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Founders in Bengaluru.
Everyone who lives in Bengaluru or has come to a gathering here, the blue ticks first.
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Simone Sharma
<div>17, Building YouthGrowYouth | World Economic Forum- Youngest Advisory Member | Harvard Innovative Fellow | Student Entrepreneur | Published author<br><br>YGY is a Harvard accelerated, student-led organisation on the mission of making extracurriculars more accessible to youth globally, to help them develop strong Ivy-league worthy college applications. Through our newsletter and social media platforms we provide students with quality resources to volunteering, internships, exclusive webinars and more alongside informative content to help them navigate the college process.<br><br>• As of today, YGY has successfully helped and created an impact on over 60,000+ high schoolers globally.<br>• After months of selective shortlisting, YGY is 1 amongst the first few global ventures accelerated directly by Harvard University.<br>• Affiliated with the United Nations Youth Council, we collectively work towards promoting gender equality and mass literacy- in forms of regular workshop and webinars in rural India. </div>
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Aniket Kamthe
<div>Early stage investor in SaaS, Infra, Devtools, Security, OSS, Data & AI at Nexus Venture Partners<br><br>We at Nexus partner with ambitious entrepreneurs solving challenging problems at seed and series A stages. I am particularly interested in Enterprise tech. If you have any ideas please reach out to [email protected] or on twitter @aniketkamthe777 - will be happy to chat with you :)<br><br>Nexus' enterprise software portfolio includes:<br><br>- Open source: FingerprintJS, Rancher, TileDB, MinIO, Kaltura, Gluster, Cloud.com, H2O.ai, ToolJet, GrowthBook<br>- Developer tools: Postman, FingerprintJS, Hasura, ToolJet, Stackblitz, Warrant.dev<br>- SaaS: Apollo.io, Blueshift, Pubmatic, Druva, Observe.ai, Sibros, Quizizz, Daloopa, AskNicely</div>
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Himanshu Upreti
<div>Co-Founder & CTO at AI Palette | Forbes 30 under 30 | Ex-Visa, IIT<br><br>We believe the world would be a better place if the Food Companies could create products that the consumers really want. So we are building the World's First AI Engine to make it possible! At Ai Palette, we do CPG Product Innovation using our patent-pending AI technology. With our platform, we empower brands to identify the white space opportunity and generate product concepts using cutting-edge AI which can help them to launch their next consumer product in the market. Our vision is to bridge the gap between consumers and brands and democratize the consumer understanding ranging from the biggest of the Fortune 500 companies to the smallest of the D2C brands. <br><br>Ai Palette was incubated at the deep-tech startup accelerator, Entrepreneur First (EF) Singapore. EF brings together extraordinary people to build deep tech startups from scratch.<br><br>I previously worked at Visa Inc. in the division Visa Data Labs immediately post my graduation from IIT Guwahati (B.Tech in Mathematics and Computing). My primary work involved building data products and driving PoCs on Visa's Big Data Platform to create a more seamless and faster payment experience. I am quite well versed and certified in Hadoop, Big Data Analytics, Machine Learning, and its related components. I also had had an opportunity to showcase my 'victorious' Hackathon app to hitherto CEO of Visa, Charles W. Scharf.<br><br>I've been a regular speaker at the Big Data and Machine Learning events such as the Data Science UA Conference, DataTalks Club, and Entrepreneur First Tech Scout sessions. Apart from work, I am a dedicated fitness enthusiast, avid cinephile, and voracious reader. </div>
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Pawan Lakhwani
<div>Venture Capital | Corporate Development & Strategic Initiatives | Investment Banking | Fundraising & M&A<br><br>Part of the India Investments Team at Dream Incubator, a Japanese Venture Capital fund with investment interests in technology startups in India, Japan, USA, China and South East Asia.<br><br>Previously worked as a part of the Strategy Initiatives Group and Chairman's office for Rainshine Entertainment where he was responsible for fundraising, M&A, investor relations, strategic initiatives (setting up Media Finance Fund), capitalization and other related initiatives. <br><br>Pawan has been an Investment Banking & Corporate Development Professional with experience in coverage and execution of transactions in Banking and Financial Services Industry (BFSI), Healthcare (including Hospitals, Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices), Consumers, Chemicals, Media & Entertainment practice. He has been part of Private Equity Fundraising, Domestic & Cross-Border M&A and Capital Market Transactions. He is well-equipped to originate transaction and execute them end-to-end including collaterals authoring, financial and business plan preparation, transaction marketing, negotiations, hand-holding the due-diligence and definitive closure documentation. <br><br>Strong proven ability to build trust relationships with CEOs/ CFOs and other CXOs. He is well-experienced in working closely with CxO's to identify and propose strategic initiatives for their companies. He is also well-equipped to deal and liaison with various agencies including due diligence, lawyers, regulatory bodies, BRLMs and others.<br><br>Specialties: Venture Capital Investing, Private Equity, Mergers and Acquisitions, Joint Ventures, Advisory, Capital Markets, Fundraising and analyzing different investment opportunities across the value chain, Investor Relations, Corporate Strategy, Corporate Development</div>
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Baani Bareja
<div>Early stage investments @ Omidyar Network India<br><br>On the lookout for early stage tech entrepreneurs building for Bharat. I'm reachable at [email protected]<br><br>..<br><br>Omidyar Network India invests in bold entrepreneurs who help create a meaningful life for every Indian, especially the hundreds of millions of Indians in low-income and lower-middle-income populations, ranging from the poorest among us to the existing middle class. To drive empowerment and social impact at scale, we work with entrepreneurs in the private, nonprofit and public sectors, who are tackling India’s hardest and most chronic problems. We invest in early-stage enterprises and nonprofits in the areas of Digital Society, Education, Emerging Tech, Financial Inclusion, Cities & Innovation and Property Inclusivity.<br><br>We are part of The Omidyar Group, a diverse collection of companies, organizations, and initiatives, supported by philanthropists Pam and Pierre Omidyar, founder of eBay.</div>
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Saptarishi Sen
<div>Building Prath Ventures| Consumer | E-Commerce | D2C | Investment Professional<br><br>Presently working as VP at an Early Stage focused fund - Prath Ventures evaluating Consumer companies and enablers. Have led investments in marquee D2C brands- MyGlamm, Ustraa, The Ayurveda Co, Safari Industries and Soulflower. If you are an early startup looking to disrupt the Indian consumption space, do get in touch- [email protected] <br><br>Previously worked as an Associate in Wipro consumer Ventures and Tano Capital covering Indian mid-sized companies and early stage companies across sectors. Experienced as a CIB Analyst (FIG coverage) at J.P. Morgan. Skilled in Venture investments, Private Equity, D2C Brands, Investment Banking, Valuation and M&A. Finance professional with a M.B.A. focused in Finance from Management Development Institute. Follower of Indian equity markets and practitioner of growth-investing philosophy</div>
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Saif Shaikh
<div>Co-Founder and Director @Thinkerbell Labs |Building inclusive e-learning products for Visually Impaired| Hardware developer<br><br>I am the Co-founder of Thinkerbell Labs, where we’re disrupting the way the visually impaired learn across the globe. We have built a tech ecosystem to enable self-learning and classroom teaching of Braille. Our flagship product ‘Annie’ is the world's first Braille literacy device. Annie is a smart, connected device that helps a visually impaired person learn to read, write, and type in Braille on their own while making it easier for other sighted stakeholders to get involved in their education. As an ed-tech organisation, we are combining innovative technology, new teaching practices and the best of curricula to bring out interactive, engaging and gamified learning experiences. <br><br>Building the best learning systems for visually impaired require hardware interventions. I handle all aspects of the organisation concerning with hardware product development across the entire development cycle. I work in building IPs around Braille input and output technologies which form the core of our products. <br>You can reach me at [email protected].</div>
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Arun Gopalaswami
<div>Co-founder @recotap // Account-based Marketing Evangelist // Host of The ABM Voice podcast 🎙️<br><br>Building Recotap - a personalization-focused ABM product. The AI-powered Account-based Marketing platform helps marketers to programmatically reach high-value Accounts, at scale, using the power of data and personalization. Recotap is purpose-built for B2B companies to boost their marketing effectiveness by 2X. <br><br>Previously, I co-founded a for-profit social enterprise brand - MarketStreat - to facilitate direct market access to micro & small businesses owners using technology & digital interventions.<br><br>In my stints at corporate enterprises, I’ve worked extensively in identifying and delivering business values to my clients, including several Fortune 100 companies, in the Telecom, Banking and Service industry verticals. <br><br>Happy to connect if any of the above is of interest area and could be of value to you.</div>
