Pradeep Krishnakumar is the Co-Founder of Zouk, a D2C brand which brings stylish & functional products with an essence of India. With over 60,000 happy customers, Pradeep has scaled Zouk into a promising D2C brand, backed by marquee investors. Zouk has raised over $1.5M from Stellaris Venture Partners, Titan Capital & founders of popular D2C brands like Mamaearth, Wow Skin Science and Beardo. Prior to Zouk, Pradeep has worked at Deutsche Bank, McKinsey, Guild Capital and BrowserStack. He comes with varied experiences across Operations, Strategy, Growth and Venture Capital. Pradeep has expanded Zouk’s distribution from being a purely D2C website driven brand to becoming a bestseller on Amazon. In fact, Zouk has grown 4x within the first few months of 2021 and is rapidly scaling to become a Rs. 100 cr brand.