Hi, I'm Udit Goenka
AI Product Expert. Founder & CEO of TinyCheque — India's first agentic AI venture studio. Angel investor in 38 startups. Previously built PitchGround to $25m+ GMV.
→ About
I'm Udit — a self-taught builder who went from a slow internet connection in India to founding multiple companies and helping 700+ startups generate over ~$25m in revenue. Here's the honest version of how it happened.
Self-taught designer and developer on 256 Kbps internet. No courses, no mentors — just curiosity and relentless googling.
Reached financial independence by building and selling India's first WordPress security product.
Co-founded Power Up Hosting with Oscar Hernandez. Ran it for 7 years before a successful exit.
Founded India's first PBN Hosting. Scaled, then exited in 2017.
Launched PitchGround in 2018. Bootstrapped to $25m+ GMV — helped 700+ SaaS companies launch and grow without a dollar of external funding.
Started angel investing in 2021. 38 startups backed, 6 exits, 5 shut down. Helping founders avoid the mistakes I made.
Running TinyCheque — India's first agentic AI venture studio — building seoengine.ai, autoposting.ai, niyam.ai, and qcall.ai. Also running Firstsales.io.
Today I run TinyCheque and Firstsales.io, invest in early-stage AI and SaaS startups, and share everything I learn in public. Based in India. Building every day.
→ What I'm Building
Active ventures I'm running right now.
India's first agentic AI venture studio. Pivoted from PitchGround in 2024. Building autonomous AI products across SEO, social media, legal, and sales.
4 AI products · Funded
AI-powered sales intelligence and email outreach platform helping teams close more deals with personalized cold email, inbox warm-up, and intelligent follow-up sequences.
Bootstrapping
→ Past Ventures
What I built before. Each one taught me something I couldn't learn any other way.
PitchGround
Founder & CEOSaaS marketplace that launched 700+ software companies and generated over $25m in GMV. Pivoted to TinyCheque in 2024.
Power Up Hosting
Co-FounderCo-founded with Oscar Hernandez. Grew into a profitable hosting business over 7 years before a successful exit.
PBN Hosting
FounderIndia's first Private Blog Network hosting service. Built from scratch, scaled, and exited in 2017.
→ Expertise
Things I've done enough times to have real opinions on. Not theory — patterns I've tested, broken, and rebuilt.
AI Product Strategy
Building autonomous AI products across SEO, social media, legal, and sales. Pivoted PitchGround to TinyCheque in 2024 — now running 4 funded AI products through India's first agentic AI venture studio.
SaaS Scaling
Bootstrapped PitchGround from zero to $25m+ GMV without external funding. Launched 700+ SaaS companies and helped them find product-market fit and scale their go-to-market motion.
Growth Hacking
Generated 100M+ content views in 5 years. Grew X to 59.7K and LinkedIn to 49.9K followers organically. Recognized as LinkedIn Top Voice (CAP India 2022).
Bootstrapping
Built multiple startups without external funding. Strong believer in profitability-first growth, lean teams, and shipping fast. Every company built to be cash-flow positive from day one.
→ Resources & Recommendations
Books, podcasts, tools, and AI models that shaped how I build and think.
- Predictable RevenueAaron Ross & Marylou Tyler
The outbound sales playbook that scaled Salesforce to $100m.
- The 48 Laws of PowerRobert Greene
Timeless strategies on influence, leverage, and human behavior.
- Delivering HappinessTony Hsieh
How Zappos built a billion-dollar company through culture and service.
- $100M OffersAlex Hormozi
How to make offers so good people feel stupid saying no.
- Zero to OnePeter Thiel
Building companies that create something genuinely new.
→ Latest from the Blog
Thoughts on AI, startups, product building, and growth.
- Wikipedia Votes 44-2 to Ban AI-Generated Content — Citing Hallucination Feedback Loops and Data PoisoningMar 27, 2026
English Wikipedia passed a near-unanimous ban on LLM-generated article content. Only two exceptions: copyediting your own writing and first-pass translation. The decision addresses AI hallucinations being scraped into future training data — a data poisoning feedback loop.
- Trump Stacks His AI Policy Council With Zuckerberg, Jensen Huang, and Ellison — Regulation Just Got CapturedMar 27, 2026
Trump's 24-member AI policy council co-chaired by David Sacks features Mark Zuckerberg, Jensen Huang, and Larry Ellison. The foxes are officially guarding the henhouse. What this means for AI regulation, export controls, and safety.
- Sanders and AOC Want to Freeze All New AI Data Centers — While Senate Demands Power Bills From 8 Tech GiantsMar 27, 2026
Three simultaneous regulatory attacks on AI infrastructure: Senators probe 8 companies about 12 gas-powered mega-projects, Warren-Hawley push mandatory energy reporting, and Sanders-AOC introduce an AI Data Center Moratorium Act. The energy debate just went nuclear.
Meta eliminates 700 roles across Reality Labs, recruiting, and sales while announcing a $921 million per-executive retention package. The metaverse pivot is dead. The AI pivot is expensive. Here is what it means.
- Google Gemini Now Lets You Import Your Entire ChatGPT and Claude History — The AI Switching War BeginsMar 27, 2026
Google rolls out dual import features in Gemini: chat history via .zip file (up to 5GB) and memory via summaries. Seamless migration from ChatGPT, Claude, and others. Unavailable in EU due to data regulations. The most aggressive AI platform consolidation play yet.
→ Angel Investing
I back founders who are close to their problem, ship fast, and understand that distribution matters as much as product. I bring operator perspective — not just capital — with hands-on support on growth, pricing, and go-to-market from my time scaling PitchGround to $25m+ GMV and building AI products at TinyCheque. 38 startups backed, 6 exits, 5 shut down — I've seen both sides.
AI Products
Pre-seed and seed rounds in AI-first products with strong founder-market fit and a clear path to $1M ARR. Especially interested in AI tools that replace existing SaaS workflows.
Early-stage SaaS
B2B SaaS products solving real workflow pain points for small and mid-market teams. Productivity, sales, and operations tools with clear distribution advantage.
Developer Tools
Tooling that improves developer experience, CI/CD pipelines, observability, and infrastructure automation.
→ Writing & Media
100M+ content views across platforms. LinkedIn Top Voice · CAP India 2022.
Writing on bootstrapping, SaaS growth, and the founder journey.
Weekly insights on agentic AI, autonomous systems, and venture building.
Daily thoughts on building, growth tactics, and lessons from the trenches.
→ The Stuff That Matters
The things that shape how I work and what I care about.
Based in
India
Started with
256 Kbps internet and a lot of curiosity
Learning style
Self-taught from day one — no CS degree, no bootcamp
Driven by
Building things that genuinely help entrepreneurs
Approach
Ship fast, learn from real users, iterate relentlessly