A prominent name in India’s investment sector, Alok Mittal’s extensive experience covers founding, backing and supporting initial-stage tech companies. He joined Canaan, India in 2006, leading the company’s investments in India. His prior tenure at Hughes Software Systems also means that he brings strong Telecom experience with him to Canaan. Though Alok emphasises on investments

Badri is a senior corporate guru and holds a pivotal position as a management resource. He has more than three decades of expertise as a strategic leader. Badri’s competence and knowledge are a balanced mix of several roles– from strategic perspectives, business acumen and transformations of effective leadership and establishing startups. His in-depth understanding of

Prof. M.M. Pant is a well-known name in the fields of Law and Information Technology. He has a keen interest in several genres of law, including Cyber Law, IPR and Patent and Trademark issues. He has been an active participant in various activities and conferences involving Law and IT. He founded the Planet EDU Pvt.

Satya is a true pursuer of his dreams. He started a program called Career Launcher with help from his friends. Career Launcher started off as a Personality Development Program and soon became one of the largest service providers in the educational sector of India. He went on to make a mark in the mainstream educational

Prof. Krishnan is Director and Professor of Strategy at the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIMB). He held the Jamuna Raghavan Chair in Entrepreneurship at IIMB from 2007 to 2010. He completed a 5-year term as Director of the Indian Institute of Management Indore in December 2018. Prof. Krishnan holds an M.Sc. in Physics from

Sharad is one of the most active technology angel investors in India with about two dozen investments. He is a passionate evangelist of the software product ecosystem in India. He is the co-founder and Governing Council member of iSPIRT. He was the Chair of NASSCOM Product Forum and a member of the Executive Council from

Listed among India’s top 100 Women in Finance (AIWMI 2019) and an independent director on the Board of SIDBI, Nupur Garg has global experience spanning private equity investing, operations and finance in leading global organisations like PwC, Discovery Networks and IFC – an arm of the World Bank Group. Former Regional Lead, South Asia for

Amrish Rau is the CEO of Pine Labs. He leads the company’s growth and expansion in Asia and beyond. He has over two decades’ experience in the FinTech space, having run his own startup and built large organizations. Prior to Pine Labs, Amrish co-founded Citrus Pay which was acquired by Naspers FinTech, PayU in 2016.

Umesh Sachdev, Co-founder, and CEO of Uniphore, is a modern-day entrepreneur with a passion for technologies that have massive societal impact. Umesh co-founded Uniphore with Ravi Saraogi to bridge the communication gap between man and machine using voice and speech. Umesh was globally recognized in 2016 as one of the ten ‘Next Generation Leaders’ by