Our speakers

Kumar Shiralagi, MD, Kalaari Capital Advisors P Ltd

Kumar is part of the leadership team at Kalaari Capital.  He enjoys investing in and working with technology focused entrepreneurs looking to build successful companies out of India. Teaming with dynamic entrepreneurs working on interesting technologies and business models to address various market needs, he feels is thrilling.  Some of the current and past companies he has been associated with as an investor include Attero, Basiz, Germin8, Hands Free Network, Robosoft, Visionary RCM, Vyome, Deccanet, Tejas Neworks NIIT, Sharekhan and Sasken.

Prior to joining Kalaari, Kumar was the head of Intel Capital India. As the Country Director, he drove Intel’s India investments and successfully executed and managed its investments and exits. Prior to Intel, Kumar was co-founder and COO of Lytek Corporation in Arizona. Earlier, he worked at Motorola in various areas ranging from technology development to corporate strategy and investments. After completing his electronics and communications engineering degree from the National Institute of Technology (formerly KREC), Karnataka, he served at Electronics and Radar Development Establishment (LRDE) in Bangalore from 1984-85. He received his PhD and master’s degrees in electrical engineering from Arizona State University and an MBA from Thunderbird, the American Graduate School of International Management. He has published over 60 papers in international journals and conferences and has issued 23 US patents. He is a Senior Member of Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and a Charter Member of TiE Bangalore.

Kunaal Shah, Partner, Trilegal

Kunal Khattar, Founding Partner, Advantedge Capital

Kunal Bahl, Co-Founder & CEO, Snapdeal

Kunal Bahl, Co-Founder & Ceo, Jasper Infotech (Snapdeal.Com)

Kunal manages the strategic vision, key business relationships, fundraising and growth plans for Snapdeal.com. He is an engineer from University of Pennsylvania, with a business degree from The Wharton School and an executive marketing program at Kellogg School of Management.

Kunal along with Rohit Bansal, started Snapdeal.com in February 2010, and has been instrumental in building it into India’s leading online marketplace, with a wide assortment of products across various categories from thousands of regional, national, and international brands and retailers. With over 18 million members, Snapdeal.com is the shopping destination for internet users across the country, delivering to 4000+ cities and towns in India.

His prior experiences also include product management and business development with Microsoft's emerging markets group, and at Deloitte Consulting as a consultant in the company's telecom practice in New York and Pennsylvania. He also launched a consumer product brand in the US. Kunal has won many accolades including QVC Consumer Innovation Award for a consumer product company. Kunal is passionate about Financial markets, Cults, Politics and Yoga. He loves reading Travel literature, Business drama, Leonardo da Vinci, and is also extremely fond of backpacking through remote parts of the world. 

Kunal Bajaj, Head of Capital Network, Blume Ventures

As the Head of Growth & Exits, Kunal helps Blume’s portfolio companies and their respective Investment Leads with capital raising, M&A and Capital Markets. 

Kunal is responsible for partnering with the investment team to optimize portfolio companies’ outcomes through the lifecycle of a company, building and managing long-term relationships with a network of capital providers, strategic corporates, partners and advisors, and advising our portfolio companies on all aspects of Capital Markets – including IPO preparedness, timing and positioning, underwriter line-up, and more.

Kunal has 18 years of experience in Institutional Equity Sales, Trading and Risk Management at some of the world’s largest financial institutions such as Goldman Sachs, Credit Suisse, J.P. Morgan, Jefferies and CLSA, with cross-border experience in India and Japan. In his last banking role, he was Managing Director and set up Jefferies’ India Equity business in 2011 as Head of Equity Sales.

Kunal Jain, Venture Capital Investor, JSW Ventures

Kunal has been a founder at three startups across the food-tech, e-commerce & content syndication sectors and has 9 years of entrepreneurial experience in solving key challenges faced by growth focused startups. Prior to this, he worked at Deloitte Consulting advising global corporates in planning their technology infrastructure.

He is particularly interested in companies that are using emerging technologies to gain an upper-hand over competition and to solve key consumer issues. Kunal has an Engineering degree from Northwestern University.

Kunal Kakriwala, Senior Director, PWC India

Kunal Kapoor, Co-Founder, Ketto

A brilliant film and theatre actor, Kunal Kapoor is one of the Co-Founders of Ketto - India's largest Online Crowd-funding Platform for fundraising of Social, Charity, Movies, Music, Personal and Creative causes. It makes online giving and fundraising easy and safe. With its strong celebrity support, Ketto aims to connect individuals and brands with fundraisers, increasing awareness for various causes - social, personal, creative and entrepreneurial.

Kunal is a versatile actor who has featured in critically and commercially acclaimed films such as Meenaxi: A Tale of Three Cities, Rang De Basanti, Bachna ae Haseeno & Don 2. He has been a celebrity ambassador for NGOs such as Save The Children, Ogaan Cancer Foundation and Akshara Centre.

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Kunal Kapur, CEO, Red Monster Games

Kunal Kapur along with Kiran Upadhya founded Red Monster Games. Red Monster is a mobile social gaming company building games focused on the India market. Starting with casino games, it plans to expand into other genres of social gaming, including original IP-led games.

Kunal had previously worked in social gaming at Zynga. Kunal is an alumni of Indian School of Business (Hyderabad) and Carnegie Mellon and has founded SnatchKing Online, an online classifieds technology company which was acquired by Midday Infomedia in 2010.