Five Masters' Union Community Startups Shine on Shark Tank India
Masters' Union, an innovative Gurgaon institution with a sectoral, practitioner-instantiated style of management and engineering education, has achieved a remarkable first a staggering five startups launched by students of the institution have appeared on this season of Shark Tank India. The accomplishment underscores the institution's commitment to fostering actual, world-facing entrepreneurship through its differentiated, experiential style of learning.
Of the startups featured, Project Clay, a platform through which high school students are mentored by young professionals, raised INR 15 lakh in an equity stake of 10% from Namita Thapar. The investment reflects on how the platform has the potential to revolutionize career guidance for students. HiveSchool, a sales training specialist, also received strategic guidance from Aman Gupta to make their programme offline. Reflecting their flexibility, HiveSchool opened India's first offline sales business school dedicated to educating sales even before their episode went on air, demonstrating their willingness to act fast in response to the needs of an industry.
The five Masters' Union startups on Shark Tank India cover a wide variety of industries, reflecting the innovation in the community:
Bullspree - An app for stock market gaming that provides investing in an accessible and interactive way through gamification.
HiveSchool - A school of sales that prepares students with hands-on training and industry exposure.
MemoTag - A healthtech application offering real-time information and notifications for dementia patients.
Nexera Health - A tech-led platform providing end-to-end healthcare solutions for corporates in India and Southeast Asia.
Project Clay - A mentorship program that links high school students with young professionals to offer real-life professional advice.
Three of them were started by Masters' Union graduates, and Project Clay and Nexera Health are part of the startup ecosystem at the institution. In the last five years, Masters' Union has incubated many startups that have been able to scale their businesses. This success is driven by a strong entrepreneurial spirit underpinned by world-class infrastructure, such as AI labs in partnership with PwC, incubation centers for startups, mentorship from industry captains, and investment in leading-edge resources to support students in creating their own ventures.
What sets Masters' Union apart is its experiential learning paradigm. Rather than conventional exams, students are assessed on actual business results—whether launching an e-commerce venture in their first term, creating a YouTube channel in the second, building a blockchain protocol in the third, operating a cloud kitchen in the fourth, or designing a hardware product in the fifth. Evaluations center on essential business metrics like ROI, profitability, and NPS, making sure that graduates are equipped with real-world, industry-ready skills.
Pratham Mittal, founder of Masters' Union, said, "Having five startups from our ecosystem pitch on Shark Tank India is a moment of pride. It reinforces our confidence that when education is inextricably tied to industry, innovation follows automatically. At Masters' Union, we don't merely train students for employment—our goal is to prepare them to lead and create. Our courses are designed to instill an entrepreneurial mindset that enables students to start their own business, immediately or eventually in their professional lives. In the last year alone, approximately 26 startups were founded by our alumni, and we want to see this grow. By putting students through real-world business challenges, we make sure they gain the resilience, problem-solving abilities, and execution mindset required to succeed in any business setting."
