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ACLR8 Founder Academy

by Karan Jindal

At ACLR8, our goal is to build the best early stage accelerator program in the world, helping founders from Bharat build large, generational and iconic companies. Founder Academy is our exclusive podcast featuring the top startup founders, investors and operators in the country. Our goal is to help build the best resource for any early stage founder to learn from and connect with the best folks from India's startup ecosystem.

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Episodes

  1. Episode 15: Meet the founder of founders! This man invested in 165 startups. Ft. Rajesh Sawhney, Founder, GSF

    In this episode of the ACLR8 podcast, we host one of India's most iconic startup investors: Rajesh Sawhney. Rajesh has invested in 165 companies over the last 15 years and sits on the board of many listed companies and unicorns. In today's episode we will try to cover 3 topics: Trends and...

  2. Episode 14: The Indiamart story! Building a ₹14000 crore listed tech company. Ft. Brijesh Agrawal

    🚀 Coming from a small town in India to build an INR 14K crore company.🚀 Being the first Indian B2B marketplace to list publicly.🚀 Building profitably and building the technology backbone for 70M SMB’s in India.This is the IndiaMart story...Had a wonderful chat with Brijesh Agrawal, Co-Founder,...

  3. Episode 13: The Dressfolk Story! Building an Ethnic Wear Brand from India to the World! Ft. Nitin Mehrotra

    Shot a super episode with Nitin Mehrotra, Founder & CEO, DressFolk on his journey of building India's most loved ethnic wear brand. We talked about:- Nitin's growing up journey and how his family background inspired him to startup in the fashion space- DressFolk evolution over the last 8 years…

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  4. Episode 12: How to build a career in content & marketing! Ft. AyushWadhwa, Founder & CEO, Owled Media

    Learn content, marketing & advertising from Ayush Wadhwa ( @AyushWadhwa ) the founder of one of India's best media companies, Owled Media ( @owledmedia9296 ) At just 26, in a short span of time, Ayush has accomplished a lot. He is a creator, runs Owled Media, and has done done advertising…

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  5. Episode 11: ‪@ixigo‬ 's journey to IPO! 🚀 Building Travel for Bharat. 🇮🇳 Ft. Aloke Bajpai

    98x oversubscribed! This was the crazy demand for the ixigo stock at their recent IPO. But what many don't know is the 17 year old journey of grit, determination, never giving up in the face of innumerable challenges and always building for Bharat. ⁣ Had the immense pleasure of hosting Aloke...

  6. Episode 10: How to build a D2C brand in 2024. Ft. Jatan Bawa, Co-Founder, Perfora

    If your goal is to build India's largest consumer D2C brand then this is the episode for you. 🚀 In this episode, our guest, Jatan Bawa takes us through his journey of building Perfora. 🔥⁣ Perfora is one of the fastest growing D2C oral care brands in India doing revenues of 70 crore / year and...

  7. Episode 9: Building India’s largest cleaning products brand. Ft. Simran Khara, Founder, Koparo Clean

    What does ₹15 crore worth of free publicity do to the scale and trajectory of a D2C brand? 🚀⁣ Hosted the awesome @simrankhara2 at the ACLR8 Founder Academy podcast and talked about her vision of building India’s largest cleaning products company with a focus on sustainable and clean ingredients...

  8. Episode 8: Building a ₹500 crore Beauty & Personal Care Brand! Ft. Malika Sadani, CEO, The Moms Co

    Building one of India’s largest Beauty & Personal Care D2C Brand. 🚀 ⁣ Hosted the amazing Malika Datt Sadani, Co-Founder, The Moms Co, at the ACLR8 studio and discussed what it takes to build a large and loved consumer brand in India today! 🙌 🇮🇳⁣ Malika shared her insights on: ✅ Building a…

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  9. Episode 7: Disrupting the home & kitchen market in India! Ft. Aditya Agrawal, Co-Founder & CEO, P-TAL

    Building a large business, while reviving a cultural legacy, and providing social impact.❤️ Raising funding from some of India’s top investors, getting an all Shark Deal at Shark Tank India and all of this while just being 24 years old! 🙌 🚀⁣ Hosted the super amazing Aditya Agrawal, Co-Founder,...

  10. Episode 6: Investing in consumer brands for Bharat! Ft. Arjun Vaidya, Co-Founder, V3 Ventures

    Today’s guest at the founder academy, is someone who has been a founder and investor. ⁣ As a founder, Arjun founded Dr. Vadiya’s. Scaled it to one of the fastest growing Ayurveda D2C brands in the country and sold it for 100 crores in 4 years. ⁣ As an investor, Arjun founded V3 ventures and…

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  11. Episode 5: Building the operating system for D2C brands in India! Ft. Akshay Ghulati, Co-Founder, Shiprocket

    Had an amazing conversation with Akshay Ghulati, Co-Founder & CBO, Shiprocket, at the ACLR8 studio! ❤️🙌 Shiprocket is building the OS for D2C brands to launch , scale and grow their business in India and go global. It is truly a made in India innovation, that is helping brands from Bharat…

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  12. Episode 4: E-commerce for Bharat! Ft. Swati Bhargava, Co-Founder, CashKaro

    From growing up in Ambala to building a company with annualized sales of INR 4000 crores! 🚀 Meet the woman who co-founded one of India’s largest e-commerce companies. 🙌 Raising money from Ratan Tata, going through a kidney transplant, supporting young founders and breaking multiple stereotypes...

  13. Episode 3: Building India's fastest growing consumer appliances brand. Ft. Bharat Kalia, Co-Founder, Lifelong Online

    Building an INR 500cr D2C consumer appliances brand for Bharat! 🇮🇳🚀⁣ Had an amazing conversation with Bharat Kalia, Co-Founder, Lifelong Online, on his journey of building one of the most disruptive D2C brands in the country. ❤️🔥⁣ We talked about:⁣ ✅ How to think customer backward and…

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  14. Episode 2: Fintech for Bharat. Ft. Ankit Agrawal, Founder & CEO, Insurance Dekho

    Financial Inclusion for 100cr Indians with Ankit Agrawal, Founder & CEO, InsuranceDekho 🇮🇳🚀 Insurance Dekho is one of the fastest growing insurance companies in India solving for “Bima, Bharosa, Berozgari, Bimari,” 💯 Some of things we discussed were: ✅ How it is important to not celebrate…

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  15. Episode 1: Fundraising 101 for early stage founders. Ft. Apurva Chamaria, Head of Startup & VC, Google India

    Raise fast, raise effectively and raise from the best! Learn the secrets of fundraising from one of India's best early stage investors, Apurva Chamaria. Apurva heads Startup & VC at Google India, and has invested in 100+ companies over the last 10 years. In this episode of the ACLR8 Founder...

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ABOUT THIS SHOW

At ACLR8, our goal is to build the best early stage accelerator program in the world, helping founders from Bharat build large, generational and iconic companies. Founder Academy is our exclusive podcast featuring the top startup founders, investors and operators in the country. Our goal is to help build the best resource for any early stage founder to learn from and connect with the best folks from India's startup ecosystem.

HOSTED BY

Karan Jindal

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At ACLR8, our goal is to build the best early stage accelerator program in the world, helping founders from Bharat build large, generational and iconic companies. Founder Academy is our exclusive podcast featuring the top startup founders, investors and operators in the country. Our goal is to help...

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ACLR8 Founder Academy is created and hosted by Karan Jindal.
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