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Lakshmanan Venugopal

Community Builder | NLP Master Praticioner | Customer Relationship Management

Bengaluru

5+ years of work experience

The Hive - Flexible Workspaces
Aug 20231 yr 10 mosMay 2025

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

WilderMart
May 20225 mosSep 2022

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Wildermart is an online grocery store start-up focusing only on organic, clean label and eco-friendly products from local makers and farmers. -Created processes in order to capture their online as well as offline community data and run community operations smoothly. -Initiated and implemented Macro Influencer, Brand Ambassadors, and affiliate marketing projects, alongside enabling various other offline platforms.
91springboard
Oct 20215 mosFeb 2022

I managed 50+ companies with about 420+ members at the JP Nagar Branch. Being the POC for the member companies that I look after, I keep myself updated with the progress and requirements of the Member Companies. -Key Account Management of over 50+ Accounts -Engage with community members on a day-to-day basis and understand their needs on the business front as well as on the personal front. -Oversee the day-to-day operational responsibilities of the facility and branch operations. -Effectively managed and maintained the physical community at the hub and also the external community, -Mapping and implementing community engagement programs such as Founder Catch-ups and Networking sessions, Proprietary/ Partnered events like Freelancer's Convene, Startup Bash, Life’s a pitch, and also Unwinds, Festive Celebrations, Outdoors events. -Created and maintained various management and operational tracks (desk/floor inventory, invoice tracker, Company POC data, competition analysis) -Ensured NPS and KPIs were analyzed and met month after month. -Maintained their digital presence of the branch on Facebook, Instagram, Google, Various event Platforms, and Online communities
91springboard
Oct 20183 yrsSep 2021

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Startups Club
Jul 20184 mosOct 2018

India

A community-powered company that engages in incubation, acceleration, and investments. This venture brought entrepreneurs across the world to an interactive abode for Start-up ecosystem and holistic events, had an opportunity to work for thier annual event "Demo Day 2018".

Lakshmanan’s AI Stack

claude
claude
openai
openai
perplexity
perplexity

Education

Jain (Deemed-to-be University)

Master of Science - MS, Psychology

Jain (Deemed-to-be University)

20212 yrs2023
Jain (Deemed-to-be University)

Bachelor's Degree, Psychology /Economics/Sociology

Jain (Deemed-to-be University)

20113 yrs2014

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Headline

Community Builder | NLP Master Praticioner | Customer Relationship Management

About

Over the past 8 years, in my professional capacity, I have worked with multiple startups and organization in different roles which aided me to be part constant evolving the start-up ecosystem, previously I've worked as Senior Community Manager for one of the India's pioneer co-working space 91spingboard Business Hub Pvt. Ltd., here I have maintained and created strategies/processes aiding scale the growth initiatives. In these process, I have built high-functional motivated teams to work towards the shared vision. With my background as a Psychology graduate alongwith experience in being part the non-profit organization, NLP (Neuro linguistic Programming) and soft skills training organization, Marketing, Sales, designing and community-focused coworking & coliving spaces, from the early-stage startups to established organization backing making my decision-making more holistic and internaged. I believe that mind and body are part of the same system, a healthy mind resides in a healthy body, I strive to maintain a balanced lifestyle while exploring the world within and outside, always up for something new while exploring the before. I look forward to meeting people, communities, groups, I enjoy being in the state of curiosity while constantly exploring, learning, building while doing impactful impressions.

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

claude

openai

perplexity

Work experience

Senior Executive Community and Marketing at The Hive - Flexible Workspaces, Aug 2023 - May 2025 · 1 yr 10 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Community Lead at WilderMart, May 2022 - Sep 2022 · 5 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Wildermart is an online grocery store start-up focusing only on organic, clean label and eco-friendly products from local makers and farmers. -Created processes in order to capture their online as well as offline community data and run community operations smoothly. -Initiated and implemented Macro Influencer, Brand Ambassadors, and affiliate marketing projects, alongside enabling various other offline platforms.

Senior Community Manager at 91springboard, Oct 2021 - Feb 2022 · 5 mos, I managed 50+ companies with about 420+ members at the JP Nagar Branch. Being the POC for the member companies that I look after, I keep myself updated with the progress and requirements of the Member Companies. -Key Account Management of over 50+ Accounts -Engage with community members on a day-to-day basis and understand their needs on the business front as well as on the personal front. -Oversee the day-to-day operational responsibilities of the facility and branch operations. -Effectively managed and maintained the physical community at the hub and also the external community, -Mapping and implementing community engagement programs such as Founder Catch-ups and Networking sessions, Proprietary/ Partnered events like Freelancer's Convene, Startup Bash, Life’s a pitch, and also Unwinds, Festive Celebrations, Outdoors events. -Created and maintained various management and operational tracks (desk/floor inventory, invoice tracker, Company POC data, competition analysis) -Ensured NPS and KPIs were analyzed and met month after month. -Maintained their digital presence of the branch on Facebook, Instagram, Google, Various event Platforms, and Online communities

Community Manager at 91springboard, Oct 2018 - Sep 2021 · 3 yrs, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Growth Manager at Startups Club, Jul 2018 - Oct 2018 · 4 mos, India, A community-powered company that engages in incubation, acceleration, and investments. This venture brought entrepreneurs across the world to an interactive abode for Start-up ecosystem and holistic events, had an opportunity to work for thier annual event "Demo Day 2018".

Education

Master of Science - MS, Psychology, Jain (Deemed-to-be University)

Bachelor's Degree, Psychology /Economics/Sociology, Jain (Deemed-to-be University)