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title: "Saakshi Mhadgut - B2B Enterprise Product Marketing, GTM Comms and Special Projects in Bengaluru | Tal"
description: "Meet Saakshi Mhadgut, BentoLabs AI YC (P26) | 3x Founding GTM | B2B Marketing & Comms for AI-native startups based in Bengaluru. AI stack includes claude, lovable, and mcp."
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# Saakshi Mhadgut on Tal

## Headline

BentoLabs AI YC \(P26\) \| 3x Founding GTM \| B2B Marketing & Comms for AI\-native startups

## About

I got hired in 24 hours by an agent\-native YC P26 startup\. Here's how you can do it: \- get 40k people to read your book on Wattpad a week before your high school final sem \- design event posters\. fill seats\. track footfall\. run the fest\. get elected AGS\. do it at 16 \- volunteer in Vietnam\. teach orphanage kids conversational English \- build a Global Village with RMIT Vietnam: 30\+ countries, 250\+ attendees, perform Bharatanatyam to represent India \- get into film school\. accept a full\-time job 6 months before graduation \- start a 2\-person agency during COVID \- partner with India's messiest category—fabrics—as your first D2C client, grow it from 0 to $6\.6M in 18 months, without AI\. do everything from paid ads to influencer campaigns\. \- invest your savings into your own streetwear startup\. watch it fail\. keep the lessons \- become the youngest faculty partner teaching Marketing 0→1 at K\.J\. Somaiya College \- get referred by a junior\. become the youngest partner faculty at NMIMS JDSoLA at 22 \- enable students to build business plans as capstone, watch two students get their d2c stationary business acquired 4 years later \- cold DM the founder of the UK's largest international student career hub\. get hired in a week\. launch 3 flagship programs\. impact millions of students \- become founding marketer at a SaaS startup\. lead the journey from invisible to Shark Tank India \- join a boutique B2B global agency \- learn under two women founders who redefine leadership, taste, building with intention and excellence \- learn relentlessly\. \- burn out\. fall sick\. admit you've plateaued \- vanish\. meet a product builder who can build a working MVP from three sentences\. spend 8 months learning even when you're told you're not keeping up\. drop the ego\. obsess over thought behind the craft \- build Internshala's first Personal Branding course\. write, shoot, edit\. take 120 video chapters live in 90 days \- hit rock bottom \- sit with your self / soul in Kashi, Rishikesh, Himachal and Chhindwara until validation stops mattering\. Evaluate the why behind your choices ahead\. Trust yourself > other's opinions / perceptions of you\. \- return to freelancing\. help an EY partner from Zurich transition to becoming an entrepreneur \- mentor students / early career professionals \- spend time with family \- reconnect with an old mentor without asking for anything\-get referred to a YC\-P26 startup \- Interview at 1 AM on a Saturday\. Start 1pm on Sunday\. I'm not the smartest person in the room\. I still second\-guess myself\. But I'll happily outwork yesterday's version of me\.

## Location

Bengaluru

## AI stack

claude

lovable

mcp

meta

notion

ChatGPT

## Work experience

B2B Enterprise Product Marketing, GTM Comms and Special Projects at BentoLabs AI \(YC P26\), May 2026 \- Present · 4 mos, San Francisco Bay Area, GTM, ABM, and anything that connects people to product to revenue

Course Director & Instructor at Internshala, Aug 2025 \- Feb 2026 · 7 mos

Forward Deployed Product Marketing Lead at Tailwind, Aug 2023 \- Jun 2025 · 1 yr 11 mos

Fractional Product Marketing Lead at Intervue\.io, May 2023 \- Aug 2023 · 4 mos

A Shapeshifting Amoeba at 7 Years of building a skill constellation, Nov 2018 \- Dec 2024 · 6 yrs 2 mos, the world is my oyester, 2025 Co\-created India's first accessible Personal Branding course for tier\-2/3 students, interns and early\-career professionals\. 12 modules\. 120\+ videos\. 4\.6/5 student rating\. 2024 \- 2025 Led accounts at GainTailwind across India, Japan, UAE and the US\. Managed thought leadership, employer branding, pre\-sales IP, events, whitepapers\. Drove PLG as well as B2B growth across multiple accounts\. 2023 \- 2024 Built the GTM & authority layer for former EY Partner \(Zurich\) Gitanjali Ponnappa’s entrepreneurial venture, NegotiateHer built for women & people of color in Europe\. 2023 \- Led the team that took Intervue\.io to Shark Tank India and created proof\-of\-goodwill video systems with CHROs and SaaS founders that function as a credibility layer for sales even today\. 2022 \- 2023 \- Drove Content\-led PLG for Student Circus the UK & EU and launched the Career Ignition Hub on a £500/mo budget, all across 100\+ Universities\. 2020 \- 2022 \- Youngest partner faculty at NMIMS JDSoLA University\. Built and taught the Digital Marketing curriculum \(remotely during Covid\) for 200\+ Liberal Arts students\. Student rating never dropped below 3\.7/5\. 🏆A stationary and journaling brand, Humanhood, conceptualised by 2 students during capstone demo day became a EBIDTA positive business & got acquired by FutureWagon\. 2019 \- Youngest partner faculty commissioned to design K\.J Somaiya University’s first Digital Marketing curriculum as a 3\-month summer bootcamp for 150\+ students across three batches\. 2018 \- 2022 Co\-founded and ran an independent GTM & growth studio for four years in the pre\-AI era \- First marketing hire at Fabric Pandit & core marketing operator of the 0 \- $6M\+ journey \- Put digital distribution & influencer marketing in motion for Emprall, Pocketly App, WorldGrad, Polite Society, Happywagon with a combined revenue surpassing $1\.5M\. First job: loglines, screenplays and a pilot read by Varun Grover\. Learned that storytelling is the substrate of strategy\.

## Education

BA in Filmmaking with Specialisation in Screenwriting, Film/Cinema/Video Studies, Whistling woods international

High School, The KET's V\. G\. Vaze College of Arts, Science & Commerce \(Autonomous\)

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