Aarthi is the co-founder of Giggle Galaxy, an employer-sponsored, on premise, childcare and pre-school educational organization, providing premium childcare facilities for children from 4 months to 6 years. She is an engineer by education and an entrepreneur by choice. Her six years of rich experience in Infosys, where she gained valuable insights into the functioning of an IT workplace and the challenges it poses to working mothers, inspired her to find a solution to the problem of high dropout rate of working women after childbirth; Giggle Galaxy was thus formed! She also understands the dynamics of child learning which she gained when she ran a computer literacy program for the children of an NGO, Prajwala. For her outstanding work in Prajwala and other social initiatives she undertook, she was awarded 'Woman as Catalyst for Social Change', by Infosys. She is a 2014 Fellow in the Startup Leadership Program in Pune.

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Abhijeet Singh is the Founder and CEO of Mypata, one stop solution to contact chaos. With Mypata, he is also working at UBS as a software developer. Abhijeet has also worked at CA Technologies, Sangam, Leksis.news and Dainiksrama. He is an expert in Agile, Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain, C++, HTML + CSS, Java, JavaScript, Python and Social Innovation. Abhijeet was awarded with Mantra Social leadership Award 2016, Entrepreneur Of The Year, Delegate at HULTPRIZE16@DUBAI and winner at HultPrize@Bitspilani Goa campus, also a finalist in FACEBOOK internet.org innovation challenge. He holds a degree in Chemistry and Electronics & Communication engineering. He is a fan of Bill Gates. He is 2019 Fellow in the Startup Leadership Program in Pune.

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Abhinav Khandelwal is the Founder & CEO of SweetsInBox.com, a startup that brings authentic Indian sweets from different regions, to a common platform. Prior to SweetsInBox.com, he worked at Triple Point Technology as a Senior CTRM & ETRM Onsite Consultant. Abhinav has also worked at eClerx, Capstone Securities Analysis and CRISIL. He is an expert in E-commerce, Business Strategy, Risk Management and Derivatives. He holds a degree in Computer Science and has completed the in Management Programme for Entrepreneurship and Family Businesses in Entrepreneurial Studies. He is a 2016 Fellow in the Startup Leadership Program in New Delhi.

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Ankit Tanna is the Co-Founder and CEO of Groupool.in, a technology product startup into Ride sharing for Corporate Employees. Prior to Groupool, he worked at Tata Consultancy Services as a Associate Consultant. Ankit has previously also worked at Credit Suisse and Persistent Systems. He is an expert in Entrepreneurship, Agile Methodologies, Business Strategy and Cloud Applications. He holds a degree in Information Technology. He is a 2016 Fellow in the Startup Leadership Program in Pune.

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Dhiraj Khot, CEO, Eco Recycling and Founder & CEO, August Solutions Dhiraj Khot recently took over the role of CEO at Eco Recycling, a BSE listed entity and India’s leading e-waste Management Company. Prior to this, in 2006, Dhiraj founded and led August Solutions, an IT company that built enterprise products in engineering and education verticals and provided services to hi-technology space. He led August Solutions through successful acquisition of his services team in 2011. In his earlier assignments, Dhiraj turned around dying CAD division (for Neilsoft), set up a new PLM practice (for Neilsoft) built enterprise solutions for semiconductor industry (Triniti). He started his career writing Math driven algorithms and software for Geometric. Dhiraj has a passion for starting and scaling up. He fuelled growth of Linsyssoft into HPC space and advised several companies into Food, Hospitality and Education sector. Dhiraj holds MBA from IIT Bombay and Bachelors in Mechanical Engineering from University of Pune. Dhiraj loves to cook, shoot photographs and listen to Ghazals and Urdu poetry. He is a 2012 Fellow in the Startup Leadership Program in Mumbai.

