Abhi Ballabh

Abhi Ballabh is the Co-founder and CEO of ExtraaEdge, the admissions intelligence platform trusted by 500+ education brands across India. Over six years, he has built one of India's most widely-used admissions CRMs and is now evolving it into VidyaAI, a suite of AI products that helps institutions respond faster, prioritise smarter, and convert more students. He has raised 3 rounds of Venture Capital & grew company by 2X across years.Vidya AI includes VidyaGPT (24x7 conversational AI on web and WhatsApp), VidyaPulse (AI-driven lead prioritisation), and VidyaAgents (call intelligence and counselor coaching) i.e. all built on the thesis that admissions is now a velocity game.

Before ExtraaEdge, Abhi spent five years as a Data Scientist at HSBC's London office and was the first Founding PM at MindTickle, the SaaS unicorn that redefined sales enablement. He returned to India to build for education i.e. the sector he believes has the highest human leverage.