Providing a
Global
Ecosystem
For Gen alpha, Gen z Nerds, College Dropouts, Aspiring; Hustler; Growth Stage & First-Generation Start-Up
The Founders Lab. Asia is a start-up ecosystem platform designed to nurture ideas, empower founders, and accelerate ventures from concept to scale. We connect entrepreneurs with investors, mentors, institutions, and global partners through a structured, outcome-driven ecosystem.
Our Foundation
Vision, Mission
&
Philosophy
Vision
We want to create an ecosystem that “OUTSMARTS” the current “Silicon Valley” aspirants /dreamers from Indian Origin (Over 70% of the company’s CEOs in US are now Either Indian Origin or Indians), stop this brain drain & re-direct it to “INDIA” again to make our Nation “A GOLDEN SPARROW in it’s true ancient narrative”
Mission
To build One-Stop Start-Up Ecosystem Platform for Gen alpha ,Gen z Nerds, College Dropouts, Aspiring; Hustler; Growth Stage & First Generation Ambitious Start-Up Founders with raw concepts, into Unicorn creators — guiding them from Concept to DNA Alignment (& there-by observing a Founder-Market Fit), Product-Market Fit, MVP, Fund Readiness, Pre-Seed to different Funding Rounds, IPO readiness and Investor Exit & simultaneously making them World Proof, by giving them an access to unlock & leverage Global Start-Up Ecosystem of TFL Asia.
Philosophy
We believe in building founders ; before building start-ups. TFL focuses on long-term capability building, ethical growth, and creating real-world impact through collaboration.
Our mission is to remove the friction, that the founders faces by opening pathways to learning, capital, collaboration and cross-border opportunities-empowering them to build with conviction, clarity & globally competitive attitude.
Meet Our Team
Leadership &
Founders
Experienced leaders committed to building a founder-first ecosystem
that democratizes access to start-up resources and opportunities.
Mr. RITESHKUMAR SHRIVASTAVA
Founder Director
Riteshkumar Shrivastava is known for his “Never Say Die” attitude and marathon-runner mindset when it comes to building long-term ventures. From creating platforms like Buy Smart to Health Smart, his entrepreneurial journey has consistently focused on solving real-world problems at scale. With this vision, he culminated the development of one of the most ambitious and disruptive ecosystem platforms aggregating the Indian Healthcare fraternity and its ancillary space — “FirstDoctor” & now building “The Founders Lab. Asia” around the start-up ecosystem to help start-up founders to build & grow their businesses globally.On January 22nd, 2020, he played a pivotal role in investing and anchoring the landmark ABS (Ashoka Business School) pitching event in Nashik, which became the foundation stone for The Founders Lab. Asia Inspired by the US-based Dragon’s Den format, this event went on to become one of the largest live start-up pitching platforms in the region, where six out of fifty two promising start-ups received on-the-spot funding from reputed investors including 100X, Venture Wolf, Bank of Maharashtra, and the Ashoka Group (Nashik).
Mr. JITENDRAKUMAR BADAMI
Co-Founder
With over 33 years of cross-industry experience, (including 9+ years in strategic leadership roles as Co-Founder, CEO, and National Business Head), he brings a rare blend of start-up agility and enterprise-scale vision. At a high-growth start-up, he helped take the journey from idea to USD 0.5 million in pre-seed funding, and as National Head, drove 400% revenue growth, enabling a successful Series A raise of USD 1.5 million. This phase also involved navigating a rigorous Deloitte India–led due diligence process, equipping him with deep investor-readiness and scale-up experience—foundational to the vision of building The Founders Lab. Asia as a globally competitive start-up ecosystem for India, aimed at reducing brain drain and reclaiming our nation’s spirit of being a “Golden Sparrow”, in it’s true ancient wisdom.
Long before India’s start-up wave gained mainstream visibility through platforms like Shark Tank, The Founders Lab made headlines in Jan.2020 at Ashoka Business School, Nashik, where 52 early-stage start-ups pitched live to leading investors including 100X.VC, Venture Wolf, Bank of Maharashtra, and the Ashoka Group (Nashik)—with 6 ventures securing on-the-spot pre-seed funding. For the past six consecutive years, he has mentored founders from raw ideas to pitch-ready, investor-aligned businesses, with a clear mission to identify high-potential Gen alpha to Gen z (Small z) innovators and founders, align their DNA to build fundable start-ups, and nurture them toward building scalable, high-impact ventures—aspiring to create the next generation of unicorns.
CA Varun Deep Singh / CFO Shruti Chopade & Team.
TFL Asia’s Official CA & CFO Service Partners
CA Varun Deep Singh is a seasoned practicing Chartered Accountant with deep expertise in corporate finance, investment structuring, governance, and capital readiness & mainly audit accounting & taxation & CFO Shruti Chopade is offering CFO Services mainly focussing on Investment Bankers. With them, there is a team of seasoned professionals like Mr. Ankit Lodha, Mr.Shreyas Baheti & Ms. Kumkum Jain, to jointly offer their valuable services to TFL Asia’s Alumni.
