Abhay Tandon is the Founder of GrowthVilla and also works as the Program and Partnerships Manager at Target Accelerator as part of the Innovation & Strategy team in Target Corporation. He is also a startup mentor, technology evangelist and growth consultant for startups and is associated as a startup mentor with multiple accelerators/ incubators etc. He is a stakeholder with a subscription commerce startup as an advisor and has helped them with their growth strategy and fund raising. Abhay has closely worked with various startups and funds in India and understands the key issues that startups and enablers face. He is an upcoming author and is a regular columnist for ‘business growth and strategy’ and ‘Small & Medium Enterprises’ section in a few digital publications. In the last year, he has been invited by various state Governments (Karnataka and Bihar) as an enabler and mentor for building the startup ecosystem in their states through policy improvement as well as mentoring startups as well as by enablers such as NASSCOM, Corporates such as Yes Bank, Educational institutes such as IIT-Guwahati, IIT-Kgp, Symbiosis etc. as mentor, jury member and speaker for their events to build the startup community. Abhay has worked in the past with startups such as Tracxn – Head of Partnerships and Scaale Group (Scaale Capital and Cross Border Angels) and is a proud alumnus of SPJIMR.

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Abhijit Chaudhary is the Co Founder and CEO of Pickcel, an advertising Platform helping Businesses to promote and accelerate sales within the locality in an easy and affordable way. He is also the Founder of Etrance Networks, a startup that offers technology consulting and engineering services for Embedded, Networking, Telecom and Hardware. Abhijit has also worked at Sandvine, Huawei and Apigee. He is an expert in Product Management, P & L, Product Development and Marketing. His product Pickcel was showcased at the VC Summit in July 2015. He holds a degree in Electronics & Communication, an ME degree in Computer Science and Automation and International Post Graduate Certification in Product Management and Marketing. He is a 2016 Fellow in the Startup Leadership Program in Bangalore.

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Achuth Anand is the founder & CEO of shareanbuy, a marketplace where builders can showcase projects and raise funds from investors on exchange of particular salable area of the project. He is also a founder & CEO of shareanbuy, a residential real estate fundraising platform which connect investors with builders. Achuth has also worked at Concorde Group and Fine moments Real Estate. He is an expert in marketing, business modelling, business strategy, negotiation and sales/bus dev. He holds a degree in business management. He is a fan of Eduardo Saverin, co-founder, FB. He is 2019 Fellow in the Startup Leadership Program in Bangalore.

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Ambar Kumar is Member of the Founding Team and VP of One Billion Minds, India's first Open Innovation platform, connecting students to Corporates and Non Profits. He has over 7 years of experience in the diversified industry, during which he groomed in multiple roles, from project management and development to business strategy and marketing. Prior to One BIllion Minds, he worked in Infosys for 5 years, where he led multiple projects in the United States. He earned his MBA from European School of Management and Technology (ESMT) Berlin, where he was a SAP mentored scholar and is CFA Level II candidate. He also holds a Bachelors in Mechanical Engineering from Gorakhpur University. Ambar is an avid trekker, passionate about trading and currently trying to tune his hand in Guitar.

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Amit is the CEO of an exciting business called Go Untucked, which is focused on art and design, and how they can be used to create awesome products of everyday use (like t-shirts). Building on the success of companies like Threadless.com, Go Untucked hopes to have a unique online-offline model of “social retailing”. Amit helped raise seed stage funding for this venture. In a past life as an engineer, he built one of the first distributed grid computing management platforms anywhere in the world (patented in Europe/US). He then got an MBA from UCLA, and then spent some time in Silicon Valley before returning to India last year. He has founded a non-profit (www.dosomething.in) around social entrepreneurship, and carried out detailed research in the Indian early stage entrepreneurship ecosystem, working with leading VCs and angels.

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Amogh Mukunda is the Director - Sales of Mesha Energy Solutions Pvt Ltd, an IT / Technology Services of electric vehicle solar charging stations, multifunctional solar lighting & solar street lighting. Prior to Mesha Energy, he worked at Sasken, where he was the lead in Sales Operations. Amogh has also worked at ABOVE, Motorola and Wipro Technologies. He is an expert in manufacturing, marketing solutions, networking, product knowledge and Sales/Bus Dev. He holds a degree in Computer applications, C, C++, Networking and AI. Amogh is passionate about enabling a sustainable living experience. He is 2019 Fellow in the Startup Leadership Program in Bangalore.

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Amruth Ravindranath is the CEO of Vita Beans, which supports creation and adoption of innovative technology solutions for learning and assessments by integrating several key principles from neurobehavioral science and interaction design. Prior to Vita Beans, he led several entrepreneurial programs as the President of the Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership – BITS Pilani. He is also a recipient of Canada’s prestigious Sauvé Scholars fellowship through which he worked at ATLAS Labs (Advanced Technologies for Learning in Authentic Setting) to establish close associations between Vita Beans and several business & technology groups in North America. He also shares a strong passion for research and experimentation. His prototypes have won several accolades, including a Grand Award and a NASA Award at the International Science and Engineering Fair. He was honoured as a Young Achiever by Craig Barrett of Intel during the India World Ahead program in 2007. He has also been an undergraduate research fellow at the Indian Institute of Science, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Indian Academy of Sciences and the Indian Institute of Astrophysics among others, and is a recipient of KVPY national fellowship from India’s Department of Science & Technology. Amruth has a natural flair for public speaking & has spoken about his work & Vita Beans in several events including Canada’s largest TEDx event at McGill. Amruth completed his Masters in Physics with a distinction from Birla Institute of Technology & Science (BITS) Pilani, where he also served on the 5 membered Election Commission that was responsible for ensuring that the student body elections were free and fair. He is 2012 Fellow in the Startup Leadership Program in Bangalore.