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Venkat Nott
<div>Seasoned entreprenur with a background of taking companies global. Helped HCL Technologies in multiple countries including Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong and ran the Retail Vertical in Asia.<br><br>Founded and Run Vinculum, a SaaS Omni Channel Platform enabling brands to sell online, offline and social channels and fulfilling from any location ( own or 3rd party warehouse, Store, Franchisess and marketplace led fulfillment). Aim to take 4000+ brands global by 2024. </div>
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Ravi Teja Akondi
<div>CEO @iMumz I The ‘guy’ who talks about pregnancy I Shark Tank India featured | Awarded by Hon’ble PM | Google’s App Scale academy Top 30 I IIT(BHU) I Hiring Marketers & ad copywriter<br><br>> This is why I'm very excited about being a first time founder! You don't know things and yet you have to get them done efficiently.<br><br>> At iMumz - I try to understand users (Expecting couple & New parents). Try to provide them better solutions for their physical & mental wellbeing. Hire like minded rockstars. Make our sales engine more efficient. Make our product better, everyday.<br><br>> Startup community taught me to give back. Please hit me up if I can be of help. Love to help in all my capacity. <br><br>> We are currently hiring for Product, Content and Tech roles.</div>
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Priyank Jain
<div>Co-Founder, SoupX (Shark Tank S2 funded) | ex-Goldman Sachs, Deloitte | MBA - IIFT, Delhi | TEDx speaker<br><br>As the co-founder of SoupX - a D2C food-health-tech company, I am building India's first healthy soup-based meal brand to help people transition seamlessly to a healthier lifestyle. Our expert nutritionists and chefs from renowned institutions have formulated over 99+ healthy soup recipes, served with healthy sides to offer meals that fit every wellness need- weight loss, muscle gain, diabetic-friendly, or just general wellness.<br><br>Before founding SoupX, I gained ~3 years of experience working with Goldman Sachs and Deloitte. <br><br>My educational background includes an MBA from the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, Delhi, where I had the opportunity to represent India in the prestigious CFA Research Challenge at the Asia-Pacific level in Sydney, Australia. Additionally, I was recognized as one of the top 20 management scholars in the country and awarded the coveted OPJEMS scholarship by OP Jindal Group in 2020.<br><br>Apart from my professional achievements, I'm passionate about taking part in debates, conclaves, and idea presentations, and have won laurels at international levels. Swimming is my passion, and I have won zonal and district-level championships. I was also a core team member of the Entrepreneurship Cell promoted by DST, Govt. of India.<br><br>I invite you to become a part of SoupX-India's growth story as an investor, advisor, team member, or well-wisher. Shoot me a message or email me at [email protected], let's chat!</div>
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Arun Agarwal
<div>Founder at JANITRI | SharkTank India Season 2 Episode 12<br><br>Janitri - Innovating for Saving Lives at Birth</div>
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Dhruv Soni
<div>Founder - KD Ventures | Shark Tank Season 1 Finalist| IITB | IIMB<br><br>Investor and Growth Advisor for D2C brands. 8+ years of global experience in formulating and executing M&A and growth across D2C brands, Internet and Media businesses in India, Middle East and Europe. Sony Shark Tank India Season 1 Finalist. IIM Bangalore (class of 2015), IIT Bombay (class of 2012).<br><br><br><strong>Investor and Growth Advisor (Shark Tank India Finalist) - </strong>Falhari - a Fruitful Habit<br><br>Started in 2015, Falhari is a D2C fresh fruits and fruit-based products brand with 5 delivery kitchens across NCR and Bangalore. Falhari's vision is to make fruit eating a habit among Indians.</div>
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Sainath P
<div>Building Intents Mobi I Head of Global Business I Global Tech Leader I Location Data and Intelligence I Mobility I Product Management I Mentor<br><br>A proven global leader with 17+ years of experience in fast-growth technology, banking and management consulting industry. Passionate to transform the world with technology and driven to deliver meaningful and measurable impact for customers and communities.<br><br>Highly versatile with a strong bias to action. Solid track record of building high performing, diverse teams to deliver lasting business impact. Thrive in scaling growth businesses, pushing the envelope with bold, strategic choices, and can effortlessly move from vision to detailed execution.<br><br>At Present , heading Global Business for Intents Mobi (location intelligence and platform company that uses artificial intelligence to generate situational awareness information) globally to scale sales and partnerships. <br><br>Headed, Digital Initiatives and Partnerships - Marketplace at Tata Teleservices (TATA Group). Excited about building an inclusive digital ecosystem, forging transformative partnerships and incubating relevant new businesses.<br><br>Prior to Tata Teleservices, Sr Manager and Head- Data Partnerships and Acquisitions for HERE Technologies in India and South Asia (6 countries) and served on the Regional Executive Leadership team. Played a key role in building and scaling HERE Technologies business in the region from a challenger to a market leader in the location content business.<br><br>Trusted advisor and thought partner with established C level relationships across sectors and skilled at influencing stakeholders to deliver multi-faceted, global initiatives. Accomplished negotiator, closing complex, high-stakes partnerships, delivering collective gains. Select examples include Paytm, Microsoft, Confederation of Indian Industry, Maruti Suzuki, Amazon, TASK Government of Telangana, ASAP Government of Kerala, Startup India, amongst others.<br><br>Frequently represented HERE at key industry forums as keynote speaker & panelist on urban mobility, location and data, and power of platforms.<br><br>Prior to HERE Technologies , worked with various companies in India and Abroad enabling their digital initiatives. In my early career I worked with Banking and Real-estate Sector and executed various industry-leading multi-million transactions for Emaar, Dubai World, Sentosa, amongst others.<br><br>Love giving back to our community and mentor the next generation of talent. Passionate about start-up’s and SMBs - served on the various committee of Confederation of India Industry, TiE and NASSCOM</div>
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Manesh Jain
<div>2x Founder, Green Energy Enthusiast, Building Future of Autonomous Mobility<br><br>Manesh is co-founder of Flo Mobility, a company building a pure camera based autonomous tech stack that can be applied to lawn mowers, sprayers, tillers, weeders and other vehicles/ equipments/ robots used in farming. Flo mobility's vision is to create bleeding edge multi-utility global autonomous tech platform that can democratise the enabling of autonomous capabilties on vehicles across industries.<br><br>Before Flo Mobility, he co-founded Mockbank, an edu-tech startup offering online courses for govt job entrance competitive exams. Mockbank raised money from Blume ventures and few angel investors and was later acquired by Indiavidual Learning Pvt Ltd (Embibe), part of Reliance JIO group.<br><br>Earlier, Manesh co-founded a cloud based e-procurement solutions startup Sourceweb. After few years of operations with marquee clients like Samsung, KPMG, etc, Sourceweb was acquired by US based global procurement solution provider, Xeeva Inc. <br><br>Before starting his entrepreneurial journey, Manesh worked with companies like IBM and Sify where he spearheaded several large scale IT enabled business transformation initiatives.<br><br>Manesh is a seasoned entrepreneur; a thought leader who is passionate about startups and the challenges that they offer. He has mastered the art of efficient execution that is key to any startup's success. He strongly propagates the principal of building 'more for less' by having razor sharp focus and being meticulous to get it right the first time.</div>
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Bikramjeet Singh Kapany
<div>VC- Bharat Fund | Ex-Tech IB -Grant Thornton<br><br>Tech IB turned VC. <br><br>After spending 3+ years in the Tech IB space with Grant Thornton, working and supporting early stage companies with fund raising and growth advisory, I moved to Bharat Fund, one of India's leading deeptech + impact, tech infrastructure venture capital fund.<br><br>At Bharat, I look at investments across impact driven infrastructure plays across Fintech, Edtech, Career/ Recruitment Tech, B2B SaaS for inclusion (Seed- Pre Series A) + Web3, Privacy (Pre Series A- Series A, B). Reach out to me at [email protected] if you are building in any of the above areas.<br><br>Always happy to chat and learn from those passionate about start-ups, technology and sports. Feel free to ping me at [email protected]</div>
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Sunil Cavale
<div>Deep-tech investments at Speciale Invest<br><br>Part of the amazing team at Speciale Invest investing in deep tech ideas that'll revolutionize how we live.<br><br>Previously handled Supply Chain Operations at RayIoT, an early stage AI-IoT startup building baby monitors. Started my career at Toyota India purchasing steel for your cars - Innova, Corolla, Etios, and Fortuner.<br><br>Outside work, I'm trying to understand Indian music, Indian philosophy and the interplay of caste, religion and power.</div>
