Event update: Pienza US GTM Summit 2025 — eChai Ventures

Pienza US GTM Summit 2025

Partner Event Bengaluru

Pienza US GTM Summit 2025

March 11, Tuesday, 2025

4:30pm — 09:30pm (GMT+05:30)

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Agenda:

We are bringing the best in the world to Bangalore - With one mission - Help Indian founders win in the US market.

Day 1: 11th March 2025 - An evening with 500+ B2B founders and operators, discussing US GTM, AI shift and funding. We will fireside chat and open networking time with our marquee speakers.

Day 2 [Strictly by invite only]: A deep dive time for 30 selected founders, to go into 'workshop mode' with the speakers and mentors. Get direct access, share your core challenges, get answers.

Speakers

⭐ Manny Medina - Found and grew Outreach from 0 to 200M.
⭐ Aaron Bird - Grew and sold Bizible. Wrote 70+ angel cheques. Now scaling Inflection.io
⭐ Tejeshwi Sharma - MD at Peak XV Partners. Handling growth stage investments.
⭐ Prayank Swaroop - Partner at Accel who is in the forefront of India SaaS Investments.
⭐ Pranay Desai - MD at Z47 (previously Matrix Partners). Ex-Head of Growth at Freshworks. Operator turned VC.
⭐ Karthik Sundaram - Founder of Purplepatch Services. Helped launch 100+ companies in the US in the last 20 years.

We have more to be announced! Stay tuned!

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