Abhishek Bajaj

Co-Founder

Pune, Maharashtra, India15 yrs 5 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Expert in Go-to-Market strategies for startups.
Mentors early-stage founders with actionable frameworks.
Co-created a widely-read newsletter for founders and VCs.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and startup growth strategist with extensive experience in B2B markets.

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Skills

Core Skills

Go-to-market StrategyBusiness StrategySaas SalesCustomer AcquisitionBusiness Growth Strategies

Other Skills

Strategic PartnershipsNew Market ExpansionBusiness Unit ManagementCross-functional Team LeadershipB2B CommerceConsultative SellingProblem SolvingBusiness-to-Business (B2B)Customer EngagementProduct LaunchCustomer RetentionB2B Marketing StrategyBusiness Process ImprovementKey Account Acquisition & RetentionStrategic Leadership

About

I work with Startups and Early Stage founders, to crack their GTM playbook, navigating tough pivots, or building clarity around scale. At Amberstudent, I lead strategy and GTM, working across global partnerships, business priorities, and Launching New Territories. It's a hands-on role in a fast-moving team, and it keeps me grounded in execution. In parallel, I mentor founders through 2080VC’s programs, where I support early-stage teams with actionable frameworks, narrative sharpening, and building leverage. It’s part operating partner, part sounding board. To open up these lessons beyond 1:1s, I write Beyond: a weekly newsletter breaking down startup wins, failures, and legacies. Read by 10K+ founders, VCs, and operators, it’s my attempt at creating media with depth, not dopamine. Right now, I'm focused on: – Consolidating New Regions GTM Playbook, at Amberstudent to drive in sync with BAU. – Scaling Beyond into a community-led founder resource.

Experience

Beyond stack ai

Co-Creator at Beyond Newsletter

Nov 2023 – Oct 2025 · 1 yr 11 mos · India · Remote

There are very few avenues for Operators to interact with each other and that is the very reason i collaborated with Timur( Managing Partner of 2080 Ventures) to co-create and publish Beyond Newsletter.
I co-built, a weekly GTM and strategy brief that grew to 13,000+ founders, operators, and VCs.
It took off because we decoded why companies actually win, stall, or implode, turning real operating patterns from my GTM work at Amber and my mentoring at 2080 VC into usable, no-fluff playbooks.
Beyond became a quiet operator channel with an unusually high operator audience (54% founders, 32% Operators and 14% VCs). We distilled unfiltered insights from the field into fast, founder-ready frameworks used in sales offsites, portfolio reviews, and strategy resets.
I stopped writing in October, but Beyond remains proof of how Industry thinks: pattern recognition, GTM systems, and clear operator judgment.

Amber

Associate Director - Global Supply Partnerships

Jul 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 9 mos · Pune, Maharashtra, India

Long-term accommodation booking platform for international students aka booking.com for student housing.
AmberStudent (https://amberstudent.com) helps 5MM+ students traveling abroad for education to book full-time accommodations near top universities across the globe, without the hassle of negotiation, non-standardised and cumbersome paperwork and broken payment process. Currently the platform is used by 8M+ students yearly. Targeting $1 Billion in gross bookings value in the next 12 months.Long-term accommodation booking platform for international students aka booking.com for student housing. AmberStudent (https://amberstudent.com) helps 5MM+ students traveling abroad for education to book full-time accommodations near top universities across the globe, without the hassle of negotiation, non-standardised and cumbersome paperwork and broken payment process.

Strategic PartnershipsNew Market ExpansionGo-to-Market StrategyBusiness Unit ManagementBusiness StrategyCross-functional Team Leadership+1

2080 ventures

Mentor - Startup GTM

Mar 2023 – Present · 3 yrs 1 mo · India

2080 Ventures is a venture capital accelerator focusing on emerging markets.
2080 Ventures provides top-tier startup acceleration tailored to the local markets, leveraging managing partners' backgrounds at global accelerators like Techstars and 500 Global, as well as experience in startups, investments, and exits — 2 startup exits (1 IPO, 1 M&A).
Partners have also invested in 3 unicorns (Animoca Brands, SpaceX, Cerebras) and as many as 20+ early and growth-stage companies.

Infeedo

Sr. Account Director

May 2022 – Jul 2023 · 1 yr 2 mos · Pune, Maharashtra, India

In 2016, Infeedo set out on a mission to make 100 million employees heard and valued. Today we’re Asia’s leading employee experience platform that helps engage employees, predict attrition & answer FAQs with conversational AI that people love!
As a Chief Listening Officer, our A.I. bot Amber helps people-first leaders find hidden gaps in their culture, managers and wellbeing in real time. Spanning across 60 countries, our customers include MNCs like Samsung, Xiaomi, Lenovo, conglomerates like TATA, Godrej, Bharti and unicorns like Unacademy, Paytm, OYO.
We’re backed by Tiger Global, Jungle Ventures, Y Combinator, Bling Capital and the founders of Gainsight, Freshworks, Zeta, Lenskart, innov8. And we're hiring.

SaaS SalesBusiness StrategyConsultative SellingProblem SolvingCross-functional Team LeadershipBusiness-to-Business (B2B)

Iln

EIR- GTM & Growth (CEO office)

Jul 2021 – May 2022 · 10 mos · New York, United States · Remote

ILN makes productivity come easy to GenX and Gen Z.. We make it happen through algo backed environment, to facilitate natural connections for people to become successful, around common Goals and Ideas.
Driving user aqcuistion and user retention strategies across 8 territories.
Registered 8000 users within just the pilot alpha itself.
Engagement strategies with users on Social Media

Business StrategyCustomer AcquisitionCustomer EngagementStrategic PartnershipsProduct LaunchSaaS Sales+1

Aik

Co-Founder (Exited)

Aug 2020 – May 2022 · 1 yr 9 mos · Pune, Maharashtra, India

AIk is the digitalization Partner for Manufacturing in Emerging Markets.
We are like your cognitive twin to access and monitor factory operations, we deploy Machine learning to bring out the best in Manufacturing and marketplace operations.
We empower Manufacturers with real-time data to Maximize Profits, Reduce Costs and Increase their Business.

Customer AcquisitionNew Market ExpansionBusiness Growth StrategiesCustomer RetentionProduct LaunchSaaS Sales+1