ECMC Group's Education Impact Fund is a $250M venture fund focused on early and growth stage investments in innovative companies that are improving access and outcomes for underserved learners in postsecondary education and employment.

Twenty Seven Ventures (27V) is curating a group of thoughtful founders building the foundations of human learning and productivity; entrepreneurs who are committed to having a positive impact on our world even while creating large businesses. The Fund invests $25K - $250K in global EdTech and Future of Work startups at the pre-Seed and Seed stages.

Cheekoo.run is my family’s effort to organise an annual fundraiser, in memory of my beloved uncle Amul Batra (Cheekoo to his family and friends). As a personal contribution to the cause, the I dedicate all of my ultra-trail races every season in perpetuity towards spreading the word of and fundraising for the cause.

ab Initio HK Ltd. is a catch-all entity for my varied business pursuits.For the first 3 years of its existence, the company was a full-fledged digital marketing agency, with an unhealthy affliction for social media strategy and management for clients.

Q Venture Partners is an early stage fund that invests in deep technology and connected hardware startups. We provide our portfolio companies value-add and competitive advantage in two distinct ways: first, our engineering and manufacturing expertise helps de-risk the early stages of product development and manufacturing; and second, we help create enterprise value in the early life stages of our startups by developing go-to-market strategies for Asia and capture first-mover’s advantage.Our focus areas include Enabling Technologies, industry 4.0 & Enterprise, Health, and Smart Home/Vehicle.

blueprint, backed by Swire Properties, was a coworking space and accelerator program set across 20,000 sqft of prime office space.The accelerator program selected 10 B2B tech startups, every 6 months, and provided them with free working space, a network of experienced mentors, practical business services from corporate partners, market testing opportunities through Swire and local companies, connections to capital and angel investors / VCs, and an active community of panels, workshops, speakers and more.As the Accelerator Lead, I oversaw application outreach, due diligence and design & delivery of the programme curriculum. On an ongoing basis, I also mentored the accelerator startups.

I've been closely involved with General Assembly over the last couple of years, as a friend of the team. Moderated or spoke at multiple GA events, and taught workshops and classes for them. In particular, I delivered multiple sessions of a beginners' class on Twitter, and how one can use it to build their personal brand or business.

HUK was a startup event discovery platform, that helps startups decide which events are worth investing their most important resource - time.Shut down due to poor user retention.

Startup Grind is an international startup community designed to educate, inspire, and connect entrepreneurs. We organise monthly fireside chats with entrepreneurs in Hong Kong.For more information, check out http://startupgrind.com.

As the Assistant Brand Manager of the world's second largest business newspaper, I worked on various brand-building activities for the publication in addition to performing financial and operational analyses of its numerous country-wide editions.

My job profile included conceptualising new public-speaking events for school students that the society can organise.

In my second year at b-school, I was responsible for ensuring the smooth running of the community radio station and that the studio is in perfect shape production-wise. We followed up on our new initiatives introduced the previous year, by scaling them upwards. The rural singing competition was renamed 'Aapno Idol' (Translation: Our Idol) to include participants from other villages in the vicinity.

The Literary Committee is primarily responsible for 2 publications: the Blackcoffee, the literary magazine, and the annual Yearbook. Apart from the publications, the committee is also responsible for organising the annual literary fest and other literary events such as the MICA Quiz Championships (MQC), JAM and debates.I was responsible for generating adequate response for the events from students, including those studying in b-schools across the country. The other half of my responsibilities involved arranging the logistics for stand-alone bi-monthly events and the annual literary fest.

As the Junior Station Head, I was responsible for coordinating the activities of the production and programming teams and ensure that the station was operating properly.To expand the horizons of the station as such, me and my team mates added two groundbreaking activities to MICAVAANI's repertoire. The station was used to provide live coverage for student fests of the college (3 in all), which included interviews, music, dedications, live updates, etc. All of this helped us establish a deep connection with our own student community.This effort was followed up by one to connect with the intended rural audience. That we achieved by organising a singing competition titled 'Shela no idol' (Translation: Shela's Idol; Shela - name of the biggest village nearby; format similar to American Idol) for the inhabitants of the 4 villages nearby. We ensured integration of the community by having live call-ins on our show where people aired messages to the contestants who also sang live on-air. This took our interaction with the community upto unheard-of levels.

Dr. Vio & Partners is a Healthcare Provision Company.For the company, I created a comprehensive integrated Social Media Marketing Campaign covering a number of platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Foursquare and SlideShare.

As Summer Intern at Halo Associates, I worked primarily on a client in the legal business.For the client, I prepared a full package of deliverables for submission of a Direct Marketing Campaign entry at the Spikes Asia Advertising Awards 2011. The deliverables included a Presentation Board and a Short Video describing the campaign. We also prepared a 360-degree marketing plan for the same company. The plan was spread over the following one year and laid down the foundation for all future activities.The final project of my internship was to create an alternative investment presentation for a new fund launched by a Canadian fund management company.

The school principal offered me the opportunity to teach public-speaking to the students. I took weekly Public-Speaking classes for students from Classes IV-VIII.The module I developed aimed at enabling the students to experience all popular formats of public-speaking including debate, declamation, extempore, theatre, role-play and JAM.

The school's administration invited WORDZ to organise a public speaking event for the school.We organised eng-age'10, a literary fest, with four events being conducted simultaneously: Spelling Bee, Poetry Recitation, Declamation and Extempore. The event, on the whole, witnessed participation of 220 students from across the neighboring cities.As the Convenor, I was responsible for all the logistics of the event from conceptualisation to conducting the event on the final day. As Graphic Designer, i designed the invitation, a brochure, folders, the backdrops and even print advertisements.

At WORDZ, we organised the WORDZMUN'08 in 2008 and received tremendous encouragement for the the schools, teachers and students who participated. This prompted us to organise the sequel in 2009. Yet again, I essayed the roles of Convenor and Secretary General.I consider WORDZMUN'09 as one of my greatest achievements as we were able to not only continue the event into its second year but also raise the standard of the event on the whole. The participation rose to 250 students and teachers, the team to 60 and the sponsorship to USD 18,000.

Introduced the concept of MUN to the city of Chandigarh, India with the WORDZMUN - first time MUN organised in Chandigarh, India and the first time that an independent students' organisation organised an MUN conference in India.As Convenor, I was responsible for the logistics of the event, right from sponsorship to lodging and boarding of the participants to arranging the conference and even marketing it so as to invite participation from across the country.As Secretary General, my responsibilities included the academic part of the conference, i.e deciding the topics to be discussed, the rules of procedure to be followed and ensuring that the conference was headed to a productive conclusion.Ended up organising a conference that was much appreciated by the 150 students and teachers who attended. I was assisted in the task by a 50-member strong team. We were also helped in no small measure by the USD 10,000 that we gathered in sponsorships.