Pune D2C Startups Meetup

Happened on August 19, Saturday, 2023
11:00am — 01:00pm (GMT+05:30)
Mauji Spaces
17 slots booked.
Shalini Santhosh Kumar - Founder, Early Foods Malav Warke - Co-Founder, Creatosaurus Shaleen Poddar - Founder of Techvvork Chetan Prakash Sharma - Director of RegenApps Clouds Pvt Ltd Mayank Saxena - CEO Shivam Parashar - Member at Technotreon Intellectual Ventures Hridayam Arora - Innovation and Growth Analyst, Technotreon Intellectual Ventures Dhiraj Borse - D2c ad. creator Amit Kumar Trivedi - Founder & CEO – PRYDAN Consultancy Services Pvt. Ltd. | Community Builder | HR-Tech Evangelist Abdul Karim Memon - Co-Founder, ReLambda Ritika Maheshwari - Machine learning Engineer Arham Bardia - Project Trainee, Mercedes-Benz India Prasad Sutar - SYNCIT TECHNO SOLUTIONS PVT LTD Vandita Purohit - Founder, TraWork and Mauji Cafe Amit Chavan - Co-founder CTO @ Vibtree
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