Anveshika Sharma

“I had a good opportunity to have Anveshika as key pillar of my team at Edupreneur Village, within Sri Aurobindo Society, from January 2019 till about February 2022. There are people who do well and there are team players who are dependable, hard working, mature, ever ready for more work, chase perfection, show an exceptional integrity and achieve great results at the same time. Anveshika clearly belonged to the second lot, a very small breed of people around us. Anveshika joined as an business analyst in my team when Edupreneur Village was at a nascent stage. She took all kinds of responsibilities to become a multi-tasker in a small team, including meeting startups, undertaking their evaluation, preparing different kinds of information memorandums for the investments and performance monitoring. She had a critical role to play in the investments in Mindler and Scholr (acquired by Byju's, a large Indian Ed-Tech company), orchestrated by Edupreneur Village. She played a central role in managing the flagship investment event of Edupreneur Village, 'The Final Battle' in 2019 in Delhi, which saw an in-person audience of 500+ startups and investors, witnessing 10 finalized startups of Edupreneur Village pitching for investment in front of investors from venture capital community across India. This gave me good confidence to assign higher responsibilities to her. I saw Anveshika growing from being an individual contributor to managing and working with a team eventually. Starting as an analyst to evaluate startups for investments, she grew into the role of managing the whole new acceleration program of Edupreneur Village. The new role involved managing the marketing of the program, handling 1000+ business plans which were coming each year through the marketing process, filtering each application into 3 buckets (Fit for investment, Fit for partnership and Fit for acceleration), writing feedback reports for each of them and then managing the year long acceleration cohort of 10+ startups by coordinating with startups and mentors. She excelled at handling multiple conflicting requirements at various junctures of the program. Anveshika is much more than an asset for any team she joins in. I am glad we are both in Canada now. Hopefully, we will have a chance to work together again some day. All good wishes for her.”

“I have worked in a cross team with Anveshika and she is someone her team constantly looks up to. I've had the pleasure to watch the acceleration program she built from ground zero, come to life. I haven't met a more systematic and inspiring leader, who is not only able to maintain strategic relationships with partners but also build worthy programs for applicants. I look forward to working with her again.”