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Satya Mehta
Satya Mehta is from Nakhatrana, Kutch, and writes nakhatrana.town. Based in Ahmedabad, he is Co-Founder and CEO of the RoomPe Group, a career counsellor and startup mentor who has engaged more than 5,000 students across 200+ campuses, and co-author of The Way Up.
Who is Satya Mehta?
Satya Mehta is the author of nakhatrana.town. He is from Nakhatrana, Kutch, and lives in Ahmedabad, where he is Co-Founder and CEO of the RoomPe Group. He is also a career counsellor and startup mentor who has engaged 5,000+ students across 200+ campuses, and co-author of The Way Up.
What is Satya Mehta’s connection to Nakhatrana?
Nakhatrana is Satya Mehta’s home town, and he describes himself as a full-time Kutchi and part-time Amdavadi. He has taught Kutchi, the language of the region, as visiting faculty for the Gujarat Police. nakhatrana.town is his guide to the town and to western Kutch, the region he comes from.
What does Satya Mehta do?
Satya Mehta is Co-Founder and CEO of the RoomPe Group in Ahmedabad. He co-founded RoomPe, an institutional student-housing operator, in 2020, co-founded MealPe, cafeteria and mess software, and has run KhanePe, catering sourcing, since 2022. Alongside, he is an independent career counsellor and startup mentor, and a member of TiE Ahmedabad.
| Role | Organisation | Years |
|---|---|---|
| Co-Founder and CEO | RoomPe, institutional student housing | 2020–present |
| Co-Founder and Chief Business Officer | MealPe, cafeteria and mess software | 2023–present |
| Operator | KhanePe, catering sourcing | 2022–present |
| Career counsellor | Independent practice | 2020–present |
| Member | TiE Ahmedabad | Present |
| Founder and Director | APTIQoaching, test prep and study-abroad advisory (since sold) | 2020–2024 |
| Co-founder and Director | Stellars School, student profile building | 2022–2024 |
| Startup mentor | Charotar University of Science and Technology (CHARUSAT) | 2023–2024 |
| Board member | Faculty of Management Studies, Marwadi University | 2021–2024 |
| Visiting faculty (Kutchi) | Gujarat Police | — |
Sources: satyamehta.careers, and his author profiles on RoomPe and KhanePe.
What is Satya Mehta’s background?
Satya Mehta began his career in education: at the Sunflower Group in Rajkot from 2012, Shanti Educational Initiatives from 2015, and Endeavor Careers from 2016, rising to National Sales Manager by 2020. He holds a BBA from Kadi Sarva Vishwavidyalaya, an MBA from MEFGI, Rajkot, and UGC-NET in Management.
He is now studying for an LLB at Gujarat University and a PhD. He is active in Ahmedabad’s startup and business communities, including TiE Ahmedabad, BNI, GUSEC and IACC, and has spoken at Vibrant Gujarat.
How is nakhatrana.town researched?
Every place in this guide was chosen by Satya Mehta and comes with his own Google Maps link. Distances are straight-line, calculated from those links. Town figures come from the 2011 Census, and history and descriptions are cited to Wikipedia and local sources. Anything not yet confirmed is marked for checking and corrected as soon as it is.
Spotted something out of date or wrong? Send a correction through Satya’s contact page. Read the privacy notice for what this site does and does not collect.
Frequently asked questions
Who wrote nakhatrana.town?
nakhatrana.town is written by Satya Mehta, who is from Nakhatrana, Kutch, and is now based in Ahmedabad as Co-Founder and CEO of the RoomPe Group. He is also a career counsellor, startup mentor and co-author of The Way Up. He chose every place in the guide, supplied the Google Maps links used for distances, and keeps the pages updated.
Is Satya Mehta from Nakhatrana?
Yes. Satya Mehta’s home town is Nakhatrana in Kutch district, Gujarat, according to his own website, satyamehta.careers, where he calls himself a full-time Kutchi and part-time Amdavadi. He has taught Kutchi as visiting faculty for the Gujarat Police. He now lives and works in Ahmedabad and writes this guide to his home town.
What companies has Satya Mehta founded?
Satya Mehta co-founded RoomPe, an institutional student-housing operator, in Ahmedabad in 2020 with Deval Patel, and leads the RoomPe Group as CEO. He also co-founded MealPe, cafeteria and mess software, runs KhanePe, a catering sourcing brand, and earlier founded APTIQoaching, a test-preparation and study-abroad advisory he has since sold.
What book has Satya Mehta written?
Satya Mehta is the co-author, with Sanket Bhatia, of the book The Way Up. Alongside writing, he works as a career counsellor and mentor and has engaged more than 5,000 students across 200+ campuses. On this site he writes about his home town, Nakhatrana, and the places around it in western Kutch.
How are the distances on nakhatrana.town calculated?
Distances are straight-line ("as the crow flies") from the centre of Nakhatrana to each place, calculated with the haversine formula from the coordinates in Satya Mehta’s Google Maps links. They are rounded to the nearest kilometre. Road distances are longer, so every place also links to Google Maps directions from Nakhatrana for the current route.
How can I suggest a correction to nakhatrana.town?
Send corrections, new places or updated timings through the contact page on satyamehta.careers, Satya Mehta’s website. Include the page, the fact that needs changing and, where possible, a source such as an official notice or a recent photograph. Confirmed corrections are published with an updated “Last updated” date on the page.