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Mohammed Amaan Memon
<div>Early stage VC at Ankur Capital.<br><br>If you are working on an interesting idea, hit me up on [email protected]</div>
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Shivang Khungar
<div>Founder, Apric | GSF Academy Alumni<br><br>A product enthusiast based out of Bengaluru, India. I take great pleasure in conceptualising and refining designs, and ultimately bringing them to life through development.</div>
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Anand Krishna
<div>Hi folks! I'm Anand, a Bangalore-based fintech/SaaS founder. Currently, I'm building www.inkle.io , a US tax/accounting SaaS product. Previously, I co-founded www.getindex.co which was acquired in 2021. </div>
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Ankur Kayesth
<div>SVP Marketing at Masai School<br><br>Ankur Kayesth currently works in a leadership role at Masai as its Senior Vice President, heading the Marketing & Community departments.</div><div><br></div><div>Prior to this, he was with Blue Vector, a high performance creative agency where he was responsible for driving business, handling operations to consulting clients on their brand & marketing strategy.<br><br></div><div>Previously, he was AVP at NFX Digital - a tech enabled startup in the advertising & marketing space. In his time there, he has worn many hats, from co-creating the inaugural version of SuperStartUps to bringing innovative changes to marketing strategies.<br><br></div><div>He is a well rounded, business oriented marketing leader skilled in Project Management, Negotiation, Business Planning, Team Building, and Mentoring.<br><br></div><div>Wherever he goes, and whatever he is involved in, he brings to the table his unquenchable thirst for constant improvement, an unwillingness to accept mediocrity and the attitude to go above and beyond what is asked of him.</div>
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Deepankar Biswas
<div>CEO ClearTrust | Invalid Traffic Management Software<br><br>Hustling to beat Invalid Traffic. With the magnitude of Ad $$$$$ crossing $189 Billion with a multitude of audiences , existing approaches just won’t work. <br><br>We have created a platform which empowers media buyers and sellers to manage IVT across all types of inventories and all types of audiences in an easy and effective way. <br><br>ClearTrust is a powerful IVT Management Software and offers a fully functional free trial . We want you to experience before you pay. <br><br>Based out of Bengaluru and Delaware, we are making a significant difference to our global clientele and offer highly competitive scan solutions for CTV, RTB, XML at Prebid, PostBid , Click levels. <br><br>Pssst!! We were known as Botman earlier. </div>
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Sujoy Chaudhary
<div>Founded Airim and sold it to Whatfix in 2019. Then built a bunch of new processes in Whatfix. Now handling Customer Success at Appsmith<br><br>Global B2B SaaS professional since 2015:<br><br>- Whatfix - Enterprise SaaS (mostly US market, with 100+ Fortune 500 companies as customers)<br>- Airim - Midmarket SaaS (won multiple global brand names as customers)<br>- Practo - SMB SaaS (with 15k+ paying customers)</div>
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Rajesh Tilwani
<div>Co-founder @Humalect, DevOps platform backed by StartupXseed Ventures | join community bit.ly/3zwrl48<br><br>DevOps engineering is still reactive and iterative. Every company gets started with few EC2 servers and goes on an iterative journey of setting up infrastructure. <br><br>The sole focus of the company become DevOps in events like downtimes and security incidents. Software engineering has come a long way but DevOps is still remains a siloed function in most organisation. <br><br>I am a DevOps engineer who has seen all these things and I personally struggled due to age old practices which are still prevalent in the industry. I am now on a mission to transform DevOps as it looks today and currently building Humalect. <br><br>If you are a CTO/DevOps Engineer/EM who has thoughts along these lines or in the process of setting up DevOps at your organisation, let's connect. DMs open!</div>
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Suraj Chawla
<div>Founder/Product brahmGAN | 3D Generative AI<br><br>Scaling brahmGAN, world's first 3D Generative AI. Talk to us to get the best gaming 3d model environments never seen before.<br><br>Former, head of partnerships at Router Protocol, crosschain Infra protocol. Product Market fit and drove adoption by 70 companies who used Router Infra. Worked closely with 300+ web3 founders onboarding to Dex and Crosschain Infra, over 4Billion in volume.<br><br>3X Entrepreneur, 6X Product, Deeptech leader with over 10 years of experience in Strategy, Consulting, Product, Growth & Venture building across multi-national corporations, governments and startups. <br><br>Physicist turned entrepreneur, Suraj leads with passion and business acumen, managing product, technical architecture, operations, sales, investors and stakeholders.</div>
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Kushagra Pandya
<div>Co-Founder @ vidyo.ai | The Ultimate Growth Tool for Creators<br><br>Experienced deep learning product engineer and researcher with a keen interest in computer vision and natural language processing use cases and applications.</div>
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Siddharth Bhardwaj
<div>Co-founder and CTO at Beatoven.ai<br><br>I am the co-founder and CTO of Beatoven.ai, a music creator tool for content creators. I am an alumni of Music Technology Group, UPF, Barcelona, Spain and IIIT-Allahabad, India. My field of expertise is Music Technology and have worked with a few different startups on problems related to audio signal processing, machine learning, deep learning and generative music in the past.</div>
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Kunal Bhatia
<div>Building in Generative AI | Prev: Co-Founder at SuperLearn & Switch<br><br>Entrepreneur | Ex-Political Consultant</div>
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Pratyush Rai
<div>Founder at Merlin AI | Ex-BCG | IIT Kanpur | Helping integrate AI into 1B+ people's lives.<br><br>I'm an engineer by degree, a business doctor by vocation, and a humanities major by curiosity.</div>
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Himansu Varghese
<div>I'm a tech and business enthusiast with prior experience in fintech, marketing, sales and business operations in early to mid-stage startups in India. <br><br>I'm currently an Investment Analyst at Inflexor Ventures, a technology venture capital firm investing from seed to series B level companies in deep-tech, fintech, space-tech, enterprise SaaS and B2B space. <br><br>Prior to this, I was at Simpl, a fin-tech start-up focussed on deferred payments where I was part of the business, operations and marketing teams across multiple projects and cities in India. <br><br>If you're building something exciting I'd love to hear about it! Ping me at [email protected]</div>
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Deeksha Narendra Kumar
<div>#ScalewithSpeed at Anthill Ventures | Ex-Social Alpha, SRCC<br><br>Experienced Financial Director with a demonstrated history of working in the startup ecosystem. Skilled in Product Marketing, Corporate Finance, Marketing Strategy, Financial Analysis, and Social Services. Strong media and communication professional graduated from Shri Ram College of Commerce. <br><br>Anthill is a venture capital and speed scaling ecosystem that invests in, and enables transformational growth in early stage technology companies across Media & Web3, Urbantech and Healthcare. <br><br>Our DNA lies in our ability to make targeted and timely interventions to scale startups and transport them to stronger growth trajectories through our global partner ecossytem.</div>
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Shahan Sud
<div>Shahan Sud is an investment banker-turned-VC. Currently, he is co-building JAFCO Asia in India. He is the youngest member of JAFCO Asia's global investment team and their first investment manager in India. <br><br>He is an economist by education and a columnist (https://muckrack.com/shahan-sud ) by passion. <br><br>As a passionate trend analyst, he actively authors thought pieces on consumer trends, Indian economy and the startup ecosystem. Some of his notable insights have been published in Business Standard, HT Mint, The Economic Times, CNBC TV18 and VCCircle, among others. In addition to these editorials, he is frequently quoted by DealStreetAsia, Financial Times, Business Insider India and Nikkei Asia. He tweets at @shahan_sud<br><br>He believes that the convergence of finance, technology and public policy can help in navigating how India will innovate and evolve in the next few years.</div>
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Gunjan Maheshwari
<div>Product Manager Global eComm Dell | Flipkart | Fintech | Fixed Income | CA<br><br>Academically a Chartered Accountant with Fire in the belly for building Impactful Products.<br>Started my Career with Fixed Income Investments(Debt Mutual Funds) as Credit Analyst eventually handling Liquid Portfolios.<br>To Onlinepsbloans.com ,where I built the entire Lending Platform from scratch and found my love for Product Management in the process. The platform is the biggest SME lending Platform in India and launched by PM Shri Narendra Modi.<br><br>To giving birth to a baby boy and loving every bit of Motherhood hustle.<br>To Flipkart Growth Team where I explored Funnel Optimization (Increased Acquisition/Repeat Users/Basket Size)at the core.<br>Love User Centric Researches...How Users react to UI's...How does a simple Product/functionality impacts multiple lives.<br><br>My Strengths<br>Passion for problem-solving<br>Follows leading industry trends<br>Motivated to learn new technologies<br>Composed under pressure<br>Great team player<br>Ability to juggle multiple priorities<br><br>Want Professional advice on User flows of Your Product??<br>DM for interesting collaborations.</div>
