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title: "Kaustub Pandey - Founding Head in Bengaluru | Tal"
description: "Meet Kaustub Pandey, Looking for Founding AI engineers I Dukaan(exited) I IITB based in Bengaluru. AI stack includes claude code, elevenlabs, and hermes agent."
image: "https://tal.club/meet/kaustub-pandey/share-image"
---

# Kaustub Pandey on Tal

## Headline

Looking for Founding AI engineers I Dukaan\(exited\) I IITB

## About

Entrepreneur\. Sales guy\- Can sell shares, dreams and products\.

## Location

Bengaluru

## AI stack

claude code

elevenlabs

hermes agent

meta

n8n

claudecode

## Work experience

Founding Head at Gobi Maps, Mar 2026 \- Present · 8 mo, San Francisco

Founder & CEO at LastDraft AI, Aug 2023 \- Present · 3 yrs 4 mos, Bengaluru, RFP/Tender management software for SME's

Co\-Founder, Finance & Operations\(Exited\) at Dukaan®, Feb 2019 \- Dec 2022 · 3 yrs 11 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Dukaan is a ‘do\-it\-yourself’ \(DIY\) platform which enables small retailers with zero programming skills to set up an online store within 30 secs\.

CEO and Founder at Shipler, Jan 2015 \- Apr 2018 · 3 yrs 4 mos, Mumbai Area, India, India’s 1st managed marketplace for House and car shifting\. Raised USD 750,000 from investors including Kunal Bahl, Rohit Bansal and Chris Kolenaty, Founder of Snow Leopard\. Lead this profitably for 1\.5 years with a GMV of $4mn\.

Co\-Founder \(Acquihired by Gaana\.com\) at BC Radio \-Jukebox, Jan 2012 \- May 2014 · 2 yrs 5 mos, Mumbai Area, India, 1st streaming based discovery platform of independent artists with 5000\+ artists from India and South\-East Asia\. Reached 30 lacs unique listeners/month with 2G connection\.

## Education

Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay

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