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Antony Davis, is a third generation entrepreneur and brings with him the rare experience of working with investment banking giant Deutsche bank and being a prime time television anchor with News9. His work later got him an offer with Times Now as their senior correspondent. Anto, brings with him extensive experience of media and has had the pleasure of doing interviews with former prime ministers, sports legends, business tycoons and reported on crucial stories from across south India. A student of Business and certified from Stanford on creativity. Today, he is the founder and CEO of VHTnow, the fastest growing corporate film production and animation house in the country. VHTnow has made films for the likes of Google, eBay, Amazon and many others. Built on a capital of less than 2500$. Today, it has revenues of over one crore Rupees. Antony, dreams of building a school where education is free while today he makes the time teach students entrepreneurship at no cost. He is an SLP fellow from the Bengaluru Chapter

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Bringing lasting social impact by building capacities of individuals and communities is what Anubhav believes is his true calling. After graduating from Delhi College of Engineering, Anubhav led the data analytics team at ZS Associates to support top biopharmaceutical companies in the US. Choosing to pursue his passion, Anubhav quit his job after 2 years and joined a unique fellowship that placed him as a Legislative Aid to a Member of Parliament of India. Anubhav spent that year researching about various sectors, monitoring and evaluating government schemes and particularly gaining critical insights into the public healthcare system in India through field visits to remote villages. Currently as the Director of Operations and Development (India) at Noora Health, Anubhav is using his knowledge and diverse experience to drive Noora’s growth in India through partnership building, product and team development, fundraising and on-the-ground implementation.

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Anubhav Ghosh is the Co-founder of Picanva, an artist and design aggregator which helps businesses complete their art and design projects. Prior to Picanva, he worked at WorkTeen, where he was a web developer. Anubhav has also worked at YLA and Augentia LLC. He is an expert in Web Design, Web Development and Youth Leadership. He holds a degree in Software Engineering and Entrepreneurship Studies. He is a fan of Mark Cuban, President. He is 2019 Fellow in the Startup Leadership Program in Bangalore

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Anup Gupta is the Founder of MathonGo - the best online repository for Math needs of a student. He has worked in the education domain for more than 9 years. Whether it was working on video content on USB sticks way back in 2009 or it was setting a B2B Online Testing Platform even before it became a fashion, he has got his hands dirty in both B2C and B2B space. Apart from this, he is also renowned Math Tutor in the field of IIT JEE Preparation and had successfully ran and sold his own coaching centres which had presence in different states of the country. He holds a B.E degree in Compute Science and Engineering and has done Executive Program from IIM Ahmedabad. He is passionate about education and the power of its impact. He wants to bring parity in the education by democratising education and making quality education affordable to masses.

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Arshya Lakshman Arshya Lakshman, CEO & Founder of futurON Ltd, chose to make a living out of her hobby – creativity for the corporate world. futurON does marketing and social media strategies for the tech world. Arshya’s keen interest in blending the best of the creative and corporate world, started due to her education in Visual Communications (Madras University) and Business Management (Strathclyde Business School). From being a part of the Tamil films industry to being associated with multinational brands (like Ingenico, BBC, BBDO, Tata, Sony) and startups, Arshya has worked with a variety of industries and organizational sizes leading branding, marketing, PR and social media campaigns. Arshya is a serial globetrotter, she has worked and travelled across North America, Europe and Asia Pacific. Her love for the creative art led her to become an actor for a multicultural theatre group in the UK and singing for a band in Scotland. She also enjoys her photography, painting, martial arts and meditation. Arshya is a fellow in the 2012 Startup Leadership Program in London and is looking forward to combining her love for entrepreneurship, leadership and technology to dive deep into the startup world.

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Deepali Ravi is the founder of Roka, an Experience Center for arts and heritage. Roka is a concept store curated with hand crafted products of India, integrated with a learning and exploratory center hosted amidst a themed hangout cafe. Having been awarded the Lila Poonawalla Scholarship, for her Masters degree in Bharatnatyam, Deepali continues to pursue her career in classical dance (Bharatnatyam) as a performer, choreographer and a teacher. She has numerous performances to her credit in India and aboard, while taking pleasure in conducting lecture demonstrations and workshops in Dance. Roka is a natural extension of her passion in preserving, sustaining and promoting the heritage and its various art forms. Being an ardent connoisseur of Arts and Crafts, its driven by her personal interest and belief to find value in our ancient art forms and keeping it relevant and vibrant with changing times. At Roka, its going beyond the product by establishing the connect with the art and artist and thereby promote the creativity."

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Dhiren is one of the co-founders of Etyacol Technologies Pvt Ltd, a company pioneering in location based tracking services. The flagship product, Locayte, is a mobile based application targeted to cater to the tracking and reporting needs across verticals. Prior to this venture, he was the Head Sales India – Excelsoft Technologies (K-12 division). He has approximately 8 years of sales and marketing experience across the telecom and education verticals. Having completed his B.E in Electronics and Communication from R.V. College of Eng. in 2003, he worked for couple of years before pursuing his PGDM from Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (2007-09). During the 1st year in IIMA, he won the prestigious O. P. JINDAL SCHOLARSHIP for Academic & Leadership Excellence, 2007. Being an adventure enthusiast, he has enjoyed activities like bungee jumping, scuba diving, hang gliding, parasailing, rappelling etc. He is 2013 Fellow - Startup Leadership Program, Bangalore

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