Harshit Desai हर्षित देसाई

Design, Experience & Digital Executive | 3x Co-Founder | Fractional CDO / CEO | Keynote Speaker & Storyteller | x KPMG LeoBurnett ABFL

📍 India🔄 Updated September 2026💼 2 investments📅 8 years investing🗓 Last invested Jul 2024
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Angel Investor & Operator (CX, UX & Digital Lending)
Jul 2024
Yatra Angel Network "YAN" is India’s first fintech focused early-stage investment firm based at Mumbai. It aims to foster entrepreneurship specifically in fintech domain i.e. payments, lending, insurance, wealth, inclusion and other fintech startups using disruptive technologies i.e. AI/ML/data analytics etc. with prime focus on nurturing and mentoring new generation entrepreneurs. It enables impactful investments in the fintech industry where angel investors will not only contribute capital but also bring subject matter expertise (SME), network, mentorship, potential customer/partner/vendors and more to a startup, as the case may be with each member. If your startup is a disruptive and founders are ambitious innovators, we will help you to get access to the capital, expertise and connections need to grow the company to its full potential.
Co-Founder & Investor
Apr 2018
Grapevine (www.thegrapevine.co.in), is India’s leading youth engagement mar-tech platform providing access to over 2+ million college students through 3000+ College Influencers in 2000+ colleges in over 50+ cities both online and offline. We have created and executed 500+ national, regional campaigns for 50+ brands including MTV India, ITC - Engage Deo, Tinder, TVF, Fastrack, LinkedIn and many more
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2025
Consulting Partner & Designer in Residence
Jan 2025
QGLUE is the design and innovation venture of QAI. We use design to help businesses build services that people love and impact the world around us. Using a human-centered approach with robust methodology, QGLUE equips people to solve wicked problems by helping them reach a solution that is not just right, but also desirable with design at the heart of it all. A legacy spanning 30+years and counting. QAI evangelized process improvement, operational excellence and quality in India and globally by equipping Organizations to achieve Operational Excellence through deployment of best practices and processes. Some companies we have worked with are microsoft, mercedes, PWC, EY, wipro, aditya birla group, among many others. QGLUE aims to evangelize design and innovation that makes the world better designed and people happier. And, in todays experience economy where special attention needs to be given to a “human-centred” approach to shaping new business, conceptualizing meaningful innovation and undertaking a venture journey which forever has empathy at the centre of critical decisions. QGLUE is a community of designers, engineers, innovators, entrepreneurs, teachers and more, aligned to evangelize design in India and globally. WE ARE HIRING FOR MULTIPLE POSITIONS!! Please send your resume to taruna.budhiraja@q-glue.com
2024
Angel Investor & Operator (CX, UX & Digital Lending)
Jul 2024
Yatra Angel Network "YAN" is India’s first fintech focused early-stage investment firm based at Mumbai. It aims to foster entrepreneurship specifically in fintech domain i.e. payments, lending, insurance, wealth, inclusion and other fintech startups using disruptive technologies i.e. AI/ML/data analytics etc. with prime focus on nurturing and mentoring new generation entrepreneurs. It enables impactful investments in the fintech industry where angel investors will not only contribute capital but also bring subject matter expertise (SME), network, mentorship, potential customer/partner/vendors and more to a startup, as the case may be with each member. If your startup is a disruptive and founders are ambitious innovators, we will help you to get access to the capital, expertise and connections need to grow the company to its full potential.
2023
Managing Partner (Country Manager & Regional CEO) - Asia & Middle East
Jul 2023
Strativity, a UST company, is a global leader in strategy, experience design and cultural transformation. We foster meaningful connections between brands and customers by unlocking an organization’s true potential. Together, Strativity and UST harness the expertise of our skilled analysts, insightful strategists, and proactive change agents to generate new value. We achieve strategic and customer experience goals through purposeful relationships and transformative experiences. For more than 20 years, UST has worked side by side with the worlds best companies to make a real impact through transformation. Powered by technology, inspired by people, and led by our purpose, we partner with our clients from design to operation. Through our nimble approach, we identify their core challenges, and craft disruptive solutions that bring their vision to life. With deep domain expertise and a future-proof philosophy, we embed innovation and agility into our clients organizations—delivering measurable value and lasting change across industries, and around the world. Together, with over 30,000 employees in 30+ countries, we build for boundless impact—touching billions of lives in the process
2020
Head - Digital Strategy & Revenue (Design & AI)
May 2020
Enemtech Capital Inc is a company based out of 2900 Wilcrest Dr, Houston, Texas, United States.
2019
Head - Customer Experience, Alliances (Partnerships) & Automation
Apr 2019
Aditya Birla Capital Ltd is a financial services company based out of One World Center, Tower 1, 18th Floor, Jupiter Mills Compound, 841, Senapati Bapat Marg, Elphinstone Road, MUMBAI, India. - Aditya Birla Capital is committed to provide equal opportunity to all in employment and prohibits discrimination or harassment in any form on the basis of race, colour, religion, ethnicity, age, gender, disability or any other characteristic protected by law. Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) is embedded in our recruitment policies based on our business needs and candidates meeting the eligibility criteria such as qualification, skills and experience.
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