Our speakers
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.
Kunal Khattar, Founding Partner, AdvantEdge
Kunal Khattar, General Partner, advantEdge Partners
Kunal is a serial entrepreneur and an investor with over 24 years of global experience in varied corporate and entrepreneurial roles. He co-founded Carnation Auto - India’s first and largest independent Multi-Brand Auto Solutions company.
Kunal leads the investment initiatives as well as operations at advantEdge Partners. Kunal has been actively mentoring and investing in startups in his individual capacity as well. He is passionate about partnering with companies across the digital spectrum including mobile commerce, digital media and other technology fields. Kunal is on the Boards of Rapido and Smartivity and is a Charter Member of TiE.
Kunal has global experience of working in companies such as Aptuit, InfoPro Solutions, Vodafone and Razorfish. He previously cofounded SimplyLook.com in the Bay Area and also led the investment for a US based PE firm into Laurus Labs which is a BSE listed entity. Kunal has a Bachelors degree in Economics (Honors) from Delhi University, an MBA from FSM, New Delhi and an MS from Kellogg and Medill School, Northwestern University.