About

Gaurav Gupta is a web3 gaming entrepreneur and Co-Founder of avatarlife, a metaverse-first company. He is passionate about building experiences for the metaverse and enabling virtual world goers to earn money through his games. Gaurav's interests include web3.0, creator economy, entrepreneurship, and FIRE. From a skills standpoint, Gaurav is focused on being the best generalist, with expertise in technology (working knowledge of Full stack development, Photoshop, 3D modelling), problem solving/strategy and Ops, and community & brand building. He is a skilled problem solver, with experience in story-telling and structuring to solve complex problems and drive impact. Gaurav has spent 18 months at Bain & Company, where he orchestrated funding in 10+ assets and funding amount of $1.5B+ through sector scans to assess market landscape & differentiated models, and due-diligences across consumer tech, IT & B2B SaaS companies globally for PEs/HFs clients. He also generated 150+ sales leads & 10+ sales worth $1M+ by optimizing sales & GTM for 20+ portfolio cos. of a US HF, devised GTM & M&A strategy (inorganic growth worth $50M+) for a leading AI data-labelling player entering IDP in Logistics, developed international expansion strategy for a Europe based B2B wholesale marketplace, and evaluated IT tech stack and capability maturity for a global alco-bev player to create their Asia IT strategy. Gaurav is also the Founder of Study Wizard, where he productized tutoring service, onboarded 3 part-time tutors & generated ~$7K in revenue in 2.5 months. He started a tutoring services company to academically support domestic & international undergraduate and graduate students during Covid-19 pandemic. Gaurav holds a Master of Business Administration - MBA from IIM Bangalore, a Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering from BITS, and a Master's degree in Business from Kedge Business School. His tech stack includes Web3, AI, and Web. With 5.78 years of relevant experience, Gaurav is an expert in the field of web3 gaming and metaverse-first companies.