Sharad Sharma

Speaker

Co-Founder, iSpirt Foundation

Sharad’s personal mantra is to lead big and small companies through orbit change. He is one of the active technology angel investors in India with about two dozen investments. He is a passionate evangelist of the software product ecosystem in India. He is the co-founder and Governing Council member of iSPIRT. He was the Chair of NASSCOM Product Forum and a member of the Executive Council from 2009-13. He is also an entrepreneur. He co-founded Teltier, now part of Cisco, and is currently the CEO of BrandSigma Inc.

Phanindra Sama

Speaker

Co-Founder, redBus.in

Phanindra Sama is the Founder and CEO of RedBus, India’s First Online Bus Ticket Booking Service. Started in 2005 , today Redbus is the largest online bus ticketing company in India.
Phanindra recieved his Electrical Engineering degree from BITS Pilani and Post- Graduation from Indian Institute of Science. Prior to Redbus, he worked at ST Electronics and Texas Instruments. He hails from Nizamabad, Andhra Pradesh.

Parag Dhol

Investor

Managing Director, Inventus Capital Partners

Mr. Parag Dhol is a Managing Director, Managing Partner, and Partner at Inventus Capital Partners. He is a Treasurer and Charter Member of TiE Bangalore mentoring entrepreneurs.

Shradha Sharma

Speaker

Founder & CEO at YourStory Media

Shradha Sharma is the Founder and Chief Editor of YourStory. Shradha lives her life in stories. And believes, every story is unique and every story matters. Prior to founding YourStory Shradha worked with Times of India and CNBC TV18. In 2015, she was selected in the list of 500 LinkedIn Influencers across the world. Also in 2015 (March) Sharma received the L’Oreal Paris Femina Award for Online Influence.

Dilipkumar Khandelwal

Speaker

President, SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud at SAP

Dilipkumar Khandelwal has a dual responsibility: he is the President of SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud and the Managing Director of SAP Labs India. Dilip is a member of the SAP Global Executive Team reporting into the Executive Board. He has been recognized by the Economic Times as a ‘Young Leader under 40’.

Sumit Jain

Speaker

Co-founder, Common Floor

Sumit is responsible for company strategy and business. His result-oriented approach ensures a constant and relentless focus on end-user satisfaction. As a party lover he has successfully incorporated several fun elements into the company's work culture. Prior to his present role, Sumit worked with Oracle India. Sumit holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from IIT Roorkee.

Kumar Rangarajan

Speaker

Co-Founder, Slang Labs

Kumar Rangarajan built a successful startup, Little Eye Labs, which was acquired by Facebook. After which, Kumar also co-founded Slang Labs.

Ajith Mohan Karimpana

Speaker

Founder & CEO, Furlenco

Ajith's passion for rental furniture has never wavered, neither in the first 4 years of business pre-funding, nor in the successful years after. His passion and vision ‘never own furniture’ has inspired Furlenco to take on this mantle and create brave new evangelists of the new economy.

Pallav Nadhani

Speaker

Founder/CEO, Fusion Charts & Collabion

Pallav is the co-founder and CEO of FusionCharts. He started FusionCharts at the age of 17 without any external funding. Today, FusionCharts has over 27,000 customers and 700,000 developers. His entrepreneurial journey has been covered by various magazines like Forbes, Entrepreneur, Business Today, Economic Times and numerous blogs & websites.
Pallav holds an MS in Computer Science from the University of Edinburgh, UK. He has co-authored a book on combining the power of Flash and .NET called 'Flash.NET' in 2002 and has written several technical articles for international journals ever since.

Vaitheeswaran K

Speaker

Author - Failing to Succeed, The Story of India's first e-commerce company

Vaithee is known as the father of e-commerce in India. He co-founded Fabmart. He is an entrepreneur and author of 'Failing to Succeed - the story of India’s first e-commerce company'

Ravi Trivedi

Speaker

Founder, PushEngage

Ravi is a digital marketer and an entrepreneur with hands-on experience in running E-commerce and Lead Gen companies in US and India. He is also an investor who is trying to better himself at it by building startups from scratch and work with the startups in early stage.

