Ambitious Labs

Building the #1 app idea accelerator in the world.

- Raised mid 6-figure angel round
- 7-figure annual revenue 
- Built a high performing enrollments department 
- 4.9 star google reviews
- Developed cutting edge ai powered learning platform

Founder + CEO

Closercademy

CEO, Founder

University of California, Berkeley

Guest lecturer for the Product Launch class under the Sutardja center for entrepreneurship & technology.

Teaching full-stack no-code AI development to business students interested in launching app startups.

Guest Lecturer

FlutterFlow

Championing the FlutterFlow product for the USA market.

Content Creator & Ambassador

First Check Ventures

- Syndicate member of First Check Ventures. I write $2k-$5k checks to a handful of promising companies every year. 

- Invested in Everything Green Organics, a farm to table startup out of Windsor, California.

Angel Investor

Yummy 

Venezuela’s super app. Doordash + Uber. Invested very early alongside FCV syndicate.

Angel Investor via First Check Ventures

PrizePicks

- #1 App for Sports in the iOS App Store
- #1 Daily Fantasy Sports App in the Country 2022
- Senior Mobile Engineer owning CI/CD, release management and user acquisition engineering

Head of Mobile & Growth Engineering

- Lead product engineering of top a 10 Sports App in iOS App Store
- Day to day: React, CapacitorJS, Swift/Java, Growth Marketing, App Analytics, AdTech, Product Marketing, Re-engagement
- Achieved industry leading engagement rates by developing new features against KPI goals. (CAC, virality co-efficient, etc) 
- Built a world class marketing tech stack in close collaboration with Marketing and Data Science.

Head Mobile Engineer

Season Share

Co founded and led product and engineering. Worked closely with VPs at major league teams to earn buy in for our products. Responsible for deploying 50+ products in market generating 10s of millions of dollars of revenue for our partners. Architected a distributed system capable of supporting 500k MAUs & high traffic on-sale windows.

Co-founder + CTO 

Hourglass Education Technology Solutions, LLC

Worked on cutting edge institutional education software. Mentored on ReactJS best practices. Individual contributor in a disciplined agile/scrum environment.

Senior Mobile App Engineer (React Native) 

San Jose State University

Instructional Assistant 

Grew up in a small town and had to work extra hard to get my foot in the door working on cool tech startups. My first job at age 15 was fixing iPhone screens in the mall. Then I scooped ice cream at Cold Stone Creamery and bussed tables at a local airport restaurant to pay for college. 

After football practice in high school I'd be learning how to code on CodeAcademy. People thought I was a nerd. 

Fast forward 10 years -- I've built multiple apps, b2b SaaS, internet businesses, websites, and e-commerce businesses that have generated over $100m collectively. 

I got to work remotely, travel to 12+ countries, invest in real estate and stocks and built a fruitful living for myself. 

Learning how to build apps changed my life. Now I’m on a mission to teach 10,000 people how to build apps.

Alim Charaniya

Clari

FY2023 - 112%, President’s Club, Account Manager One with Customers Award
FY2022 - 117%

Commercial Account Manager

Clari’s Revenue Operations Solution uses AI and automation to help B2B organizations drive growth and retention by increasing win rates, shortening sales cycles and improving forecast accuracy. We are used by hundreds of sales, marketing and customer success teams at leading B2B companies including Adobe, Zoom, Workday, Alteryx and Okta to drive pipeline, improve execution, forecast the business and reduce churn.

Customer Success Manager

Customer Success Associate - Commercial

Surplus

Surplus is an application that focuses on reducing food waste from restaurants by selling excess or "surplus" food each day at a discounted rate to students and the community. 

Over the last several months, my partner, Jackie Pan and I have been finalists in the Silicon Valley Innovation Challange (Novemeber 2018), 2nd place at the Silicon Valley Business Plan Competition (May 2019). We're also Zinnstarter fellows, an incubator program at SJSU backed by Ray Zinn while raising $20,000+.

Here's our interview with the City of San Jose: https://medium.com/sanjoseway/sanjoseinnovates-sjsu-surplus-d9409cd95f1b

Co-Founder

Kinderlime

Acquired by Procare Software. 

Worked across a large variety of projects at my role at Kinderlime, doing things from Marketing, to Project Management, to Product Analysis, to Product Management.

Product, Growth,  Marketing Analyst

Alpha Kappa Psi

As a first semester freshmen at San Jose State University, I wanted to join an organization who were self-motivated and longed to better themselves in all aspects. That was when I stumbled upon Alpha Kappa Psi, a Professional Business Fraternity, where I've been able to connect with many like-minded and successful individuals. Some of my accomplishments within Alpha Kappa Psi have included being the fundraising director for my Pledge Class, in which we hosted over 15 different fundraisers to fundraise over $11,000 within a 12 week period. I was also Recruitment Director, a vital position in recruiting new members to maintain our chapter size. I planned and hosted over 6 events that brought out over 200 SJSU students. 

I have also served as the chapter's Vice President of the chapter in which I overlooked all internal affairs such as onboarding new members, hosting weekly chapter meetings, and working closely with 5 directors who helped plan and organize events so that our members could grow professionally and socially.

Most recently, I served as the President of the Omega Phi chapter in which I oversaw and worked closely with an executive board that focused on the day to day operation of our organization.

