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Prajakt Raut

Entrepreneur and entrepreneurship evangelist - Managing Partner - Supply Chain Labs Fellowship Fund and Founder Applyifi (Corporate Accelerator Programs)

Prajakt Raut is an accomplished entrepreneur and business leader with extensive experience in the startup ecosystem. He is the Co-Founder of Applyifi, a company that helps startups create comprehensive business plans and investor pitch decks.1

Professional Background

Prajakt's career spans various roles in entrepreneurship and innovation:

  • Managing Partner at Caret Capital: His current position, where he continues to support entrepreneurship.2
  • Founder of Applyifi: This platform assists startups in creating business plans and assesses their business and investment readiness.1
  • Co-creator of The Reset Program: An initiative providing experienced advice and implementation support to help business leaders reset their business plans.1
  • Founding Partner of The Growth Labs: A venture that helps corporates manage their innovation programs.1

Previous Roles

Before his current ventures, Prajakt held several significant positions:

  • Head of Operations at Indian Angel Network (IAN)13
  • Founding member of a leading incubator13
  • Asia-Director for TiE (The Indus Entrepreneurs) from 2004 to 20071
  • Co-founder of Orange Cross, a healthcare services company1
  • Founding team member of Idealake Technologies1

Entrepreneurial Journey

Prajakt's entrepreneurial spirit emerged early:

  • Founded a printing business while in college1
  • Spent over 10 years working in leading advertising agencies1

Contributions to the Startup Ecosystem

Prajakt has made significant contributions to the startup community:

  • Authored the book "Starting Up & Fund Raising" to help startups understand investors' perspectives and improve their chances of getting funded1
  • Volunteers with organizations like iSPIRT and TiE1
  • Drives corporate accelerators and open innovation programs4

Prajakt Raut's LinkedIn profile can be found under the username "prajaktraut", where he is listed as based in Gurgaon, Haryana, India, with over 500 connections.2

Highlights

Jul 11 · linkedin

Isn’t this misleading? Should add like this be allowed.

And if ASCI has no problem with these ads, brands may as well put the price of new phones as possibly Rs.0.

More than the level of vigilance of ASCI committee I wonder what governance standards these brands have to allow misleading stuff to be published.

Isn’t this misleading? Should add like this be allowed. 

And if ASCI has no problem with these ads,
Apr 29 · linkedin

𝐈𝐓 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐧𝐨 𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐫 𝐚 𝐩𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐚 𝐛𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐠 𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐮𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬 (Today's article in The Mint rightly states that the IT sector, which used to employ millions of graduates, is unlikely to continue to hire as much as they used to.)

Millions of Indians cherish the prospect of getting a job in the IT sector, which often lifts families out of poverty and into a better life. 𝐀 𝐬𝐮𝐝𝐝𝐞𝐧 𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐨𝐟 𝐣𝐨𝐛𝐬 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐛𝐞 𝐚 𝐡𝐮𝐠𝐞 𝐛𝐥𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐨 𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐞 𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐦𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐚𝐬𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬. 𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐭𝐨 𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐬𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐮𝐧𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐭 unless we create new possibilities.

For this, India needs to rethink employment and employability, and adopt the new ways of work and new models of employment - gig, on-demand. All this will be possible with new-age technologies and platforms that make the new way of work and new models of work possible.

At Caret Capital employment is one of the three pillars of out thesis. Not only does this have significant tailwinds for value and wealth creation, technology interventions in employment and employability will also have a strong societal impact on the nation.

Our portfolio startups like Traqcheck (https://www.traqcheck.com/) and UnStop (https://unstop.com/) are enabling large corporations to adopt the new ways of work and transition to new models.

If you are a startup disrupting employment, employability, identity and the new ways of work, we'd like to talk.

Pankaj Bansal Karann Mittal Danish Dogra Dr NS Rajan

https://lnkd.in/gRhmau92

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Gurgaon, Haryana, India