Sanjay Swamy

Speaker

Managing Partner & Co-Founder, PRIME Venture Partners

Sanjay is a passionate marketing executive with strong desire to mentor and lead entrepreneurs in developing disruptive technologies and business models - and introducing these in emerging markets. His areas of specialization range from Mobile Content, Mobile Commerce, Billing and CRM and eProcurement.

Avlesh Singh

Speaker

Co-Founder, Web Engage

Avlesh has over 11 years of rich startup experience in products and technology. Along with being an entrepreneur, Avlesh is also a salesman, designer, developer and marketer.

Vishwas Mudagal

Speaker

CEO, GoodWorkLabs

Vishwas Mudagal dons many hats; he is a successful serial entrepreneur, a professional CEO, a #1 best-selling author, an angel investor and motivation speaker. Mudagal co-founded GoodWorkLabs, which has become a multi-million-dollar company growing at 500% year-on-year. It was awarded the 5th fastest growing company by Deloitte Fast 50 2016. He received the 'Star Entrepreneur Award'? from Indira India Innovation Summit 2011 in recognition of his contribution to entrepreneurship and innovation. He was named in the Top 11 personalities of Bangalore by Deccan Chronicle in 2014.

Vinay Singhal

Speaker

Co-Founder & CEO, WittyFeed

Vinay is the Co-Founder and CEO of WittyFeed and has contributed greatly to the success of the company. Vinay along with his partners established this site for those who love to read real time and imaginary stories, which are left unnoticed or left untouched by the main stream media. It is a trending site that is making its way to go viral in the world of social media.

Ravi Shankar

Speaker

CEO, Aim High Consulting

Ravi is the CEO of Aim High Consulting. In a career spanning more than 17 years, Ravi has steered several leading Indian brands to success. Ravi has a deep passion for teaching and writing. He is a guest lecturer at leading Management and Communication institutions. He is also active on the public speaking circuit, especially in the areas of communication, entrepreneurship, new age businesses, and PR for start-ups in India. Evangelising the importance of PR for new-age and technology-enabled businesses, he lectures at reputed conferences / seminars, entrepreneurial cells and incubators / accelerators / start-up associations, on varied subjects that touch start-ups in India.

Nithin Kamath

Speaker

Founder & CEO, Zerodha

Nithin bootstrapped and founded Zerodha in 2010 to overcome the hurdles he faced during his decade long stint as a trader. Today, Zerodha has changed the landscape of the Indian broking industry. He was named one of the “Top 10 Businessmen to Watch Out for in 2016 in India” by The Economic Times for pioneering and scaling discount broking in India.

Jitendra Chouksey

Mentor

Founder, SQUATS

Jitendra founded SQUATS with a vision to reach out to 50 million people and make them fit, to teach them how easy it is to stay fit, to create jobs in fitness industry, take people along and move together as a Wolfpack.

Aditya Mishra

Mentor

Founder & CEO, SwitchMe

Aditya is an alumnus of IIM Bangalore. He has worked at TCS for 10 years handling various portfolios across investments, strategy, business development and sales. He is also one of the co-founders of Headstart Network Foundation; India’s largest community of early stage entrepreneurs.

Monika Misra

Mentor

Founder & General Manager, iKeva

Monika has more than 15 years of experience in hospitality and real estate industry. She is passionate about brand building, sales and in delivering high-quality service to customers.
Prior to iKeva, Monika was a part of senior management team at Servcorp, a premium Serviced Office provider and was an integral part of setting up and growing their business unit in India. She has also held senior management positions in boutique hotel chains, and has set-up small hospitality units in major metro cities across India.

Vaibhav Belgaonkar

Mentor

Co-Founder & Principal Innovator, Sattvalabs Innovations Pvt. Ltd.

