Ajay is the Founder of Fwd, a go-to app for seeking referrals from your network. Prior to Fwd, he worked at Cisco as a lead developer. Ajay has also worked at Bloomberg, Samsung and Intel. He is an expert in several mobile and web technologies. Ajay was awarded with several accolades at his previous companies. He holds a degree in Engineering (Computer Science). Ajay is paassionate about solving the problem of unemployment.

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Abdulla Hisham is the Co-founder and Executive Director of Foradian Technologies, a Bangalore-based company that builds innovative web applications for education domain. Foradian successfully initiated and implemented Fedena in all the 15,000 schools of Kerala, India in collaboration with Government of Kerala, which is one of the largest deployment of open source software of its kind in the world.Hisham played a crucial role in growing Foradian from a small town startup to a profitable technology company and helped in winning prestigious awards like MIT TR35, Edustars and A League of 10 in NASSCOM Emerge 50 for innovation in education. Foradian was honored by Education Minister, Kerala for the achievements in Education sector and featured in CNBC TV18 Young Turks. He mentors various other product startups from India. Hisham was invited as speaker for various international conferences like International FOSS Conference India, Indiana LinuxFest USA etc. He was also a speaker for the TedxKids@cubbonpark. Before starting Foradian Technologies, Hisham worked as a control system and automation engineer and lead the famous automation project of the largest University in Middle East. Hisham is a graduate in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Kannur University, India.He is 2013 Fellow in the Startup Leadership Program in Bangalore.

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Abhay Tandon is the Founder of GrowthVilla and also works as the Program and Partnerships Manager at Target Accelerator as part of the Innovation & Strategy team in Target Corporation. He is also a startup mentor, technology evangelist and growth consultant for startups and is associated as a startup mentor with multiple accelerators/ incubators etc. He is a stakeholder with a subscription commerce startup as an advisor and has helped them with their growth strategy and fund raising. Abhay has closely worked with various startups and funds in India and understands the key issues that startups and enablers face. He is an upcoming author and is a regular columnist for ‘business growth and strategy’ and ‘Small & Medium Enterprises’ section in a few digital publications. In the last year, he has been invited by various state Governments (Karnataka and Bihar) as an enabler and mentor for building the startup ecosystem in their states through policy improvement as well as mentoring startups as well as by enablers such as NASSCOM, Corporates such as Yes Bank, Educational institutes such as IIT-Guwahati, IIT-Kgp, Symbiosis etc. as mentor, jury member and speaker for their events to build the startup community. Abhay has worked in the past with startups such as Tracxn – Head of Partnerships and Scaale Group (Scaale Capital and Cross Border Angels) and is a proud alumnus of SPJIMR.

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Abhijit Chaudhary is the Co Founder and CEO of Pickcel, an advertising Platform helping Businesses to promote and accelerate sales within the locality in an easy and affordable way. He is also the Founder of Etrance Networks, a startup that offers technology consulting and engineering services for Embedded, Networking, Telecom and Hardware. Abhijit has also worked at Sandvine, Huawei and Apigee. He is an expert in Product Management, P & L, Product Development and Marketing. His product Pickcel was showcased at the VC Summit in July 2015. He holds a degree in Electronics & Communication, an ME degree in Computer Science and Automation and International Post Graduate Certification in Product Management and Marketing. He is a 2016 Fellow in the Startup Leadership Program in Bangalore.

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Abhinav Jain is a co-founder at Alitum Management Solutions, an organization dedicated towards democratic decision-making processes and organizational alignment to help companies manage their scaling-up process. Apart from his interests towards performance management, he is a passionate serial entrepreneur who has started two technology ventures since his undergraduate years. During his entrepreneurial pursuits, he handled multiple roles from strategy to product management to marketing and client delivery. Prior to this, he worked with Mentor Graphics (an electronics design and automation company) at their research center in Noida, being responsible for designing algorithms for circuit visualizations. Abhinav holds an MBA from Indian Institute of Management Bangalore and Bachelors in Computer Engineering from ITBHU Varanasi. During his MBA, he was a part of the consulting club and worked with companies across multiple sectors while handing treasury and business development roles. He enjoys talking to people and loves to read about business and technology. He is 2012 Fellow in the Startup Leadership Program in Bangalore.

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Abhiram Talluri is the Co-founder of The Runaway Chef, a startup with an aim to build the next customer focused food brand for India. He is also currently working as a Team Lead at Edugame Digital. Abhiram has also worked at Brainwave and Shrunken Planet. Abhiram's Virtual Labs project was among Top 10 selected start ups from India for India Africa Business Venture and overall Top 20 from India and Africa combined. He is an expert in Software Development. He holds a degree in Computer Science and Engineering. He is likes writing movies scripts and dialogues. He is 2016 Fellow in the Startup Leadership Program in Banglore.

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Abhishek Mathur, Founder & VP, BVM Infotech He is the Co–owner & VP of BVM InfoTech. He designed an analytical tool to compute ROI on Digital Marketing across channels. He was the Manager for Aryaka Network. He invested his Engineering skills in Google to identify trends on Web Search and has designed Information Systems to serve through Mobile. He was awarded the Peer Bonus for outstanding contribution to the Google Adwords Billing Platform. Abhishek is a rank holder of Indian National Mathematics Olympiad. He completed his MBA from Indian School of Business, Hyderabad and was the Flight Commander, Air Wing NCC where he led a team of 70 cadets in one of the Camps. He is 2012 Fellow in the Startup Leadership Program in Bangalore.

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Abhishek Mishra is the co-founder of AIndra Labs, an AI startup specialises in processing images and videos captured from real life scenarios using Visual Analytics Platform. He has also worked at The Rising Inc. Group and HCL Technologies. He is an expert in marketing, business strategy, customer acquisition, digital marketing, growth hacking, product and sales growth. He holds a degree in Instrumentation and control engineering. He is a fan of Jack Welch, Chairman of The Jack Welch Management Institute. He is 2019 Fellow in the Startup Leadership Program in Bangalore.

