Co-founder @ Foundership · Founder @ Explara · 20 years across India, the UK, and Singapore.
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In 2012, I gave up my UK Permanent Residency and came back to India to scale the startup I’d been building from London since 2008.
That became Explara — India’s first DIY event ticketing platform. We powered events for global artists, institutions like NASSCOM, and communities like Harvard Business School alumni. We raised from investors across India, Singapore, and the US. We scaled to ~$11M in gross transaction volume and served 100,000+ users across 21 countries.
Then COVID arrived. And stopped everything.
We nearly lost the company. Over the last 12 months, we’ve bootstrapped again to rebuild it as ExplaraX — a community-first commerce platform.
That chapter taught me more than any success ever could:
→ Timing matters more than brilliance → Teams matter more than products → Positioning can change everything → Founders who build in public build faster → Resilience is a strategy, not a personality trait
In the middle of all this, I co-founded Foundership.
What started as an emerging tech accelerator — 58 companies backed across 14 countries, 8 cohorts, 1,500+ applications — became something bigger. In 2026, we repositioned as The Business Studio.
We get businesses unstuck. Three ways: we embed inside Series A+ companies whose growth has stalled, we co-build new ventures with technical and domain-expert founders, and we run India’s first founder-led angel investing cohort.
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