Our Sponsors and Partners

Sequoia Capital

Sequoia Capital India currently manages funds capitalized at close to US $1.8 billion and invests across venture, growth and late stage opportunities. It takes a long term view on investments and plays the role of an active, value added partner to entrepreneurs, business families and management teams. Over the last 10 years, Sequoia Capital India has invested in more than 55 Indian companies including Applabs, Café Coffee Day, Comviva (Bharti Telesoft), Dr Lal Pathlabs, Edelweiss, Firstsource, GVK Biosciences, Idea Cellular, Just Dial, Shaadi.com and SKS Microfinance.  Sequoia Capital India operates out of offices in Bangalore, Mumbai and New Delhi.

Globally, Sequoia Capital has an unparalleled track record of partnering with entrepreneurs to create global market leaders. Sequoia Capital has been an early investor in companies such as Google, Cisco, Yahoo, YouTube, Oracle and Apple Computers. Sequoia Capital maintains dedicated teams in the US, China, India and Israel.

Sequretek

Sequretek was incorporated in November 2013 with an aim to “Simplify Security”.
Todays’ Security technology offerings are full of point products and solutions for security issues faces by organizations. Security technologies are complex and difficult to implement, integrate and manage. This often leaves gaps in customer IT environments that are often exploited by attackers, hackers and actors with malicious intent.

Our motto as an organization is to look at simplifying security in the areas we have chosen for ourselves – i.e. Endpoints, end users and overall organizational security. This is being achieved through a combination of our products that are delivered through an on premise and SaaS model depending on the organization needs.

SERO

SERO brings to you the world’s most versatile Cloud-based and Offline multi-platform Point of Sale Systems for Android, iOS and Windows platforms. With a team of expert software designers and engineers, the company brings you the most eclectic Point Of Sale Software which works on PC's, Tablets and also Smartphones. SeroHQ.com is the ideal Point of Sale solution for the entire retail industry whether it is a single outlet or a chain of outlets. SeroHQ.com offers two variants to choose from, SERO Eat & SERO Retail. You may visit https://www.SeroHQ.com for more details.

Shade Capital

Shade Capital is a boutique investment bank based in Delhi with well established relationships with associates in India and cross border relationships all over the world. A reputation of excellence coupled with highest standards of service delivery in quality and ethics has led to continued success over the last two decades.

We specializes in mid market transactions with a focus on food and agri sector wherein we have indepth knowledge and a wide network. Experience of concluding more than 25 transactions (including cross border) in food and agri segment.

Our range of services covers the entire expanse of Corporate Finance services including Mergers & Acquisition, Private Equity, Structured Finance, Valuation etc.

We work closely with industry experts; this provides us an edge to address complex situations as it provides greater business insight.

The firm has a Multi-Disciplinary Team from diverse industrial, financial and services sector backgrounds. All our people have significant professional experience in blue-chip and emerging companies.

Our vision is to emerge as a preferred partner of choice of our clients. We aim to achieve this by developing deep insights, providing a high level of service and delivering cutting edge solutions.

Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas

Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co, founded on a century of legal achievement, is one of India’s leading full-service law firms. Our mission is to enable business by providing solutions as trusted advisors through excellence, responsiveness, innovation, and collaboration.

We are one of India’s most well recognised firms and are known globally for our integrated approach. Our 739 lawyers including 141 partners provide exceptional services across practice areas which include General Corporate, Merger & Acquisition, Private Equity, Banking & Finance, Insolvency & Bankruptcy, Competition Law, Dispute Resolution, Projects & Project Finance, Capital Markets, Tax, Intellectual Property and Venture Capital. Our market leading position is reflected by the Chambers & Partners Asia Pacific and Global rankings for 2021, which features SAM & Co with the highest number of Band 1 Practices, Band Ranked Lawyers amongst Indian law Firms.

We are at the forefront of global and Indian M&A and private equity transactions, cutting-edge high-risk litigation and advice on strategically important matters across a spectrum of practices and industries for our multi-jurisdictional clients.

We have a pan India presence, with offices in seven cities across India - New Delhi, Mumbai, Gurugram, Bengaluru, Chennai, Ahmedabad and Kolkata.

