Anant Kulkarni — Founder
I am building DishaDarshi — an evidence-led career guidance platform for Class 9–12 students in India, under FuturePath Labs. The idea came from my own experience. I grew up in Nanded, Marathwada, and like many students, made important academic choices without any structured guidance to rely on. Years later — after working across industries, countries, and functions — I kept seeing the same gap: students making high-stakes stream and career decisions without access to credible, unbiased, context-fit support. That observation, backed by sustained research, became DishaDarshi. DishaDarshi combines structured psychometric assessments, expert counselling, and an AI guide to help students move from confusion to clarity — especially at the stream selection stage (Class 9–10) and early career direction stage (Class 11–12). We work with schools as a guidance partner as well. Before this, I spent close to three years at the National Pension System Trust (a Government of India autonomous body) in a senior marketing role — leading pan-India advertising and subscriber education campaigns. Before NPS Trust, I worked with the Tolaram Group in Nigeria, managing sales, distribution, and market development across multiple FMCG categories in a cross-cultural, high-pressure environment. I was among the highest-placed students from IIM Sambalpur's second graduating batch — the institute's formative years, when everything was being built from scratch. I have also taught MBA students, mentored early-stage startups, and informally guided students on career decisions across the years. I am currently based in Nanded and building FuturePath Labs (DishaDarshi) full-time. If you work in education, career guidance, psychometrics, school partnerships, or EdTech — or if you are a school leader, counsellor, or parent thinking about this space — I would be glad to connect. 📩 anant.kulkarni@dishadarshi.com | 🌐 https://www.dishadarshi.com/
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Location: Nanded, Maharashtra, India
Experience: 7 yrs
Skills
- Career Guidance
- Entrepreneurship
- Business Development
- Marketing
- Media Marketing
- Subscriber Education
- Teaching
- Mentoring
- Sales Management
- Market Development
Career Highlights
- Founder of an innovative career guidance platform.
- Led national marketing campaigns for a government initiative.
- Extensive experience in sales and market development.
Work Experience
DishaDarshi
Founder (2 mos)
Bhavarth Kathak Arts Space
Co-Founder & Director (1 yr)
National Pension System Trust
Manager - Media Marketing and Subscriber Education (2 yrs 8 mos)
Multiple engagements
Educator & Startup Mentor (10 mos)
MIDAS School of Entrepreneurship
Guiding Mentor (2 mos)
Rajgad Institute of Management, Research & Development, Pune
Assistant Professor (6 mos)
Tolaram Group
Management Trainee (2 mos)
Area Sales Manager (3 yrs 3 mos)
Patanjali Ayurved Limited.
Summer Intern (2 mos)
Education
Master’s Degree at Indian Institute of Management Sambalpur
Engineer’s Degree at Savitribai Phule Pune University
HSC (Intermediate) at Shri Fattechand Jain Junior College
10th at Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, Latur
