Fundraising for Startups: Panel Conversation

Happened on February 17, Saturday, 2024
6:00pm — 08:00pm (GMT+05:30)
The Headquarters Coworking
30 slots booked.
Avni Jesrani - Senior Analyst - Investment and Finance Rathnakar Samavedam - Investment Director & CEO, Hyderabad Angels Prapti Patel - VC, Anthill Ventures Vishnu Chaitanya - Stealth Startup Gopi  Gantala - Vice President- Marketing & BD, The Headquarters Coworking Girish Teja Damodaram - Founder - Nayanam SRINIVASA RAO G - BRAVLD Engineering Pvt Ltd Pattan Hajra Khatoon - Founder of Tidy Ninja Kiran B - Product Designer Praveen Rachabattuni - Data Engineering Consultant Poojan Panchal - SDE at Amazon Rama Devi Patlolla - Co - Founder, ft.you Ashiya Gillani - Founder, MamaBear Care V.N.S.  Satya Teja - Analyst - AI and Data @Deloitte Rushabh Shah - Managing Partner - STIR Advisors Malav Warke - Co-Founder, Creatosaurus Giridhar Metikal - Pega Lead Consultant, BlueRose Technologies Marmik Bhatt - Founder, Monk Tech Megha Verma  - Founder & CEO, Growth Iris Zahinraza Asaria - VC Fellow | Anthill Ventures Kush Prajapati - Co-Founder, Redicine Medsol Manoj Adwani - Founder, narad.io Rahul Kamble - Software developer manideep vasa - CO Founder Adarsh Hinduja - Consultant Adithya Sarma Singampalli - CoFounder, Minima Brand Labs
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Agenda:

We'll have candid panel conversation with founders and startup investors which will be followed by open pitches from early stage founders. 

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