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Ayushi Goel
<div>New Business & Monetisation at MX Player | Ex-Accenture Strategy | Enterprise & Consumer Tech | ISB</div><div><br>I am a business strategist with 10+ years of experience in the Enterprise and Consumer Tech space. I have worked with senior clients & internal stakeholders within the strategy, technology, sales & marketing, and operations teams. I particularly enjoy building solutions and experiences that help businesses grow, optimize and deliver a better customer experience.<br><br>In the past few years, I have been in charge of sales and business development at key global accounts, focusing primarily on the US market, wherein I partner with industry leaders and cross-functional teams to build and present market competitive offerings to our clients.</div>
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Aswani Chaitanya N
<div>I'm an entrepreneur turned VC with 15+ years of corporate experience, including leadership roles at Deutsche Bank and Goldman Sachs (USA & UK). Before Capital-A, I founded and scaled Timios, a healthy snack brand for kids.<br><br>With experience as a founder and an investor, I get the intricacies of business from both sides. Let's connect and create lasting value together.<br><br>..<br><br>Capital-A is THE start-up for start-ups – a venture fund for seed to early stage meaningful start-ups. We are here for founders and co-founders who eat, sleep and drink their business.<br><br>We’re always there to work alongside these passionate people, and not above them, to help them succeed. Our aspiration is to either lead the round, or be in the game as co-investors. Nothing less suffices. The fund is led by Ankit Kedia, former promoter of Manjushree Technopack Ltd., the largest manufacturers of rigid plastics packaging in the entire South Asia region. The company was divested to Advent International in 2018.</div>
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Premsanth Rajamani
<div>Co-Founder @Salesgear.io<br><br>On a life mission to serve and positively impact a billion lives for the better.<br><br>Salesgear is a multi-channel sales engagement platform that helps sales and marketing professionals effectively engage their prospective customers. Using Salesgear, you have the power to create outreach sequences across phone, LinkedIn, e-mail and SMS. Salesgear seamlessly connects and works with all leading CRMs like Salesforce, Hubspot, Pipedrive and Zoho.</div>
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Shivam Tiwari
<div>Before turning 24, built India's largest Campus placement platform with a reach of 1200+ colleges with the core being " Lack of access to opportunities but later realised that the larger problem is a huge gap between the World of Education and the Job market " <br><br>which can only be solved through a Community based Exposure platform where anyone can experience " How is it to work in the company " before even applying to it.<br><br>Then What? We just close the last platform and started the new one ( Its not as easy as it sounds but ya, we made it )<br><br>Now, During the day, I talk to people, in colleges about " How to discover and select the right career options " <br><br>At Night, I work on making discovering professional career options like marketing, sales, product, vc, analytics..... " as Cool and Fun as " dance, singing.........<br><br><br>Happy to chat, If something I am working on or have worked on excites you at [email protected]</div>
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Ashwin Nair
<div>Head Of Marketing at Instoried<br><br>Marketing Strategist & Growth Hacker, Digital marketing specialist with over 10 years of experience in early and mid-stage startups. Boosting revenue through traditional channels & creative ideas. Experience in SEO, PPC, SEM, content & social media, branding, PR and community engagement.</div>
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Rana Jayant
<div>Rana Jayant is the Founder of MixCommerce and STABLX. He has spent 7+ years in marketing and worked as Research & Developer at ShootOrder. He has worked with BMW, HETERO, L&T, and 45+ SMBs and has driven 40M+ organic traffic from Google. <br><br>Current Status: Rana is currently building a MarTech SaaS platform MixCommerce, a tool that will be helping SMBs & SMEs in improving their reach.</div>
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Nabajyoti Saikia
<div>Director at NUCKN Foods LLP (Shyamji's Chole Bhature) | Restaurateur I Fitness Enthusiast I Marketing Enthusiast | Start Up Enthusiast |<br><br>Serial Food Entrepreneur<br>Digital Marketer <br>Brand Building over Internet<br>Fitness Enthusiast<br>Start Up Enthusiast</div>
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Debi Kar
<div>Debi is an entrepreneur, senior technology leader with over 17 years of experience across organizations like Infosys, Deloitte and Amazon. He is obsessed with people analytics, digital disruption, cloud technology and innovations. He has varied experience of working from services, consulting to Product Management including co-founding his own start up. <br><br>Debi is currently co-founder & CEO of Personifwy – an AI based workforce engagement platform. Through this, he aims to build a culture of feedback, workforce centricity approach and a insight driven HR system within organizations.<br><br>He has also been part of Deloitte CTO Council and was an author of technology trend research report. <br>At AWS, he led the business unit to support all large digital native unicorns in India. He works and advises many CEOs, CIOs and CTOs to implement modern digital solutions in Conversational AI, Analytics and Cloud based solutions. He also spends time teaching at various universities and speaking in forums on topics such as Paradigm Shift in Talent Acquisition, Employee Engagement, future tech trends and digital disruptions. He has worked across geographies including US, UK, Japan and India. <br>Debi holds advance management degree from Haas School of Business, University of Berkeley, California<br><br><br>CORE COMPETENCIES<br><br>Technology Strategy and Implementation in Big Data, Machine Learning, Conversational AI<br>Consumer focused solution Conceptualization and Development<br>Large Program Ownership and Project Delivery <br>Senior Stake holder management <br>Quick Technology Adoption<br>Real World Evidence for Life Science</div>
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Navaneeth Pk
<div>Building ToolJet - Extensible open-source low-code platform.</div>
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Sai Krishna
<div>[Not looking to raise funds, thank you. :)] <br><br>I love to build new stuff. Sometimes not really useful but cool stuff. <br><br>Since 2010, I have developed apps and games with millions of downloads with mHotspot being the most popular app. I had worked with C, C++, Java, C#.Net, Javascript, jQuery, React, React Native, MeteorJS, Unity, GatsbyJS, GraphQL, NextJS, Mongo, Express, Node, Puppeteer, OpenWrt, Firebase, AWS/DO, Hasura, Prisma, FaunaDB/FQL, Typescript, Svelte. I’ve built desktop, web and mobile apps (few games too). What I can, will, do and love is to build a product from 0 to 1. Single-handedly. <br><br>If you’d like to know a few milestones in my journey, please visit: https://saikrishna.me/journey<br>I love to talk about tech, movies, and music.<br><br>Fellow of Startup Leadership Program, NUMA, Startup Chile</div>
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Sakshi Sen
<div>Started my corporate journey with SAWO Labs a B2B SaaS startup ,was hired as their first employee and eventually worked as Lead - Marketing .<br>In this role I had to wear multiple hats of B2B SaaS Marketing ranging from Content Marketing, Digital Marketing, Marketing Automation, Social Media, Branding ,PR, Partnerships and Strategy development to meet long term goals Awareness, Acquisition, Engagement and Retention, Product Market Fit, Investor Relations, Community Engagement, Hiring & Team Management along with Self Growth by exploring all the new avenues.<br><br>Currently I'm learning about Web3 Space and religiously following cryptocurrency and its trends, deriving values from the knowledge I receive from Social Media channels and Internet.</div>
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Silky Singh
<div>Co-Founder, Lori.Health - Lori health helps reverse lifestyle diseases using data science and technology. Our focus is on hormonal and metabolic health.<br><br>COO, Finominal - FactorResearch helps investors to analyze their portfolios and find better ones using the latest machine learning technologies. Our platform is transparent, offers awesome analytics, and is free to use.</div>
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Eashita Maheshwary
<div>Building a strong Consumer & Xport Focus at Razorpay Rize 🚀 I Everything Community, Growth & Partnerships | 3x Founder<br><br>Creating partnerships and business growth opportunities out of my connections building intelligence that dives deep into the network that I've been building for almost a decade. I might not be the person who knows it all, but always know someone who would. <br><br>Been founder thrice in the gender diversity, investing, and real estate- hospitality spaces respectively, now turned business growth strategist. Have closely worked with different stakeholders in the start-up ecosystem - founders, investors, corporates, and enablers to drive high-value strategic partnerships. <br><br>A business growth strategist having worked with supporting startups to expand in geographies deeper within India and the Middle East while also closely supporting them on their business development and growth with partnerships being at the core. <br><br>A strong inclination towards diversity across gender and geographies, sustainability while using the power of the network effect to enable growth.</div>
