I hail from a typical baniya household from Lucknow. Did Political Science Majors in my UnderGrad and then started my career in policymaking with AAP & the MP Govermentt.

Post that failed at building a D2C startup, & dropped out of IIM K to scale a B2B venture. Built that from Pre-seed to Series A, scaling from 5 to 200 employees.

After exiting in 2022, founded CirclePe — raise a $ 1 Million+ from India's top investors, exited it in December, 2025 and with  now a multi-million dollar startup — while also running navan.jaiswal to share insights with young, aspirational Indians.

Navan Jaiswal

About me: I&nbsp;hail from a typical baniya household in Lucknow. Did Political Science Majors in my UnderGrad and then started my career in policymaking with AAP &amp; the MP Govermentt. Post that failed at building a D2C startup, &amp; dropped out of IIM K to scale a B2B venture. Built that from Pre-seed to Series A, scaling from 5 to 200 employees. After exiting in 2022, founded CirclePe — raise a $ 1 Million+ from India's top investors, exited it in December, 2025 and with&nbsp; now a multi-million dollar startup — while also running navan.jaiswal to share insights with young, aspirational Indians.​