I am passionate about startups, entrepreneurship and being around founders. Excited about communities and community building and social impact.
Experience
Program Manager @ build3, Goa
Sep 2023 - Present
- Led the cohub program, a coliving and coworking community for startup founders.
- Manage partnerships for build3 programs with various startup ecosystem stakeholders.
Business Incubation Manager @ Sobus Insight Forum, Bengaluru
May 2018 - Aug 2024
- Joined the founder of the company at inception and helped in setting up and launch of the social enterprise incubator.
- Launched successfully two startup Incubation centers housed within Academic Institutions and developed a shared partnership model with academic institutions.
- Built up a mentor and stakeholder base including corporate partners, academic institutions, trade bodies for providing various support services to the startups.
- Drafted various proposals for government grants and secured a large government grant successfully for setting up of an incubation center.
- Piloted the offerings of the incubator with 20+ startups.
- Helped build a workflow for the incubation process, identify systems & tools for smooth workflow management.
- Co-ordinate the day-to-day compliances with an outsourced CA firm.
Innovations & Partnerships Manager @ Omnicuris Healthcare private Limited
Mar 2017 - Mar 2018
- Worked closely with the founder from the idea stage and saw it grow from scratch to a 15-member team.
- Sales, business development role, Executing partnerships and continuous engagement with Pharmaceutical companies, medical associations, state governments, medical universities and Expert Doctors.
- On-boarded the first 10 partner medical institutes, medical associations and the key signing of MOU’s with the Medical Councils.
- Directly responsible for bringing in sales revenue of more than 1.5 crore in the first year of operations.
- Developed the initial medical tutorial videos.