Karan always believed in the incredible power of early childhood learning and harnessing the natural curiosity and creativity of kids. He started WhiteHat Jr in 2018, which is now India’s second largest ed-tech company at a revenue run rate of $220 Million in just 18 months of inception. From a 7-member team, the company has now scaled to over 9500 teachers on its platform teaching kids not just in India, but also in the US and other markets.
In August 2020, he joined hands with BYJU’S, the world’s most valuable ed-tech company, to accelerate his goal of making kids into creators and not just consumers of technology. Karan continues to serve as the CEO of the company and will lead the company post the acquisition.
A striving yogic, Karan believes in keeping it simple, is a minimalist and views modern life through a yogic prism. He took a sabbatical in 2013 and backpacked across South America and Central Asia with his wife and spent most of the year in forest ashrams and silent meditation retreats.
Karan is also an acclaimed novelist and has written three bestselling novels so far published by HarperCollins-India and Penguin Random House: Keep Off the Grass, Johnny Gone Down and The Seeker. His first novel, Keep Off the Grass became a bestseller with more than 70,000 copies sold in the year of release. Together his novels have sold more than 200,000 copies in India. In fact, Keep Off The Grass is also being made into a movie. Kunal Kohli Productions, UTV Productions, and Mosaic Media Group bid for the film rights of the book.
A graduate of IIM-Bangalore, Karan has earlier served as the CEO for Discovery Inc., where he led Discovery Networks (Discovery Channel, TLC, Animal Planet, Discovery Kids etc.) in South Asia. He’s been associated with companies like P&G, BCG, and Kraft Foods Group in the past.
