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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Ajith Karimpana, Founder, Rent Ur Duniya Ajith Karimpana is the founder of Rent Ur Duniya, a home furnishing rental service provider. Prior to Rent Ur Duniya, he worked at Goldman Sachs as Vice President and was managing the Asia Regulatory Operations Technology team out of India. Ajith has also worked at Morgan Stanley and Infosys. He is an expert in the technology management with focus on the Investment Banking domain. Ajith was awarded certificate of merit and medal of honor at REC/NIT Jalandhar for being one of the toppers in the college. He holds a Masters degree in Computer Science from Temple University and Bachelors degree in Industrial Engineering from REC/NIT Jalandhar. Ajith is an avid reader, an amateur photographer and a music aficionado. He is a 2012 Fellow in the Startup Leadership Program in Bangalore. Ajith has been a passionate part-time entrepreneur for the past three years and had co-founded a venture (Rhydoo.com) in the United States that was into group buying, a novel idea then (2007-08), but stale now. He is passionately pursuing his ambition to build Rent UrDuniya as the brand for Home Furnishing Rentals in India for people on the move and with temporary needs. He is 2012 Fellow in the Startup Leadership Program in Bangalore.

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Ashwin blends his core background and experience in conceptualizing computational algorithms and applications with new marketing thought schools to translate thoughts and ideas for the real world. He has made his first foray outside Life-Sciences to realize his current goals and interests. His current interests are to build profitable mainstream business models which can positively influence the daily lives of the common man using social mediums. He believes that with the right kind of vision and concepts, successful business models will evolve where everyone including those at grass root level will benefit from Social Media before 2020. His startup Jugular Social Media recently won the startup of the year at the Headstart-Its AP annual events in 2010. He has been a BiovisionNxt-World Life Science forum fellow-Class of 2005, a nominee for MIT Tech Review Tech 35 and the British Council Young Creative Entrepreneur Awards in 2010. Most recently, he has been selected to participate in the class of 2011, Startup leadership program.He was most recently heading marketing & strategy at Ocimum Biosolutions and Gene Logic, cited as one of the fastest growing companies by INC magazine and Deloitte. During his stint with Ocimum-Gene Logic, The Genomics Pioneers Gateway was built and conceptualized, the largest genomics ecosystem on the web. Also during this stint, Ocimum embarked on the Ocimum 3.0 collaboration platform aimed at integrating service lines and community interaction.Back in the year 2000, He also built India’s first international Bioinformatics ecosystem by conceptualizing Inbios. He has worked and studied at internationally known organizations and universities like Leeds University UK, Josephine Bay Paul Center for Molecular Biology MBL USA, Viikki Biocenter at Helsinki, Finland.

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Bindu Gollapudi is the co-founder of Tranzform Integrated Marketing Services., a startup that is revolutionising the Below the Line Industry. Prior to Tranzform , she worked at Wings Group of Companies, where she started as a telemarketing executive and quit as the COO of a division after working for about 15 plus years . Bindu was awarded the best marketing personnel award and she has won this for 5 years in a row. She holds a degree in Mathematics and has pursued her diploma program in . She is a fan of Lord , her true God. Bindu is passionate about adding value to the marketing of any product or brand or service and understands the nuances of Integrated Marketing Communication. She is 2014 Fellow in the Startup Leadership Program in Bangalore.

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Darshan Raju S is the Founder and CEO of CheersToWork, an online to offline business to book rent-free co-working and meeting spaces at cafes, pubs and restaurants near you. Prior to CheersToWork, he worked at Runnr(acquired by Zomato) and Cisco. He is an expert in product design and technology. He holds a degree in Computer Science Engineering. He is a fan of Jack Ma. Darshan is passionate about technology and the various ways it can be used to solve common world and business problems.

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Deepa Kadam is the CEO of Merricart, Merricart's mission is to offer verticalized and Indianized nutrition solutions for health conditions arising from contemporary lifestyle challenges. Merricart is an integrated marketer, distributor and retailer of branded nutritional products that includes organic food grocery, healthy ready-to-eat, health drinks and supplements that are sold primarily to and through Merricart’s websites, proprietary food stores and retailers. Prior to Merricart, she worked at Reliance Jio, where she was part of strategy team that built 100 million customer acquisition plan. Deepa has also worked at Reliance’s ecommerce venture Ajio and in IT firms like Bristlecone. She is an expert in go-to-market strategy and execution. Deepa was awarded Beta gamma sigma for graduating in top 10% of MBA class. She holds a degree in Engineering and MBA. She is a fan of active lifestyle and adventure sports.

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Glen Suchitha is the Founder of PayPerCup, a startup giving your brand hyper-local engagement. He is also currently working at Cryptic Intel as a Managing Partner. He is also the Host and Content Lead of PowerDrift, a project by a group of passionate motoring enthusiasts. Prior to PayPerCup, he worked at Amazon as a Transaction risk investigator. Glen has co-founded SideStep Solutions, which kick started projects ranging from addressing the disparity in the education system to creating modules for team building and effective communication activities for corporate companies. He is an expert in Marketing, Team Management and Market Research. Glen was the event head and holder of a Guinness World Record for the World's Largest Beatbox ensemble in 2011 and he was also a part of the initial team of organizers of the Bangalore start-up festival in 2013. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Business Management. He is a 2016 Fellow in the Startup Leadership Program in Bangalore.

