Exclusive- Shark Tank India’s Dyumna Madan gets candid about the Sharks’ approach towards young entrepreneurs, says ‘We really appreciated that they didn’t treat us as youngsters’ |

Project Clay, co-founded by 19-year-olds Dyumna Madan and Shivom Sood, is a mentorship platform connecting college students with college mentors utilizing an “elder sibling” approach. With 300+ vetted mentors throughout 10+ international locations, it has grown 65% in 5 months. On Shark Tank India 4, they pitched for ₹15 lakh for 10% fairness, valuing the firm at ₹1.5 crore. Namita Thapar was impressed and accepted their ask, praising Dyumna’s confidence and potential as a young entrepreneur. In an unique dialog with Times Of India TV, Dyumna received candid about her expertise in the tank.

It was a surreal expertise

It was truthfully surreal, we could not consider that we had come thus far. Since we’ve got been constructing it for 4 years, 3 and a half years went on the place we noticed not really any monitor and we have been chasing after individuals not really realizing whether or not it might really grow to be a enterprise. But we have been passionate about it so when the Shark Tank occurred, I keep in mind once I was submitting the utility with each step I felt ‘hoga thodi’ but it surely occurred.

Sharks’ approach towards young entrepreneurs

From the sharks, they have been really supportive. Shark Tank India as an entire has been very supportive towards young entrepreneurs. The sharks gave us nice constructive criticism. We really appreciated that they didn’t treat us as youngsters.

Peyush’s recommendation

Peyush talked about partnering up with colleges, we have been already making an attempt to do D2C and we are attempting to behave on the shark’s recommendation. We are attempting to construct a B2B relationship with the colleges and shifting towards bringing development to our enterprise.

Namita’s steerage and funding due diligence

We have been involved with the group and the course of is on with Namita. One vital factor was she was one in every of the sharks whose little one not too long ago went via the course of. As a guardian, she understands what the little one wants. It’s an grownup perspective with a enterprise thoughts. She understands the downside and by way of execution, she might flip our 4 years wrestle into 1 yr by sharing the place our apparent pitfalls have been. And what we must always keep away from and strategic partnerships and get her recommendation on how we are able to 10x our enterprise.