Vacati Experience X AIS & Co

​What does it take to build a new category, and how do you convince investors it's worth backing?

​Join Ravi Kant Shukla and Tanaya Sharma, co-founders of Vacati, for an intimate conversation with the Neo Investment Analyst Programme interns.

​Vacati is building the intelligence layer for Hospitality, Food & Beverage. Hospitality is a $2.8 trillion industry that, unlike finance with Bloomberg or healthcare with Epic, has never had domain-specific intelligence infrastructure of its own. Vacati is changing that with a proprietary hospitality LLM that powers a pairing engine, an AI-tutored academy, a concierge system, and a developer API.

​This session gives you a view of an early-stage company from the founders' side of the table. We'll discuss:

​📊 Sizing a market that doesn't exist yet: how Vacati built a bottom-up $12.4B TAM across six revenue engines
💰 The fundraising roadmap: planning rounds from angel to Series B, setting valuations, and deciding what each round unlocks
🛡️ Moats and defensibility: what makes a vertical AI business hard to replicate
🤝 Domain expertise meets finance: why the founding team pairs a former Oberoi chef with an investment banker
🚪 Thinking about exits: strategic M&A, secondaries, and the road to IPO

​Come with questions. This is an open conversation, not a pitch.

​About the founders

​Ravi Kant Shukla, Co-Founder & Managing Director: OCLD alumnus and former Junior Sous Chef at The Oberoi Vanyavilas. He has more than 15 years in hospitality, has trained 1,200+ professionals, and has designed 10+ F&B concepts across India.

​Tanaya Sharma, Co-Founder & Chief Strategy Officer: her background spans LSE, Deutsche Bank and EY, and she represented India at the Clinton Global Initiative. She leads Vacati's strategy, investor relations and financial architecture.