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Shashikant Burnwal

Shashikant Burnwal

AI-first Business | IIT KGP | ISB | Building sales & marketing systems

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Bangalore, India
Joined December 2025
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Shashikant Burnwal is an AI-first business leader with a strong background in sales and marketing. He leverages AI-driven strategies to build sales and marketing systems for startups, with a focus on helping both freshers and founders grow revenue. His expertise includes B2B sales and leveraging Gen-AI tools for business development. nitter+3
He is an experienced entrepreneur, having founded HubCredo and SalesAI Academy, and co-founded Trillbit, a deep-tech startup. At Trillbit, he played a crucial role in business development, sales, and operations, contributing to its innovative "data over sound" technology for proximity intelligence and authentication. He guided the company through securing funding and expanding its market reach. digitalfirstmagazine+6
Shashikant possesses a robust academic foundation in engineering and business. He holds dual degrees in Mechanical Engineering (B.Tech and M.Tech) from IIT Kharagpur, where he published several scientific papers. He further augmented his expertise with an MBA in Marketing and Finance from the Indian School of Business, where he was a merit list holder. This blend of technical and business acumen underpins his successful ventures. digitalfirstmagazine+5
His career includes significant roles in large corporations like Ola Cabs and Tata Motors, where he gained extensive experience in project management, business development, CRM implementation, and optimizing manufacturing processes. These experiences demonstrate his ability to manage complex operations and lead cross-functional teams before transitioning to entrepreneurship. digitalfirstmagazine+3

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Pandemic Becomes an 'Unexpected Catalyst' for Deep Tech Start-ups

January 20, 2022

Shashikant Burnwal contributes to this article discussing how deep-tech companies thrived during the COVID-19 pandemic, highlighting innovations in virtual meetings, online education, crypto/blockchain, and industrial automation. He discusses Trillbit's role in contactless ticketing and authentication.

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Scheduling optimization of flexible manufacturing system using cuckoo search-based approach

January 1, 2013

A scientific paper co-authored during his time at IIT Kharagpur, exploring optimization techniques for flexible manufacturing systems.

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Flow rate prediction for an adiabatic capillary tube in a transcritical CO2 system: An analytic approach

January 1, 2010

A scientific paper co-authored during his time at IIT Kharagpur, focusing on predicting flow rates in capillary tubes within CO2 systems.

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