Varun Mayya
| Varun Mayya | |
|---|---|
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| Born | February 22, 1993 |
| 🏳️ Nationality | Indian |
| 🎓 Alma mater | Manipal Institute of Technology (BTech) |
| 💼 Occupation | |
| Title | Co-founder and CEO of Avalon Meta Co-founder of Jobspire |
| 👩 Spouse(s) | Achina Mayya (married 2020-present) |
Varun Mayya (born 22 February 1993) is the author of the best-selling book Pyjama Profit, and the Founder and CEO of Avalon Meta and Avalon Labs. His venture Avalon Meta is venture-funded. He was interested in technology and started writing code at the age of 11. He started working on his first game, a Genesis3D based game engine called Realityfactory in 2013.
Early Career
Mayya started his entrepreneurial journey while studying at Manipal Institute of Technology. He first started a t-shirt manufacturing company called SIZER. At the same time, he also worked as a freelancer for clients in the USA. He founded Jobspire in 2014 along with Mohak Dhingra, Kartik Luke Singh, and Sandesh Kini. Jobspire, a recruitment company, raised an investment of $262,000 in seed funding by six venture capitalists. The company served over 4 million requests in 2016 and was acquired by JustCode in 2017.
About Avalon Labs
Varun Mayya and Shashank Udupa, an investment banker, founded Avalon Labs in 2017, a start-up that invests in early-stage tech startups. Avalon Labs is one of the fastest-growing incubators and employed 50 people in a short span of two years. To date, Avalon Labs have worked with Foxbound LLC, USA, CalmIndia, Bengaluru, Ideal, Bahrain, Regen Liquid Nutrition, Delhi, Linkhero, USA, and Enkidu Blockchain, Singapore among others.
Jobspire
After having run SIZR, a development services agency on oDesk, Varun and his college friends Kartik, Mohak and Sandesh started Jobspire – an end-to-end online job recruitment platform which provided solutions like sourcing, matching, and decision making for Indian startups.
They raised $262,000 through a seed round funding led by Purvi Capital. In early 2017, New York-based interviewing platform JustCode acquired them for an undisclosed amount.[1][2]
Avalon Labs
Avalon Labs was a hybrid venture studio founded by Varun Mayya and Shashank Udupa which provided technology services and also invested $50,000–$100,000 in some startups that they worked with. A few of which are The Mana Network, CalmIndia, and Linkhero.
Avalon Meta
Avalon Meta was founded by Varun Mayya, Shashank Udupa, and Abhinav Arora. Avalon Meta describes itself as a hybrid between an education and gaming company. The Avalon Meta app contains free courses in the fields of finance, marketing, coding, sales, design, etc., many of which are taught by the founders themselves. It raised $420,000 led by a blockchain-based gaming company Peerplays. It currently has a student community of 45,000 members whose goals are to advance in career and help others in learning new skills along the way.[3][4]
Books
Pyjama Profit
Pyjama Profit is an Amazon bestseller written by Varun Mayya and Abhinav Chhikara and published by Bloomsbury. It talks about developing in-demand online skills to get started with a sustainable career in freelancing.
In this book, Varun talks about negotiation and why it is an important real-world skill and further talks about negotiation techniques and how they apply to domains ranging from real estate to software.
Awards and Recognition
The Entrepreneur's Educational Influencer 2020
Varun was awarded the Educational Influencer of the year award by The Entrepreneur in 2020.
References
- ↑ "JustCode acquires online hiring platform Jobspire". VCCircle. 2017-06-09. Retrieved 2021-02-27.
- ↑ "JustCode Acquires Online Job Recruitment Startup Jobspire". Inc42 Media. 2017-06-08. Retrieved 2021-02-27.
- ↑ "Edtech startup AvalonMeta gets funding from blockchain firm Peerplays, others". VCCircle. 2020-02-18. Retrieved 2021-03-08.
- ↑ Udit (2020-02-20). "Avalon Meta secured $420,000 led by Peerplays". TechStory. Retrieved 2021-03-08.
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