co-founder and full time cheerleader
@leapdotclub
. love sitting on tables, build in public startups, big breakfasts, flavoured gin and women in business 👩💼
Exactly 3 years apart - these two pictures :')
On the left: my last day at
@zomato
before I took the leap of faith
On the right: 10,000 paid
@leapdotclub
members, $2.2 mil raised, $2 mil+ in revenue and most importantly - real impact and ∞ member love
Just getting started💪
Have rolled out lots of PPO’s in my life. But rolling one for 7 months later for your own startup is a very different high :’)
The trust keeps us going.
social media tells us glorified stories of successful startup founders — how they started, scaled, raised, made memos that everyone wanted to get their hands on, well crafted reports on things their startups are doing right — what it doesn’t tell us is about the daily struggles.
We at
@LeapClub1
have raised $810,000 in a pre-series A round. 3 things that makes this special for us 🧵
- 13 members from the community invested in this round - if this isn't validation, I don't know what is :')
So THIS happened! Indra Nooyi at
@leapdotclub
- talking about developing a leadership mindset, what it takes to be a woman at the workplace and 60 mins of pure candour, motivation & goosebumps.
Here’s my personal goosebump moment - like I always say, we’re only getting started🚀
We hope to fund 10-12 companies in 2022, along with some of the sharpest brains in the industry.
If you are in the process of raising your first round of funding, then please write to us at thetable
@leap
.club
Here’s to building our own damn table, and not waiting for a seat 💪
2021 was an unprecedented year, global venture funding and unicorn creation shattered all records. but there was one stat that didn’t change.
female founders raised less than 2% of venture capital.
thrilled to announce the launch of the table.
As a part of my ‘turning 30’ goal last year, I put out a post on IG to work with young leaders (21-26 year old women) where I could help with some no filter work advice. Got swamped with over 300 responses and decided to work with 2-3 over the course of the year.
Watching some of the episodes of the new shark tank season has been a moment of pride for all us at . So far, we’ve seen 4 member-led brands (and counting) who’ve not just made it to
@sharktankindia
, but also killed it with their pitches:
41 years today since dad got commissioned in the Indian army - he isn’t serving atm but I’m a proud daughter always!
Throwback to his NSG days, he’s obvs the one driving ✅
Quit my job exactly 2 years ago today to start work on . Best decision ever 💯
Here's a picture from our townhall today where we discussed our big hairy audacious goals for the next 5 years ahead.
PS. We're always hiring - jobs
@leap
.club 📧
More women in leadership positions isn't just a mission statement for us. It's something that we work towards every day. For our last financing round, we wanted more women to join our cap-table. Not just to make the numbers look favourable (50%+ for us now)
🧵
Folks, we are in talks with our existing investors to raise a small financing round to amp up our team at
@LeapClub1
. Unfortunately, out of the 20 current investors, only 4 are women. We want to change this - do you know of any women investors we should approach?
RT for reach!
Just catching up on
@SharkTankIndia_
- watching the kyari episode. Reiterating that women in entrepreneurship is not a “cause”. Let’s be mindful of what we say on national television. 👎
in the last year, my respect for folks who handle people and culture has only grown 10x. we need to get over the 'hr bias' - this is people p&l management - tougher than any other business vertical.
It’s unfortunate that it’s tough to say these things out loud in 2022 but also very important to.
Always strive to be in a company/ team that pushes you to achieve more - stay hungry💯
I find it rather amusing that
@swiggy_in
would rather cancel my instamart order if they’re unable to meet the 15 min delivery than deliver it 10 mins late. Happened 2 times in 2 days - what’s the rat race guys?
Finish 10 years of starting my professional career today. No 🧵 full of learnings or anything - just focus on doing the best work of your life every single day.
Life is an inspired person’s game 🏀
we officially open our doors and hearts to our offline members in bombay today :)
everyone who believed in us the last 4 years of this crazy ride, this one is for all of you!
Our first employee at
@leapdotclub
finishes two years today! The feeling is unmatched 🥹
What the picture doesn’t cover: the many tears that followed after cause her dad decided to come in for the surprise too!
a friend started a home decor start up couple of months ago. she's also a
@LeapClub1
member.
we caught up today & she told me she found her CA via leap, the writer for her website via leap, a consultant helping her raise $$ via .. no prizes for guessing.
it hits different :')
100 women in a room talking about their professional goals on a Sunday is my fav kinda room 💯
My highlights -
- someone met a colleague from 2007
- someone met someone they look upto on Twitter
- a mother daughter member duo on the call
Join the mission -
@LeapClub1
social media tells us glorified stories of successful startup founders — how they started, scaled, raised, made memos, annual reports & twitter threads on things they're doing right — what it doesn’t tell us is about the daily failures/ struggles. and sometimes, a series of them.
Came home last weekend to see the fam. My dad is basically telling ‘my money don’t jiggle jiggle’ is way better than Diljit Dosanjh’s ‘lover’!?
What even!
As I’m waiting for my friend to arrive at a cafe, listening to so much gyaan from this start up founder trio on the next table about the funding winter, delhi pollution, farmers in Punjab, doubling ARR, price of avocados and Israel - all in 15 mins 😅
Who are some top (female) founders and women in leadership based out of Bengaluru?
Would love to invite them / have them speak at the upcoming
@leapdotclub
(af)fair in the city👇
We always say that is built in India but needed world over.
Our 2.0 app experience went live on
@ProductHunt
yesterday and ranked
#2
globally. Ain't no love like eco system love :)
Always 1% done and now back to work 👩💻
Sutton, Jane and Kat are looking for their Jacqueline!
As the head of marketing at
@leapdotclub
, you will be at the forefront of leading our entire marketing chapter including brand strategy, vision, communication, design and social.
turned 30 last week and summed up some bigger realisations over the last decade into a blog:
here's a 🧵(but i promise the blog's better):
📌 there’s nothing called a ‘perfect job’- it’s always what you make you it. raise that hand, go the extra mile.
Women's day is coming up and brands love us around this time of the year 🤷♀️
Since
@leapdotclub
is looking for a head of marketing and a social media associate to spearhead the next phase of our brand, we thought of throwing in a little challenge for all the marketing geniuses!