Our Team
Chintan Bakshi
Chintan brings a unique experience of managing new ventures and tech start-up companies primarily in the BoP space, specializing in agriculture, rural and distribution sectors. He has experience of working with corporates like Maruti Suzuki, Indian Hotel Company Limited and also starting up and successfully exiting two ventures. He is an engineering graduate from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi and an MBA from Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore
Pallavi Tak
Assistant Vice President- Programs
Pallavi is an expert at program design and leads bouquet of Social impact, Craft and Women startup interventions. She holds a doctoral degree in 'sustainable habitat' and a post-graduation degree in development economics. She has over fifteen years of experience in teaching & training, qualitative research and startup incubation. Passionate believer in making social impact through entrepreneurship, she enjoys storytelling and street photography.
Abhimanyu Saxena
Manager - Operation and Administration
Abhimanyu is the brains and brawn behind the co-working setup at Startup Oasis. His professional experience has been mostly in facility management and tourism industry. He handles the admin and event management at SO. Expert at multi-tasking, he dons various hats including facility manager, event planner and manager as well as general admin lead.
Vaibhav Vashishta
Vaibhav is an engineer by education and is passionate startup portfolio manager and helps portfolio startups to build their processes and use-cases from scratch to help them to scale in a sustainable manner. He has experience in corporates like Nokia, Siemens networks and has also been part of the early team at startups like Zostel, AskME, JOAT etc.
Abhishek Gupta
Abhishek has 6 years of experience since his graduation as an Electronics Engineering. He has spent around 2.5 years in various technology based startups and has been part of Startup Oasis operations team for more than 3 years. He is part of the Innocity team and leads Program planning, outreach and implementation. He is also involved in training of early stage entrepreneurs through the curated Innocity learn session conducted by him.
Abhishek Purohit
Manager – Corporate Business Development
Abhishek handles the Business Development role at Startup Oasis and also helps startups raise funds from corporates and CSR. He has great presentation skills and is an expert negotiator. Abhishek received formal education in Psychology, English Literature, and Business Management and has worked in the Travel and Hospitality industry in the field of marketing and operations.
Amrit Tiwari
Amrit is the go-to guy for finance at Startup Oasis. He has worked on Startup investment process including preparation of Term Sheets, SHA, Cap Table and Due Diligence. With an experience of more than 5 years in finance roles, he has worked with H.C.C and Indian Institute of Management in his previous stints. He is an MBA from IMT Ghaziabad and graduate from Delhi University.
Aditya SG Vyas
Aditya Vyas, leads the regional incubation program- Innocity for Rajasthan along with other new initiatives for Startup support and mentoring of technology and impact based Startups. He holds a B.Tech. in Electronics Engineering and MS in Consultancy Management from BITS, Pilani. He has around 10 years of experience including an 8-year stint as an entrepreneur in the IoT-Software development space. He has worked primarily in the B2B segment with various MNCs, MSMEs, Startups, Social sector enterprises and NGOs.
Ankit Garg
Ankit Garg is part of the Portfolio management team and takes care of Due Diligence prior to investment and Portfolio Management of Startups post investment. He has developed various metrics to track Startup progress over a period of time. He has 3 years of professional experience in Insurance and Agri sectors. He is completed BTech in Electronics & Communication from Rajasthan Technical University. He is always ready to take up new challenges and is dedicated towards delivering results within the available time & resources.
Amreen Ahmed-
Amreen is a Project Manager skilled in design and facilitation of Innovative and Interactive Trainings related to Entrepreneurship, Leadership, and Program Management. Armed with a Masters in Psychology, she has been working in the Youth Development Sector through her work on the themes like life skills, leadership building, gender & sexuality, citizenship, entrepreneurship etc. She received Kutchina Krittika Fellowship in 2018 and Vivekanand Gaurav Sammaan, Rajasthan in 2020.
Mitali Sethi
Mitali Sethi carries forward the brand identity of Startup Oasis through her designs as a Consultant- Graphic Design at Startup Oasis. She is responsible for conceptualizing and designing of all content including Website UI and UX, Creatives for branding and publicity for print and digital media for multiple programs. She has an experience of over three years after completing her Bachelor's degree in science from IIS Jaipur with a specialization Diploma in Graphic Designing.
Shilpa Jain
A versatile writer, Shilpa is a Project Manager with 10 years of experience in various roles viz. Process Developer, Quality Analyst, Training and Development Manager, and Event Manager. She is currently working as a Programs Consultant at Startup Oasis. She holds a Masters degree in Public Administration from Sophia College Ajmer and supports- HER&NOW and WING - the two Women Entrepreneurship initiatives to promote innovative, women-led enterprises across various sectors in Tier II & III cities.
Anisha Saraf
Anisha has over 6 years of diverse professional experience in IT, Management and Product Development. She holds a Masters in Business Administration in Finance from IIRM, Jaipur. Being a startup enthusiast, Anisha liked to support startups to build their processes that help them to scale. Presently, associated with the Project 'Her&Now' focused on providing support and mentoring to the women entrepreneurs across the state of Rajasthan.