Abhishek Bansal

Abhishek started Shadowfax in 2015 to fulfill the belief that every customer has a birthright to deserve a pleasant shopping experience. With the vision to enable last mile delivery for merchants by pioneering a human-tech interface, Shadowfax currently delivers more than 1Mn orders a month across 11 cities in India.

Before Shadowfax Abhishek was consulting Walmart across the India and China markets while working as a consultant for Haygroup. He completed his graduation from IIT Delhi in 2012 in Production and Industrial Engineering.

Ambareesh Murty

Mr. Ambareesh Murty turned entrepreneur and launched Pepperfry.com in January 2012. In the last five years, he has established Pepperfry as India’s No. 1 Online Furniture and Home marketplace processing over 4 million customer orders. Prior to founding Pepperfry, Mr. Murty was the Country Manager of eBay India, Philippines and Malaysia, where he step jumped eBay’s growth by tailoring products and processes to local requirements while delivering a superior customer experience. During his tenure with eBay, he also served as the Vice Chairman of the Internet & Mobile Association of India (IAMAI). Mr. Murty started his career with Cadbury’s and has also held senior management positions at ICICI Prudential and Britannia. He holds a B.E. from the Delhi College of Engineering and is an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta. In his free time, Mr. Ambareesh Murty closely follows FC Barcelona, loves to read and collects Zippo lighters and memorabilia from Terry Pratchett’s Discworld novels.

Anshu Prasher

Anshu Prasher is a Director at InnoVen Capital India. Since joining the firm in January 2013, he has been responsible for originating and executing venture debt transactions for high growth and innovative Indian companies. In addition to his role in leading debt transactions, Anshu is responsible for developing partnerships with other debt providers and building the firm’s syndication capabilities.

Anshu brings rich experience of working across banking and financial services. Prior to joining InnoVen Capital India (formerly SVB India Finance), Anshu worked with Debt Capital Markets, Kotak Mahindra Bank on structured debt transactions including acquisition and promoter financing across various sectors. He has prior Corporate Banking experience with Kotak and retail banking experience with Citibank.

Anshu holds a PGDM from Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow and a BA (Honors) in Geography from DAV College, Jalandhar. Besides work, Anshu loves to explore new places, connect with new people and ideas. Like most other Indians, he loves cricket but also follows basketball and football among other sports.

Avnish Anand

Avnish is a Co-founder at CaratLane and head of the online business. He is responsible for digital marketing, product management, customer service and online sales.

He also worked at Times Internet Limited where he started Code Gladiators in 2014.  This coding contest has been recognized as the biggest coing event in the world by the Guiness Book of world records.

He studied at Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata and IIM Lucknow.

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Dharmil Sheth

Mr. Dharmil Sheth is the co-founder of Pharmeasy, the leading medical and healthcare app in India that connects consumers with local pharmacies and diagnostic centres. At Pharmeasy, he particularly looks at the key areas of customer experience and also helms the operations and marketing divisions of the company. With a Bachelor’s degree in Electronic Engineering from KJ Somaiya College of Engineering and a PGDM from IMT Ghaziabad, Mr. Sheth has been associated with renowned companies such as MakeMyTrip in key leadership roles. Fulfilling his entrepreneurial passions with new and exciting ventures, prior to Pharmeasy, he founded 91 Streets, a shopping search platform and BoxPlay Sports, a world-class sports infrastructure set-up for teams and individuals to play soccer and cricket. Mr. Sheth believes, that in five years, Pharmeasy will be the go-to app for all Indians to fulfill their need for affordable medication and medical tests. It will connect service providers and patients seamlessly across the country and enable digitization of all medical records on a single platform, truly revolutionising the way the pharma space works in India. A keen contributor to society, Mr. Sheth has also laid the foundation of and is President to Ekagrata Foundation, a Non-Government Organisation which works towards the welfare of underprivileged children. In his free time, he likes to teach these children and play a role in shaping up their future. A football fanatic, he also loves to spend his free time on his creation, BoxPlay pads to polish his skills in the game.

Falguni Nayar

After a highly successful career spanning over 25 years in financial services, 18 of which were spent with the Kotak Mahindra group, Falguni Nayar decided to pursue her entrepreneurial drive with the launch of Nykaa.com, a women-centric beauty and wellness e-commerce portal.

