internet was in the 90's. He regularly speaks about his journey, his learnings & his experiences at multiple events promoting entrepreneurship among youngsters. Apart from being a full time workaholic, he's a bigtime foodie, a full blown Netflix addict and a 24x7 chatterbox discussing life & business in general. Feel free to DM him if you love discussing business ideas/life in general or feel he could be of help to your business.

Experience

Zorry

Co-Founder

Oct 2025Present · 5 mos · New Delhi · On-site

  • Building a modern fashion accessories brand for Indian gen-z and millennials. Starting with everyday fashion jewellery as the first core category.

The youth central (tyc)

Founder

May 2025Present · 10 mos · New Delhi, Delhi, India

  • TYC is basically the cooler, sharper extension of what I started with DU Express but laser-focused on one thing - connecting brands with Gen-Z.
  • Think of us as the bridge between brands of today and the consumers of tomorrow (aka right now!).
  • We cook up smart, culture driven outreach - both on-ground & online to make sure your brand actually clicks with young audiences.
  • We live and breathe all things youth:
  • Campus activations & pop-ups
  • UGC, viral campaigns & social buzz
  • Real-world + digital integrations
  • Youth insights that shape strategies
  • If you’re a brand looking to break into campuses, win over Gen-Z, or just want to revamp your current youth outreach efforts then please drop a “Hi” - always up for a quick chat!

Counter culture foods

Founder

Sep 2023Dec 2025 · 2 yrs 3 mos · New Delhi, Delhi, India · On-site

  • Managed end to end business operations. Launched 4 brands - Broma, Chow Story, Noodle Doodle & Pizzaro. Over 50,000 orders delivered from one location.

Multiple startups

Independent Consultant

Jan 2023Jul 2023 · 6 mos · New Delhi, Delhi, India · Remote

  • Working part time as a consultant with founders across multiple industries - Edtech, Robotics, Consumer Internet and Gen-AI. My roles and responsibilities revolve around GTM, Product Strategy, Fundraising, Community, Growth & Marketing.
  • If you're a founder and feel I could be of help in what you're building - feel free to DM :)

Career break

Health and well-being

May 2022Dec 2022 · 7 mos

  • 6 years of continous hustle and no break in between really forced me to take some time off and introspect things. More of a figuring out life and myself phase.

Mauka®

Founder

Sep 2020Apr 2022 · 1 yr 7 mos · New Delhi

  • Raised pre-seed from 100x as part of its Class 02. Part of the Social Impact Accelerator at Indian School of Business. Pivoted from building Pracify to building mauka in July 2021 after the initial idea couldn't really hit off the way it was expected to due to after effects of Covid-19. Launched the product (mauka) in November 2021 and acquired 37,000 jobseekers & 600 employers within 100 days of launch. Had to shut down operations due to lack of funds. Led all areas of Product, Marketing, Design & Growth as a single founder with an extremely small team (~5 people). Lots of learning, lots of unlearning, saw a very different side of the startup ecosystem that I wasn't privy to earlier and happy that I embarked on this journey even though I couldn't take it where I wanted to. Extremely grateful to the whole 100x team & my team members who believed in the mission and supported me throughout.

University of delhi - cic (centre for science education & entrepreneurship)

Summer Training in Innovation & Entrepreneurship

Jun 2016Jul 2016 · 1 mo · New Delhi, Delhi, India

  • Was selected among 30 individuals out of a pool of 300 applicants. This was back then when entrepreneurship wasn't cool, most people didn't even know what startups meant (even people of my own age) and my family thought I was wasting my time spending few hours daily on attending sessions. Fortunately, it helped me in some way to believe that I can become an Entrepreneur (full-time) if I want, thanks to the lovely people who came there and shared their journey. It was a summer well spent and I'm really grateful for this experience because next year same time, I somehow managed the guts to reject an MBA admission offer, a campus placement at a Big4 firm and go against my family who wasn't very supportive of the decision I took back then :)

Mindler

Research Analyst & Content Developer

Dec 2015Feb 2016 · 2 mos · New Delhi, Delhi

  • Sadly, the only employment history I have in a career spanning 7 years. Worked with an amazing set of people before the product was even launched and there's a good chance that some of the work I did is still in use.

Du express

Founder

Jun 2015Aug 2020 · 5 yrs 2 mos · New Delhi Area, India

  • Passion project turned into a reason to reject MBA admit/campus placement which later turned into a full time activity and ended up becoming one of the largest student communities in India. Worked with over 70 brands. 200K combined social media followers on Facebook & Instagram. 20 Million+ lifetime website views. Broke into Top 5,000 websites in India & Top 50,000 websites globally at one time. Access to over 600 college campuses pan India. Built great team of college students year & year who are doing great work now - working at top media houses/MNC's, studying at top institutes like MICA, IIM, JNU, etc and many even started up (one of them recently made it to YC). Won the Philip Kotler Award as well in 2020 under the category 'Best Youth Media Platform'. All in all, grateful that I started this and said no to that MBA & job offer 🙏🏻

Education

Delhi College Of Arts and Commerce

Bachelor of Commerce - BCom

Jan 2014Jan 2017

University of Delhi - CIC (Centre for Science Education & Entrepreneurship)

Summer Training in Innovation & Entrepreneurship

Jan 2016Jan 2016

Startup School Online

YC Startup School Certified — Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies

Jan 2020Jan 2020

Manav Sthali School - India

All India Senior School Certificate Examination - AISSCE CBSE — Commerce

Jan 2012Jan 2014

Maharaja Agarsain Public School

All India Secondary School Examination - AISSE CBSE

Jan 2011Jan 2012

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