Kumar Aakash

Managing Director

2024 - Current

Managing Director

2022

Focus areas: Software (Dev, Infra, Data, AI) and Consumer Tech (Media + Gaming) Stage: Seed to series B Portfolio: Aampe , Dashtoon, Emtech

SVP - Growth

2020 - 2021

Scaled subscriptions to 40M+ paid users

SVP - Digital Products and Revenue

2019 - 2020

Drove ads led monetisation. Scaled to $200M

VP - Digital Products and Revenue

2017 - 2019

Built Ad-tech and revenue management systems

Angel Investor

2012 - 2021

Partnered with 100+ founders as the earliest investor Consumer Tech :: Artie, Probo, Apps For Bharat, Glip, Tamasha, GoNuts, Glassbox Media, Markk App, Gamee, Uable, Creator Stack, Trell (exited), Wakao (exited) SaaS & Dev :: Leena AI, Privado, CustomerGlu, BuzzCast, Zorp, TrimPixel, Elevate, Spheron Blockchain & Crypto :: Quicknode, Stader Labs, SSV network, MoHash, Flint, Blockdaemon, PlotX Consumer :: Mosaic Wellness, Goat Brand Labs, O'Be Cocktails, App Academy, Bambinos, Kafqa Academy, Growth School, Vibecity Fintech :: Oto, Rupifi (exited), Polytrade, Basis, Gray Quest, ScanPay, Balance, Piggy B2B :: Farmart, Dukaan, Grow Simplee, Glo Roots

Vice President - Products & Monetisation

2016 - 2017

Managed and grew key monetisation focused products: Messaging and communication stack with everything social, commerce and payments embedded into the core OS experience via NLP bots App Bazaar - largest alternate apps marketplace in the country

Chief Strategy Officer

2014 - 2016

- Mergers & Acquisitions: IREF | RealtyBI | Homebuy360 | BigBHK - Corporate Development and eventual exit to ReA (News Corp)

Lead - Product & Business

2014 - 2014

Launched the Primary real estate sales business | Scaled to 60+ locations and 6K real estate developers | Pioneered the online transactions + marketplace hybrid model Built the first version of supply side products : Broker/Agent Apps | Real Estate Developer CRM | POS Tools | Property Management Apps

Co-Founder and CEO

2010 - 2013

Venture Timeline Feb 2010 - Nov 2011: 5 people team | Bootstrapped operations Dec 2011: Seed Investment | $500K | Led by strategic investor Jan 2012 - Dec 2013: 40+ team | Game development & publishing Dec 2013: Asset sale and exit

Consultant

2010 - 2011

Built the largest live event property for college students :: Indiafest

Co-Founder

2008 - 2010

Built a gamified platform for skill development for college students and skill assessment for corporates. Could not scale. Exited.