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Gokurlaj.G.K is the Go-to-Guy of MyCopie, a notebook that emulates Top-notch Paper Quality, Stunning design and Best Value for Money. Prior to MyCopie, Gokulraj launched couple of startups. The more recent one prior to MyCopie being an eCommerce website called ZAPstore.com. He Co-Founded the website and conceptualized it with his buddy from USA during December 2011. This store gives exclusive pricing to each and every customer on the product of their choice controlled by a complex algorithm. ZAPstore.com, was selected as one of the Top 16 startups in India by Microsoft BizSpark 2012. His first startup, eFuture Solutions was launched during his undergraduate tenure in SRM University. It is now the only venture in Southern India capable of issuing Digital Signature across the table. He holds a Masters Degree in Engineering Management and Bachelors Degree in Mechanical Engineering. He is zealous about F1, MotoGP and Automobiles. He idolizes Bill Gates and not Steve Jobs. He is cerebrating ideas to reinvent the notebook and to make washing clothes a fashionable experience. He is a 2013 fellow in the Startup Leadership Program in Bangalore.

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After his BTech at IIT Roorkee, Himanshu was very clear that he wanted to conceptualize and sell products rather than develop them. He had conceptualized and supervised development of 12 products for the University community through a voluntary student group while at college. So three months into his job at Talisma as a software developer, he convinced his superiors to move into a product management role. He subsequently moved to Intelliworks product management team where he was part of the team which conceptualized the SAAS based product. While at Intelliworks, Himanshu also played the role of Account Manager for India and Australia, coached extensively by Dev Ganesan, CEO Intelliworks. After Intelliworks, Himanshu cofounded Cheese Care with friends from college to help Indian business build user friendly websites and mobile applications. After 2 years and 50+ clients, this belief has been validated. Himanshu leads the sales and business development.

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Kapil Kaushik, Founder & VP of Engineering, Sparsha Learning Kapil Kaushik is the co-founder and VP Engineering of Sparsha Learning Technologies. Sparsha is focussed on improving the student learning by pairing “simulation and social” technologies with instructional strategies. Sparsha’s flagship product iLearnMore is being used by faculty and students to learn electronics in various universities in India. Sparsha was also one of the Top 20 tech startups at TechSparks 2011. Prior to Sparsha, he worked at Magma Design Automation, where he was involved in creating high end technology solutions for electronic design automation. With over 6 years of industry experience, he has been involved across the lifecycle of product development. He is also a co-founder of ISOC Bangalore chapter – a non-profit organization dedicated to spreading awareness about internet. Kapil completed his Bachelors in Electrical Engineering from IIT Delhi. Kapil is an avid biker and trekker and is often found with his machine (Bajaj Avenger) in far off lands like Laddakh, Bhutan etc. He is 2012 Fellow in the Startup Leadership Program in Bangalore.

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Mamta Bargale is the Founder of OrchidTree, a website to ship orchids all over India. She is also a director/Co-founder at Entiicing Flowers and was a owner of Urja Boutique. She is an expert in Business Strategy, Financial Planning, Operations Management and People Management. She holds a degree in Geology. She is a fan of Vani Kola, MD at Kalaari. She is 2019 Fellow in the Startup Leadership Program in Bangalore.

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Nida Sahar is the CTO of Eazy Tech Pvt ltd PiggeyBanc, a market place to serve the F&B industry in terms of thier basic day to day needs. She is also a contributor at Bela Magazine, Founder in residence at Entrepreneur First, partner at JSons and Mentee at Cherie Blair Foundation for Women. Nida has also worked at Hexagon UX, DELL-EMC, Hewlett-PAckard and Nova Entertainment. She is an expert in Software Development, Engineering, Product, Social/Women Entrepreneurship, Software Design, UI/UX Design and Web Development. Nida was awarded for significant contribution to SAP JCo Work and Solution-ing SSL Support For MS SQL. She holds a degree in Computer /Information Science and Entrepreneurship Studies. She is a fan of Guy Kawasaki, Chief evangelist at Canva. She is 2019 Fellow in the Startup Leadership Program in Bangalore.

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Nishant Prasad is the CEO and Founder of Clean Fanatic, a professional cleaning services company which provides low allergen environment within households Prior to Clean Fanatic, he worked at _Renoir Consulting, where he wasa Project Manager. Nishant has also worked at Hewlett Packard and Glenmark Pharmaceuticals. He is an expert in Sales,Marketing and Operational execution. Nishant was awarded young achiever award in his B school days. He holds a degree in Mechanical engineering and an MBA from NITIE . He is a fan of Warren Buffet and is passionate about solving the problem of providing professional cleaning services in India. He is 2014 Fellow in the Startup Leadership Program in Bangalore

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Padmanabhan Thangaraj is a Entrepreneur, Designer and a Photographer. He is a BITS Pilani graduate who co founded Grayscale Design in 2008. He then pursued Professional Photographer

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