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title: "Alok Ranjan - founder in New Delhi | Tal"
description: "Meet Alok Ranjan, founder, GAON(Bootstrapped to 50Cr+ in GFV)|Shark Tank India S4|Ex-Associate Director at Pine Labs | food & foodtech | ex- HungerBox,Paytm, NDTV,Microsoft|founder-LetsLink|Bookingarena based in New Delhi. AI stack includes anthropic apis, claude, and elevenlabs."
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# Alok Ranjan on Tal

## Headline

founder, GAON\(Bootstrapped to 50Cr\+ in GFV\)\|Shark Tank India S4\|Ex\-Associate Director at Pine Labs \| food & foodtech \| ex\- HungerBox,Paytm, NDTV,Microsoft\|founder\-LetsLink\|Bookingarena

## About

A startup freak, hustler and entrepreneur with over 10 years of experience, holding an MBA from the Delhi School of Business and an Executive Program from the National University of Singapore\. Currently, An Associate Director for Issuing\-Prepaid Business, Closed Loop , Sales, India at Pine Labs\. My previous roles include Business Head at HungerBox and ShaadiSaga, Ex\-City Head for Delhi/NCR & North at HungerBox, Head of Strategic Alliances & New Business with NDTV, and Manager of Key Accounts & Strategic Alliances at Paytm and Little App\. Possessing extensive experience in building startups from scratch, leading teams, and managing P&L\. My expertise includes strategic alliances, merchant acquisition, restaurant expansion, food costing, BTL , everything food & foodtech, and fintech\. Additionally, as a Marketing Manager at Zostel, Campaign Lead at Microsoft, and Founder of BookingArena\.com, raised Rs\. half a million in seed funding, expanded the team from 4 to 20 in 18 months, and achieved a merchant base of 100\+ with 3,000 daily visitors and an overall GMV of 2 million INR\. Also founded a one\-of\-a\-kind multi\-brand internet food company, "Gaon," and scaled it to over 500 crore in revenue with five outlets in NCR and over 500,000 orders\.

## Location

New Delhi

## AI stack

anthropic apis

claude

elevenlabs

gemini

grok

openai

## Work experience

founder at Gaon, Nov 2017 \- Present · 8 yrs 11 mos, Delhi, India

Associate Director, Issuing\- Prepaid Business, Closed Loop,Sales at Pine Labs, Jul 2024 \- Jun 2025 · 1 yr, Delhi, India

AVP \- Supply & Revenue at HungerBox, Dec 2021 \- Jul 2024 · 2 yrs 8 mos

Business Head at ShaadiSaga, Dec 2020 \- Nov 2021 · 1 yr, New Delhi, Delhi, India

City Head\- NCR & North at HungerBox, Oct 2018 \- Dec 2020 · 2 yrs 3 mos, New Delhi Area, India

National Account Manager at Paytm, Mar 2015 \- Mar 2018 · 3 y, Gurgaon

## Education

Master of Business Administration \(M\.B\.A\.\), Marketing and Supply Chain Management, Delhi School of Business

Economics Executive Programme, International Business, National University of Singapore

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