More about Utkarsh Roy
Utkarsh Roy is the co-founder of Introbot, a Whatsapp bot that lets you network and find intros to people in the startup & business ecosystem. Introbot is backed by Eric Schmidt - ex-Chairman of Google, Antler - a global VC firm and multiple well known angels. More than 2000 early stage startups, investors & talent are part of the Introbot network.
As a not-for-profit initiative under Introbot, the team has responded to more than 750,000 Covid medical resource requests and positively impacted 30,000+ lives during the second wave.
Along with being an alum of Techstars, Utkarsh is a Computer Science graduate from the University of Toronto, Canada with Canada Govt's NSERC scholarship and has been a Stanford Graduate School of Business's Ignite Fellow. He has previously been a part of Cisco Systems and has helped build Cisco cloud platform as an early member.
As a passion project, Utkarsh runs Founders Circle, a community of 1800+ founders from 40+ countries comprising of 11 chapters worldwide! He is passionate about building and scaling early stage startups and has been a mentor at Stanford, Berkeley, UT Austin and the University of Toronto.
As a not-for-profit initiative under Introbot, the team has responded to more than 750,000 Covid medical resource requests and positively impacted 30,000+ lives during the second wave.
Along with being an alum of Techstars, Utkarsh is a Computer Science graduate from the University of Toronto, Canada with Canada Govt's NSERC scholarship and has been a Stanford Graduate School of Business's Ignite Fellow. He has previously been a part of Cisco Systems and has helped build Cisco cloud platform as an early member.
As a passion project, Utkarsh runs Founders Circle, a community of 1800+ founders from 40+ countries comprising of 11 chapters worldwide! He is passionate about building and scaling early stage startups and has been a mentor at Stanford, Berkeley, UT Austin and the University of Toronto.
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