Take Off - A Hands-On, Case-Based Session on GTM to Fundraising for Tech Startups 🚀
Join us for Take Off, a practical, operator-led session designed to help tech founders understand what it truly takes to build, scale, and fundraise with clarity. This isn’t a theory-heavy workshop—it's a deep dive into real case studies, actionable GTM frameworks, and fundraising insights grounded in on-the-ground experience.
In this session you will hear Rohit Pareek, CFO and Head of Corporate Development at GOQii, with extensive experience in investment banking and in scaling consumer-tech businesses across finance, strategy, and capital raising. Joining him is Pratim Pathak, founder of Build.Club and former VC at Pi Ventures, who brings deep expertise from working closely with early-stage startups across AI, deep tech, and healthcare . Together, they bring a rare operator-investor lens that cuts through theory and focuses on what actually drives outcomes.
Across the session, we’ll break down how early-stage founders can sharpen their go-to-market motion, identify the right customer segments, build repeatable growth engines, and prepare for investor conversations with confidence. You’ll learn how operators evaluate traction, how investors assess readiness, and how successful startups navigate the gap between product validation and scalable execution.
Why Attend?
Walk through real founder scenarios and GTM mistakes to avoid
Understand the exact signals investors look for before writing a cheque
Get practical frameworks to align product, distribution, and revenue
Learn from operators who’ve built, scaled, and raised at different stages
Leave with clarity on how to accelerate your next stage of growth
Speakers:
✨ Pratim Pathak, Founder, Build.Club
✨ Rohit Pareek, CFO & Head Corporate Development, GOQii
📍 Mumbai
📅 28th November 2025
⏰ 3:30 PM onwards
About Kotak BizLabs at NSRCEL, IIM Bangalore
A CSR Initiative by Kotak Mahindra Bank in Partnership with NSRCEL.
Incubation program for early revenue-stage startups. The program focuses on helping founders refine their go-to-market (GTM) strategy, become capital-ready, and scale with clarity, particularly in sectors such as AI, deep tech, E-commerce, health tech, and other innovative spaces.