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Krishan Mittal is the Founder and CEO of Unfurl Technologies Pvt. Ltd., a building a social collaboration solution for students to develop skills and get industry related perspective by bridging communication gap between students, alumni and institute. Prior to this, he worked at Cadence Design Systems, Mervyns, IBM and CGI. He is an expert in Agile, IT Management, IT Strategy, Lean Initiatives, Product Life Cycle Management,. HE HAS A DEGREE IN Computer Science and MATHS AND PHYSICS. He is a 2017 fellow in the Startup Leadership Program in Pune

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Nisarg is a visionary & thinks ahead of times. He is always an experimenter and explores ideas passionately. In the process, 15 years ago he Co-founded ‘Design tells’ www.designtells.com a multi-disciplinary design studio, with a colleague whom he made a life partner. He also founded ‘Work culture’ that executed most projects designed by Design tells & other companies as well. Together these 2 Co.’s work across 5 verticals; Branding & Communication, Packaging Design, Signage, Environment Branding & Trade Exhibitions. In 2009 Nisarg joined hands with There4 Virtual Media Pvt Ltd www.there4.in that added value in producing AV’s, Realty + Engineering Animations & Interactive web. Nisarg & team have worked in the Branding & Design space with several Multi-National Companies from America, Denmark, Germany, India, Japan, Norway, Spain & more. Now he is exploring innovations in the vending machine space with his new company ‘Machine Met Media Pvt. Ltd.’ He is 2013 Fellow in the Startup Leadership Program in Pune. Nisarg currently works as Director of Sales and Marketing at There4 Virtual Media Pvt. Ltd.

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Sanchit Malik is a Co-Founder at Townscript.com Townscript is an online event ticketing company. Event organizers can go on townscript, create an event page in minutes, set up ticket price and start selling tickets online. Townscript has been started with an aim to disrupt the online event ticketing industry. Prior to Townscript.com , Sanchit had founded a startup at the age of 19, he had guided tit to become a great success. The startup had caught attention of National Media. Sanchit has a skill set in Sales & Marketing. He is a Certified Inbound Marketer. In free time, Sanchit travels, attends events and writes blogs. Sanchit is a 2013 Startup Leadership Program Fellow.

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I've been responsible for several products around translating the individuals basic need to communicate into innovative Web, Mobile systems around people, markets, groups and communities. My background includes exciting roles in developing the BlackBerry Internet Service at Research in Motion (Seattle), founding a co-translation service for digital content, founding india's first movie-tickets service- BookEazy.com and creating a fast-growing, volunteer-driven, hub for startups in Pune. I specialize in co-leadership roles in startup go-to-market, product, customer communication, putting together talented founding teams and strong investor relationships. I hold a MS in Computer Science from the Rochester Institute of Technology with my graduating thesis in Applied Data Mining, and a BE in Computer Engineering.

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Suresh Salunkhe is the Co-Founder & CEO of Buymaxo, a B2B eCommerce Marketplace to Buy and Sell Industrial Consumables. Prior to Buymaxo, he founded Bizporto, an Online B2B Product discovery platform, connecting Local Sellers & Buyers to facilitate business relations between them. At Bizporto, he led Product Strategy, Business Strategy & overall Operations. Suresh has also worked at Atharva Innovations, Vakratunda Consultancy and Raviraj Hitech. He is an expert in Business Development, Team Management and Business Strategy. He holds a degree in Mechanical Engineering. He is a 2016 Fellow in the Startup Leadership Program in Pune.

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Vinay Nathan, Co-Founder and CEO of Altizon Technologies ,has 12+ years of varied experience across sales, marketing, engineering and product management. Prior to Altizon he was VP Sales at Persistent Systems. He led Persistent Systems sales activities in the U.S. North East for 4+ years and added 30+ new logos that contributed to 20M+ USD in revenues. He also set up the APAC sales team that went from nil to 7% of annual revenues within 2 years. Vinay began his career in engineering and rose up the engineering ladder to be a center head for a US based captive. He holds 2 US patents and has 5 patents pending globally on work related USB, wireless10 and code security. Vinay holds a Masters degree in Computer Science from University of Southern California, LA and a Bachelors degree in Computer Engineering from University of Pune. Vinay’s interestslude travel, writing and playing tennis. He is a 2014 fellow of the Startup Leadership Program in Pune.

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