Varun Satia is the founder of Kraftshala, India’s largest marketing jobs providing edtech platform. With over a decade of rich experience in entrepreneurial endeavors, marketing, training, and academia, Varun has made a notable mark in the industry.
Varun's career began at Nestlé India, where he worked in various sales and marketing roles, including managing the 2,000 crore MAGGI brand. Following his tenure there, Varun ventured into the entrepreneurial domain, co-founding Expertizo Education, a marketplace for online courses, which provided invaluable insights for his subsequent ventures.
Varun’s entrepreneurial spirit led him to establish Kraftshala in 2017 along with Eshu Sharma. According to Varun, the education system is largely exam-driven and theoretical, where the incentives of the institutions are completely misaligned with those of the students, leading to graduates who are massively under-prepared and poorly setup to succeed in the industry.
He feels that India's higher education ecosystem needs to reboot to a new paradigm where learning is fun, graduates are taught through “learning-on-the-job” style practical programs by outstanding practitioners, and there is real accountability for institutions. He wishes to be the catalyst for this change via Kraftshala.
Under his leadership, Kraftshala has flourished into a leading ed-tech platform in India, boasting a community of over 200,000 members and facilitating programs for thousands of users. Kraftshala's success is underscored by an Advocacy Score of 95% and an impressive Placement Rate of 94%, reflecting Varun's unwavering commitment to student outcomes and his ethos of 'Scaling with Soul'. Kraftshala has also trained hundreds of leading industry leaders, from the COO of Cashify to Directors at ITC, Myntra, Taco Bell, Group M and others.
Beyond his entrepreneurial pursuits, Varun is deeply engaged in academia and mentorship. He has taken over a hundred sessions at premier Bschools- IIMs, ISB, XLRI etc. He has also served as the Managing Director of StudentBusinesses.com, a Harvard-founded platform started by well-known US entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, which was later acquired by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation in 2009.
Throughout his career, Varun Satia has epitomized visionary leadership, driving innovation and impact at every turn.
Varun did his Bachelor's in Chemical Engineering from BITS Pilani, Goa Campus, where he was the co-founder and eventual President of the Centre for Entrepreneurial Leadership. He further did an MBA from the Faculty of Management Studies - University of Delhi.
