Fundraising for Startups: Panel Conversation

Happened on August 10, Saturday, 2024
6:00pm — 08:00pm (GMT+05:30)
Draper Startup House Koramangala
86 slots booked.
Vaishvi Bansal - Portfolio Manager, Marwari Catalysts Ashna Agarwal - Investment Analyst, Jungle Ventures Raeeza Tameez - VC, Leo Capital Aditi Sinha - Senior Associate, IndiaQuotient Radhika Mohta - Matchmaker and Relationship Coach + Social Health Advocate Aravinth Senthilkumaran - Founder Office Associate at Dostbin Solutions Pvt. Ltd. Aditya Bhattacharya - Product Manager - Paytm Bhaskar Das - Sr. Frontend Engineer, AutoLINK Revanthraja M - AI and ML developer Rizwan Ahmad - MBA-Finance Karan Bahadur - Founder, Draper Startup House India Mansi Baheti - Community & Operations, Draper Startup House Himanshu Sanghi - Co-Founderx, OncoCheck Shashi Kanth - Business Officer Dr Bishnu Prasad - Founder, HappyCycling.org Himanshu Saxena - Co-founder, Moss AI Arun Kumaar S - CTO, Stars signatures Alaguraja M - Senior Software Engineer (Test Automation), Mirafra Technology Private Limited Bhagyashri Lokhande - Technical staff member Mannat S. - Founder & CEO Prithvi Reddy Devireddy - Co-founder Ankita Kumari - Digital Marketing Associate, Raze Vinay Kannan - Co-Founder Rishabh Kamath - Tech Innovation Manager Reddy Gopal Krishna P - Software engineer , Wipro Dax Percey Abraham - cofounder, Videoit Shantanu Chaturvedi - VP Harikrishnan M - Co-Founder, Machbee Innovations Pvt Ltd Mayuri Gedam - Head of Product Priyanka Turilay - supply chain and logistics consultant Harshul  Nihalani - Co-founder H&H creation Vijaya Kumar - Founder @ Svastha Connect Nanda Kumar - Startup and VC Partnerships, Netcore Cloud Arvind Jain - Engineering Lead Suraj Verma - Manager @ Morgan Stanley Chetan Mali - Corporate Legal Consultant, Spinach Laws Lakhan Suchdev - Founder at FUELL Chaitanya Badave - Founder, Buy Or Skip Tanmay Agarwal - Consultant Chethan m - business development executive, MRdigital Pvt Ltd Surya Pradyumna - Head of Products, MyCaptain Sayak Sen - Co-Founder, Craveo Arka Raha - Software Developer Piyush Sahoo - Founder of Apna Meet-Up Theja Rajeevan - Senior Software Engineer Manjunath Hodal - Co-Founder, RealOne | PropTech pradeep Mourya - SR. Software Engineer Sandheep Raj - Ux Designer Girish Konanki - Founder, Kona Man Mohit - Co-Founder, ReachifyMe Priya Yadav - Founder/CO, NbliK Ram Choudhary - Co-Founder, Gigabox Ankith Reddy - Founder and CEO, Homepage Sarthak Pratik - Investor, PeerCapital Saksham Garg - Failed Founder || Sr. Software Engineer Subhabrata Basu - Founder | Senior Capital Markets Professional | Startup Growth Advisor | Angel Investor | Mentor Abhinandh K - Web Developer Sonal Tiwari - Sr Consultant EY Parth Shingari 🚀 - Data Engineer, Allstate Insurance Vatsal Shah - Founder, Tesseract Kumuda Rao - Co-founder? Stochast Inc Jyoti Prakash - Marine Engineer | Small Businesses Owner | Aspiring Entrepreneur Nihal Mohammed - Designer, Kerala Startup Mission Jagath Venkat - Fashion Film Director and Founder - Wrong Era Harsh Verma - Head of Product Growth - HyreSnap | Growth | B2B SaaS Sonia Chatterjee - Connect onetime Harsh Jain - Cofounder Vinay Sarilla - Senior Frontend & Designer Yuvraj Sehrawat - Investment Banking at o3 Capital Vivek Regmi - Founder @MomDad&Maths Nishanth Kumar - Technical Lead, FinTech Khitab Mankad - Sr. Software Engineer at Bliss Labs Shouvik Mukherjee - Founder, Bachao.AI Vignesh Prasad - Founder Ira Project Hani Umme - Founder Yashwantrao Mitnasala - Founder Chetan Kanani - Co-founder Raghav G. - VC @ GFund Lakshmikanth U - Founder, Onecommunn
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Join us on August 10th, Saturday, for an engaging panel conversation on startup fundraising, hosted by eChai Ventures and Draper Startup House, where experts from VC firms will share their valuable insights and strategies.


Learn essential tips and hear firsthand stories about overcoming fundraising challenges, while networking with fellow founders and startup folks.

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Utpal Vaishnav
Founder @ Upsquare & House of Starts • Angel Investor + LP
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Koumal Kalantry
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