Chirag Kulkarni

Chirag Kulkarni is an American entrepreneur, speaker, and startup advisor. He is regarded as one of the top entrepreneurs in the country under 21. He is best known as the cofounder and CEO of STR, a low cost, high efficiency tennis racquet stringing business in the Kansas city market, and C&M Group, a strategy consulting firm focused on startups to Fortune 500 clients. His current residence is in Boston, Massachusetts, and Richmond, Virginia.

Companies
Kulkarni was known for being an entrepreneurial individual since the beginning of his youth when he started reading Captain Underpants in 3rd grade. His first entrepreneurial venture was selling comics on his school playground. Later, Kulkarni started STR, and in 2013, the C&M Group. While continuing to run C&M Group, he attends the D'Amore Mckim School of Business at Northeastern University.

STR
At age 15, Kulkarni started STR when he noticed a gap in the tennis racquet stringing industry. Kulkarni met his business partner at the time through the CAPS program in Overland park, KS where Kulkarni first started STR. While pitching to VC's, STR saw the opportunity to grow in the B2B space. STR later grew to a company that served B2C as well as B2B customers, and investment from private VC's of 2 million dollars. However, instead of taking the investment, Kulkarni received a valuation of 6 million dollars and exited the company successfully at age 18.

C&M Group
Kulkarni started C&M Group, a strategy consulting group focused on business development for SMBs. Kulkarni started C&M Group to change the way management consulting was performed. C&M Group is known as being an entrepreneurial consulting firm focused on relevant experiences, and strategic advice. Since the start of the company, Kulkarni has consulted for startups to Fortune 500 companies. C&M Group has reportedly received talks of a merger with firms in the US and India, however, Kulkarni declined the 10 million dollar equity deal sighting "lack of vision" in the organizations.