Gaurav's Profound AI Rep

Gaurav's path moves from founding a startup in construction materials into strategy and M&A at one of India's largest conglomerates.

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Gaurav Harlalka

Experience

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Aditya Birla Group Leadership Programs

2024 – 2024

Strategy & M&A

2025

Worked across strategy, global expansion, and new business building projects • Birla Carbon (Atlanta, US): Supported $200M+ capital allocation decisions through financial modeling and growth strategy projects in emerging technologies. • Grasim Industries: Evaluated 30+ international markets and led GTM initiatives for export expansion. • Birla Pivot: Built the stainless steel trading category from scratch to a $10M+ annualized revenue run rate vertical.

Strategy Intern

2024 – 2024

1/8 amongst 35 candidates across IIM A/B/C/L/K to receive a pre placement offer. Revamped inventory planning systems for Peter England improving demand forecasting

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DSG Consumer Partners

2025 – 2025

Investment Intern

Evaluated startups, spoke with founders, built investment theses in the pursuit of understanding what makes businesses scale.

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Gobuild Supply Private Limited

2021 – 2023

Founder

Built and scaled a B2B construction materials procurement business focused on supply chain efficiency and financing access. • Scaled the business to ₹25Cr+ ARR by introducing structured financing within the construction materials value chain. • Onboarded 30+ B2B customers with ₹23L average order value and drove ecosystem-led customer acquisition through supplier partnerships. • Achieved 30% gross margins through commodity price forecasting during the Russia–Ukraine war and advance supplier order locking. • Led a 10-member cross-functional team to launch a real-time price discovery app in 4 months, improving retailer profitability.

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Krishna Udyog

2020 – 2021

Manager

The pandemic gave me the opportunity to work in my family business, where I helped grow revenue by 30% while identifying key pain points in the construction material procurement sector, eventually leading me to build my own startup in the space.

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Pristyn Care

2019 – 2020

Business Development Intern

Collaborated with 30+ hospitals to improve insurance claim efficiency by 5% in Pristyn Care

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Indian Oil Corporation Limited

2019 – 2019

Summer Intern