President, Vice President, Fundraising Director, Recruitment Director

Workday

This summer I had the opportunity to go back to Workday for a second summer in a row, however, this time for a different position and yet another challenge. As someone who has shied away from technical work for the last 3 years, this experience allowed me to step out of my comfort zone and taught me the basics of XML and XSLT. For the first 4 weeks of my 12 week internship, Workday paid for my training to become Workday Certified in their HCM product and work directly with real clients. The training provided a strong foundation in understanding how Workday’s core product worked and how to maximize it. I learned how to create reports, configured Cloud Connect integrations (Workday non-custom integrations), and set up the tenant with mock data. The coolest (and scariest) part of this internship was leading design calls for all of the integrations with our clients. We had to determine all of the stakeholders of the project, set up weekly calls, collect requirements on what the integration would entail. The calls were left at the hands of all of the interns with supervision from our amazing mentors Raj and Rajiv. Our mentors also taught us Workday Studio (hosted on an Eclipse IDE) which allows Workday integration consultants the opportunity to build complex and custom integrations more seemlessly. I was also tasked with developing Business Intelligence Reporting Tool (BIRT) integrations for certain clients who required new formats within their Purchase Orders and Check Prints. This was a great learning experience because I was able to put my newly learned Workday Studio skills to work and see an entire project through to clients.

Associate Integrations Consultant Intern

Lead assistant for 3 sections of Introduction to Finance course for two semesters. Graded homework assignments, tests, quizzes, and supported the professor in additional capacities.

Student Assistant for BUS170 (Introduction to Finance)

Going into the 2016-2017 school year, I had only 1 goal -- to get an internship at a big company. I had already tasted the intern life at a medium-sized company and a startup so I knew I wanted to make sure I tried something new so I'd know what I would want after graduating from college. 

At Workday, I was the Business Systems Analyst Intern on their IT Service Management Team (ITSM). Although I was the only person in the building who was A) an intern B) still not 21, there was ample to learn. My internship experience was unique in that there was no real structure or routine for me -- something that allowed me to build my own challenges. I worked on documenting different processes that existed within our team and finding ways to improve certain processes to be more efficient. One of my biggest project was working with a variety of teams and creating flowcharts that documented Workday's Hiring Process through the use of LucidCharts (my best friend for the summer). I also had the opportunity to do a lot of QA work on different projects that our team pushed out on a weekly basis. This allowed me to learn how to write test cases, document them, test them, and report them for any bugs. I was also introduced to the Agile Methodology which was a great skill to pick up.

Business Systems Analyst Intern

CENTRL

Customer Support Analyst Intern

Pulse Secure

With no prior corporate experience, and not knowing what to expect coming into this internship, I was pretty concerned. Within my ten weeks at Pulse Secure, I learned the ins and outs of NetSuite to help ensure that there was access to clean data for all the employees. The First project I worked on allowed me to look at the Company's sales data in order track how effectively we were distributing our MDF (Marketing Department Funds) to our partners, and comparing that data with our returns. This project helped the company increase/decrease distribution of MDF to their partners, saving Pulse Secure thousands of dollars. Additionally, my second project had to do with identifying verticals our partners targeted and how we could utilize those partners to expand to newer verticals smoothly.

Both of these projects allowed me to learn the world of sales, while picking up crucial skills such as SQL and Microsoft Excel. The executives, fellow interns, and other teams I met along the way in my 10 week journey were the cherry on top to the perfect first internship ever.

Sales Operations Intern

Kumon

- Taught advanced level English and math to students from ages 8-14 to allow kids to build their base in both subjects for future grade levels. Recommended students for higher level homework packets. 
- Promoted to front desk work to help smoothly run the operations of the tutoring center to provide a better experience for both parents and students alike. 
- Coordinated and assigned daily homework and tests.

Tutor & Receptionist

The most popular question I heard when I was just 5 years old was always "What do you want to be when you grow up?" Many kids my age always answered the same way kids had been answering for decades -- either becoming firemen or astronauts. I would always confidently answer that I wanted to be a teacher. Although there was no way I knew what I was talking about at the age of 5, my passion for teaching is still alive today.

Being a teacher isn't all about educating others, it's also about learning. While I thoroughly enjoy learning and discussing a wide array of subject matters, I am most interested in conversations around Environmental causes, Sustainability Innovation, and AI Technologies. 

Over the past five years, I've pushed myself to try new things and live outside of my comfort zone. One of my most memorable endeavors has been working on a project called "H2OFlow" that focused on water consumption and wastage through the use of a device that provided users with real-time data about their water usage paired with a Phone application. As a team, we pitched at 10 different competitions in the Bay Area, winning 1st place at 8 (2nd and 3rd place finish at the other two) of these competitions and raising $25,000. 

More recently, I pursued a project, Surplus, that focused on reducing food wastage in restaurants and reducing food insecurity amongst college campuses. As a team, we raised $15,000 through different competitions and via Ray Zinn and his Zinnstarter incubator at SJSU. 

I am a competitive individual with high energy with out of the box thinking who hits the ground running and stops at nothing.

My name is Mohak Rastogi, Mohak kind of like the hairstyle, and Rastogi kind of like the pasta. 

taplio

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Alim Charaniya

Mohak Rastogi

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