Akarsh Sanghi

Akarsh Sanghi is the founder of Reach.Live, a social media platform for content creators. Prior to starting Reach.Live, Akarsh worked as a product lead at N26 and Zalando SE.

At N26, Akarsh led the development of the premium membership program, which included N26 Black and N26 Metal. Akarsh also helped set up the new engineering hub in Barcelona.

At Zalando SE, Akarsh led the product and design efforts for multiple projects at The Studio, an in-house team created in collaboration with IDEO. Some of these efforts were converted into full businesses and launched in the market, while others morphed into other internal initiatives or were purely for inspiration purposes. Some of the businesses that were launched include the Zalando Plus program and the acquisition of KICKZ by Zalando.

Before joining N26 and Zalando SE, Akarsh was a product lead at Keio-NUS CUTE Center, where they worked on developing a social media platform for content creators.

Akarsh Sanghi attended Y Combinator for their master's degree in Interaction Design. Akarsh then went on to the Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design for their bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering. Finally, they attended Modern School, Barakhamba Road for high school.