Varun Limaye is the Co-Founder of Mesa School of Business, a Bengaluru-based alternate university on a mission to redefine business education for India's startup era by training the next generation of founders and business leaders.

Varun holds an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and a B.E. in Mechanical Engineering, and previously served as a Senior Product Manager at Amazon across Seattle and Mumbai.

Varun is a passionate advocate for outcome-driven, employer-backwards education, believing that young professionals should spend their early careers building, selling, and launching things rather than in roles being displaced by AI.

Before Mesa, Varun led impact measurement at Pratham Education Foundation, managing a team of 79 to build data systems tracking programs that impacted approximately 6 million children annually in India.

Mesa has raised $11.6M in a Series A round co-led by Dharana Capital and Elevation Capital, with over 100 founders teaching on campus and students completing over 200 real-world startup projects.