Areas of Practice
General Corporate, Banking & Finance, Insolvency & Bankruptcy, Competition Law, Dispute Resolution,  
Projects and Project Finance, Capital Markets, Tax and Intellectual Property Rights.

Shine

Shopclues

ShopClues.com is India’s first and largest managed marketplace, selling a wide assortment of products including mobile phones, electronics, fashion, home & kitchen goods, etc. With close to 12 million monthly visitors, and over 400k monthly transactions, the company has seen 600% year on year growth making us the fastest growing ecommerce company in India. ShopClues has close to 50,000 sellers and over 5.2 million SKUs.

ShopClues approach reflects Indian products, shopping and cultural tastes. It is inspired by the fact that India has millions of small merchants with interesting products and Indians love to shop in local “bazaars” (markets). While we cover a broad range of products, prices, categories, brands, and sellers, we specialize in non-standard categories, unbranded products or less-known brands, smaller merchants, and tier 2/tier 3 cities.

Shree Balaji Viyapeeth

SRI BALAJI VIDYAPEETH, Deemed to be University, Pondicherry, India: Redefining Health Sciences Education
The mission of Sri Balaji Vidyapeeth is to contribute to humanity through diligent pursuit of evidence based medicine, competency based education and integrative research. Sri Balaji Vidyapeeth is a unitary deemed to be University with the following constituent colleges and centers:

• Mahatma Gandhi Medical College & Research Institute, Pondicherry, (Main Campus)
• Indira Gandhi Institute of Dental Sciences, Pondicherry, (Main Campus)
• Kasturba Gandhi Nursing College, (Main Campus)
• Shri Sathya Sai Medical College & Research Institute, Chennai, (Off Campus).
• Faculty of Allied Health Sciences
• Central Interdisciplinary Research Center, Centers for Yoga and Music Therapy, Education and Research; Center for Health Professions Education.

Established in the year 2008, Sri Balaji Vidyapeeth has grown to become one of India’s top 100 universities. The deemed University strives constantly to uphold ethics, social justice and equity. The deemed University and its constituent colleges and centres have been consistently ranked high by various agencies on competitiveness, quality and leadership.

LEADERSHIP:
Chancellor Shri. MK Rajagopalan, a visionary educationist founded the deemed to be University with an aim to provide world class education in health professions education through evidence based patient centric healthcare and to contribute to science through research. The deemed University strives to achieve his vision, through the efforts of Dr. Prashanth Rajagopalan, the vice chairman.

Vice Chancellor Prof. Subhash Chandra Parija, a Dr. BC Roy Awardee is an acclaimed academician, scientist and author who has contributed significantly to medical education and sciences in various positions. He has been instrumental in translating the vision of the Chancellor into reality.
The Chancellor and Vice-Chancellor are ably guided by a Board of Management with eminent scholars and prominent scientists.

COURSES & PROGRAMMES
Sri Balaji Vidyapeeth is a health sciences focused deemed University and offers courses and programs with definite outcomes oriented and competency based education, besides fostering evidence based research.

The deemed University offers undergraduate, post-graduate specialization, doctoral and post-doctoral degrees in medicine, dentistry, nursing and allied health sciences. A number of courses offered by the deemed University are unique and innovative.

The deemed University enjoys a very high degree of recognition and respect from parents, patients and other stakeholders. Sri Balaji Vidyapeeth has invested in the welfare of its students, patients, community and society through its educational, social and scientific endeavors.

Shriram Capital

Shriram Capital Limited (SCL) is the overarching holding company for the Financial Services and Insurance entities of the Shriram Group, created with the primary objective of optimizing the synergies across the Group’s entities. Established in 1974, Shriram Group is one of the most respected Groups in India with a predominant presence in financial services. Shriram Capital Limited (SCL) is the overarching holding arm of all the financial services entities of the group. Currently its financial service businesses include commercial vehicle (CV) financing, retail financing, chit fund, equipment financing, mortgages, life insurance, general insurance, stock broking, distribution of financial products and wealth advisory services. The Group manages assets of over US$ 13 billion. The Group has been promoting Financial Inclusion of low income families and small businesses.  SCL and its operating entities, have an overall customer base in excess of 10.2 million, more than 42,000 employees across 2,400 offices.

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