Subhendu Panigrahi

CEO

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India19 yrs 10 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Co-Founder and CEO of Skillenza, transforming talent engagement.
Created India's largest online startups community.
TEDx speaker and mentor to aspiring entrepreneurs.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS entrepreneur with expertise in talent engagement and startup ecosystems.

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Skills

Core Skills

EntrepreneurshipBusiness Development

Other Skills

AnalyticsAngel InvestingBusiness AnalysisBusiness IntelligenceBusiness StrategyCRMCompetitive AnalysisConsultingCustomer Relationship Management (CRM)E-commerceInternet RecruitingLead GenerationManagementManagement ConsultingMarket Research

About

Subhendu is the Co-Founder and CEO of Skillenza, a challenge and peer learning platform that transforms the way companies discover, engage, and hire talent. With over nine years of experience in this role, he has built Skillenza as a full-stack talent engagement platform that helps companies post real-world scenarios and problems to job seekers, instead of boring job descriptions. He has also created and led India's largest online startups community, the Bangalore Startups, and initiated the Reverse Pitch platform, where VCs and investors pitch to entrepreneurs. Subhendu is passionate about empowering talent and creating opportunities for innovation and growth. He leverages his background in agricultural and food engineering from IIT Kharagpur and his skills in new business development, customer relationship management, and consulting to drive his vision and mission. He is a TEDx speaker, a CNBC Young Turk, and a mentor to aspiring entrepreneurs. He is a visionary entrepreneur and a community leader in the Bangalore startup ecosystem.

Experience

19 yrs 10 mos

Total Experience

5 yrs 9 mos

Average Tenure

14 yrs 11 mos

Current Experience

Foxo

Co-Founder & CEO

Dec 2024 – Present · 1 yr 6 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Skillenza

Co-Founder and CEO

Sep 2014 – Present · 11 yrs 9 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Skillenza is a challenge and peer learning platform. We are using a challenge model to help companies discover relevant talent and hire better people. The platform allows companies to post challenges to job seekers instead of boring job descriptions. These challenges mimic real working scenarios and give the job seekers a flavor of what problems they are going to tackle in the workplace.

EntrepreneurshipBusiness StrategyProduct DevelopmentMarketingBusiness Development

Innovation angels

Startup Curator

Jul 2011 – Present · 14 yrs 11 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Infratab inc

Shelf Life Engineer

Aug 2010 – Jun 2012 · 1 yr 10 mos

Infratab Freshtime™ RFID EPC hardware and software products track the quality and freshness of perishable goods. Infratab Freshtime™ gives perishable producers and retailers accurate and detailed insights about events and metrics in the cold chain.

Technical university of denmark

Summer Intern

May 2008 – Jul 2008 · 2 mos

Completed a project on “Modeling of quality loss and remaining shelf life during temperature-controlled food distribution” under the guidance of Prof Jens Adler-Nissen, FOOD DTU, Denmark Technical University, Copenhagen, Denmark,. The project involved mathematical modeling of quality loss of food materials when subjected to temperature abuse and incorporate the model into supply chain of frozen and chilled food.

Indian institute of management, lucknow

Summer Intern

May 2007 – Jul 2007 · 2 mos

My work was on “Assessment of Market Penetration of Processed and Packaged Foods in Rural India “under the guidance of Prof. Sushil Kumar, Chairman, AMC, and IIM Lucknow. The project involved the market study of processed and packaged foods in Rural Parts of India. I was involved in projects solely for two months. In this project I was exposed to various roles like Field Investigator, Analyst and Project Associate. Statistical Analysis was done by SPSS to find out the results

Robotix

Worked as a Sub-Head

Jun 2006 – Apr 2007 · 10 mos

ROBOTIX is organized by a passionate group of students from IIT-Kharagpur. This competition started in 2001 and is fast maturing to catch up the pace of androids.