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Vishnu Acharya
<div>Head of Corp Dev & Investments at Razorpay | MarsShot.vc<br><br>Investments: Hostbooks, GetVantage, Shiprocket, MSMEx, NextPay, Stealth (Global payments orchestration product)<br><br>Acquisitions: Ezetap, Curlec (Malaysia), Poshvine, IZealiant, Tera Finlabs<br><br>Portfolio/Strategy: Opfin, Thirdwatch</div>
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Ankit Kedia
<div>Ankit Kedia is a 2nd Generation Entrepreneur and former promoter director at Manjushree Technopack Ltd., South Asia's largest manufacturer of rigid plastic packaging solutions. The Kedia family sold controlling stakes of Manjushree in 2018 to Boston-based Advent International<br><br>Thereafter he founded Caremont, a new-age medical devices and equipment distribution and manufacturing venture in Bangalore, India. Caremont is a fast growing player in the medical device industry as authorized channel partners for world renowned brands like Halyard Health, Avanos, Kimberley Clark, Sectra Medical, Olberon and more. They organization aspires to identify emerging technologies in the healthcare business, collaborate and bring them to the patients - both in India and around the world ! <br><br>Ankit is also a Managing Partner in Manjushree Ventures - a family office of the Kedia Family, to look after its investments and business interests new age, high tech business in purpose led sectors.</div>
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Saketh Bsv
<div>Saketh was a co-founder of Perpule, a retail tech startup which had a successful exit to Amazon about an year back. Perpule had raised investment from notable investors like Kalaari Capital, Prime Ventures, & Venture Highway and had almost all leading retailers in the country like Hypercity, SPAR, MORE as their clientele. <br><br>Saketh graduated from IIT Madras in 2015, previously worked at Goldman Sachs and is currently working with Amazon and is an Angel investor as well. He was also in the past recognized in the Forbes 30 under 30 Asia & India 2018.</div>
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Nitika Satya
<div>I am a hardworking and result oriented individual who can handle multiple projects in a fast, dynamic environment. Currently working as Engagement Manager in Online & Travel vertical at Hotstar. Prior to this, I worked as Associate Marketing Manager at Amazon where I handled the online marketing of Home Entertainment category. This includes Televisions, Projectors and Set Top Boxes primarily. I was responsible for driving traffic from various traffic channels and ensuring seamless customer journey. I have worked on marketing of various TV launches from brands, such as, Mi, Samsung, Sony, etc. I worked closely with category, traffic and design teams of Amazon. <br><br>My professional experience spans about 5 years; 2 years as Business Technology Analyst at Deloitte US India and ~3 years as Associate Marketing Manager at Amazon. At Deloitte, I worked on Enterprise Resource Planning using PeopleSoft with hands-on experience on SQL, PeopleQuery and Application Engine. <br><br> Prior to Amazon, I was a student at MICA pursuing PGDM-C course with 'Media and Entertainment marketing' as my specialization. I was the Head Project Manager of MICAMINDS, the research and consultancy wing of MICA. <br>Education and work-experience has taken me to various places including Delhi, Bhubaneswar, Hyderabad, Bangalore and Ahmedabad. After completing my graduation in Electronics & Communication, I joined Deloitte US India. I interned at Amazon India as a site merchandiser where I worked on a content marketing project. <br>Due to my inclination towards oration and debates , I have actively participated in related events at college (coordinator of literary society ) ,corporate (Vice President- Membership of Deloitte Hyderabad Toastmasters Club ) and community (Poetry Slam performer) level.<br><br>Following is the link to my blog - <br><br>http://crispcackles.blogspot.in/</div>
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Samar Kagalwalla
<div>High energy marketing professional with over 17 years experience developing and leading teams to define and deliver differentiated brand experiences that grow market share and build customer loyalty. These words I keep beneath my pillow each night : " Tell me the facts and I’ll learn. Tell me the truth and I’ll believe. But tell me a story and it will live in my heart forever."</div>
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Vatsal Kanakiya
<div>I believe magic happens at the intersection of multiple fields. I am looking for entrepreneurs from varied backgrounds who came together to start up. <br><br>100X.VC will be the first investor in your new companies. 100X.VC will come in early and enable your startup to scale and reach their potential. Pitch to us at [email protected]</div>
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Anand Datta
<div>I focus on investing in early stage (seed, Series A) teams driven to solve large impact challenges. If you have any ideas please reach out to [email protected] or on twitter @anand_datta - will be happy to hear from you :)<br><br>I am particularly interested in Fintech/Insuretech, SaaS, Health and solutions for "Bharat"<br><br>Prior to investing I have gained experience in Strategy Consulting (Bain), P&L roles across the globe - US and APAC and working with startups and growth stage companies. I have been a founding team member of a series A funded start up and led growth and BD across Asia for a Series D funded start up</div>
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Kulin Shah
<div>Kulin Shah is the Co-founder of Onsurity, one of India's leading Health-tech start-ups providing affordable employee healthcare benefits to SMEs and emerging businesses. <br><br>He has over 15 years of experience in launching and driving businesses with expertise in product management, brand partnerships, business development & venture capital. He has worked closely with multiple start-ups as an angel investor, mentor and advisor and is currently looking to revolutionize the employee benefits segment in India.</div>
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M A Imran
<div>‘TeaDarzi’ a humble start-up brings the humble drink to you in a one of its kind ways with our flagship outlet at Electronic City, Bangalore.<br><br>We present to you the concept of 'TeaDarzi- your new Co-Worker' with a promise of delivering to you freshly brewed tea to overcome your Monday blues or to recharge your mind to get though the daily grind at work and one new and innovative concept of ‘Chai on wheels’ to enjoy a cuppa with your friends and loved ones.<br><br>‘TeaDarzi’ as the brand speaks for itself tailor makes its tea leaves with an infusion of freshly picked leaves from the valleys of Sikkim and Darjeeling to bring to you a unique and wholesome experience.<br><br>WWW.TEADARZI.COM</div>
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Don Yusuf
<div>Yusuf is the founder at MetaStart , a fully integrated web3 studio helping builders go to the moon!<br><br>He is also the founder and an active contributor to MadrasDAO. </div>
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Gaurav Rathi
<div>Product Manager, OnChainMonkey (Metagood)<br><br>Web3 | Tech l Product | Co-founded Bhasha | CS graduate IIT Guwahati<br><br>Currently living in discord!</div>
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Avani Parekh
<div>Avani Parekh is a community builder who is Program Manager for Community Partnerships, APAC for Facebook where she helps community leaders power up their leadership, access and impact across the Facebook platform of apps. A lover of using technology to help the underserved and voiceless, she’s formed communities and platforms to foster empathy and support for women and young people.<br><br>Her last venture was called LoveDoctor, a service to bring confidential sex and healthy relationship advice to youth using chat, sms, and email, serving over 400,000 young people across the world. She also was a founding partner of the viral youth counseling program, Snapcounsellors on Snapchat (snapcounsellors.com). She is a serial social entrepreneur and social enterprise consultant with over 15 years of experience in the social enterprise sector in India, Kenya, and the US</div>
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Vijetha Shastry
<div>Startup Ecosystem Enabler | Conversationalist | Traveller | Expertise in GTM | Student for Life | Consultant with Bangalore Bioinnovation Center | Charter Member at TiE Bangalore<br><br>Possessing 30 years of handling challenging assignments in the service industry- Hospitality, retail, travel, co-working, Banking .<br>Recently completed my stint with Standard Chartered Bank in October 2024. <br><br>Am very active in the Innovation and startup community - Charter Member at TiE Bangalore. Consultant with Bangalore BioInnovation Center. Chapter Director at Corporate Connections Bangalore .<br>Active Volunteer with Headstart Network Foundation .<br><br>Previously ,Associate Director at Dexter Capital. Dexter Capital Advisors is a boutique Investment Bank providing best in class services to our clients. We focus on growth stage companies as well as new age entrepreneurs in their funding process and also on the late stage M&A targets.<br><br>Concluded an enriching role with TiE Bangalore as Executive Director from August 2019 to March 2022.<br>A recent assignment was with Nasscom CoE- IoT as Lead- Open innovation. <br><br>Available on [email protected] <br><br>From June 2016 till November 2017 involved with Bhive Workspace in the areas of Customer Experience, Community events, partnerships and actively working with the core teams on community engagement, events, outreach, and building a stronger and supportive startup ecosystem.<br>- Volunteer with Headstart Network Foundation : Supporting events, outreach, mentoring startup.<br><br>Focusing on adding value to founders, entrepreneurs, investors. <br><br>- Certified mentor from NEN <br>-Mentor at KSUM<br>- Mentor at T-HUB <br>-SAARC chambers Mentor and Speaker<br>-Organizer at Techstars Startup Weekend<br>- Volunteered as a Chapter Lead for Techinasia, Bangalore. The core activity was to give insights around the Global Startup Ecosystem.<br>-Working closely with founders, CXO teams on expansion, outreach, and sales<br>- Investor connects for startups/ founders/ SMB's.<br><br>Specialties: Open Innovation, Marketing, and implementing tie-ups. Building new businesses; Expanding networks and enabling teams to perform at the highest levels. Mentoring and advising Startups, CXO's, Business owners.A keen observer and executioner of strategic plans in Travel, social media, Retail, Realty, Co-working spaces, Industry associations. Well connected to VCs, Banks,Incubators and Accelerators.<br><br>https://www.facebook.com/vijetha.shastry<br>https://twitter.com/vijethashastry<br>https://in.linkedin.com/in/vijethashastry<br>https://www.instagram.com/vijethashastry/</div>
