Pulkit Ahuja
Pulkit Ahuja is an Author[1][2][3][4], Entrepreneur[5][6] and Inventor[7]. As of May 2019, Pulkit had written 2 books[1][8][9] and founded 3 companies[10][5][11][12]. The companies Pulkit has founded include SchoolCampus Technologies[10], Unlockar Apps and Cabsguru. His first book, Risk Management in Basel, was published by Skylark Publications in 2012. He moved to Srishti Publishers in 2015 for his second book, Googled by God[13][14].
| Pulkit Ahuja | |
|---|---|
| File:Pulkit.pngpulkit.png Ahuja in 2016 | |
| Born | 13 September 1988 New Delhi, India |
| 🏡 Residence | New Delhi |
| 🏳️ Nationality | Indian |
| 🏫 Education | MBA, Computer Engineer |
| 🎓 Alma mater | Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore |
| 💼 Occupation | |
| Known for | Author, Entrepreneur, Inventor |
| Notable work | Googled by God, Risk Management in Basel, Cabsguru, Unlockar, Drone Assisted Driving |
| 🏅 Awards | mBillionth Award South Asia 2015 |
Early Life
Pulkit Ahuja was born in New Delhi, India on 13 September 1988. His father is an accountant and his mother is a government school teacher. He did his schooling from Salwan Public School, Rajendra Nagar, Delhi in Delhi. He completed his computer science engineering from the Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University[15] in 2010 and received his MBA degree from Lal Bahadur Shastri Institute of Management[16] in 2012. He later went on to study marketing from Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore.
Career
Pulkit started his career with S&P Global Inc.. After leaving S&P Global, he founded Unlockar[17] Apps, a mobile app company[18] that presented user selected content on the lockscreen of user's android phones. Unlockar received an undisclosed amount of funding from GM Venture Partners[19]. Unlockar was received well by Indian audience and had more than 20,000 users[20] within 8 weeks of launch. Unlockar was selected as a part of Business World Accelerate's second batch in 2015[21] and won mBillionth Award South Asia 2015[22]. Unlockar was also a winner of Madlabs 2015[23].
Pulkit later founded Cabsguru[24], an app based cab search, compare and booking aggregator which raised USD 200,000.[25] at an USD 3.5 Million valuation[26]. Cabsguru operated in 75 Indian Cities[25] and launched Robocab, a multi-operator cab search and booking bot[25]. Cabsguru had an user base of over one hundred fifty thousand users[6]
Publications
Non Fiction
• Ahuja, Pulkit. Risk Management in Basel. Skylark Publications. 2012. ISBN 9788186141465 Search this book on 
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Fiction
• Ahuja, Pulkit. Googled by God. Srishti Publishers. 2015. ISBN 9789382665441 Search this book on .
Inventions
- Drone Assisted Driving (DAD)[7]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Googled by God". www.goodreads.com. Retrieved 2019-05-11.
- ↑ www.ETAuto.com. "OPINION: Have a Driver's License? That is all you need to earn Rs. 40,000 per month - ET Auto". ETAuto.com. Retrieved 2019-05-12.
- ↑ "BW Businessworld | Pulkit Ahuja". BW Businessworld. Retrieved 2019-05-12.
- ↑ "Book Review: Googled By God ..In Search Of Money (and exclusive interview with the author)". Trak.in - Indian Business of Tech, Mobile & Startups. 2015-09-09. Retrieved 2019-05-12.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Ganguly, Payal (2015-12-15). "Cab comparison and booking site Cabsguru raises angel round". The Economic Times. Retrieved 2019-05-11.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Reporter, B. S. (2016-01-22). "Cabsguru to launch a premium cab service". Business Standard India. Retrieved 2019-05-11.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 "Pilot through road uncertainties with new Drone Assisted Driving - Times of India". The Times of India. Retrieved 2019-05-11.
- ↑ "Risk Management in Basel". www.goodreads.com. Retrieved 2019-05-11.
- ↑ "Googled By God: Buy Googled By God by Ahuja Pulkit at Low Price in India". Flipkart.com. Retrieved 2019-05-12.
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 "Life @Startups: An insider view". Business Insider. Retrieved 2019-05-12.
- ↑ "Pulkit Ahuja, Founder Unlockar Mobile App – Apps unveiled". Retrieved 2019-05-11.
- ↑ technuter (2014-06-26). "Now bid at auctions using reward points on Unlockar". Technuter. Retrieved 2019-05-11.
- ↑ "Planning To Startup? Here's Itinerary For Your T.R.I.P". Inc42 Media. 2015-07-20. Retrieved 2019-05-12.
- ↑ www.bookgeeks.in https://www.bookgeeks.in/googled-god-pulkit-ahuja-book-review/. Retrieved 2019-05-12. Missing or empty
|title=(help) - ↑ Ahuja, Pulkit (2015). Googled by God. ISBN 978-9382665441. Search this book on
- ↑ Yadav, Himani (2014-06-16). "Founder interview: Unlockar". withStartups.com - Charge up your Digital Marketing. Retrieved 2019-05-11.
- ↑ India, Entrepreneur (2016-01-12). "How creativity & technology are getting married through digital revolution?". Entrepreneur. Retrieved 2019-05-12.
- ↑ Ahuja, Pulkit (2015-07-27). "6 Things I Learned During My First Successful App Launch". iamwire. Retrieved 2019-05-12.
- ↑ "Lock More, Get Paid More | Unlockar". TheTechPanda.com. 2014-04-07. Retrieved 2019-05-11.
- ↑ "VARINDIA Unlocker touches 20,000 Users". https://www.facebook.com/VARINDIAMagazine. Retrieved 2019-05-11. External link in
|website=(help) - ↑ "Meet the 20 startups selected for BW Accelerate's second batch". Techcircle. 2015-11-25. Retrieved 2019-05-11.
- ↑ "mBillionth Award South Asia | Winners". Retrieved 2019-05-11.
- ↑ "Madhouse hosts mobile advertising event in Bengaluru". MxMIndia. Retrieved 2019-05-11.
- ↑ "Tech in Asia - Connecting Asia's startup ecosystem". www.techinasia.com. Retrieved 2019-05-12.
- ↑ 25.0 25.1 25.2 "Cab Booking Platform Cabsguru Raises Angel Funding". Inc42 Media. 2015-12-15. Retrieved 2019-05-11.
- ↑ "Cabsguru raises $200K from Paysense founder, others". VCCircle. 2015-12-15. Retrieved 2019-05-11.
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