परिचयThe Record

Nikhil Sharma. Building companies since 2005.

You are not buying a cohort. You are buying twenty years of someone else’s mistakes, applied to your company, by the person who made them.

Startup mentor and investor. Digital evangelist for twenty years. Has mentored over a hundred founders. Writes as Nishkrant Nikhil. In the business of happiness, via better business, better wellness, better travel and better skills. English and Hindi.

Experience

What he runs, and since when.

As it stands on LinkedIn, with NS Transform added: formal since 2023, informal for a decade before.

• Founder & Managing Director

  Fabulous.Media

  Jul 2008 – present · Gurugram

  Marketing That Drives ROI®. The agency that became the eight-city Fabulous.Media network.

• Founder

  NS Transform

  2023 – present · Gurugram · Jaipur · Pune

  Formally since 2023. Informally for over a decade before that, as the backing behind founders he worked with.

• Founder & CEO

  Elevated India

  Present

  Inbound travel to India, run AI-first. The operator’s method applied to his own venture.

• Founder

  GoCommercially

  Jan 2020 – present · Gurugram

  Productised marketing services for small business. Fixed scope, bought from a site.

• Founder & Managing Director

  Vibence Global

  Nov 2019 – present · Gurugram

  Business setup, compliance and filings. The fintech instance of the stack.

• CEO & Founder

  Wellpro Wellness

  Jan 2022 – present · Gurugram

  Evidence-based reversal of lifestyle disorders. Urzano Wellness Private Limited.

• CEO & Founder

  WakeUp Life Inc.

  Feb 2022 – present

  Spiritual intelligence, measured. The WakeUp Score and a seven-habit programme.

• Founder

  AnandBodh — The Happy Life

  2022 – present · Jaipur · Calgary

  The umbrella over the wellness work. Community, content and the two centres.

• Co-Founder

  TaCa Healthcare

  Aug – Oct 2022 · New Delhi

  Technology for patient care in underserved India. A short engagement.

• Community Brand Ambassador, India

  Truecaller

  Mar 2015 – Dec 2019 · Delhi

  Four years as the face of the app’s community in India.

The record

Twenty years, in dates.

Every dated line below rests on a document: an incorporation, a cover, a share transfer, a patent application. The first line is the one exception; it is a date, not a filing.

1. 2005

   The start

   Digital evangelist from the year the Indian web turned commercial. Building companies since. Dated, not filed.

2. 2008

   Fabulous Media

   Founded in Gurugram. Grows into India’s first agency network built from scratch: eight cities, 850+ brands, 35 nations.

3. 17 Dec 2009

   Fabulous Media Private Limited

   The first company incorporated. The record on paper begins here.

4. Feb 2019

   Consultants Review

   Cover story.

5. Oct 2021

   siliconindia

   Cover story. The same month, equity in a backed venture is transferred on FORM SH-4: the equity-not-retainers model, on paper.

6. 25 Aug 2022

   Urzano Wellness Private Limited

   Wellpro incorporated with Dr Ashutosh Rastogi. Seed round priced at ₹100 crore. Minority shareholding on the company record.

   What the ₹100 crore was paid for →

7. 2 Mar 2023

   Patent filed

   Indian patent application 202311014252, the Soleus Activation Series. Inventors Dr Ashutosh Rastogi and Nikhil Sharma.

8. 2023

   NS Transform

   The programme is formalised after running informally for over a decade. The 2024 intake opens on National Startup Day.

9. 2024–25

   The reset

   The agency taken deliberately lean and rebuilt AI-first. Clients back to cost by the end of it.

10. 2026

    NS Transform 2027 and सोच Soch (The Thoughts)

    The programme that carries up to ₹1 crore of a startup’s operating cost for equity opens its 2027 intake. The writing goes out under सामरिक Saamrik, the imprint.

11. Oct 2026

    मूल The roots

    Eleven subjects published as microsites on this site, from security and energy to statecraft: his positions, the numbers under them and the pieces that argue them. Every essay’s dated wager is kept on a public ledger.

    The roots →

Receipts

Scale, and what the backing produced.

No venture is named. Every figure sits on a priced round, a published cover or the investment papers.

In twenty years I have worked with 850+ brands across 35 nations and built an agency network in 8 cities. Our Google campaigns alone have served 100 crore ad impressions, one billion, since 2009. The programme carries up to a crore of running cost for every startup it selects.

What the backing produced

• Top 3In Shopping Ads, nationally

  One venture taken from launch to the top three in India inside eighteen months, against Amazon and Flipkart, profitable from the first month. Then lost to a founders’ dispute, not to the market. That ending is why month one of the programme is founder terms, in writing. The Google Ads auction record for its Shopping campaigns shows a 48.65% impression share, second only to Amazon.in and ahead of Flipkart.

• ₹100 crSeed valuation, a venture I co-founded

  A wellness venture I co-founded, priced at a hundred crore in its seed round. Minority shareholding, on the company record and the investment papers.

• ₹400 crInside eighteen months, as reported

  One venture backed through GoCommercially, as reported in siliconindia’s October 2021 cover story. A press report, not a priced round, and labelled as one.

Excluding ventures whose figures are not mine to publish, these are the three with paper behind them — a priced round, an ad-account record, or a report in the press, each labelled for what it is. No portfolio company is named.

What it is for

In the business of happiness.

The companies are the vehicle. The method under all of them is four words: commit, act, account, consequence. The point is a more realised self, for the people who work in them and the people they serve.

• siliconindia

  Cover story · October 2021

• Consultants Review

  Cover story · February 2019

• Truecaller

  Ex-brand ambassador

सोच·What I have written

Essays, columns and sutras under सामरिक Saamrik, the imprint. The essays close on dated wagers, scored in public.