About Skillup Circle

About SkillUp Circle

Empowering Future Innovators through Skill-Centric Learning

SkillUp Circle is a forward-thinking, impact-driven learning ecosystem. SkillUp Circle brings together students, educators, professionals, and changemakers across India.We are committed to equipping students, professionals, educators, and aspiring entrepreneurs with the practical skills and innovation mindset necessary to thrive in a rapidly evolving digital world. We believe in learning that goes beyond textbooks and traditional classrooms. In a world powered by AI, digital disruption, and rapid innovation, learners need more than just knowledge — they need skills, exposure, real-world experiences, and a mindset to create and lead. 

Our programs are carefully curated to bridge the gap between theoretical education and real-world application — ensuring learners not only gain knowledge but also develop the ability to apply it meaningfully in their careers, businesses, and communities.

SkillUp Circle is an education-technology and learning innovation startup focused on helping students, educators, professionals, aspiring entrepreneurs, and educational institutions develop practical, future-ready capabilities. Its work is centred on bridging the gap between academic knowledge and real-world application in a world being rapidly transformed by artificial intelligence, digital technologies, and continuous innovation.

The startup’s primary focus areas include conducting hands-on workshops, faculty development programmes, seminars, training sessions, and experiential learning initiatives for students, teachers, professionals, and institutions. These programmes cover areas such as artificial intelligence, digital technologies, entrepreneurship, design thinking, robotics, immersive learning, innovation, and other emerging skill domains.

A key technology initiative of the startup is the SkillUp Circle AI App, an AI-enabled learning platform designed to support personalised and curriculum-aligned learning. The platform aims to provide guided learning assistance, assessments, academic progress tracking, learning resources, course delivery, and support for students, teachers, institutions, and parents. It is being developed with an emphasis on responsible AI, grounded educational content, learner confidence, accessibility, and meaningful learning outcomes.

SkillUp Circle also works with educational institutions on curriculum development, syllabus design, course structuring, academic content creation, and the development of teaching and learning aids. These may include workbooks, faculty resources, presentations, activity-based learning materials, assessment tools, digital content, laboratory resources, STEM and robotics learning kits, and technology-enabled teaching solutions.

We believe that knowing something and being able to apply it are distinct capabilities. Academic knowledge provides an essential foundation, but learners must also develop practical skills, real-world exposure, problem-solving abilities, entrepreneurial thinking, and the confidence to create, collaborate, and lead.

Through mentorship, project-based learning, faculty capacity-building, emerging technologies, industry interaction, and institutional partnerships, SkillUp Circle helps learners and educators translate knowledge into meaningful action.

At its core, SkillUp Circle aims to build future-ready learners, empower educators, strengthen educational institutions, and create a more productive connection between academia, industry, entrepreneurship, businesses, corporates and the wider innovation ecosystem.

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Our Vision

To create a future-ready India by nurturing a generation of creators, critical thinkers, and responsible digital leaders through hands-on, skill-oriented, and innovation-driven education.

Our Mission

To provide accessible, practical, and high-impact learning opportunities that foster entrepreneurship, enhance employability, and empower learners to become self-reliant contributors to the global digital economy.

Our Story

What started as a spark led by Tejas Hoskatti — with 20+ years in AI, education, robotics, and software innovation — is now a national learning movement. Under his leadership, SkillUp Circle has impacted:

  • 1,00,000+ students
  • 500+ real-world projects
  • Hundreds of workshops and seminars delivered across India
    (via Taiijas Infotech and SkillUp Circle)

These workshops span:

Robotics & AI (school & college level)

Web development (PHP, MySQL, CodeIgniter)

Mobile apps, VR/AR education

AI tools for business & education

Founder

Tejas Hoskatti

Tejas Hoskatti is an Indian tech entrepreneur, STEAM curriculum expert, AI & robotics educator, and digital transformation consultant based in Mumbai. He has over 20 years of experience working at the intersection of education technology, applied engineering, and industry systems.

Tejas Hoskatti

Meet the Team at
Skillup Circle Goa Chapter

Meet the leaders driving SkillUp Circle’s mission in Goa, combining decades of global experience in technology, design, and education to empower future innovators.

Jiwan Panjiker

Co-Founder

Jiwan Panjiker is a technology leader, principal enterprise architect, and a founding member of SkillUp Circle, an initiative dedicated to bridging the gap between traditional academic curricula and the rapidly evolving demands of the global tech landscape. Following an illustrious 18-year tenure in the United States, Jiwan returned to India to instill a vibrant “builder culture” in early education, creating an ecosystem where educators, schools, corporations, and colleges seamlessly converge. Throughout nearly two decades at the forefront of global technology, Jiwan served as a high-impact solutions architect and pre-sales engineering leader for big tech titans like Amazon, where he sat at the critical intersection of business strategy and deep technical design. His expertise in shaping complex, large-scale technology solutions allowed him to win and deliver high-stakes enterprise deals for an elite tier of clients, including some of the world’s largest hedge funds, tier-1 investment banks, and premier healthcare companies. A deeply respected industry voice, Jiwan has authored numerous technical publications and blogs, and he frequently shares his insights on emerging tech trends at global industry speaking events. Now, he is channeling over twenty years of elite corporate pre-sales and architectural rigor directly into the future of educational technology at SkillUp Circle, mapping his deep commercial and engineering foundation onto experiential K-12 and collegiate learning frameworks. Under his guidance, the organization is engineering hands-on programs in Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, advanced STEAM, and practical Financial Literacy—moving young minds from passive tech consumption to active creation. Jiwan is dedicated to upskilling regional educators and transforming classrooms into experiential laboratories, building a durable pipeline of curious, highly skilled young builders fully equipped to architect the digital future.

Smeeta Panjiker

Co-Founder

Smeeta Panjiker is a technology leader, principal user experience architect, and a founding member of SkillUp Circle, an initiative dedicated to bridging the gap between traditional academic curricula and the rapidly evolving demands of the global tech landscape. Following an accomplished 15-year tenure in the United States, Smeeta returned to India to channel her extensive industry expertise into creating a vibrant, human-centered “builder culture” in early education, designing an ecosystem where educators, schools, corporations, and colleges seamlessly converge. Throughout her career at the forefront of software engineering and digital innovation, Smeeta has served as a high-impact principal engineer and user experience design leader, sitting at the critical intersection of technical architecture, user behavior, and educational technology. Her specialized background in crafting intuitive digital interfaces and complex cloud solutions has allowed her to lead the development of highly engaging platforms, building on an early professional foundation established as an educator and mentor at institutions like NIIT Goa. A deeply respected voice in user interface and user experience design, Smeeta has a proven track record of translating sophisticated technical workflows into accessible, interactive consumer experiences. Now, she is mapping over two decades of technical rigor and design thinking directly into the future of educational technology at SkillUp Circle, designing hands-on frameworks for experiential K-12 and collegiate learning. Under her guidance, the organization is engineering intuitive, product-driven programs in Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, advanced STEAM, and digital literacy—moving young minds from passive tech consumption to active creation. Smeeta is dedicated to upskilling regional educators and transforming classrooms into experiential innovation labs, building a durable pipeline of curious, highly skilled young builders fully equipped to architect the digital future.

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