About Santosh Panda
Hello! 👋 I run Foundership - The Web3 Accelerator VC🚀
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Find more about Foundership. https://foundershiphq.com/
With my new endeavor, Foundership, I'm on a mission to help/enable Web3 Projects and Startup Folks to succeed and scale.
Before Foundership, I started my Startup journey back in 2007, much before startups were "cool." I built Explara f, India - an event ticketing and management platform by developing a SaaS solution while living in Lonworkingd and having a day job.
I relocated to India in 2011-12 and grew Explara from $11 m in gross revenue to VC funding by hustling and bootstrapping. Back then, I didn't have the ecosystem to support me or correct my mistakes. But, lucky for you, it's all there today!
With a shoestring budget, I built a successful business & brand, Explara, serving thousands of customers worldwide. Explara was my 3rd Startup that went through years of perseverance to withstand numerous failures and shutdown modes to become profitable in 2019.
I started 2 businesses in London during 2005 & 06, both failed. Before starting up Explara, I was a software product engineer in eBay UK, BBC iPlayer, William Hill Betting platform and TouchNote. Before that, I was part of several startups during the dotcom era of the 2000s in the USA.
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