DAIS ALUMNI Mr HARSHIL KARIA - "We have to be life-long learners!'

DAIS was proud to have Alumni Mr. Harshil Karia address our students.

Harshil Karia is an Entrepreneur and Musician. He is the Founder of Schbang and Level with 1000+ people working in these companies. Schbang is a creative & technology transformation company that has been featured in LinkedIn's Top Startups India for 2021. Schbang on the growth front has delivered 450% increase in just 3 years, making it among the top 500 fastest growing companies in the APAC region. With the aim of going from India to the World, Schbang is spread across three major cities and is in the process of launching its offices in London and Amsterdam in 2022/23.

Along with Schbang, Harshil spends his time and energies on building Level. Level is a technology that Unlocks the Superpower of the Meditation by using a variety of techniques such as meditation, neurotesting, growth led activities like journaling and mind muscle workouts all wrapped up in a neat analytics layer designed for us to achieve maximum performance.

He is an avid musician as well with a singles, namely 'Udd Jaa Bandeya' and 'Uthh Jaa Rey' that he has launched drawing inspiration from his entrepreneurial journey. As an artist, Harshil seeks to inspire listeners to raise their level of consciousness and inspiration and awareness is a big theme with his music.

Mr. Karia spoke to the students about his biggest start-up, Schbang. Established in 2015, is a Creative & Technology Transformation company with offices across Mumbai, Bangalore & Delhi-NCR. With a team strength of 1000+ members, it delivers growth-driven end-to-end solutions across creative development, strategic advisory, film production, web, design, content, data science, and media planning & buying verticals.

It has been featured as a LinkedIn Top 100 start-ups, Financial Times ‘High Growth Companies Asia Pacific 2020, Economic Times ‘India's Growth Champions’ 2019 among others. In the last few years, Schbangers have created some exciting and award-winning digital work for brands like Jio, Fevicol, J&J, P&G, Unilever, Garnier, Nature’s Basket, Ashok Leyland, Asian Paints, Finolex Pipes, Fevikwik, Philips, London Dairy, Mattel, Xiaomi India, cure. fit and more recently have had the opportunity to serve Castrol's MCO and PCO business.

Mr. Karia left the students with a very powerful message: the lessons to achieve success. He advised students to be lifelong learners, respect people, live life with depth and conviction. DAIS students thoroughly enjoyed hearing Mr. Karia speak and answer their burning questions. The fact that he graduated from these very halls of DAIS, he proved to relate to student life impactfully.