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Akshay Khirodwala
<div>Building Firstsight | Building SAAS for SMB | Ex Growth hacker | Scaling d2c brands from 0 to 10</div>
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Amit Singh
<div>Building Weekday (YC W21) - Hire engineers vouched by other techies</div>
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Mainak Sarkar
<div>Founder @Explorex | IIT KGP | YC (S20) | Forbes 30U30 | 2X TedX Speaker | Guitarist<br><br>At Explorex, we’re reimagining how India dines.<br><br>We’ve built Elite – India’s first self-checkout and dining experience app – that lets diners skip the wait for bills, see live table availability, browse live menus, and unlock tiered discounts that encourage more discovery and higher spends.<br><br>Behind the scenes, Bridge OS – our proprietary restaurant operating system – powers everything from POS to payments, guest data, inventory, and insights. This deep integration makes Explorex not just another software, but the backbone of a restaurant’s in-dining business.<br><br>Our mission is simple yet bold:<br>To revolutionize the $100B+ in-dining market by creating a seamless, delightful experience for diners while unlocking higher revenue and operational efficiency for restaurants.<br><br>Today, Explorex is helping restaurants thrive while shaping a new culture of dining where convenience, transparency, and guest experience come first.</div>
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Vikas Goel
<div>Building, managing and scaling esportsXO. In the past 10 years.<br><br>- I ran an agency businesses, managed team of 60, served over 100 clients which resulted in revenues of over $10M<br>- Worked with 6 different start ups in last 10 years out which 3 are of my own <br>- Raised capital for my venture and invested in 15+ startups. Pretty much hands on, but still learning<br>- Failed more than succeeded<br>- Explored mostly Ad-tech, Ad sales, Digital Marketing and now Gaming, Esports and Web3!</div>
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Rajeev Agrawal
<div>As Founder & CEO of Innoviti, Rajeev leads India’s largest collaborative commerce platform - a next generation marketing SaaS platform, that is helping diverse businesses such as banks, product brands, and merchants, to accelerate sales more efficiently than possible otherwise. <br><br>An engineer by profession, Rajeev believes in a strongly design centric technology approach that can solve problems conclusively. Innoviti started its fintech business in 2008 and quickly established itself as a pioneer in solving real- world business problems at scale. The company has been a pioneer in the use of technology to add intelligence to payment transactions, helping merchants, banks and brands utilize the full power of data and digital payments to drive business growth. <br><br>The company manages purchases of over $10B for merchants from over 2000+ cities, touching more than 90 million consumers annually. Bessemer Venture Partners, USA, FMO, Netherlands, Catamaran Ventures, Panthera Growth Partners, and Alumni Ventures are investors in the company. <br><br>The company has four patents, including one US patent and is the winner of Mastercard’s Innovation Wizards Award, Reliance’s Most Promising Growth Consumer Finance Award and Deloitte Fastest Growing Companies in Asia award in 2020. Prior to founding Innoviti, Rajeev was Vice President and Head of Broadband Communications Business at Sasken, Bangalore. He has done his B.Tech and Ph.D. from IIT, Bombay. Rajeev is a member of the FICCI National Fintech Committee</div>
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Ankur Pandey
<div>Looking for Rockstar developers | Building Signzy, a global digital trust system | Forbes 30 under 30<br><br>Signzy is a market-leading platform that is redefining the speed, accuracy, and experience of how financial institutions are onboarding customers and businesses - using the digital medium. The company’s award-winning no-code GO platform delivers seamless, end-to-end, and multi-channel onboarding journeys while offering totally customizable workflows. It gives these players access to an aggregated marketplace of 240+ bespoke APIs that can be easily added to any workflow with simple widgets.<br><br>Signzy is enabling 10 million+ end customer and business onboardings every month at a success rate of 99% while reducing the speed to market from 6 months to 3-4 weeks. It works with over 240+ FIs globally including the 4 largest banks in India, a Top 3 acquiring Bank in the US, and has a strong global partnership with Mastercard and Microsoft. The company’s product team is based out of Bengaluru and it has a strong presence in Mumbai, New York, and Dubai.</div>
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Rohit Kamath
<div>A self-taught Cannabis Researcher envisioning a world where Farmers are growing for Industries.<br><br>..<br><br>India Hemp Organics is a healthcare brand with Medical Cannabis and Hemp at its core.<br><br>We offer one-of-a-kind health solutions that sit right at the center of age-old ayurvedic wisdom and modern science. With a commitment to helping our consumers live a better life every day, we have formulated cannabis-based products that promote holistic wellbeing and help you function better with a balanced mind and body.<br><br>At IHO, you will find products in the categories of medicine, nutrition, and personal care.<br><br>Our medical cannabis oils are formulated to combat the symptoms of stress, anxiety, chronic pain, poor digestive health, skin issues, and side effects of chemotherapy, to name a few.<br><br>And for all health-conscious folks, we have a Hemp nutrition range of high protein low-carb superfoods that are 100% organic, plant-derived, and sourced straight from farmer communities located in the foothills of the Himalayas.<br><br>Holistic wellness lies at the heart of everything we partake in. Staying hyper-focused on building products that cater to "consumer well-being" and servicing patients across the globe, we are committed to building a global brand made out of India and, in the process of doing so, creating value for several stakeholders within the ecosystem, i.e., our consumers, farmers, doctors, team, and businesses alike.<br><br>https://lnk.bio/indiahemporganics</div>
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Natraj Choudhury
<div>Natraj is the Head Of Engineering, fraud, and data teams at Zolve. Zolve helps global citizens achieve financial freedom worldwide by providing access to neo-banking, credit, and investment solutions.<br><br></div><div>Natraj works with a team of world-class engineers and data scientists who conceptualize and build innovative and scalable platforms to provide a hassle-free, secure, and seamless & experience to the users. <br><br></div><div>Prior to Zolve, he was the vice president and chief architect at Ola where he led the teams that built a global mobility platform from India. He has also worked at WalmartLabs and NEC labs. At NEC Biometric Labs, his team built the largest in-memory biometric de-duplication engine in the World which powers Uidai's Aadhaar program.</div><div><br></div>
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Vineet Saxena
<div>Vineet Saxena, a co-founder of CARD91, is a first-generation entrepreneur who over his 23-year career, has built and managed several businesses and functions. He started off as a technology professional, working with the likes of Tech Mahindra, Pramati Technologies, and Tavant Technologies. Post these stint's, Vineet co-founded one of India’s most loved fashion ecommerce platforms, Myntra in 2006. He successfully built a strong product catalogue and scaled the technology and operations management and team there. <br><br>In his 16-year entrepreneurial career, he has been at the helm of managing and scaling various functions including technology, product, marketing and operations. Vineet’s forte is in driving operational efficiency and defining tech product growth. <br><br>Post his stint at Myntra, Vineet co founded and built a personal and beauty care e-commerce company – VioletBag and IndusDiva, an ethno fusion apparel brand.</div>
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Agnim Gupta
<div>Principal: Tech & Growth at Amrutam<br><br>An architect by profession and a trained Hindustani classical violinist. 2nd time entrepreneur. I tell stories and talk about architecture, startups, technology, music, community & web3.<br><br>..<br><br>Amrutam was founded in 2006 by Mr Ashok Gupta. Based out of the culturally rich town of Gwalior, as a family run business and brainchild of Sh. Ashok and Smt. Chandrakanta Gupta. In 2016, when their business faced massive financial loss, their children Agnim Gupta & Stuti Ashok Gupta joined the business. They took it upon themselves to reinvent and rebrand the company and its products. <br><br>In 2017, Amrutam moved from supplying herbal medicines to medical stores, prescribed by doctors, to sell premium personal as well as healthcare OTC products online, through their website, directly to the consumers.</div>
