Kunal Pandya

Kunal Pandya's work experience includes various roles and positions in different companies. Kunal is currently the Director at StartupGuru, a startup incubator for non-technical founders. In this role, they serve as a venture advisor, principal mentor, and guru, helping ambitious founders turn their ideas into successful businesses.

Previously, Kunal was the CEO of NCrypted Technologies, where they acted as an evangelist, working with client companies and entrepreneurs to help them achieve their goals. Kunal also served as an investor in Playmore Games Inc. and Home Jiny, from 2020 to 2023 and 2019 to 2023 respectively.

Before that, Kunal was the Marketing Director at Chanakyas Consulting from 2008 to 2014. Kunal also played a strategic role as a partner in OYO, where they worked on the conceptualization and launch of the initial version of the OYO Rooms site. Additionally, Kunal co-founded MetroJoint.com Pvt. Ltd. and served as a co-founder from 2006 to 2012.

Overall, Kunal Pandya has a diverse and extensive background in entrepreneurship, mentoring, and strategic partnerships, with a focus on supporting non-technical founders and helping startups succeed.

Kunal Pandya pursued their education in a chronological order. From 1993 to 2000, they attended Saurashtra High School, but did not obtain a degree or specialize in any particular field. Following this, from 2000 to 2003, they enrolled at Acharya Institutes, where they obtained an Engineer's degree in Information Technology. Continuing their educational journey, from 2003 to 2005, they attended the Indian Institute of Planning and Management, where they obtained an MBA degree with a focus on Marketing.

In addition to their formal education, Kunal Pandya has acquired additional certifications. These include ISO 9001:2015 from IMS UKAS and Microsoft Certified Partner from Microsoft Corporation. However, there is no specific information available regarding the month or year they obtained these certifications.