Mohit Agrawal

Mohit Agrawal is a seasoned startup founder with a background in tech and product development, particularly focusing on creating a marketing app for Indian small and medium businesses (SMBs). His successful ventures include a textbook helper product with over 60k downloads and a remarkable 4.2+ rating from 800+ reviews. Mohit has extensive experience in validating various ideas and has been actively advising and supporting startups in their product development, recruitment, and scaling efforts.

Prior to his entrepreneurial journey, Mohit served as a Tech Lead on the Global Hiring Team at Yahoo! Japan in Tokyo, where he was involved in full-stack data science projects for Yahoo Startpage, one of the most popular webpages in Japan. His work encompassed user segmentation, personalization, and image mining. Additionally, Mohit conducted over 150 interviews with candidates from prestigious institutions over a span of 3 years. His technological expertise includes Python, Hive, Spark, Hadoop, Tableau, scikit-learn, Pandas, and Solr, focusing on machine learning, data analysis, and distributed computing.

Mohit's educational background is equally impressive, holding a Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Delhi. During his time at IIT, he excelled in his studies, receiving the Best Thesis Award, publishing work in Graphic Recognition and Recommender Systems, and achieving a top percentile rank of 0.0001 in the All India Engineering Entrance Exams among a million candidates.

Throughout his career, Mohit has been associated with various renowned organizations, including BizUp where he focused on tech and product development, served as a startup consultant and advisor, co-founded Learnhance, and held positions at Yahoo and TCS Gurgaon's Innovation Lab. He was also a core team member at the Robotics Club at IIT Delhi.