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Manoranjan Ingudam
<div>"10 loyal and recurring customers are worth more than 100 one time customers"<br><br>Entrepreneurship, Customer Success & Building High Performing Teams<br>- Startup | Lean | Product Management & Development | Customer Success & Servicing | Team Building | Hiring <br><br>Specialties: Building high performing teams focused on value & customer, Customer Success & customer centric culture across organization.</div>
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Santosh Panda
<div>Hello! 👋 I run Foundership - The Web3 Launcher🚀<br><br>We help Web3 startups with Coaching, Capital and Community. Taking Top Web3 Founders into the Next Orbit.<br>🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟<br>Find more about Foundership. https://foundershiphq.com/<br><br>With my new endeavor Foundership, I'm now on a mission to help/enable Web3 Projects /Startup Folks to succeed & scale.<br><br>Before Foundership, I started my Startup journey back in 2007, much before startups were "cool." I built Explara for India - an event ticketing and management platform by developing a SaaS solution while living in London and having a day job. <br><br>I relocated to India in 2011-12 and grew Explara by hustling and bootstrapping to VC funding to $11m in gross revenue. Back in the day, I didn't have the ecosystem to support me or correct my mistakes. But, lucky for you, it's all there today! <br><br>With a shoestring budget, I built a successful business & brand Explara, serving thousands of customers worldwide. Explara was my 3rd Startup that went through years of perseverance to withstand numerous failure and shutdown modes to become profitable in 2019. <br><br>I started 2 businesses in London during 2005 & 06, both failed. Before starting up Explara, I was a software product engineer in eBay UK, BBC iPlayer, William Hill Betting platform and TouchNote. Before that, I was part of several startups during the dotcom era of the 2000s in the USA.</div>
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Dimple Parmar
<div>Building world's first Integrative Oncology healthtech platform to extend lives of cancer patients and improve their quality of life. <br><br>Dimple is the Co-Founder and CEO of Integrative Oncology cancer care startup ZenOnco.io and NGO Love Heals Cancer. After losing her husband to cancer, Dimple dedicated her life to helping cancer patients and their caregivers with regards to guiding in medical treatment and managing side effects through complementary treatment to make it Integrative. She has been a pioneer in bringing Integrative Oncology to India.<br><br>For her work in public health, Dimple has been awarded “Top 100 Healthcare Leader” and “101 Most Fabulous Healthcare Leaders”. She has also been featured in popular media like Times of India, Business World, YourStory, Mumbai mid-day, Logical Indian, and has been invited as a panelist / speaker at multiple platforms.<br><br>Dimple graduated from Indian Institute of Management Calcutta (IIM Calcutta). She previously worked for 6 years across Bank of New York Mellon (BoNY Mellon) and Reliance Industries, and own fashion e-commerce startup before dedicating her life to helping cancer patients.</div>
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Srishty Jain
<div>A very unconventional offbeat path from an Arts graduate to MBA Finance to Investment Banking to Education Entrepreneur. <br><br>Srishty Jain is an investment banker turned edupreneur based in Bangalore, India. She is the Founder and CEO of CoLLEarn Education which makes people umpire, sports analyst, sports journalist, sports commentators etcAt CoLLearn, she has positively impacted the lives of 20,000+ learners across the world through her platform. <br><br>Her investment banking stint spanned over 11 years wherein she worked with Deloitte, Al-Masah Capital, Qatalyst and Mosaic Capital, in India and UAE. <br><br>Equipped with valuable experience, she got her business acumen polished while she did her Executive MBA from UCLA Anderson School of Business, USA. She is also CFA Charterholder and CAIA Charterholder.</div>
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Aashish Ramamurthy
<div>Experienced community builder for brands in SAAS , Travel and hospitality till date. <br><br>Currently is a Head Evangelist at https://www.getmoda.io/. We are building CDP + Marketing Engine to help DTC promoters solve retention and scale problems driven by data and automation. <br><br>Happy to talk about community building, SAAS, DTC, driving organic traffic , growth strategies and playbooks.</div>
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Balamurali T R
<div>Ever since I was a teenager , I was deeply fascinated by the Zen philosophy of " Have a not known mind" -In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, in the expert’s there are few.<br><br>Due to this, I have always strived to put myself in situations where I have the most to learn and the opportunity to bring something new to the table.<br><br>During my career I have been extremely fortunate to have worked with and mentored by some of the best professionals in the country in the marketing, creative,growth and product space<br><br>This has immensely helped me in understanding business problems and approaching it with the right mindset, managing teams in an efficient manner and always keeping up with the latest developments in the industry<br><br>Key Highlights <br><br>- Have worked with India's biggest conglomerate in ideating, testing product idea for an IP in their b2b retail space. This was followed by successfully heading the project for execution of the said idea and scaling it to a pan India level in a span of 6 months. <br>- Have worked on defining and creating the online channels customer acquisition strategy for India's biggest D2C mother/personal care brand and supervised the execution of the first phase of the same <br>Have successfully built a 4 figure paying customer community to drive revenues of mid-7 figure monthly revenues without the help of performance marketing/paid media online channels. Successfully built through referral loop and sampling <br><br>Outside of work. <br><br>- I am avid Football,UFC and cricket fan. I have an avid reading habit focussing on history, economics and business</div>
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Chetan Sharma
<div>He is a Passionate Data-driven digital marketer with more than 14 years of experience in building and managing brands across different industries in the online space. Google picked him as part of the Top 60 Digital marketers in India.</div><div><br></div><div>He has worked with a lot of consumer internet companies like Times Internet, Freecharge, Taxiforsure, Cleartrip, adda52, Simpl being his latest stint </div>
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Prashanth Vastred
<div>An Entrepreneur for the last 3 years and an Engineer by qualification, with a heart and a vision to give the world good health through the products we curate , manufacture and sell at Guduchi Ayurveda! <br><br></div><div>Graduated from REC Balki, worked with couple of the Big 4. Had a fulfilling career, Left PWC, SA to start Guduchi! </div><div><br></div><div>Building a D2C brand for life style disorders Using Ayurveda science . </div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.guduchiayurveda.com/">www.guduchiayurveda.com</a></div>
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Radhika Datt
<div>I'm Radhika, co-founder at One Good (formerly Goodmylk) and I work hard to see a plant-based future. I'm interested in creating large scale change through small steps & good intentions. Always curious about anything new but love talking books, cats, veganism and music!</div>
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Myah Payel Mitra
<div>Myah is a Corporate Trainer and Leadership Coach, with 15+ yrs of experience. She is an Engineer & Management Grad turned Coach.<br><br>She has worked for some of the largest IT & Big 4 firms including TCS, KPMG & HCL, and has experience in the Social Impact sector. She has also served as Master Faculty for Whistling Woods International.<br><br>Myah is a certified Agile coach (CSPO) and has trained over 3500 + participants and employees. She has successfully delivered tech and non-tech training including<br>leadership & communication skills and facilitated over 4500+ participants across India, US and Europe regions;<br><br>Myah has trained and coached a diverse group of people from senior C-suite leaders to individuals in their mid & early careers to first-time managers and campus<br>recruits.<br><br>Myah helps organizations overcome low employee engagement issues that ultimately lead to absenteeism & higher attrition rates. As a 𝐂𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐞𝐝 𝐌𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐲 𝐏𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐫<br>(𝐂𝐃𝐌𝐓𝐏), Myah uses embodied practices and somatic intelligence to enable teams to achieve a sense of purpose & belonging. She also facilitates corporate workshops &<br>outbound training to enhance overall employee well-being & engagement. <br><br>Named by Encubay in 2021 as one of the pioneering leaders working with movement therapy and recognized by SheThePeople.TV in 2018 as one of the Top 5 Women Entrepreneurs working on mental health.<br><br>Myah is a global keynote speaker and has appeared on various forums both as a speaker and panelist.</div>
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Stuti Ashok Gupta
