Our Team
We are a team of heavy-lifters who have repeatedly delivered the goods in different avatars.
Partner
Pearl
Uppal
Pearl has been consistently awarded & recognized as one of the leading women tech entrepreneurs in India. She founded Fashion & You, kickstarting the fashion-tech market in India and retains fashion-tech as her personal passion. She has been a GP with Startup Superfuel mentoring startups to hyper-growth before kicking off this new journey. In her corporate avatar, Pearl was a Director for Yahoo! Inc in India & Middle East. Pearl has won several accolades including “Entrepreneur of the Year” in 2013.
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Loves:
Consumer strategy, distribution, commercial acceleration, building products and brands that customer love, building startup teams, digital media, ecommerce, social, viral, working closely with Startups to turn them into Growth Machines
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Partner
Gaurav
Kachru
Gaurav was the Managing Partner at Startup Superfuel where he delivered a 9x return to his investors and helped his start-ups raise over $400M. He has built & exited two start-ups before founding Startup Superfuel. In his corporate avatar, he was previously CEO at India Today Digital Retail, Asia Pacific Director at Manpower Inc & Country Director at GE Rail, Gaurav has been recognized & awarded in every role including the Karamveer Chakra Award, Chairman’s Special Award at India Today, multiple Management Awards at GE & GE Capital.
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Loves:
Unit Economics, Business Strategy, Strategic Sales & BD, Product & UX, Operational Metrics, FP&A & Business Planning, working closely with startups to sharpen their business strategy, capital strategy, business model and value creation process
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