Rohan Pasari

Rohan Pasari is the co-founder and CEO of Cialfo, an AI-driven platform that brings together people, software, and data to simplify college and career counseling workflows. He co-founded Cialfo with the vision to make education accessible for 100 million students globally. His first venture, a tech-enabled education consultancy, was acquired by a private equity firm in 2017. Headquartered in Singapore, Cialfo has raised 3 rounds of funding, and is experiencing rapid growth with offices in the US, China and India. Cialfo is used by thousands of students and educators around the world, from high schools to leading colleges.

Cialfo was named Top 50 Edtech companies 2020 by HolonIQ, Top 5 startups to watch in 2017 by The Straits Times, Edtech provider of the year in 2018 by EducationInvestor, and has been featured in Forbes, CNBC, Wall Street Journal, to name a few. Rohan is a double Gold Medalist from Nanyang Technological University with a background in Engineering, Economics, and Entrepreneurship. He has been invited to speak at many high-profile conferences across the globe, including ASU-GSV, SXSWedu, EdTech Asia, GET, and MIT GSW summits. He was recently honored as a 2020 member of the prestigious 35 Under 35 class, awarded by Singapore’s EDGE organization to young entrepreneurs for their contributions to innovation and the startup community. When he is not thinking of new ways to reimagine education, he can be found biking, dancing bachata or diving off boats to explore the underwater world.