Ankur Bagchi

Co-Founder

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India10 yrs 1 mo experience
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Key Highlights

  • Founder of India's largest venture studio.
  • Led product design for a top dating app.
  • Expert in early-stage startup acceleration.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and Fintech expert with a strong focus on product design and startup growth.

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Skills

Core Skills

Venture CapitalEarly-stage Startups

Other Skills

Strategic ConsultingFundraisingProduct InnovationSocial MediaProduct DevelopmentNew Business DevelopmentProduct DesignEntrepreneurshipSmall Business ManagementAdobe PhotoshopFigmaExecutive Leadership

About

My thoughts on humanity and the universe: ▹ Humanity is young, we have made many mistakes, learnt a lot but we are on an incredible path. We are the youngest, most precocious child of the cosmos. ▹ The appreciation of culture, of beauty, of happiness - is what gives meaning to abundance. A universe devoid of feeling is devoid of meaning. ▹ It is a noble endeavor to seek knowledge and mastery of the world around us, with care that befits our legacy of love, faith and white-hot passion. ▹ It is possible to transcend our current limitations and find abundance through acceleration. It is also possible for our race to irreparably damage ourselves in our quest to godhood. Here are some mantras I live by: 1. Magic is only found in the space between people. 2. Optimism is the most effective framework for life. 3. Change only comes through action. 4. Honesty delivered with kindness is the greatest gift you can give. 5. Serve humanity.

Experience

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Founder

Sep 2024Present · 1 yr 7 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Remote

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Founding Team

Jul 2024Present · 1 yr 9 mos · United States · Remote

  • Building live chat for influencers!

Untalk

Founding Team

Jun 2024Present · 1 yr 10 mos · United States · Remote

  • Building AI voice assistants for golf, retail and more.

Vinita - south asian dating

Advisor

Feb 2024Present · 2 yrs 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Remote

  • Advising the South Asian dating app Vinita with product, strategy and roadmap.

Weekend

Founder

May 2022Sep 2022 · 4 mos · San Francisco, California, United States

  • Founded Weekend, a platform that enables folks to find local friends and community based on personality & interests.
  • Had a round of $1M+ committed.
  • Got 12k+ signups with no marketing budget.
  • Designed and released an app on iOS and Android, that peaked at 400 DAU in San Francisco.

Dil mil

Product Design Lead

Sep 2021Jun 2022 · 9 mos · San Francisco, California, United States

  • Led Product Design at Dil Mil, the world's largest South Asian dating app with over 15 million users.
  • Led the ideation & development of Mil & Chill Live, the first live social feature in a mainstream dating app. Mil & Chill has seen an average engagement of 6.5 minutes per user, on par with a session of Instagram scrolling.
  • Unified the Dil Mil brand to create a more cohesive identity across social, web, app and customer support experiences. Increased NPS & user sentiment significantly.
  • Reworked the matching algorithm, leading to more than a 40% increase in matches for new users.
  • Overhauled the onboarding flow and introduced a quest system to facilitate swiping for new users. Improved the onboarding funnel conversion rate by 8%, and saw a 95% completion rate for early quests.
  • Implemented product-led growth strategies to launch new markets, such as incentive based share systems and profile sharing.

Deserve

Product & Brand Designer

Feb 2021Sep 2021 · 7 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Worked with the design lead at Deserve, a turnkey credit card company that provides underwriting and software solutions to the credit card stack to clients such as BlockFi, the world’s first crypto credit card.
  • Designed branding guidelines for multiple co-brand partners adopting the card, including BlockFi, OppFi, Seneca Women and many others.
  • Improved the design system and various flows associated with the digital card experience such as onboarding, the desktop experience and payments.

Ellenox

Founder

Jan 2021Present · 5 yrs 3 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

  • Ellenox is India’s largest venture studio in the making. We're doing a bunch of things:
  • Investing into AI startups in India at the pre-seed stage, specifically into AI pipeline enablement
  • Accelerating early-stage startups, and providing them everything they need from funding to on-ground support
  • MVP, product development, design and branding lab for international startups
  • AI strategy and building autonomous agents for corporations
Early-Stage StartupsVenture CapitalStrategic Consulting

Ondot systems, inc.

Lead Product Designer

Nov 2019Feb 2021 · 1 yr 3 mos · Santa Clara, California, United States

  • Led product design for Card App, a B2B card services app used by 4,000+ banks and credit unions across USA. Ondot Systems was acquired by Fiservin Jan 2021.
  • Built the design system component library using atomic design principles.
  • Led the design of the HTML and SDK variants of the mobile-native Card App. This product vertical was important in securing multiple clients for Ondot.
  • Led various Card App journeys including:
  • ◦ Credit card payment flows: Designed the complete experience for making credit card payments, setting up autopay and generally tracking the status of your payments.
  • ◦ App-wide accessibility support: Making the app WCAG 2.1 AA compliant across the board.
  • Iteratively designed flows and feature improvements in 2-week journeys to improve product discovery and engagement metrics, including:
  • ◦ App rating prompts: Providing app rating prompts during moments of delight to increase average rating on the App Store & Play Store. App rating increased from 2.5 to 2.8 in a month after launch.
  • ◦ Dynamic onboarding: Created an onboarding experience for card users to go through setting up and customizing their card preferences, in order to increase discoverability of card control features.
  • ◦ Transaction details & notifications: Creating a cleaner interface for viewing the transaction list and details, as well as friendly notifications when you perform a transaction.
  • ◦ Home page visual uplift: Creating a cleaner user interface for the home page.

Rbc

UX Designer / Developer

Feb 2017Nov 2019 · 2 yrs 9 mos · Greater Orlando

  • Redesigned the RBC Wallet, an app with 150,000+ active users. Worked on various other experimental projects at the RBC Innovation Lab.
  • Overhauled the RBC Wallet application to add new payment andbanking functionalities, such as peer to peer payments, digital cardsand budgeting.
  • Created a new design system for the RBC Wallet.
  • Introduced design sprints to the larger team.
  • Worked in pods to create KPI driven journeys for RBC wallet.
  • Created the information architecture and high fidelity designs for several internal dashboards.

Games2win india pvt ltd

Game Developer & Designer

Aug 2014Jul 2015 · 11 mos · Mumbai Metropolitan Region

  • Designed for and developed several games for iOS and Android, of which some were showcased on the weekly top list on the App Store. The games I worked on had a combined total of 8 million monthly players
  • Worked on several flagship games such as Fashion Diva, Parking Frenzy and T20 Cricket.
  • Designed the scoring system for Fashion Diva, taking into account the complexities of combining different types of fashion.
  • Introduced haptic feedback and animations for game menus across the platform, increasing engagement.
  • Created dynamic animations and particle effects for various games.

Education

University of Florida

Master's degree — Computer Science

Jan 2015Jan 2017

University of Mumbai

Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) — Computer Engineering

Jan 2010Jan 2014

The Cathedral and John Connon School

High School — Computer Science

Jan 2000Jan 2010

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