Amit LakhotiaCo-founder & CEO, Park+
One of the foremost head honchos in the Indian start-up space, Amit is a veteran of NASDAQ-listed MakeMyTrip and listed erstwhile decacorn Paytm. This is aside from his last stint with Tokopedia, which has investments from Google, Temasek Holdings, Alibaba Group, and the SoftBank Vision Fund.
An angel investor in multiple unicorns aside, Amit is the Founder & CEO of India’s largest community of car owners, which has more cars onboarded than any other than the top auto brand has, on Indian roads.
Not just that, within three years of founding Park+, Amit has received not just interest but funding from the likes of Sequoia Capital India, and Matrix Capital India. This alongside being among India’s only brands to have a negative customer acquisition cost, in an ecosystem where a mantra has been that making money requires being flush with investor funds which can be used to build numbers.
An IIM Ahmedabad graduate, Amit is known across the start-up space for being a hard nosed investor and businessperson, someone who is both a serial entrepreneur and a serious investor, whose expertise lies in scaling businesses sustainably, taking them from inception to inflection and beyond.
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