Success Story Of 5 Investors Who Turned Into Founders


# Satish Kataria, Catapooolt

This crowd funding and community building platform is an initiative of Satish Kataria who has more than 14 years of strategic management experience. Of late, Catapooolt is crowd funding for sports, politics, social enterprises and startups apart from creative projects. Kataria’s work experience as the Managing Director of SpringBoard Ventures and Vice President of Religare Venture Capital Limited gave him wide scopes to study and analyze the conventional funding structure in India. As a solution to the entire pot hole, he initiated Catapooolt.

# Manoj Gupta, Craftsvilla

Craftsvilla, a luxury brand in handcrafted and greencrafted products is a start up attempt by Manoj since 2011. He was also known for making investments in Klip.in, Tookitaki and Kwnech in 2013. Manoj’s Craftsvilla might not be seeking media attention or is lacking ad initiatives. However, it has a significant position if seen from the traffic point of view. Before this, Manoj was Principal at Nexus Venture Partners for four years.

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