Vaibhav is a UX & Service designer turned entrepreneur, with a penchant for strategy design and Business model innovation. He is passionate about application of design thinking in businesses and propagation of creative entrepreneurship.
He has extensive experience in the fields of product design, UI, UX and service design.

Naveen Asrani

Mentor

Director - Startups, Microsoft

Naveen Asrani is the Director – Startups at Microsoft Corporation India. He is a seasoned executive with over two decades of experience in building eco-systems, categories and products both Regionally in the Asia Pacific Region and in Global markets. In his current role, he works closely with startups, mentoring and accelerating them as they realize their aspirations. Naveen is passionate about ideas, products and businesses.Prior to joining Microsoft, he was with Oracle and Sun Microsystems.

Nikesh Garera

Mentor

Co-Founder & CEO, Events High

Nikes Co-founded Events High. At EventsHigh, they help people find amazing events. They bring all events happening in the city, from various online and offline sources, at one place.

Isaac Wesley

Mentor

Founder & CEO - Inkmonk.com

A perpetual builder and an all-round product guy (part designer, part developer)

Kunal Varma

Mentor

Co-founder, MoneyTap

Kunal is an entrepreneur, engineer and a product guy. He built MoneyTap, India's first app-based credit line for consumers. After exiting from Tapstart.com, Kunal has explored everything from product development, engineering, growth hacking and inbound marketing to sales, business development and fund raising.

Girish Rowjee

Mentor

Co-founder & CEO, Greytip Software

Girish Rowjee is a co-founder of Greytip Software and is the guiding beacon behind Greytip being the #1 HR & Payroll solutions provider in the country today. One of the early movers in the SaaS B2B space in India,

Girish has been instrumental in positioning Greytip as a market leader in the Online Payroll space. Girish has done his Engineering from SJCE Mysore. He is one of founding members of iSPIRT and is a Mentor at the Founders' Institute India.

Rajiv Sundar

Mentor

Partner, Deloitte

Partner, Deloitte

Arjun Perikal

Mentor

Partner, J. Sagar Associates

Arjun specializes in Mergers & Acquisition, General Corporate Commercial and Dispute Resolution. He has extensive experience in M&A related transactions including all manners of structuring and scheme of arrangements; drafting contracts for web applications, e-commerce, hospital management, etc.; dispute resolution through arbitration & mediation; corporate litigation in relation to oppression & mismanagement and liquidation. He has appeared and argued before various judicial forums in the writ, original and appellate jurisdictions.

Pramod Nair

Mentor

Co-Founder & CTO, LoadShare Networks Pvt. Ltd.

Pramod is one of the Co-founders and the chief technology officer of LoadShare Networks Pvt. Ltd. Loadshare was founded in 2017 and is one of India’s fastest growing logistics companies with a comprehensive express and logistics network covering more than 2000 pin codes across North East & East India , Metros, all 4 South Indian states, Rajasthan, UP & many more destinations in the pipeline.

Brent Zettel

Investor

Manager, Unitus Seed Fund

Brent has a broad base of experience across finance, investing, and social enterprise, and his passion for seeing entrepreneurs reach their potential with social innovations for the masses.
Prior to joining Unitus, Brent advised US companies on acquisitions and strategic investments, and was part of the healthcare investment banking team at Nexus Health Capital.

Miten Mehta

Investor

Angel Investor, Co-founder and CIO at Spinta Global Accelerator

Miten is client facing strategic Technology leader equipped with powerful communication, coordination and analytic skills, along with a proven track record of exceptional leadership ability. He enjoys being part of, as well as leading, a successful and productive teams. Miten is quick to grasp new ideas and concepts and is diligent in developing innovative and creative solutions to problems. He has a unique energy, creativity, drive and a talent to work at both at a micro and macro level. Miten is highly organized but flexible individual who is seen as trusted advisor with demonstrated solid judgment, who develops strong client relationships at all levels internally and externally.

