Meet the Team
ACLR8 founding team and visiting partners consist of some of the most iconic founders, operators, VCs and angel investors in the country. Our goal is to help early stage founders learn from the best of India’s startup ecosystem.
Tarun Bhargava
Founder, TalentGen & Capinity
Tarun has built the leadership teams of 1000+ Tier-1 startups in his career. He is also the founder of Capinity Partners, a $30M growth stage fund.
Arjun Vaidya
Co-Founder, V3 Ventures
One of India's best early stage investors, Arjun runs V3 Ventures, a $100M fund focused on D2C and D2C enablement startups in India.
Neeraj Bhargava
Managing Partner, Aistra Labs
Neeraj has founded and invested in 5 unicorns through his 30 years long career. He is now building Aistra Labs, as one of the leading AI companies in the world.
Apurva Chamaria
Head of Startup & VC, Google
One of India’s best early stage investors. 100+ investments including many unicorns and listed companies.
Malika Datt Sadan
Founder, The Moms Co.
Founder & CEO of The Moms Co. Sold the business to MyGlamm Group for INR 500 crores.
Brijesh Agrawal
Co-Founder, Indiamart
Co-Founder of the largest B2B marketplace business in India with $100M ARR. Took the business from idea to IPO!
Ankit Agrawal
Founder & CEO, Insurance Dekho
Founder & CEO of the fastest growing insurance platform in India. Valued at $600M after 3 years of launch.
Jitendra Nagpal
Founder, Capinity Partners
Ex-CFO of Zepto, PharmEasy and Country Delight. Raised over $1.5B. Now running Capinity, a $30M growth stage fund.
Akshay Ghulati
Co-Founder & COO, Shiprocket
Founder of the largest D2C shipping platform for SMEs in India.
Chakradhar Gade
Co-Founder, Country Delight
Disrupting the $70B milk industry in India.
Tushar Garg
CBO, Blusmart
Chief business officer of Blusmart, the largest and fastest growing EV ride hailing platform in India.
Rishav Agarwal
Founder and CEO of Picxele
Bootstrapped Startup operating in Gig Economy space with 10Cr+ Revenue, An active Angel Investor in 60 Startups and Community Enabler.
Karan Jindal
2x Founder & Angel Investor
2x founder and early stage investor in 30+ companies. Passionate about helping consumer internet founders build large brands.
Bharat Kalia
Co-Founder, Lifelong Online
Nikita Khanna
Co-Founder & CEO, Moxie Beauty
Aditya Agarwal
Co-Founder & CEO, P-TAL
Simran Khara
Founder & CEO, Koparo
Ananya Narang
Founder & CEO, Entourage
Siddharth Dwivedi
Co-Founder, XOR Labs
Sai Krishna
Founder & CEO, Superblog.ai
Papa CJ
Comedian and Leadership Coach
Nikunj Jain
Founder & CEO, Open in App
Anuj Nevatia
Co-Founder, Bacca Bucci
Arjun Choudhary
Ex-CBO, MFine
Prateek Kotha
Head of Marketing, Toys R Us
Vinayika Poddar
Program Manager
Vinayika has an MS in Finance from Fordham University, New York and B.Sc. in Economics and Finance from the University of Exeter, UK. She started her career as a Research Analyst at Preqin in NYC and has over 4 years of experience in the Alternative Asset industry. She is the program manager at ACLR8 and also looking after fundraising and financial due diligence.
Sapna Pandey
Program Manager
Sapna has over a decade of experience in partnering with multiple VC’s and founders catering to their portfolio companies across Edtech, Fintech, Agritech, D2C/e-commerce, Gaming, NFT & Crypto / Web3 in strategic talent advisory, building winning teams, enabling business with curated talent solutions & driving continuous improvements in talent function, globally.
More about the ACLR8 program!
ACLR8 is a 100 day program led by the leading founders, operators, VCs and angel investors in the country.
Our goal at ACLR8 is to give early stage founders access to the best of India’s startup ecosystem. The program is followed by a best in class demo day, where our cohort founders get a chance to pitch their business to leading VCs and raise funding.
The ACLR8 Summer 2024 program will go live on 1st March 2024. This is a 100 day program that will feature mentorship sessions for our cohort founders from some of the leading founders and investors in the country. Founders will get training on GTM, product market fit, marketing, distribution and fundraising. The program will end with a best in class Demo Day featuring 45+ leading VCs in the country. The applications for the program will be live from 15th Dec till 15th Feb.
This is a completely online program. You will need to give 8-10 hrs every week for the sessions with your mentors. You can also choose to opt for office hours with the ACLR8 team for any support that you may need.
We take a 3% equity and INR 25,000 fee from the selected startups for this program. We will be interviewing close to 5000 companies to select a small batch of companies for our first cohort. There is a high chance that you will be able to raise your round from marquee investors post completion of the program.
- Learn from the best founders, investors and operators in the country.
- Raise from marquee investors
- Grow your business from 0-1 through amazing GTM partnerships
- Build an amazing community of like-minded founders
This program is for any and every founder who believes they have an idea that can change the world. Whether you are a first time founder, student founder, you are starting up for the 3rd time, you are a mom-preneur, you are a creator - this program is for everyone. Click on apply now to submit your application today.
Feel free to connect with us on WhatsApp, email or block our calendars. We look forward to hearing from you.
