| Interview with The Enterprise World
Chatur Ideas
Building ideas, strategies, and businesses
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ith a vision and mission to empower budding entrepreneurs, Chatur Ideas was started back in 2015. It’s a startup enabling platform that helps entrepreneurs to grow and support their businesses. Right from raising funds, mentoring founders, planning pitch decks, and enhancing their business plan, the platform enables the entrepreneurs to get acquainted with various networks that can help them in scaling up their operations. Additionally, it has been running entrepreneurship programs across India, where its trainers help entrepreneurs throughout their startup journey. From zero to 1050+ startups and having a network of over 1500 investors, acquiring a company which was started by IIT-IIM Alumni where they have trained over 34,000 entrepreneurs across 125 + cities in 450 colleges and growing that company rapidly, to bagging multiple awards in India and Internationally, they have come 18 | May 2021
a long way! In a conversation with Mr. Devesh Chawla, a leader, Innovator, mentor, and Founder and CEO of Chatur Ideas, he shared his vision, journey of the company, and what Chatur Ideas is all about. What were the initial challenges you faced? Well, I always had this idea of starting a taxi-hailing service. However, like any graduate is expected to land a cushy job, so was the case with me. My acquaintances and close ones believed that I will be a better fit for the corporate world rather than the entrepreneurial world. Couldn’t ignore it for long, I had to ultimately “settle” with what others wanted me to do. It was a challenge for me to fit in somewhere where I did not belong. Luckily I did my best to get ahead with my entrepreneurial plan with a new vision but was misled by some mentors and political influencers
despite having a great idea. This was another big challenge for me to move ahead with. Which was that point that triggered the growth of the company? Before the advent of numerous taxi-hailing services and now thriving ceaselessly, I had this idea already in my checklist to believe in. However, moving ahead after witnessing the success of a similar plan that I had, I thought of coming up with something new. During the journey, I saw a lot of gaps in the world of business. That’s when I had this urge to do something that could help businesses to grow. I started networking with a lot of people, started mentoring, most importantly learned about the industry. I don’t exactly remember the time when it triggered growth but Chatur Ideas started getting a lot of attention once it started targeting and mentoring entrepreneurs.
