Hi, I am Ram, a curious generalist

I lead by serving.

After talking to Ashish, Shubham and Rohan, I believe I can fulfill my purpose by serving Servant Capital — empowering trustworthy, high-agency humans to turn their dreams into reality.

Ram Bansal · IIT Roorkee '19 · Founder, Explorin · 7 years of building, mentoring, and serving dreamers

The 5 Axioms That Govern Me

My operating system

⚖️
Integrity
over
Success
Imagination
over
Reality
🔥
Courage
over
Fears
💎
Clarity
over
Passion
🤝
People
over
Profits
Alignment

Why I belong at Servant Capital

Servant Capital invests in people — sector-agnostic, stage-flexible, geography-open. You walk alongside founders with capital, mentorship, and operational support. Your single filter is the quality of the human.

For 7 years, I have done the same — investing myself into the dreams of high-agency humans via emotional, network, mentorship, and execution support. Before knowing Servant Capital existed, I was already living its philosophy.

For the past 7 years, my dreamers have been students — aspiring coders, traders, designers finding their path. At Servant Capital, the dreamers are entrepreneurs — founders turning bold visions into enduring companies. The mission is the same. The stage is bigger. I'm ready for the shift.

The soul of Servant Capital is Ashish — a force of change. The community he has built is extraordinarily pure and powerful, driven by the bold visions its members are chasing. The portfolio companies span widely across sectors, which means people from vastly different backgrounds converge into one room — and that diversity creates an environment of high integrity. I believe this is the reason for my natural pull towards the vision and community.

I am not seeking a job. I am seeking the right vessel to serve — and after speaking with your team, I believe that vessel is Servant Capital.

My Purpose

Exploring Infinity

"To generate infinite value in a form that stays relevant forever."

My aim is to explore infinity via empowering trustworthy high-agency humans to turn their dreams into reality — achieving at least 10% success rate by serving 100 entrepreneurs within 10 years.

Service Framework

How I serve dreamers

PHASE 01
Dreamer Discovery
Based on deep conversations with aspiring dreamers, I develop my intuitive judgement. If I am able to vibe — to sense their raw ambition and integrity — I decide to serve them.
PHASE 02
Winning Heart
I earn trust by offering quick, genuine help. If accepted, I initiate deep conversations and look for regular opportunities to serve. This naturally implants a seed that drives me to serve wholeheartedly.
PHASE 03
Service with 5 Axioms
Once trust is established, I serve with everything I have — emotional support, network access, mentorship, and execution support — governed by my five axioms.
Track Record

3 missions committed to the same aim

1 YEAR
Finance Club
IIT Roorkee
Built a community offering emotional and technical mentorship to empower juniors for exploring and pursuing careers in Finance.
N/P
Not-for-Profit
1 YEAR
Dreams on Fire
Post-Resignation
Built a Facebook community offering emotional, network, and mentorship support to students from IITs for pursuing their career passion.
N/P
Not-for-Profit
5.5 YEARS · THE MAGNUM OPUS
Explorin Academy

Built an online-offline coaching ecosystem offering technical, emotional, network, mentorship, and job interview support to empower 100,000+ students to kickstart their tech careers across 3 offline academies. A complete embodiment of my service philosophy — before I had the words for it.

100,000+
Students Served
~0.6Mn
ARR
~55%
Contribution Profits
3
Offline Academies
10+
College Presence
25+
IITians Team
1,000+
1:1 Mentorship Sessions
110+
Tech Placements
Digital Presence
Community of Dreamers

The journeys that fuel me towards my purpose

...and many more whose journeys continue to fuel me.
What I Bring to the Table

From serving students to serving entrepreneurs

🤝
Emotional Support
1,000+ mentorship sessions. I know how to hold space for ambitious humans at their most vulnerable — when the dream feels impossible. This transfers directly to founder support.
🌐
Network Access
7 years of building communities across IITs, tech, and finance. 100,000+ students served means a deep network of rising professionals — future co-founders, early employees, and advisors.
🧭
Mentorship & Coaching
Career guidance, self-awareness coaching, and helping people discover what they truly want. For entrepreneurs, this becomes founder clarity — the most underrated form of support.
Execution Support
Built SOPs, branding, operations across 3 cities. I know how to go from zero to one — and how to help others do it. Not advice from the sidelines, but rolling-up-sleeves support.
📊
Finance & Analytics
IIT Roorkee AIR 3541. Founded Finance Club. WorldQuant background. Comfortable with valuation, financial modeling, and the analytical rigor that venture support demands.
🎤
Storytelling & Pitching
Spoken at IIT Roorkee convocation hall. Created a web series. B2B and B2C pitch experience — I know how to tell a founder's story in a way that opens doors.
🛠️
Tech-Forward Building
Cursor, Claude, Vapi, PostHog, n8n — I build with modern tools. I can help portfolio founders accelerate with AI-native workflows and no-code/low-code infrastructure.
🔥
Leadership
Built a team of 25+ IITians from scratch and led them for 5.5 years across 3 cities. Corporate sales, B2C sales automation, and the full operational weight of running a company — hiring, culture, accountability, and tough calls.
Evidence of Service

Don't take my word — see the work

Frequently Asked

The questions that matter

Why did I leave Explorin Academy?