Targeted exclusively at the contemporary urban Indian woman, Nykaa.com will offer a wide range of carefully selected, global beauty and wellness products. At Kotak, Falguni was the Managing Director of Kotak Investment Banking, a position she assumed in 2005, and Director of Kotak Securities.

Falguni holds a Masters degree in Management from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad where she majored in Finance. She graduated with a Bachelor of Commerce degree from Sydenham College of Commerce and Economics. Falguni received the FICCI Ladies Organisation (FLO) award for top woman achiever in the field of banking. She is a founding member of the Asia Society in India.

Karan Kirpalani

Karan Kirpalani, is the Associate Vice President - Product Management at Netmagic, an NTT Communications Company. Joining Netmagic when the company was in its nascent stage, Karan has played two pivotal roles for over a decade and a half. He joined as the Director for Business Development at Netmagic USA responsible for developing the company’s business overseas. He is currently responsible for end-to-end Product Conceptualization and Management for several critical and high impact product lines including Cloud Services, Managed Hosting, Network Storage and Services, and Application Services.

Prior to Netmagic, Karan was associated with ICICI Bank as part of the online content and web application team. Karan is a graduate in Economics from Mumbai University. He is a guest lecturer at Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, enlightening engineering students on cloud and other IT infrastructure technologies.

Karan’s dedication to what he does and business insight makes him a visionary and thought leader in the field. He is an avid reader, and has written articles, whitepapers and blogs on various technologies.

Lizzie Chapman

Lizzie Chapman is ZestMoney’s crusader-in-chief, leading its mission of helping Indian consumers to upgrade their lifestyle by owning their favourite products today and pay in the future. Her global fintech experiences have guided ZestMoney’s journey to become India’s fastest digital EMI solution for fast growing e-commerce businesses, lenders and consumers.

Mithun Srivatsa

Mr. Mithun Srivatsa is the cofounder of Blowhorn.com which was launched in  Aug 2014. Blowhorn is the leading intracity logistics startup operating in major cities in India. Prior to founding Blowhorn, Mr. Srivatsa worked in multiple functions with the world’s largest shipping company - AP Moller Maersk - as a fast track management trainee. His last role with Maersk group was working with a core team entrusted with the turnaround of a port to a successful IPO.. He holds a B.E. in Mechanical Engineering from the Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, Nagpur and is an MBA from University of Cambridge - Judge Business School. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. Besides logistics, his interests include Geopolitics, Cryptocurrencies and restoring motorbikes.

Navin Honagudi

Navin is part of the investment team as an Investment Director. Prior to joining Kae, Navin was with Reliance Venture Asset Management (RVAM), and served as the Board of Directors of Tessolve Services and Dhama Innovations and as Board Observer on Reverse Logistics, Suvidhaa Infoserve and Wellspring.  Prior to Reliance Venture Asset Management, he was working with Darashaw and Company Private Limited (DCPL) in the Investment banking division. While at DCPL he was involved in end to end execution of mandates for public offers, private placement, loan syndication etc for private and state owned entities.Navin has a degree in MBA and Engineering from Mumbai University.

Pankaj Naik

Pankaj is co-head of Avendus’ Digital and Technology Investment Banking practice. Pankaj has 17 years of investment banking experience across industries with focus on Technology and Media vertical. Avendus’ Digital and Technology Team has closed over 40 deals in private capital raise and M&A in the last three years in India.

Pranay Surana

Pranay is currently the co-founded & COO of Flyrobe - India's largest fashion rental service started in June 2015. Flyrobe has been nominated on the 2017 list of top 50 Global startups by Bloomberg and featured under Forbes 30 under 30 Asia.

He is graduated from IIT Bombay in 2013 (Mechanical engg). He has worked with Deutsche Bank for 2 yrs (June' 13 - May' 15) within their Investment Banking division covering EMEA Industrial clients.

Rajinder Balaraman

Rajinder is an early stage investor with Matrix Partners India. Matrix has invested in several market leading companies in India such as Ola (local transportation), Mswipe (mobile POS), Quikr (online classifieds), Practo (digital health platform), Dailyhunt (mobile local language platform), Five Star Finance (SME lending), Limeroad (mobile social commerce marketplace), Razorpay (payments), Treebo (digital hotel chain) and OfBusiness (SME lending and B2B marketplace) among others.

