About

Builder of businesses. Backer of founders. Third generation entrepreneur carrying a 70 year legacy forward.

Sahil Jindal, third generation industrialist and Managing Director of DS Jindal Group, seated in a lounge in Gurugram

Who I Am

I am Sahil Jindal, Managing Director of the DS Jindal Group and Co Founder of Trevel. I am a third generation entrepreneur based in Gurgaon, with over 22 years of experience building, scaling and reinventing businesses across manufacturing, mobility, investing and venture building.

My story starts before me. My grandfather, Padma Shri Debi Sahai Jindal, built our family business from Nalwa village in Haryana around 1960. What began as a pipe manufacturing operation in Hissar has grown into a diversified industrial group that has served India for more than seven decades. I grew up inside that legacy, and everything I build today is an attempt to honour it while taking it somewhere new.

I studied at Springdales School, Delhi, and earned my BBA from the University of Greenwich, London in 2005. I joined the family business soon after and took charge of transforming a traditional manufacturing group into a modern, multi vertical enterprise.

Beyond business, I am a traveller, a connector of people and a student of how companies get built. The best part of my work is the people it brings me into a room with.

My grandfather, Padma Shri Debi Sahai Jindal, built the whole thing from a village. Everything I do is a footnote to that.

What I Do

DS Jindal Group

As Managing Director, I lead a 70 plus year old industrial group that manufactures steel pipes, PVC, CPVC, HDPE, MLC and PP Silent Drainage pipes, along with Flujo, our brand of GFRP rebars and building materials. Our manufacturing footprint spans locations including Pantnagar and Dehradun, with new capacity coming up in Andhra Pradesh. My focus is modernisation: new product lines, national channel partnerships, brand building and preparing the group for its next phase of growth.

Trevel

I am Co Founder and Chief Growth Officer of Trevel, a mass premium managed EV fleet mobility platform operating in Delhi NCR. Trevel was born from a simple frustration: cabs that cancel, surge and disappoint. We built the opposite. Our own electric fleet, our own chauffeurs, fixed pricing, no surge, and a promise that the car simply turns up. We started with a handful of cars in Gurugram and are now scaling the fleet aggressively, with the ambition of becoming India's most reliable EV cab service.

SIORA Capital

SIORA Capital is my family office. Through it, I invest across ventures and asset classes with a long term, founder friendly lens.

Synergy Growth Labs

A collective VC platform I run with seven partners, pooling capital, networks and operating experience to back promising companies together.

Indian Venture Studio Association (IVSA)

I founded IVSA (ivsa.in) as an apex industry body for venture studios in India. I believe the venture studio model is one of the most under appreciated ways to build companies in this country, and IVSA exists to organise, represent and grow that ecosystem.

Helping Startups

I work with founders the way I wish someone had worked with me at the start: direct, practical and invested in the outcome.

That takes a few forms. I invest personally and through SIORA Capital and Synergy Growth Labs. I mentor founders on strategy, distribution, fundraising and the unglamorous operational details that actually decide whether a company survives. And I build alongside them, through venture studio partnerships where we create companies from scratch.

I wrote Startup Saga: From Idea to IPO, A Founder's Playbook to put everything I have learned into one place: 18 chapters covering the full journey from first idea to public markets, grounded in Indian case studies and my own experience across two decades of building.

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Investing

My investing thesis is simple: back real businesses solving real problems, run by founders who show up every day.

I invest across stages and sectors, with particular interest in mobility, climate, consumer brands, manufacturing adjacent technology and the venture studio model. What I bring beyond capital is operating depth: 22 years of running factories, building distribution networks, managing channel partners and scaling brands in some of the most competitive markets in India.

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Leadership and Community

I am a founding member and Past President of EO Noida, a chapter of the Entrepreneurs' Organization that five of us launched in August 2021. We grew from 36 to 50 members in the first year and the chapter now stands at over 100 members. I also serve EO South Asia as a Strategic Alliance Expert, helping build partnerships across the region.

EO has been one of the most important rooms of my life: a place to learn from peers, share honestly and grow as both an entrepreneur and a person.

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Achievements and Recognition

  • Times of India Top 10 Outstanding Inspiring Leaders, 2024
  • Best CEOs to Esteem, 2024
  • Founding member and Past President, EO Noida
  • Strategic Alliance Expert, EO South Asia
  • Author, Startup Saga: From Idea to IPO, A Founder's Playbook
  • Featured across national media for Trevel, including coverage in Entrepreneur India, Entrackr, BW Disrupt and Forbes India's coverage of electric taxis in India

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Beyond Work

I host the Brand N Brains podcast, where I talk to founders and operators about how brands and businesses actually get built. I am also working on a book on venture studios written for the Indian context, and on a coffee table book celebrating the life of my grandfather, whose 100th birth anniversary we marked with the launch of the DS Jindal Foundation, our family's charitable initiative.

Let's Connect

If you are a founder building something real, an investor who wants to co invest, an event organiser, a university or a podcast host, I would love to hear from you.

Email md@jindal.co.inWebsite www.sahilijindal.in

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Questions I get asked

Who is Sahil Jindal?
Sahil Jindal is a third generation industrialist based in Gurugram. He is Managing Director of DS Jindal Group, a piping systems manufacturer founded around 1960, co-founder of Trevel, a managed EV cab fleet in Delhi NCR, an early stage investor, startup mentor, author of Startup Saga and host of the Brand N Brains podcast.
How do I get Sahil Jindal to speak at my event?
Write to md@jindal.co.in or message his office on WhatsApp with the date, city, audience and format. He speaks on family business succession, Indian manufacturing, EV fleet mobility and early stage investing, in keynotes, fireside chats and panels, and gives priority to founder and industry rooms in India.
What does Sahil Jindal invest in?
He backs pre-seed to Series A Indian founders through SIORA Capital, his family office, and Synergy Growth Labs, a collective VC platform. He looks for real distribution, honest unit economics and operator led teams, most often in manufacturing, mobility, consumer brands and B2B businesses.
What is Trevel?
Trevel is a managed electric fleet mobility platform serving mass premium riders in Delhi NCR, co-founded by Sahil Jindal. It runs its own driver and vehicle operations so ride quality stays consistent, and treats charging, utilisation and driver earnings as the core economics of the business.
What does DS Jindal Group make?
DS Jindal Group manufactures steel and polymer piping systems, including PVC, CPVC, HDPE and silent drainage, along with the Flujo composite rebar brand. The group has been building for the Indian construction and infrastructure market for over six decades.

More on how I deploy capital and mentor founders on the investing page, the stages and rooms I speak in on the speaking page, and coverage of the group and Trevel in the press.