About

Akash J. Chaudhary is the founder and CEO of Fancall, the first creator meetup platform of its kind in India. Fancall lets fans, brands, and creators connect through 1:1 audio and video calls — replacing the chaos of DMs, comments, and intermediaries with a single organized system. Since launching publicly in 2021, Fancall has grown to more than 250,000 users, over 1,000 verified creators across niches, 15,000+ completed calls, and 100+ brand partners running influencer campaigns on the platform. The company is bootstrapped, employs 20–30 people, and is headquartered in Ahmedabad, Gujarat.

Akash started his entrepreneurial career in 2015 with ₹90,000 his parents had saved to buy him a new laptop — money he used instead to launch Career Gujarat Academy, a coaching institute for Indian government and banking competitive exams. He grew it from that initial ₹90,000 into a ₹43 lakh business. Over the following years he became a 25% partner in Sarva Minerals, a mining venture in Gujarat, and founded Advait Logistics, a raw-materials supply company built on the insight that shorter credit cycles reduced risk and increased capital velocity. Advait grew at 100% CAGR in its first four months before the Covid lockdowns paused the economy.

Akash is a self-taught operator. He has read more than 300 books on business, marketing, investing, and self-development — by his own count more than he read for any degree. He credits the YouTube-era of self-learning as the insight that eventually led to Fancall: during the lockdown, he found himself unable to get simple questions answered by the creators he was learning from, and realized there was no organized way for fans to reach creators directly.

He holds an LLB from Monark University (Gold Medalist, 2021–2024), a BA in Geography and Political Science (First Class) from Government Arts College in Gandhinagar, and has completed the Young Entrepreneur Program at IIM Ahmedabad and a course on IP rights for startups at DA-IICT. He lives in Ahmedabad.