Rajinder has had the privilege of working with some of these fantastic founders who have built fast growing marketplaces and is looking to partner with more founders across B2B and B2C sectors that target “Real India”. Rajinder has an MBA from Harvard Business School and did his undergrad at the University of Madras.

@rbalaraman

Rutvik Doshi

Rutvik Doshi joined Inventus after 12 years of successful technology industry operating roles. Mr. Doshi has participated in India’s fast emerging internet ecosystem since 2007, first with Google where he launched several products including Voice Search, Google Mobile App, SMS Channels and managed Google News globally, and most recently as the CEO of ecommerce startup Taggle in Bangalore. Before Google he spent 6 years in the U.S. building internet management software for CA Technologies and a startup. Mr. Rutvik Doshi holds a B.Tech from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur and an MBA from INSEAD, France. He also holds 6 patents.

Sandeep Aggarwal

Sandeep Aggarwal is a serial entrepreneur, angel investor, internet visionary and philanthropist. He is widely regarded as the father of marketplaces in the Indian Internet ecosystem - having founded ShopClues in 2011 - India’s first managed marketplace, which became 5th Unicorn in Consumer Internet in India & Droom in 2014 - India’s first marketplace for automobiles.Droom is only auto portal in the world to own the entire ecosystem for automobile with marketplace, pricing, inspection, history and fintech tools. Sandeep is passionate about Digitizing India through mentoring startups, especially on entrepreneurship traits and skills.

Sandeep has an MBA from Washington University in St. Louis and holds a US patent.

Saahil Goel

Mr. Saahil Goel is the CEO and Co-Founder of BigFoot Retail Solutions Pvt. Ltd., an e-commerce enablement company that owns Kraftly, KartRocket and ShipRocket. He is also fondly referred to as the de-facto CPO, given his passion for products, growth hacking and technology. As a startup CEO, Mr. Goel’s chief responsibilities include questioning everything that impacts the business, breaking existing barriers, practicing and developing unconventional solutions from the ground up. Along with overall management of the company, he actively heads product strategy, user experience and growth initiatives. In Business with an MBA and MS from the University of Pittsburgh, PA, USA, he started his career as a Business Analyst at Max Life Insurance. Before conceptualizing BigFoot Retail in 2011, Mr. Goel was working as a Technology and Process Consultant for SDLC Partners (with Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield). He was also a part of the founder's teams of Kasper Consulting. With product innovation deeply embedded in his very business approach, Mr. Goel’s vision for Kraftly is to scale the user base and bring in deeper technology innovation. He believes that cutting edge technology, intuitive product and data intelligence are differentiators for any business in today’s age.  Krafty will be focusing on the Indian sellers' market, providing any merchant of any size with an e-commerce enablement, as per their needs and requirements. It aims to become the largest seller enablement company in India, and eventually take on the global markets. A philanthropist at heart, Mr. Saahil Goel has worked with Habitat for Humanity in the US during his college days. Now he wants to give back to the community through Kraftly and has several NGOs as sellers like Rangsutra, Peeli Dori, Raah etc. on the platform.

Sankalp Agarwal

A technology maven with entrepreneurship in his Marwari blood, Sankalp Agarwal is the Co-founder and CEO of TravelTriangle, India’s first full-stack holiday marketplace. He believes every difficult problem has a simple solution and you just have to be innovative enough to find it. At TravelTriangle, he leads the company vision and is intrinsically involved in fundraising, business growth & creating a Sankalp has completed his B.Tech as well as M.Tech in Computer Science from the prestigious IIT Kharagpur. He held a highly lucrative post at Adobe before his own entrepreneurial venture with TravelTriangle.  Sankalp has even etched his name in the record books. He, along with 17 other team members, are mentioned in the Limca Book of Records for solving the World’s Largest Jigsaw puzzle. Striving for excellence in every aspect of his life is Sankalp’s sole mantra. His spirit and dedication is also demonstrated by his academic and extracurricular achievements.

A state topper in Class 10 Boards from Rajasthan, he has designed his own LINUX user interface like KDE, while in college. His innovative nature led him to tackle several technological gaps in his day to day life such as an automated birthday wisher on Facebook to avoid the wrath of his huge friend network, Dictionary Bot in Google Talk to understand the English vocabulary better while chatting with friends & an Expense Manager to make monthly expenditure reports for his mom. Besides his interests in reading and watching movies, Sankalp has backpacked with friends to several off-beat destinations in India and abroad. He is also an accomplished sports person who won Gold Medals in Hockey during his college days. As an avid traveler himself, Sankalp aims to make the entire travel experience simply amazing for customers.

