Startups Inside Out

The BAE HQ welcomes Anisha Vasani, who's behind Anisha Vasani Creates, a creative wedding consultancy. She's also a bridal stylist and the founder of Influencer Reach and the former editor of Asiana Magazine. Anisha wasn't sure exactly what she wanted to do when she was younger so experimented and worked at magazines and radio stations before taking her position at Asiana where she became an edito...

The BAE HQ welcomes Leah Chowdhry, the Founder of Pop Up, Party & Play and the first British Asian woman to swim the channel. Leah struggled at school with dyslexia but a childhood event meant she always knew she wanted to make an impact on disadvantaged children. Her business helps children receive top-quality care while their parents are working and she's raised hundreds of thousands for inc...

The BAE HQ welcomes Sanj Sanghera, the founder of Doner Shack and Haus Hospitality. His story is insane, this is a must watch episode. See how Sanj went from mountains of debt and being homeless to building award winning restaurants. His current focus is developing out 150 Doner Shack restaurants in the next 5 years. We can't do his story justice here, you have to listen. If you're listening to th...

The BAE HQ welcomes Jatz Naran, an Amazon FBA expert with over a million TikTok followers at just 23.Jatz didn't have it easy growing up but found a way anyway. His Amazon FBA business has been hyper successful alongside a mentorship program and his own content creation. He's a man going places fast. The most interesting part about this episode is his self-awareness where he can see he chased the...

The BAE HQ welcomes Zamiha Desai, the founder of Recommendasian and Professional Asian. What started as a small FB group of friends turned into massive group with 75k+ people and created spinoffs including Professional Asian with 85k followers. What shines through is Zamiha's support for the underdog! If you're listening to this and want to see the video, go to YouTube: https://youtu.be/_1Os1SnI06...

The BAE HQ welcomes Dr Navdeep Singh, the founder of The Sikh Group. Navdeep was inspired by how other communities supported each other and wanted to replicate that for his own community. He started humbly by walking down the major shopping streets and talking to all the owners to form The Sikh Directory. The organisation has expanded massively to encompass The Sikh 100, The Sikh 100 Under 30, The...

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The BAE HQ welcomes Ravi Singh, international humanitarian and founder of Khalsa Aid. A titan of the community, it all started when he was 30 and wanted to help those in need in Kosovo. Now Khalsa Aid has provided help in over 50 countries and whenever there's a crisis, they have volunteers who want to help. There's so much they do in the UK too especially during the cost of living crisis. Ravi Si...

The BAE HQ welcomes Lavina Mehta MBE, a personal trainer, wellness coach and mum of 3.She originally turned to the gym to lose pregnancy weight but soon fell in love with the effect it had on her mental health. Lavina studied for her PT qualifications and through her innovative idea of "exercise snacks" has appeared on Sky News. During the pandemic, her free online fitness sessions took off and sh...

The BAE HQ welcomes Tanya Gupta, the founder and CEO of Resale Future. They provide a product to businesses to allow them to empower their customers to resell their items through their website to further the circular economy. Tanya has always been interested in sustainability and wanted to build a company that helps the planet and is also place where people want to work. She worked in investment b...

The BAE HQ welcomes Rupinder Kaur, the founder of Asian Women Mean Business. It's an organization dedicated to helping Asian Women to dream bigger. Rupinder always believed in herself but found her passion was helping other women to do the same too. She went all in and has over 100 Asian female-owned businesses in her directory and even took a group to climb Kilimanjaro. We discuss not only tips f...

The BAE HQ welcomes Reece Chowdhry, the founder and managing partner of Concept Ventures. It's the largest dedicated pre-seed fund focused on the UK.Reece struggled at school from a young age with dyslexia but he believes it's his superpower because it's enabled him to think differently to everyone else. He started several successful businesses and made over 80 angel investments at a young age. He...

