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# Avneer Bhadauria on Tal

## Headline

Building Agentic Skill Partner for 1bn People\| 2x\-Founder, Business Operator & Early Stage Advisor

## About

12\+ years inside company\-building: Employee \#1 to early team to CEO\. Some bets worked\. Some didn't\. All of it counts\. Now building Flo101 at 101 Collective: an agentic platform for how the next generation combats the largest skills gap created with the AI shift\. Backed by a $250M\+ legacy group\. The path here: grew Unacademy's Partner Channel to $2M ARR, early team at Great Learning through a $600M exit, built enterprise GTM at UpGrad, co\-founded Apli \(acquired\)\. A decade of learning exactly where what breaks and why\. Ex\-EIR at Leo Capital\. Community with Manipal Mafia\. Travel/collectibles/mixology for the soul\.

## Location

Bengaluru

## Work experience

Founder at flo101, Aug 2025 \- Present · 1 yr 1 mo, Building an agentic skill partner to enable the next 1 billion people\. Tech venture backed by a USD 200M\+ legacy family office\. A new operating playbook on infusing entrepreneurial DNA into institutional scale\.

Entrepreneur in Residence Consultant \( Platform Operations & Startup Acceleration\) at Leo Capital, 2024 \- 2025 · 1 yr, Took on platform strategy, branding, and ops for a global early\-stage fund, and launched their EU/MENA acceleration program \(LEAP\) from scratch\. Built the entire tech stack, content infrastructure, and branding with the cost efficiency of a 3\-person intern team – enabling commitments worth tens of millions of dollars for 20\+ founders across India and the Nordics in the first cohort alone\.

Generalist Consultant \(Strategy, Product, Sales & Ops\) at Various Startups, 2023 \- 2025 · 2 yrs, Worked across GTM, product, biz dev, and org\-building for early\-stage startups\. One YC\-selected GenAI startup went on to raise $2M\+\. Placed high\-impact talent into critical roles, think TPMs, Community Leads, Partnerships Heads, across a YC startup, a D2C brand, an HR\-tech firm, and a venture studio\. Delivered sessions on entrepreneurship and AI to over 300\+ people across campuses\. Focused heavily on execution, and had a little fun on the side: Dabbled in the alco\-bev space and ran cocktail pop\-ups \(250\+ people\!\)\. Now building it into a curated members\-only community\. Set up Mighty Capital, an alumni\-led syndicate with big plans and even bigger conviction to back contrarian founders\!

Co\-Founder & CBO \(Product, Business Ops, Sales & Fundraising\) at Apli \(acquired by Edulab\), 2022 \- 2023 · 1 yr, Bengaluru, Built and launched an enterprise recruiting product in 3 months flat – a "try\-before\-you\-apply" talent model with zero paid marketing\. Landed POCs with teams at Verse, Tesla, and Accion\. Secured investor interest from execs at Accenture, Zetwerk, and Cleartrip\. Finalist at NHRD Startup Awards; featured at People Matters Tech HR '22\. Classic case of right product, wrong timing, and a masterclass in survival economics\.

Associate Director \- Growth \(Partnerships, Strategy & Channel Development\) at Unacademy, 2021 \- 2022 · 1 yr, Brought in to fix flatlining revenue\. Built the Partner Channel vertical from zero to ₹136Mn ARR \(\~$2M\) in under 8 months\. Grew campus reach 2x in 3 months, lifting MRR by 45%\. Drove 60K\+ learners through B2B and B2B2C distribution\. Led a 24\-member team across high\-stakes partner groups\.

## Education

Bachelor of Engineering \(B\.E\.\), Mechanical Engineering, Manipal institute of technology

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