Two fundamental reasons drove my decision to move on:

Reason 01

Lack of constant kick due to poor talent density. The market I was operating in didn't provide the intellectual stimulation and high-calibre talent interactions that fuel my best work. I need to be surrounded by people who push me — and that environment had plateaued.

Reason 02

Lack of vision alignment with my partner. We were unable to align on a common pivot for the company's direction. When co-founders can't agree on where the ship should head, the ship doesn't move. It was time to acknowledge that and chart a new course.

What kind of opportunity am I seeking now?

In the next opportunity, I am looking for five essential ingredients:

1. Wealth — Money + Equity/Carry
I took a huge risk bootstrapping a startup right after college, and it didn't translate into financial security. I'm getting married this quarter — last week of April — and I need to be in a position where money is no longer a constraint on my decisions. Beyond salary, I want to align my financial interest with long-term commitment through equity or carry in investments. When my skin is in the game, I show up differently.
2. Mentor + People

Successful — I want to learn the art of making businesses from someone who has done it multiple times. Theory doesn't cut it. I need proximity to a practitioner.

Value Alignment — I'm a strong believer that when values are aligned with the people you work with, synergies emerge and miracles become possible.

Mentorship — I am going to be a product of the person I work for or work alongside. The quality of mentor I am fortunate enough to find will directly shape the mentor I become for others.

3. Canvas — Degree of Exposure
The value I add while unleashing my hidden talent depends entirely on the width, breadth, and depth of exposure across all dimensions of a business — customers, team, product, mission, vision, values, the business idea, the speed. I need an environment that's as expansive as a globe — global or at least country-level exposure — so I can learn how things work from a macroeconomic vantage point. The bigger the canvas, the bigger the art.
4. Dream or Portfolio of Dreams

The ultimate driving force that ignites my hidden powers is the kind of dreams I surrender myself towards. I've figured there are two paths:

The Builder's Zone — Become a Chief of Staff or close to the CEO/Founder, helping with everything needed to accelerate the ship and achieve high, sustainable acceleration.

The Investor's Path — Hold a portfolio of dreams through pre-seed, seed, VC, growth-stage, or PE vehicles. Investing in multiple dreamers simultaneously — multiplying impact across the ecosystem.

5. Staying Relevant
What I care about most is never again experiencing the FOMO I felt in my previous business. As long as I remain resourceful and relevant in accordance with rapidly changing trends — economics, currencies, how businesses work, how people interact, communicate, and travel — I can bring forth the most out of me. I need to stay relevant so I earn attention and make impact aligned with where the world is headed.
Where might I need handholding?
Core of Tech

I have only built and run a service-based business. I genuinely want to learn how tech-heavy products are architected, scaled, and optimised at the company level.

Example: If the task is to figure out how to optimise cloud costs, I would need the tech team to walk me through the fundamentals — where cloud is being used, general practices, cost drivers, and trade-offs. I'd bring the strategic thinking and execution energy, but I'd need to be taught the technical substrate first.

I'm not afraid of this gap — I'm excited by it. My track record shows I learn fast when the environment is right. I just want to be upfront about where the learning curve sits.

What are my key learnings?
Learning 01

Exponential learning happens when you are in a room with people chasing bolder visions and smarter than you. The ceiling of my growth at Explorin was directly set by the calibre of people around me. The moment I outgrew the room, growth flatlined. I will never again settle for an environment that doesn't stretch me.

Learning 02

Investing in the future. While building a service-based business for 5.5 years, I was heads-down in execution — away from the rapid shifts happening in technology and AI. When I stepped out of Explorin and looked up, I was struck by how fast the industry had moved. It was both humbling and electrifying. I realized the world needs bold people who can leverage these shifts to create economic and social impact at scale — to make human lives genuinely easier. The most exciting place to operate is at the intersection of what's happening now and what will be happening a decade from now. That's where I want to be.

The Ask

I am ready to serve.

I don't claim to have all the answers — but I bring raw conviction, a proven instinct for people, and 7 years of service in the arena. I would be honoured to channel that energy into Servant Capital's mission and learn from someone who has built what I aspire to build.