The BAE HQ welcomes Tanvi Shah, who is a content creator, presenter, and athlete. She has built a following in the tens of thousands on Instagram and what makes her stand out is how engaged her audience is. This has led to many opportunities for her including featuring on the BBC and huge brand deals. Despite this many people still have misconceptions about her because they only look at her viral...

The BAE HQ welcomes Ash Ali, Co-Founder of Uhubs, author of The Unfair Advantage, and former Marketing Director for Just Eat. He grew up in inner-city Birmingham and dropped out of school twice at 18. Ash learned how to develop websites in his parents' attic which gave him a skill in high demand. This set off a series of events where he built the first website for selling shoes online to joining J...

The BAE HQ welcomes DJ Harpz, a DJ, music producer and entrepreneur. Harpz worked in a call centre for ten years even after touring internationally with Panjabi MC before taking his creative career full time. He's now worked with all his heroes such as Rahat Fateh Ali Khan, Sukhshinda Shinda and Jazzy B.He's now looking to help the next generation come through and praises the rise of artists such...

The BAE HQ welcomes Mira Manek, founder of Chai By Mira, author and wellness expert. Mira has had a varied career and followed what she loves. Initially, she was a travel writer before publishing her own cookbook. Her second book was all about her own story and passion for wellness. Along the way she started a cafe and her own chai brand! She also has built up a large and loyal social media follow...

The BAE HQ welcomes Varun Bhanot, co-founder and CEO of Magic and co-founder of Unhoused.org. Magic is an AI fitness start up which aims to scale hyper-personalised personal training through using technology. Unhoused.org aims to help people living on the streets to eventually find housing. Varun discovered quickly in his investment banking job that this wasn't the life he wanted to lead. He joine...

The BAE HQ welcomes Sahil Chopra, a co-founder and General Partner at Simsan Ventures. They are a venture capital fund that invests in underrepresented founders. Sahil doesn't deny he had a privileged upbringing compared to many but he saw that there were no young venture capitalists in the UK. This created a bias throughout the system which meant younger entrepreneurs were less likely to find inv...

The BAE HQ welcomes Nikita Mehta, the co-founder of Fable & Mane, an modern Indian haircare company based on ayurvedic values. They've grown exponentially since they started and you can find them in stores like Sephora! Nikita had a history of high achievement in the fragrance space but when her own hair started falling out she was frustrated with the lack of options. Using her grandma's recip...

The BAE HQ welcomes Indy Hothi, the co-founder of Future Arc, Behind The Netra, and Masonwood Group. He's also the President of ICAS and a former emergency director/COO of Khalsa Aid. Indy got his love of entrepreneurship from helping his dad on a market stall but initially went down the corporate route at EY. Here he was an influential intrapreneur particularly around diversity efforts and arts p...

The BAE HQ welcomes Simon Alexander Ong, the author of Energise, a global keynote speaker and life coach. Simon had to deal with many difficult events in his life and was deeply unhappy for some time. He managed to turn his life around through managing his energy effectively. He built his current business for years as a side hustle before taking it full time. As a child he was the quiet kid at the...

The BAE HQ welcomes Baljit Rihal, the founder of Inventive Sports, The Asian Football Awards and The Asian Cricket Awards. We explore why there are so few professional asian athletes particularly in football and what can be done about it. Baljit has dedicated his life to this problem and has built businesses to showcase all the talent out there. After being told it was too hard for him, Baljit bec...

The BAE HQ welcomes Imran Dean, Founder of The Money Cog and Investment Principal at DC Thomson where he has managed over $100m. Imran moved around a lot as a child and always felt behind the other children academically. He realised he had a knack for investing though and has seen some of his investments grow by 5x and more. The Money Cog was born when Imran realised how bad most investment advice...

The BAE HQ welcomes Shivani Pau, Host of A Millennial Mind, Founder of My Performance Planner and a performance coach. She rose to prominence by interviewing huge names such as Steven Bartlett and Ben Francis while still maintain a day job. Recently, she made the jump to take her business full time and has gained a sponsor for her podcast. Shivani speaks candidly about how she grew her brand, her...

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