Amrit Sohal

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Co-founder & COO, Drift AI - mobile · education · growth

Drift AI
Bengaluru, India · IST (UTC+5:30)
10+ years experience
IIM Calcutta
English, Hindi, Kannada
Raising
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Overview

Founder of Drift AI (edtech). 10 years of building before that. Took Drift AI from zero to $1 million ARR. Before that: Google and Airtel. Most at home with content and growth. Volunteer coding coach for school students.

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  • Investors who back our stage and sector
  • Questions about edtech
  • Working sessions on mobile
  • Thoughtful intros to people in my field
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  • Offshore staffing offers
  • Unpaid work or spec projects
  • Paid accelerator offers

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Skills
growthopen sourceeducationmobilecontent
RaisingRaising capital
closes in 3 months

Raising a $15M pre-seed for data labelling for construction firms

Stage
Pre-seed
Raising
$15M
Instrument
Convertible note
Committed so far
Opening the round now
Lead investor
Looking for a lead
Traction
20 enterprise pilots after 29 months
Use of funds
Go-to-market in two new countries

20 enterprise pilots after 29 months. Looking for investors who know climate tech and can help with expansion into North America.

Bengaluru, India · remote OKeducationmobilecontent
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Experience

  1. Co-founder & COO
    Mar 2023 - Present
    Drift AI · 3 yr 7 mo · Contract · Bengaluru, India
    • Grew the team to 17 people across 5 countries.
    • Raised $23 million across 3 rounds.
    • Took Drift AI from zero to $4 million ARR.
  2. Product Manager
    Sep 2021 - Mar 2023
    Google · 1 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
    • Grew creator revenue from $4 million to $18 million ARR.
    • Killed 3 features nobody used and shipped the 2 that customers asked for.
  3. Principal Product Manager
    Dec 2017 - Sep 2021
    Airtel · 3 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
    • Led or co-led 10 investments, 9 of them now at Series B or later.
    • Previously an operator for 11 years before investing.
  4. Group Product Manager
    Oct 2016 - Dec 2017
    SAP · 1 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
    • Killed 7 features nobody used and shipped the 4 that customers asked for.

Projects

Open-source education toolkit
2023

A small library for edtech that 394 developers star on GitHub.

Edtech benchmark
2022

Reproducible benchmarks comparing content and open source on real workloads.

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Education

  1. IIM Calcutta
    MBA, Business Administration
    2015 - 2017
  2. IIT Roorkee
    B.Tech, Business Administration
    2011 - 2015

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