Ranbir Arora

Ranbir Arora grew up on a council estate in Feltham, West London, in a household where entrepreneurship was not an obvious path. From an early age he was drawn to business, spending his teens experimenting with ideas across apps, consumer electronics and food — most of which didn't work. That period of productive failure became one of his most formative teachers, instilling a tolerance for iteration and a conviction that practical experience matters more than academic credentials.

After studying at the Peter Jones Enterprise Academy, Arora joined Sweatcoin as one of its earliest employees in 2015 — when the fitness app that converts steps into digital currency had barely launched. Over five years he rose to become Chief Growth Officer, playing a central role in scaling the platform to become the number one Health and Fitness app across multiple countries on the App Store. The experience gave him rare insight into how viral growth mechanics, community incentives and consumer psychology interact at scale.

In 2020, Arora co-founded Oneday alongside Taras Polik, drawing directly on his frustration at the absence of any university designed to help people become entrepreneurs. Oneday awards accredited MBA degrees to students who build real businesses under expert mentorship, combining the legitimacy of formal education with the practical reality of starting a company. The platform is deliberately inclusive — more than half of Oneday's founders are women and 56% are from ethnic minority backgrounds — reflecting Arora's belief that entrepreneurship should be accessible to everyone regardless of background.

Under Arora's leadership, Oneday has raised funding from Ananda Venture Partners, BrightEye Ventures, Flint Capital and Flashpoint, and has successfully expanded into the United States. The company is building an AI-powered execution layer that synthesises mentor expertise into personalised, adaptive guidance for every founder on the platform, positioning Oneday to scale what was previously a high-touch, human-intensive model across a global community of student entrepreneurs.