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PRESS KIT
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Press kit, in five lengths.

Everything you need to write about Maitro accurately. Five paragraph lengths from 50 to 1,000 words. Founder bio. Brand mark in SVG and PNG. Founder portrait. Embargoed announcements. Contact: [email protected].

Boilerplate (50 words)

Maitro is a CXO-branded venture studio operated by Talpro India. Maitro funds, builds, and owns technology ventures originated by senior business leaders, paying each leader a quarterly royalty and twelve months of brand amplification — without asking them to take equity, contribute capital, or leave their day job.

Boilerplate (100 words)

Maitro is a CXO-branded venture studio operated by Talpro India. Maitro funds, builds, and owns technology ventures originated by senior business leaders. Each leader contributes the idea and their public name; Maitro contributes the capital, the twelve-week build, the operating company, and the brand-amplification machinery. The leader earns a capped, time-bound royalty paid quarterly in INR — and twelve months of managed podcast, conference, lecture, awards, and LinkedIn editorial. They keep their day job, take no equity, write no cheque, and run none of the operating company. Maitro is venture number nineteen under the Talpro umbrella.

Founder bio

Bhaskar Anand is the founder of Maitro and Founder & Managing Director of Talpro India. Across fifteen years of operating, he has shipped eighteen ventures including HCI Talks (a four-year-old CXO-focused podcast), CVPRO (a 26,000-line career platform serving 30M+ users), HireIQ Pro, SourceIQ, Jharokha, AddressIQ, and SocialIQ. He is based in Bangalore. Verifiable on LinkedIn with 22 public recommendations from senior talent leaders at Mastek, ex-Maersk, ex-Schneider, Tenarai, and other Fortune 500 employers.

Brand assets

  • Mark — SVG (preferred) · arc-and-dot, white on Maitro blue (#2B4FE5)
  • Open Graph card — PNG 1200×630 (loom + headline, cream canvas)
  • Open Graph SVG source — SVG (for resizing or recolouring)
  • Constellation diagram — please email [email protected] for the high-res 4K export

Brand voice

Direct, operator-grade, no hyperbole. We do not say "revolutionary," "disruptive," or "game-changer." We name structures honestly: CXO-branded venture studio · named ideator · capped royalty · day-job preserved. The Italian-Sanskrit etymology (Mitra + Maestro) is load-bearing — quote it verbatim or skip it; please do not paraphrase it loosely.

Embargoed announcements

For pre-launch coverage we share embargoed materials under a written embargo agreement. Email [email protected] with publication, beat, expected publication date, and embargo policy. We respond within 48 hours weekdays.

Bhaskar — for interview

Bhaskar is available for 30-minute, 60-minute, and panel formats. In-person Bangalore; video globally. Topics he can speak to first-person: India IT staffing economics; AI's effect on product-build cost curves; CXO career structures and IP-conflict risk; the Talpro Universe portfolio model; Demo Day mechanics. To book, email [email protected] with date options.

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