Rahul Gupta

Investor

Deal Flow, TLabs

Rahul works with organizations to fuel growth in them through a large and meaningful network of brilliant people who support in different roles from being clients, investors, mentors or supporters in some way. He believes in creating a win-win situation for all and grow organizations & people around, hence he likes interacting with various people and keep expanding networks and supporting everyone around to build an ecosystem where everyone is of help to each other.

Archana Priyadarshini

Investor

Venture Partner, Unicorn India Ventures

Archana is Venture Partner at Unicorn India Ventures. She heads Unicorn’s Bangalore operations and engages with portfolio entrepreneurs for performance monitoring, capital raising, and strategic decision making. Archana has over 15 years of experience in the IT industry, where she has worked in leadership roles in various consulting companies and banks.

Nao Murakami

Investor

General Partner, Incubate Fund India

Nah was consistently in charge of start-ups in the IT/Internet sector at the Tokyo and NY headquarters of Nomura Securities Group. He has lead many companies to IPO. He moved to India in 2014 and experienced starting a start-up on site.

Sarita Raichura

Investor

Regional Head- South India, Indian Angel Network

Sarita heads the South Indian operations for Indian Angel Network. Prior to this, she worked in Intel Corporation as Retail Operations and Biz Intelligence Manager- Asia including Japan.

Payal Shah

Investor

Head- Investments, Axilor

Payal less all the early stage funding activity at Axilor. Prior to Axilor, Payal Lead Acumen's business development efforts in India, managing fund raising and Acumen's India partner activity.

Koustav Dey

Investor

Investment Professional, Matrix Partners

A quantitative analyst turned VC, Koustav brings with him diverse problem solving abilities, which he believes will help him work with the smartest individuals and add value in their businesses.

Prashant Pansare

Investor

Co-Founder, Eagle10 Ventures

Entrepreneur, Problem Solver and Go-getter. Have built multiple profitable startups grounds up.
Expert on bootstrapping, growth hacking, business growth.
Established leader with strong hands on Techno Managerial skill sets acquired through leading diverse multicultural teams in area of software development & products deployed globally.

Sameer Segal

Mentor

Founder & CEO, Artoo

Sameer has been recognized as one of Asia-Pacific's most promising young social entrepreneurs by the Paragon100 Fellowship. His passion is inclusive technology, something he discovered during his internship with Ujjivan, one of the fastest growing microfinance institutions in the world.

Sukriti Saroj

Investor

Regional Head- South India, Lead Angels

Sukriti is an enthusiast learner and a self motivated professional with strong process knowledge and apt skills to blend with new change in the business. She is appreciated for quick response, trust and personal responsibility in adding value to the client business. She manages the Bangalore and Hyderabad chapters in Lead Angels.

Akshay Chhugani

Mentor

Head of products- Hotel at ixigo.com

Akshay is a serial entrepreneur. His first startup 'The Indian Backpacker' was acquired by ixigo.com. He is currently the product head of hotels at ixigo.com

Rishabh Dev

Mentor

Managing Director, Mapplinks Academy

Rishabh is the Managing Director at Mapplinks and Mapplinks Academy. His first startup was Durofy which he founded in 2008. He is a serial entrepreneur.

Krishna Prasath Muralidharan

Investor

Executive Assistant to Chief Executive Officer

Krishna is the executive assistant to the CEO at GoFrugal. GoFrugal is a Digital first, Product first company. It was formed in 2004, with the sole purpose of empowering traders, merchants & business into higher levels of efficiency & profitability.

Pradeep Kumar

Judge

Head of Ecosystem & Outreach, PayPal

Pradeep Kumar heads Ecosystem and Outreach for PayPal India. He also oversees the strategy and operations of PayPal Incubator. Prior to PayPal, Pradeep was working for a multi-million dollar incubator fund focusing on multi-sector early stage startups. He is the author of three best-selling non-fiction books in Tamil and co-founded a startup to sell Tamil e-Books. He has a passion for teaching and has delivered training programs to corporates and campuses covering more than 10,000 students.