The Team
Built by Believers, Not Employees.
Five years from inception to scale. Many people contributed along the way. These seven had the most impact.
Finance & Operations
Prashant Somani
Feb 2022 – Jul 2025
IIM grad. First operational hire. Prashant built the entire non-engineering side of the company over three and a half years.
He closed the seed funding round, managed the cap table, and ran investor relations through multiple bridge rounds. On the growth side, he executed a pricing strategy that increased prices 200% while holding retention steady.
He grew the product to 5,000 monthly active users in 12 months. Built and scaled a 40-person operations team. Engineered onboarding systems for 5,000+ new users per month and a support infrastructure handling 4,500 daily tickets.
Real-time dashboards in Tableau, Looker Studio and PowerBI tracked cohort retention, renewals and campaign performance across the business.
Product & Growth
Ankita Tripathi
Feb 2023 – Oct 2025
Ex-Google. 10+ years across product, documentation and developer communities. Led the Metaversity product from scratch.
Worked with instructors to structure backend, data analytics and full-stack programs into learning pathways. Assignments, rubrics and progressive difficulty levels that scaled across cohorts without losing rigor.
Designed the end-to-end student journey from first touchpoint to post-enrollment engagement. Built distribution strategies across blogs, landing pages, ads, emails and docs for B2C and B2B audiences.
Built internal tooling with Google Sheets and Apps Script: student progress tracking, grading, level assignment and submissions visibility across cohorts. Co-contributed to the Metaversity research paper published in Springer.
Engineering
Mayank Abhishek
Mar 2022 – May 2024
Led the engineering team from day one. 10+ developers and designers shipped the full Metaversity product under his technical leadership.
Hands-on with database design and backend architecture. Built systems from zero to 100K users. Set up engineering processes focused on delivery, quality and collaboration.
When a viral moment drove 20x the daily active users in two weeks, the infrastructure held. Scaled to over 1M API calls per hour at peak load. No downtime.
Beyond shipping code, he built the engineering culture. Growth paths for every engineer. A team that could move fast without breaking things.
Founder's Office
Ankita Prakash
Oct 2022 – Mar 2025
Worked directly with the founder across marketing, community and investor communications.
Scaled Tanay Pratap's YouTube channel from 37K to 250K+ subscribers by collaborating with top industry consultants. Managed WhatsApp communities of 5,000+ members, building scalable processes for daily operations.
Designed hiring pipelines for Operations Interns, Supervisors and Business Analysts. Developed investor pitch decks that facilitated multiple bridge rounds.
Improved monthly student retention to 70% through goal-setting, personalized nudges and regular interaction. Also contributed to the Metaversity research paper published in Springer.
Data & Finance
Abhay Mandal
Sep 2022 – Jan 2025
Abhay owned data infrastructure and financial reporting across the full business.
Started as a data analyst building pipelines and dashboards. Transitioned to a combined finance and data role, owning the numbers that investors and leadership relied on.
Snowflake data models. MIS reporting pipelines. Bookkeeping systems. The analytical backbone behind every operational decision at Invact.
UX Design
Ujjwal Tandon
Apr 2023 – Jul 2025
Ujjwal designed the learner's entire digital experience. Every screen a student touched — from first onboarding to daily LMS use — went through his hands.
He ran user research and testing to understand how learners actually navigated the product. Optimized activation and retention flows based on real behavior, not assumptions. The dashboards, the course pages, the progress tracking — all shaped by what students needed, not what looked good in a mockup.
Also designed the marketing surface: landing pages, campaign assets, and lead flows that brought learners in before the product experience took over.
Software Engineering
Rahul Ravindran
Jun 2023 – Jul 2025
Rahul started on the frontend and kept going. Backend systems, infrastructure, marketing automation — he picked up whatever the team needed, without being asked.
The kind of engineer who ships quietly. Never the loudest in the room, always the most reliable. If something needed building, Rahul built it. If something broke at 2am, Rahul fixed it.
Frontend to Node.js backend to automation pipelines. Work over words had a face.