Gaurav Vij

I am an entrepreneur with over 4 years of strong experience in core product development, marketing and business development. My first business was Infireach, a social media marketing platform that connected Instagram Influencers with Brands. I started it back in 2015 when I was in 3rd year of graduation. Completely bootstrapped, I along with my co-founder built the whole platform and did cold email marketing to attract $4.5K worth of business in a matter of 2 months from companies in fashion and food space looking to grow their brand reach. We grew it for for next few months and made decent profits, until my inner calling asked me to build a more tech focused business. By the time I graduated, I came across VR/AR and felt that this is going to revolutionize the way we interact with content in coming years. Following this, me and my same previous co-founder started building our own Interactive image tech that allowed people to see motion captured in an image (or you can call it as Live Photos). The business was called Movense. At Movense, we raised $40K seed investment from few notable investors and grew the tech team. Pushed the early user adoption to 50,000 users in Europe through Guerilla marketing strategies. We developed several novel image recognition and processing systems in-house during the journey. I learnt great amount of lessons during movense journey on how to raise capital, grow initial user base, find product market fit, tech infra and product development. Currently, I am working on a distributed computing project to support CGI and AI industry's compute requirements at far cheaper cost compared to the current market monopolies. I also launched a tech product at CES expo 2019. Along with software product development, I have had great experience in hardware and electrical side of the products. During my graduation, I led a team of 15 electrical engineers to build a solar powered electric car for US Solar Car Challenge.