About
Why UGrowth Consultancy
Free help to start your own practice in India. Real methodology, real tools, real mentors. No catch. Built and led by Captain Ankur Kulshrestha (Retd, Indian Navy) — Captain's full credentials, including his University of Mumbai Board of Studies membership and MEPSC affiliate status, are listed below in his bio.
Our promise
We help brilliant Indian professionals stuck in average lives — engineers in Bangalore, marketing managers in Mumbai, CAs in Jaipur, homemakers in Kochi, 24-year-olds in Kanpur — own the calendar they live by. We don't sell freedom. We hand over the discipline that creates it.
The AI Advisor is free. The frameworks are free. The brochures are free. Our 12-week batch and done-for-you services are how we keep the lights on, and even those are priced for Indian founders, not American ones.
Who built this
Captain Ankur Kulshrestha (Retd)
Founder & Lead Mentor · 27 years, Indian Navy (1997 – Feb 2025)
LinkedIn → /in/captainankurkulshresthaWhy does Captain's background matter to you? Because the same three skills that get a warship safely from Kochi to Port Blair also get a first-time founder from Day 1 to first paying client: clarity under pressure, ruthless prioritisation, and systems that don't break when one person is having a bad week. Twenty-seven years of running that for the Indian Navy. Five years of running it for a ₹950 Cr retail operation. Now full-time on handing it over.
Five things that matter for what we'll teach you
- Commanding Officer of an Indian Naval warship (2010–11). Chief of Naval Staff Commendation. Means: comfortable taking final responsibility when things go wrong — the same instinct your first client will pay you for.
- Commander, Maritime Operations Centre, Navy War Room (2017–19). Coordinated naval missions and inter-agency disaster response (cyclone, SAR, civilian evacuation). Means: knows how to think when 5 different agencies need different things at the same time — exactly your first 5 clients.
- Director of Operations, NavMart Delhi (2019–25) — ₹950 Cr retail across 60,000 sq ft, India's first 24×7 digitally-enhanced defence store. Means: actually built a real business with real numbers, not just talked about it.
- MBA (Financial Management) — Silver Medallist, awarded by the Finance Minister of India. Means: when we talk about pricing, GST, working capital, and Indian B2B payment cycles, the answers come from someone who actually understands Indian finance — not a US-trained MBA quoting Stanford case studies.
- Member, Board of Studies (BSc Beauty & Wellness), University of Mumbai · MEPSC affiliate. Means: the certificate you receive on capstone is real, recognised, and designed under the Management & Entrepreneurship and Professional Skills Council framework.
"After 27 years of running operations where a missed detail costs lives, the hardest part of retirement was watching brilliant Indian professionals stay stuck in average lives because nobody handed them a system. I chose to teach first-time Indian founders full-time instead of joining corporate boards. A handover, not a programme."
— Capt Ankur Kulshrestha (Retd)
Full CV available on request via WhatsApp. Education includes the National Defence Academy, Defence Services Staff College Wellington, MSc Defence & Strategic Studies (Madras), Executive Program in Financial Management & Governance (University of California, Riverside), PGDM Disaster Management, and Certificate in International HR & Finance (Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, 2024–25).
Our co-leads
Bhavna Srivastava
BH Wellness Group
Leads the Return-to-Work batch track. From 1:1 wellness coach to 50,000+ lives touched.
Read her story →
Ruchii
The Sales Knob · Google Partner
Leads marketing & sales-enablement track. From in-house marketer to Google Partner agency owner.
Read her story →
The methodology
Everything we teach is captured in two free brochures, distilled from 1,000+ mentees across 17 cities. Together they are about 100 pages. Reading takes 90 minutes.
- Brochure A — "Brilliant People, Average Lives": the why. The 6 archetypes, the 3 truths, the Freedom Trap.
- Brochure B — "From Job to First Client in 90 Days": the how. Week-by-week plan, niche statement formula, three-tier rate card, GST/Udyam timelines, four-tool stack.
Talk to us
Mentoring is free. Always. Start a conversation now — AI Advisor, the batch, or WhatsApp directly.