Saurabh Kochhar

Saurabh Kochhar is the CEO of foodpanda India. Saurabh is at the helm of the strategic growth of the company, which has established itself as the largest online food ordering platform over the last few years.

Saurabh embarked upon his entrepreneurial journey with printvenue.com in the year 2012. Prior to co-founding Printvenue.com, Saurabh worked with top global organisations such as McKinsey & Co and Oracle India. It is in these companies that he garnered the sound professional grounding and business acumen that he applied to his own enterprise and foodpanda thereafter.

A recipient of many prestigious accolades, Saurabh has been named as “The Most Talented Retail professional of India” by Asia Retail Congress and “Entrepreneur of the year in Manufacturing Business – Printing 2014”. He has a Bachelor’s degree in Technology from IIT-Roorkee and also holds a Master’s degree in Business Administration from IIM-Calcutta, where he was the sole recipient of the Shri Ratan Tata Scholarship for the year 2009.

Saurabh enjoys travelling and spending time with family and friends. His interests include reading and watching movies and playing cricket.

@saurabhkochhar

Sanjay Mehta

Sanjay Mehta is an active angel investor. He has been a serial entrepreneur turned angel investor. He invests in diverse sectors from educations, health, media, online, medical, travel, FnB, retails and many more sectors. Being from the technology background he enjoys working with start-ups in mobile, analytics, social & cloud. He understand all the nuances of running an Start-up hence wants to leverage his experience to help provide not just money but smart money to Start-ups. Besides investing just meeting with passionate Start-up entrepreneurs gives Mr.Mehta different intellectual high. Entrepreneurs risk coupled with passion & enthusiasm is so contagious that it rubs on him he feels. He is also investor with PE firms. He currently has invested in 23 companies as angel investor.

He is the founder of MAIA Intelligence ( http://www.maia-intelligence.com ) the first Indian BI company. He is part of NASSCOM Regional Council & Product Council for West. He is part of IMC IT Committee. He secretary of ISB Alumni for Executive Education. Investor Member with Mumbai Angels & Venture Nursery. He is Charter Member of TiE Mumbai. His twitter handle is @mehtasanjay and LinkedIn profile can be viewed on http://in.linkedin.com/in/ceoinvestor/ His published articles can be read on http://bit.do/mehtasanjay. His contacts & connects in IT & CIO community is unparalleled. Sanjay Mehta is speaker to various entrepreneur & technology forums. He is also an avid reader & traveler. He enjoys running and trying out his maiden half marathon.

Sivram SD

Sivram leads the strategy development and strategic planning function across all business units of the company. His focus areas include expanding strategic partnerships, identifying new business avenues, leading acquisitions and synergies for both domestic and international operations. He also leads the analytics function in optimizing the company’s operations, productivities and cost structures to improve business and performance metrics.

Sivram comes with over 6 years of experience in Strategy across sectors including Ecommerce. In his previous role at Rocket-internet E-commerce portal Jabong.com, he was the Head - Operations Analytics & Marketplace Pricing and also the lead on key strategic initiatives as a part of the Special Projects Team. He has also worked as a Management consultant at A.T Kearney.

Sivram holds a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from BITS - Pilani and an MBA (PGDM) from IIM Bangalore.

Vishal Gandhi

Vishal is the founder and managing partner of Gandhi & Associates— a leading Indian law firm which focuses on mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, venture capital/private equity transactions, and business disputes.

Vishal specializes in transactional work and on business/commercial disputes. He represents both investors and investee companies. He is also often seen on national television providing his expert opinion on various new and emerging areas of law and on disputes involving large industrial houses such as Cairn India, Reliance Industries, Oil and Natural Gas Commission, etc.

Vishal has authored various publications including an article on “Key Legal Issues Relating to Joint Ventures in India” for the American Bar Association. Vishal frequently speaks on Indian law issues at various forums worldwide and his clients include US Polo Association, DDJ Capital, UIB Capital, Sun Mountain Capital, Avis Budget Group, Zimmer Inc, Cisco Systems Inc, University of Rio Grande, Qualcomm Inc, etc.

To contact Vishal, please e-mail him on vishal@gandhiassociates.com