Here’s what audacity actually looks like: you’re 22. You’re battling cancer. And between the chemotherapy sessions and the uncertainty and the very real possibility that you might not make it through — you’re mentally building a private aviation company.
That’s Kanika Tekriwal. And that’s why JetSetGo exists.
India’s private aviation sector when Kanika entered it was, frankly, a mess. Fragmented operators. Zero pricing transparency. No standardised quality. An industry that should have been accessible to India’s growing affluent class but felt impossibly opaque and intimidating to anyone trying to navigate it.
Kanika saw exactly what was broken — and built the fix.
JetSetGo was designed as a tech-first marketplace for private aviation: transparent pricing, quality-assured aircraft, a booking experience as clean and simple as any hotel platform. Asset-light, tech-led, built to scale without the capital intensity of actually owning a fleet.
The model worked. By 2024, JetSetGo had crossed ₹500 crore in valuation — among India’s most valuable new-age aviation companies. And in 2026, Kanika joined Shark Tank India as one of its youngest judges — a moment that felt both surprising and inevitable.
JetSetGo is now expanding into electric and next-generation aviation, positioning the company at the intersection of where India’s aviation sector is and where it’s going.
But the origin story remains the most important part. Starting from a hospital bed, fighting a diagnosis that would have stopped most people entirely, building anyway — that’s not hustle. That’s a level of conviction that most people never access.
The industry didn’t expect her. The skies did.
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