Dec 2025 – Present · 5 mos

• Author of SICK NATION: Inside India’s Lifestyle Disease Epidemic and How to Fix It.
• Sick Nation confronts India's metabolic epidemic by exposing its root cause—insulin resistance—and offering a proactive blueprint to fix it.

Oct 2023 – Aug 2024 · 10 mos · Berlin, Berlin, Germany

• Supporting the corporate venture-building arm of the world’s largest food company with an incubation and spinoff of a nutrition startup. Responsible for building the business case, go-to-market, fundraising, branding, and marketing.
• About the company:
• OLEUS is a sports supplement startup incubated by the world's largest food company. OLEUS has developed a range of scientifically formulated products for endurance athletes to help increase their energy levels and performance.

Jan 2023 – Present · 3 yrs 4 mos · Berlin, Germany · Remote

• Sweetreactions.ai is an AI-powered meal-optimization app that helps you keep enjoying your favorite meals — from rice and roti to pasta or street-food — while minimizing post-meal blood sugar spikes.
• Built on a proprietary dataset of hundreds of real CGM-tested foods, data-backed sequencing hacks, ingredient swaps, and preparation methods that significantly reduce glucose spikes—allowing users to fix their metabolic health without restrictive dieting.

May 2019 – May 2022 · 3 yrs

• German Accelerator supports high-potential German startups in successfully entering the U.S. and Southeast Asian markets. It's supported by the German Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi).
• As an Ambassador, Karan provides help to German startups that seek for international success.

Sep 2017 – Sep 2023 · 6 yrs · Berlin Area, Germany

• As CMO and Co-founder, Karan plays a strategic and tactical role in the company. Mainly focused on building a consumer brand that lives at the intersection of tech, lifestyle, and wellness. He is responsible for marketing, brand, go-to-market planning, customer success, establishing a direct-to-consumer subscription business model, and supporting the company's fundraising efforts.
• About the company:
• Mitte is a consumer hardware company building sustainable solutions to provide healthy hydration. Mitte's first product is a consumer device that can turn plain tap water into mineralized water at home.
• Mitte is backed by Danone Manifesto Ventures, VisVires New Protein Capital, Kärcher New Venture, and Atlantic Labs.

Sep 2016 – Sep 2017 · 1 yr · Bengaluru Area, India

• As the first CMO at Razorpay, Karan built the marketing organization and B2B Enterprise Marketing competencies like brand awareness, product marketing, demand generation, and sales enablement. During his time there, Razorpay's merchant base grew exponentially to over 80,000 companies.
• About the company:
• Razorpay is one of the fastest-growing fintech companies that provides payment solutions to online merchants in India. It's backed by YCombinator, Tiger Global, GIC, Sequoia, and Mastercard.

May 2015 – May 2016 · 1 yr · Bengaluru Area, India

• Karan was the first Head of Marketing for OnePlus, where he helped the company sell more than a million devices in the first year. In this role, Karan oversaw the management of OnePlus brand, including consumer insights, digital marketing, creative development, agency management, experiential marketing, media, and PR.
• About the company:
• OnePlus is one of the hottest direct-to-consumer brands that has been able to successfully go head-to-head with incumbents like Apple and Samsung in the premium smartphone category.

Dec 2013 – Apr 2015 · 1 yr 4 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• As a Director of B2B Enterprise Business, Karan had full P&L responsibility for two categories — B2B business and Gift Cards. He led a cross-functional team of account managers, sales specialists, marketers, and operation executives. During his time, he scaled up both the business from the ground up to multi-million dollar categories.
• About the company:
• Flipkart is India's biggest eCommerce marketplace that was acquired by Walmart for $16 billion in 2018.

Jan 2012 – Nov 2013 · 1 yr 10 mos · New Delhi Area, India

• As a CEO and Co-founder, Karan was involved in every aspect of building the company — from initial product development to go-to-market strategy to setting up an enterprise and inside sales team. The company was acquihired after two years.
• About the company:
• Perkylane is a SaaS platform for managing employee perks that aimed to fundamentally alter the way SMBs recognize and reward talent.

Nov 2009 – Jan 2012 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Greater Boston Area

• As Director of International Sales, Karan had the responsibility for developing and implementing BRIDGE Energy Group's sales strategy in international markets to achieve the company's business objectives. During his time at BRIDGE, he received formal training on Sandler's Consultative Sales Methodology and directly acquired the first three international customers with an average deal size of $500,000.
• About the company:
• BRIDGE Energy Group is a boutique consulting and systems integration company, focused exclusively on the Utility industry. BRIDGE offers business and IT transformation strategy planning as well as program management and implementation services in support of Smart Grid initiatives.

Apr 2008 – Nov 2009 · 1 yr 7 mos · Hartford, Connecticut Area

• Rebelfone, specializes in managing the international roaming cost for business & leisure travelers worldwide. Having strong tie ups with more than 40 mobile carriers around the world, Rebelfone provides temporary local cell phone hire to international travelers. Backed by a team of telecom experts, best in breed partners and a superior technology infrastructure Rebelfone caters to a diverse clientele: from individual leisure travelers to Fortune 500 companies and the government administrations.

Oct 2007 – Apr 2008 · 6 mos · Noida Area, India

• NextBrick Solutions is a technology services firm that provides consulting services focused on enterprise and web content infrastructure, portals, and application development. NextBrick is a privately held corporation headquartered in Silicon Valley.

Jun 2006 – Oct 2007 · 1 yr 4 mos · Gurgaon, India

• WNS is a leading global business process outsourcing company. Deep industry and business process knowledge, a partnership approach, comprehensive service offerings and a proven track record enables us to deliver business value to the world's leading companies.

Jan 2002 – May 2006 · 4 yrs 4 mos · Gurgaon, India

• Vertex is a leading global BPO and customer management outsourcing business. Mr Role - Managing a large team involved in customer service activities for a U.K. based client.