Entrepreneur I Rahul Dasgupta

My Entrepreneurial Footsteps

As a second generation entrepreneur, Rahul has played an instrumental role in helping Globsyn Business School become the No. 1 Business School in Eastern India, if not nationally, with 4000+ alumni globally. His entrepreneurial acumen can be roughly captured under the following verticals.

Revolutionizing Education

Under Rahul’s leadership, the B-School has forged many global partnerships, integrating various academic practices and high-end technologies into its delivery through these collaborations. GBS has stayed relevant as a specialized postgraduate education system, remaining ahead of the growth curve in terms of learning and development for the youngsters, with appropriate use of technology, pertinent to the needs of the time…
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This can be credited to Rahul’s business acumen and leadership skills – he helped the B-School become profitable through his disruptive strategies and sustainable models that impacted the people, the process, and the profit formula.

Impacting the Youth

Rahul spearheaded Globsyn’s vocational training initiatives, in partnership with the National Skills Development Council, and was instrumental in setting up Globsyn’s Skills Development ecosystem with 500 centers across 21 states in the country within a span of 2 years, after starting with only a handful of centers in West Bengal. During his tenure Globsyn Skills had the highest pass percentage nationally across all sectors, compared to other…
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competitors. Globsyn impacted and trained nearly 1,00,000 youth across 11 high-growth sectors. As an avid technophile, Rahul also drives the operations of Globsyn Finishing School (GFS), which has trained over 1,95,000 engineering students through the years in various emerging technology tracks like Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Big Data, Internet of Things, Blockchain, Robotic Process Automation, Cloud Computing, Cyber Security, Augmented Reality among others. GFS annually trains nearly 5,000 engineering graduates from 350+ colleges across India to equip them with the necessary skills to join the Indian IT industry.

Technology Innovation

Rahul is the chief architect behind the digitalization of Globsyn’s academic initiatives – from a ‘Brick Model’ to a ‘Click Model’ – across all organizational verticals. Under Rahul’s stimulating leadership, GBS has launched GBS Online – a global platform of digital learning, to create a community of like-minded learners around the world who are able to gain access to online learning resources and complete coursework at their own time, while…
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completing assignments of international standards. GBS Online has already enabled nearly 40,000 minds globally in a short span of time, where students across the world can pursue courses of their choice at an affordable cost. Rahul’s team plans to digitize the entire curriculum of GBS by integrating AR and 3D videos with traditional techniques to make the B-School’s Hybrid Delivery Model more immersive and self-paced. Rahul also led the B-School’s transition from issuing physical diplomas to one which is digitized. He has also been instrumental in motivating the faculty to adopt technology as the new medium of imparting knowledge and launched an eLibrary as a part of the B-School’s LMS platform – eGlobsyn. All these transitions were initiated much ahead of the pandemic, which helped GBS adapt to the ‘New Normal’ much faster than many of its contemporaries nationally and globally.

My Foray into Investment

Rahul has been a seed investor and mentor to several startups. Rahul’s investment portfolio includes Atelier M, Inbloom, Vistas Media Capital, and Swan AI Studios. While Inbloom is a vegan supplement company, founded by Kate Hudson in New York, where Rahul is a seed investor; he is one of the larger shareholders in Atelier M, a premium F&B fine dining experience in Dubai. Vistas Media Capital is a Singapore-based entertainment and media company, producing regional content for the Indian market, and Swan AI Studios is an innovative group that discovers, builds, and scales AI-enabled startups. Rahul has been a part of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) nationally and regionally, and has set up ALFA Network along with his friends – the largest network of second and third-generation family business owners in India. Rahul is also a member of the Indian Angel Network (IAN) through which he builds his startup investment portfolio in the Indian market.

My Productions

Rahul believes that together Education and Art have the power to enable amazing young talents, irrespective of their geographical locations, to mainstream their creativity in front of a wider audience. An avid admirer of creativity, per se, he is constantly nurturing and encouraging talents in the areas of Art and Entertainment.