As an official CA Service Partners, they help guide TFL Asia’s curated start-ups by strengthening their financial foundations, ensuring investor preparedness, and enabling access via TFL Asia’s platform to facilitate Investments from VCs, Angel Investors, Family Offices & HNIs.
Their work focuses on building structured financial systems, compliance readiness, and long-term value creation for emerging ventures on TFL Asia’s platform.
Our Ecosystem
10 Pillars of
Support
A comprehensive ecosystem designed to support founders at every stage of their
journey, from concept & ideation to scale.
01. Ecosystem Pillar
Stakeholders
TFL Asia brings together founders, mentors, institutions, corporates, service providers, and ecosystem partners, from across the Globe, into a single collaborative network. This vertical ensures that every participant in the start-up journey finds the right connections at the right stage.
- Curated founder-mentor matching
- Corporate partnership programs
- Service provider marketplace access
- Founders & Co-Founders verified profile vault to choose one-another from, based on their backgrounds, interests, location & domain expertise to co-create the Unicorn business empire.
02. Learning Engine
TFL Asia Academy
TFL Asia Academy is the practical learning engine focused on Founder DNA alignment, capability building, and real-world startup skills — from idea validation to financial modelling and growth strategy.
Through a gamified, multi-level badge system with Worldwide Accreditation, founders unlock progressive recognition, qualify for National & International Gala Events, and compete for the prestigious TFL Asia Start-Up Grandmaster Awards, featuring global recognition, trophies, and significant prize money.
- Structured founder education programs, creating TFL Asia’s Certified Alumni.
- Practical workshops and masterclasses.
- Certification and capability building.
- National & International Start-Up ecosystem related Small, Medium & Gala Scale Events.
03. Capital Access
Investors
A structured capital access layer connecting founders with VCs & Angel Investors and TFL Asia’s Investment Partners. TFL Asia creates curated investor pathways aligned with founder readiness and venture stages.
- Curated investor matchmaking
- Pitch deck and fundraising support
- Co-Pitching to the Investors, as an Internal Team of the respective start-up
- Alternative funding pathways
04. Leadership Backbone
Founders
A structured capital access layer connecting founders with VCs, Angel Investors external investors (remove this) & TFL Asia’s Investment Partners. TFL Asia creates curated investor pathways aligned with founder readiness and venture stages.
05. Global Network
Affiliations
National & International partnerships with institutions, universities, colleges & schools, accelerators, government initiatives, and private organizations that strengthen the reach, sell their admission seats & courses for their online & offline batches from TFL Asia’s 360 degree ecosystem.
06. Community Activation
Founders Assembly
Offline and online engagements including seminars, summits, demo days, workshops, podcasts, ecosystem meetups, exhibitions and founder-investor interactions in Live Pitch-Rooms that activate the community and enable real connections.
07. Excellence Recognition
Awards, Rewards & Recognition
Celebrating excellence across the ecosystem by recognizing founders, contributors, mentors, and ecosystem leaders who create meaningful impact and innovation with a gamified approach with “TFL Asia’s Different Level of Badges (each of which will be bearing “Worldwide Accreditation”) to be recognised across the Globe, among the global Start-Up fraternity. These badge holders, then unlocks different levels until they become eligible for National & International Stage Gala Events, Wins TFL Asia’s Start-Up Grandmaster Awards of National & International Repute which not only includes just accreditation certificate & trophies but a Huge PRIZE Money too!
08. Thought Leadership
The Business Reviewia
Thought leadership through content, founder stories, ecosystem insights, podcasts, and curated communities that build continuous learning, engagement & futuristic insights.
09. Strategic Matching
Start-up Matchmaking
A strategic matchmaking platform that connects founders with co-founders, advisors, subject matter expert /consultants thru TFL Asia’s Googolplexers Tab, Web & App, investors, and distribution channel partners & C&F s (right from taluka/city, district, cluster, state, region or national or level based on aligned vision, skills, and growth goals.
(eg. Any Old or Up Coming Brand or product based Conventional businesses wanting to launch, create or expand their offline business by 1. Launching the brand & products in any unrepresented geography, nationally or internationally 2. Capture the offline Shelf Space across A,B,C,D class retail outlets available in the retail universe & , thereby creating & expanding their WOD (Width of Distribution) as well as brand visibility against, targeted market share objectives of their TOP management 3. Build the brand step by step having purely filtered consumer insights & rating choosing the approach to go B2B,B2C,B2B2C,OMNICHANNEL OR D2C (Direct -to-Customer), Army of our Googolplexers (with over 30 years of expertise) is there to back your vision, to expand your business to the “GOOGOLPLEX” level. ( 10X1 Raised to 100 raised to 100) level.
10. Social Impact
CSR Activities
TFL’s commitment to social impact, inclusion, and sustainable development through community-driven initiatives, education access, and ecosystem upliftment programs. We invite corporates to render their CSR fund utilization, through TFL Asia’s Platform to Build the society more stronger via customised & result driven approach.
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Founders Lab. Asia
Ecosystem
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mentors, and partners shaping the future of innovation.