Founder · Scooter

Kartik Mandrekar

Co-founder of Scooter, a hr tech company based in Pune.

Co-founderPuneHR Tech
Founded
2024
Pune, India
Raised to date
$160K
1 round on record
Latest round
Pre-seed
$0.16M · October 2026

About

Kartik Mandrekar is Co-founder of Scooter, a hr tech company based in Pune, founded in 2024. Scooter's most recent disclosed round was a Pre-seed of $0.16M in October 2026.

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Company

Est. 2024
Scooter
HR Tech · Pune · Active

Scooter is a Pune sales hiring company that assesses candidates on how they handle real sales situations rather than on their CVs. It sources verified sales professionals, puts them through recorded, scenario-based role-plays built around realistic buyers, objections and pricing conversations, and gives hiring managers a shortlist of three to five candidates, with short video clips from each assessment shown before the candidate's CV. Founded in 2024 by Kartik Mandrekar, who led sales teams at Gartner, Shoptimize and Graas and was later an entrepreneur in residence at Antler, and Saumya Seth,

Funding
October 2026Pre-seed$0.16Majvc
Company profile →1 round on record

Journey with Scooter

2 milestones
  1. 2024Founded

    Founded in Pune by Kartik Mandrekar, a former sales leader at Gartner, Shoptimize and Graas, and behavioural scientist Saumya Seth, to replace CV-led sales hiring with recorded, scenario-based assessments.

  2. Oct 2026Milestone

    Reaches more than 50 customers, 14 of them added in recent months, with a pool of over 10,000 sales candidates.

Also building Scooter

Coverage

1 story

Quick answers

Who is Kartik Mandrekar?

Kartik Mandrekar is a Co-founder of Scooter, a hr tech company based in Pune, founded in 2024.

Who founded Scooter?

Scooter's founders and leadership on record at StartupFox are Kartik Mandrekar and Saumya Seth.

How much funding has Scooter raised?

Scooter has raised $160K across 1 disclosed round on record. The latest was a Pre-seed of $0.16M in October 2026, with ajvc.

Where is Scooter based?

Scooter is headquartered in Pune, India.

What has StartupFox reported about Kartik Mandrekar?

StartupFox has published 1 story naming Kartik Mandrekar; the most recent is “Scooter Raises ₹1.5 Crore to Test Salespeople on Selling, Not on Selling Themselves”.

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