MEET THE CO-WANDERERS

Mythri and Apoorv - Building TimbuckDo and documenting the real startup journey, one week at a time.

Mythri Kumar - Co-Founder & CEO, TimbuckDo

Mythri Kumar

Co-Founder & CEO

A TEDx speaker and serial entrepreneur redefining how India's college students earn, learn and grow. Mythri started TimbuckDo from her own experience of financial struggle during college - she knows firsthand what students need because she lived it.

A journalism graduate turned founder, she transitioned from television presenting to building stories that matter. Her vision and leadership have been instrumental in building TimbuckDo into India's pioneering student gig platform.

Beyond startups, she's passionate about spirituality, education and children's health - finding balance between hustle and purpose.

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Apoorv Sharma Prasad

Co-Founder & COO

The operational powerhouse behind TimbuckDo. With a background in Mechanical Engineering and an MBA in Marketing, Apoorv brings 8+ years of experience scaling startups including Swiggy, Udaan and Jumbotail.

From leading growth at Swiggy Food Marketplace to building proprietary brands at Udaan, he's mastered the art of turning strategy into execution. His expertise in Key Account Management, P&L ownership and team building has been instrumental in TimbuckDo's growth and operations.

A mentor to young professionals and believer in leading by example, he's revolutionizing how students prepare for the future of work.

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Apoorv Sharma Prasad - Co-Founder & COO, TimbuckDo

Our Journey

We started TimbuckDo with a simple belief: India's students deserve a system that helps them earn, learn and grow while they study.

The journey began in 2022 when the first version of the platform was created. At that time, it was just an idea driven by the need to empower India's emerging alternative workforce. In 2024, our team strengthened when we came together as co-founders, bringing different experiences but the same conviction that the student gig ecosystem in India needed to be rebuilt from the ground up.

Since then, our journey has been about exploration more than anything else. Exploring how students actually work. Exploring how colleges want to engage. Exploring how employers hire. Exploring how the gig world can be fair, verified and opportunity-driven.

We have spent these years understanding the student economy city by city, campus by campus, and job by job. Nothing in our journey has been overnight. It has always been one learning at a time, one breakthrough at a time, one day at a time.

In this period, we also raised multiple rounds of funding and took our story to a national stage through IdeaBaaz, which helped us bring TimbuckDo into homes across India and showcase the power of student talent.

Today, as co-founders, we continue to build with the same curiosity we started with. We are still learning, still experimenting and still discovering new possibilities within the student gig space.

Our journey is far from finished. If anything, we feel we are just getting started.

What We Believe In

Radical Transparency

We share the real story - the fundraising rejections, bad hires, and tough calls. Not just Instagram highlights.

Student First

Every decision we make starts with one question: does this truly help students earn, learn and grow?

Fail Fast, Learn Faster

We pivot when needed, admit mistakes quickly, and iterate relentlessly based on real feedback.

Action Over Perfection

Ship fast, test with real users, and improve continuously. Done beats perfect every time.

About TimbuckDo

We started TimbuckDo in 2022 with a simple belief: India's students deserve a structured and dignified way to earn while they learn.

What began as an idea has now grown into a platform with almost five lakh registered users across more than ten cities, supported by a fast-expanding network of employers, campuses and student communities.

Our journey has been backed by early supporters like Nandkishore Kalambi and Morton Meyerson, who invested in our seed round and reinvested again in 2025. Following our appearance on IdeaBaaz, we welcomed additional investors into the TimbuckDo family, including Sandesh Sharda, Turbostart, Anupam Bansal, Arjun Vaidya, Shaili Chopra, and Archana Jahagirdar, along with the founding team and partners of IdeaBaaz.

Today, as co-founders, we continue to build TimbuckDo one day at a time, exploring the student gig ecosystem deeply and creating real earning and learning opportunities for young India.

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