<div>Building a Wellness Community & an Ayurvedic Lifestyle Brand - Amrutam.co.in<br>Mental Health Professional & Activist.<br><br>Along with building a global online community through Amrutam, she is also a part-time mental health professional with a Master's degree in Clinical psychology, practising independently.<br><br>Founded a chain of backpackers' hostel [nestled in Manali & Goa] - The Lost Tribe Hostels. [2016]<br>Published a collection of poems - Sublimation [2015]</div><div><br>Stuti has been working full time at Amrutam since 2017.</div><div><br></div><div>She recently finished the Goldman Sachs 10k women program by NSRCEL in IIM Bangalore.</div><div><br></div>
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Mansoor Rahimat Khan
<div>Mansoor Rahimat Khan, Co-founder & CEO of Beatoven.ai is a professional sitar player with 17 years of experience in the recording and live music industry. <br><br>He comes from a family of musicians which goes back 7 generations. <br><br>He is an alumni of the Georgia Tech Centre for music technology and has worked across several startups such as Great Learning, ToneTag in tech and product roles. <br><br>Mansoor also co-founded and was a part of several music tech startups in the past such as EDMofy, ACPAD, etc.</div>
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Bibhu Bahalia
<div>Founder, Holt & Myst</div>
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Thiyagarajan Maruthavanan
<div>I love working with founders who are build great software products, especially Indian founders building global brands. I root for them, help them and nudge them to perform at their peak <br><br>Past - SaaS, M&A, Strategy, Product Leader, Entrepreneur</div>
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Bindu Eswara Reddy
<div>Principal at Japanese VC firm investing in India (Rebright Partners)</div>
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Deepak Agrawal
<div>Experienced early stage investor with a demonstrated history of working in the venture capital and private equity industry. Skilled in Analytical Skills, Entrepreneurship, Venture Capital, Investment Strategies, and Equities.</div>
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Ravi Srivastava
<div>Leo Capital is a venture fund investing in early stage, technology centric opportunities.<br><br>I'm particularly curious about the AI, Web3 & Fintech spaces, and about applications at the intersection of life-sciences & engineering. <br><br>For investment outreach, please email [email protected]</div>
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Deepanshu Pattanayak
<div>Early stage VC investor across SaaS, fintech, healthtech, consumer tech and B2B models</div>
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Aniketh Mj
<div>Aniketh MJ is an AVP at Ideaspring Capital where he looks at new investments for the firm. <br><br>Aniketh was previously on the leadership team at Bizongo, where he headed the Business Intelligence and Client Experience functions. Prior to that, he was on the Global Growth Team at Zomato and helped launch the Table Reservations business and product. <br><br>Aniketh started his career in the Asset Management division of Goldman Sachs in Bangalore and Singapore. He then went on to work with startups through his Family Office and 4 short stints in Venture Capital in the US, the UK, and India</div>
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Febin John James
<div>🥽 Innovations & Marketing @ Tars 🤖, Pseudo Artist, Writer @ Night 🦇, Designer on Weekends, ♥️ Coding What No Eyes Has Seen<br><br>I educate digital transformation and customer experience leaders in Banking, Finance, Healthcare, Insurance, Government, etc on the importance of adopting Generative AI using Generative AI. <br><br>• Working on setting up the marketing processes @ Tars.<br>• Exploring and pushing MidJourney, ChatGPT& Hugging Face models to its limits.<br>• Working on repositioning Tars brand from SMB to enterprise.<br>• Following up on state-of-the art AI research, experimenting and integrating AI into companies workflows. <br>• Learning storytelling by sharing day-to-day learning on LinkedIn.<br><br>I am a Star Trek fan stuck on Earth due to our civilisation's warp capabilities.<br><br>But then I came across Tars in 2019; I loved the team and having good fun here. Coincidentally, the sci-fi tech of Star Trek-like computers (LLMs) started kicking off. Now, I am going haywire on the possibilities. <br><br>I tinkered around Generative AI and I started using it to make my work obsolete. But the more work I automated, the more work got created. Except the new work created is exciting and enjoyable to pursue. <br><br>Now, I am tinkering with Closed and Open-source LLMs and figuring out how AI can be applied in Banking, Finance, Insurance, Healthcare and Government Industries.</div>
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Siddhant Agarwal
<div>Currently working as Developer Relations Lead with Open Financial Technologies, Asia’s first neobanking platform for SMEs and startups. I am one of ACM’s Distinguished Speakers among 200+ speakers worldwide and 20+ speakers in India. A design thinker at heart, I love working with startups and helping them scale in UX and improve their designs.<br><br>Previously worked as Program Coordinator with the Developer Relations team at Google and had led Developer Student Clubs program, TensorFlow User Groups, Google Developer Experts and Google Developer Groups program in India. I had also designed, launched and led the “Build for Digital India” initiative in 2019 in collaboration with the Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology, Govt. of India which witnessed 7K+ students participating and building solutions that “Solve for India”. <br><br>With over 6 years of industry experience, I have found my passion in building and driving ed-tech initiatives, community building, design innovation, startup ecosystem and building for the next billion users. For my contributions in community building, I was also nominated as one of the finalists of CMX Community Industry Awards 2021 for "Community Professional of the Year for a Developer Relations Community" and "Community Professional of the Year" categories. Being an avid public speaker, I have spoken at more than 200+ national and international forums impacting more than 70K students/developers/individuals in the last 5+ years.</div>
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Ishan Rakshit
<div>Co-Founder of Shopflo: Checkout infrastructure platform to stitch together a revolutionary shopping experience for D2C brands<br><br>Until recently, I was doing fintech investments with Elevation Capital (SAIF Partners). I have previous worked with EY-Parthenon as a strategy consultant and with MSCI as a part of their index calculation team.<br><br>I graduated from IIT Bombay in 2017 with a Master's and Bachelor's in Aerospace Engineering and minor degree in Computer Science & Engineering.<br><br>You can run into me at music gigs/festivals or otherwise reach out to me at [email protected] :)</div>
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Smitha Hemmigae
<div>Smitha leads marketing at ANSR. Prior to joining ANSR, she held leadership roles at Thoughtworks, CSS Corp, Unisys, Infosys and Logica.<br><br></div><div>With over 19 years' experience, Smitha is a seasoned marketer who has helped corporations achieve sales growth while maintaining brand integrity.<br><br></div><div>Smitha co-founded Your Philanthropy Story (YPS), a platform that covers inspirational stories on philanthropy, and is the co-trustee of a nonprofit, Belakoo Trust. She is also part of Bangalore Chapter of Singularity University’s leadership team.<br><br></div><div>Smitha holds a degree in Electronics and Communications Engineering from Bangalore University.<br><br></div>
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Aman Garg
<div>Strategy & Product | Entrepreneur | IIT Delhi</div>
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Rachayeta Singla
<div>A marketing leader in the B2B space in India, Rachayeta has exceptional experience in setting up marketing functions and scaling businesses across industries. <br><br>She started her career as an Assistant Product Manager for a Martech startup and quickly ramped up to marketing leadership roles across startups such as PromptCloud, Sigmoid Analytics, and Data Resolve Technologies. <br><br>She then joined US-based Build Ventures and led marketing for WriteForMe, MidSouth Pain Treatment, and Pacific Ketamine Institute, eventually resulting in an acquisition for Pacific Ketamine. <br><br>She is now the Head of Marketing at Synapsica Healthcare, a B2B health-tech SaaS firm that is creating world&#39;s first AI tools for spine reporting in radiology.</div>
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Ayush Pateria
<div>Ayush is the founder and CEO of Snazzy (YC W21). Snazzy is a D2C dental-tech startup to get straighter teeth at-home at 70% lesser cost than dental offices. Snazzy is backed by YCombinator and has raised $2.2 in seed funding. Ayush majored in computer science from IIT Hyderabad, and was previously working at a startup in silicon valley as a software engineer.</div>
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Anish Basu Roy
<div>Anish Basu Roy is a 2X entrepreneur based in (and in love with) Bangalore and has worked with brands like Nokia and Coca-Cola in various sales and marketing leadership positions across Asia. <br><br>Prior to Tagz, he was the co-founder and CEO of Shotang, India’s first tech-enabled retail distribution platform.<br><br> Anish has lived and worked in state capitals of the country, which has been an instrumental part of his rich cultural learning over the years. He has also been an active mentor with Coworks Foundry and the TiE YE program.<br><br>Anish has been an avid golfer, trekker, fitness enthusiast, and distance cyclist over the last decade and loves sharing his passion for an active lifestyle with everyone.</div>
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