Reinventing Student Living — OxfordCaps CEO Annu Talreja & COO Priyanka Gera on building India’s largest student accommodation business
Student living 2.0! Today I speak with Annu Talreja and Priyanka Gera they have co-founded OxfordCaps. OxfordCaps is Asia’s first branded and tech-enabled student housing company they started in Singapore and now growing rapidly in India.
In this episode they talk about how they went from quitting their corporate jobs to raising $10 million dollars in funding. They talk about how they are enhancing the student experience, female entrepreneurship, the hardest part about doing business in India , they talk about pitching to investors and knowing each other since childhood. And finally some Steve jobs, Jack Ma chat.
In this conversation we also talk about:
- Going from 200 beds to 15000 beds
— Are they growing too fast?
— First impressions of each other
— How they divided the different roles & responsibilities at the start.
— Appreciating each other
— Getting customers
— Having supportive investors
— Lion mom culture & stress
— Technology
and much more!
