About

Gagan Goyal is a highly accomplished entrepreneur, active angel investor, and a pre-seed and seed stage investor with a passion for discussing technology disruptions with founders. He is currently a General Partner at India Quotient, a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage startups in India. Gagan founded ThinkLABS, one of the most innovative ed-tech companies in India, where he successfully created a passionate and high-energy work culture that led to the development of an innovative and IP-driven product that customers loved. He won several accolades for his work and has been featured among the top 25 entrepreneurs in Asia by Businessweek and among the 35 young achievers in India Today. As an active angel investor, Gagan has invested in about 2 dozen well-known startups, including Housing.com, Fynd, Zorooms, Chaayos, Drivezy, Tork Motors, and Generico, with 5 positive exits to date. He is an IIT Bombay graduate who is excited about business around consumer hardware, technology, and learning. Gagan is passionate about promoting hands-on learning and STEM education, and he has been through the roller-coaster journey of conceiving the idea to creating a new business category in the Indian education market. He has seen challenges of product market fit to sales to raising capital, and finally built a sustainable company, got a cash exit by selling it to strategic players. With 18.70 years of relevant experience, Gagan is well known in the Indian startup ecosystem as an accomplished entrepreneur, active angel, and founder's buddy. He would love the startup world to be more frugal, more efficient, and more sane.