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Abhishek Patil is the Founder & CEO of Oliveboard, an adaptive learning platform with a vision to personalize education. Despite having a diverse set of family business options to choose from, he decided to launch Oliveboard to pursue his desire of using technology and data to solve a problem. Within a month of launching in Aug 2012, Oliveboard was selected as one of the top education startups in India by Edustars and Yourstory. Prior to Oliveboard, Abhishek was the Head of New Markets at Inmobi where he was instrumental in expanding Inmobiâs presence across Japan, Korea, China, W. Europe and Australia. He was recognized for his outstanding contribution to Inmobiâs international growth by the CEO and the Co-founders. He has been a part of small businesses all through with diverse experience in hospitality, manufacturing, gold trading and movie making. His movie also won the State award for Best Film in 2006. Abhishek completed his MBA from the University of Notre Dame. In his free time, he likes to play chess and was the captain of his college chess team. He loves traveling to and exploring new places while meeting people of different cultures. He is a 2013 Fellow at the Startup Leadership Program in Bangalore.

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Abhishek Reddy is the Co-founder/ Director of Product Management of Criador Design Labs Pvt Ltd, a design firm built on the foundation of innovation. He is also a co-founder of GreenStory.in, a healthy lifestyle startup offering healthy foods that doesn’t compromise health for taste. Abhishek has also worked at Divine Design Factory, IBM and VDeliver. He is an expert in Marketing, Business, Management, Operations, Product, and Strategic Thinking. Abhishek was awarded Deep Skill Adder Award - Q1 2016-17 & Q4 2015-16 and Manager's Choice Award- 2015. He holds a degree in Mechanical Engineering. He is a fan of Satya Nadella, CEO at Microsoft. He is 2019 Fellow in the Startup Leadership Program in Bangalore.

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Abhishek Singh is the Founder of Imly.in , the online marketplace to buy and sell homemade food, a place to discover and buy amazing food cooked by home chefs in your city. Abhishek was first bitten by the entrepreneurship bug at the age of 14 and has made several attempts to be bitten by the elusive success bug se then. He dreamt of being an entrepreneur se he figured out what it meant which is why he prefers not to mention the year he spent after college in a 9 to 5 job, ‘figuring out’ what to do with his life. Just to make it absolutely clear, he is still figuring it out. He holds a not so useful Masters of Commerce degree and a much more useful Bachelors of Management Studies degree from H.R College of Commerce & Economics. He also holds unofficial degrees in Design, Programming and a few other things bestowed upon him by the Internet gods. If he had a chance he would live, work and play on a tennis court. He is passionate about creation in all forms and is dedicated to building things that are awesome. He is a 2014 Fellow in the Startup Leadership Program in Bangalore.

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Achuth Anand is the founder & CEO of shareanbuy, a marketplace where builders can showcase projects and raise funds from investors on exchange of particular salable area of the project. He is also a founder & CEO of shareanbuy, a residential real estate fundraising platform which connect investors with builders. Achuth has also worked at Concorde Group and Fine moments Real Estate. He is an expert in marketing, business modelling, business strategy, negotiation and sales/bus dev. He holds a degree in business management. He is a fan of Eduardo Saverin, co-founder, FB. He is 2019 Fellow in the Startup Leadership Program in Bangalore.

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Adarsh Natarajan is the Founder & CEO of Aindra Systems, a company whose vision is to use Artificial Intelligence to solve huge problems in the society at large. This, he believes, is his way of giving back to the society, through a successful ‘for-profit’ Business Enterprise. Aindra Systems, has provided an innovative solution in the Education space to plug subsidy leakage in aid-linked schools. He is now pursuing using the core technical component in the MedTech sector to address a problem that is huge in its societal impact. Prior to starting up, he worked for over 10 years in the IT industry in various companies and roles. Starting as a techie and progressing in the typical growth path for all techies, he realized that this was not what he wanted to do in life. His interest in Business drove him to transition into Business Development for a large IT services company where he cracked several multi-million dollar deals in Europe. His restlessness also drove him to do an MBA in IIM Bangalore, after which, he decided his life’s calling was being an Entrepreneur. In the period after his graduation in Mid-2011 and prior to starting Aindra Systems in early 2012, he dabbled in Management & Business Consulting for very early stage startups and a startup in the mobility enterprise space, which had to be wound up due to co-founder conflicts. He is an avid reader whose interests range from Management and Business to Fiction. He is an outdoor person who loves to travel and experience new cultures, trek, hike, play football and badminton. He is 2013 Fellow in the Startup Leadership Program in Bangalore.

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Adithya Kavuluru is the CTO of Turnaround Systems, a company making visuals on the e-commerce platforms more interactive and engaging. Prior to Turnaround Systems, he co-founded 101Kitchens. Adithya has previously worked as a Software Engineer at Citrix R&D. He is an expert in Cloud Computing, Image Processing, Software Engineering and Product Innovation. He is a cloud whiz and a passionate programmer who can seamlessly hack across platforms and technologies. He holds a degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering and is a Stanford Ignite. He is a 2016 Fellow in the Startup Leadership Program in Bangalore.

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Ajith Karimpana, Founder, Rent Ur Duniya Ajith Karimpana is the founder of Rent Ur Duniya, a home furnishing rental service provider. Prior to Rent Ur Duniya, he worked at Goldman Sachs as Vice President and was managing the Asia Regulatory Operations Technology team out of India. Ajith has also worked at Morgan Stanley and Infosys. He is an expert in the technology management with focus on the Investment Banking domain. Ajith was awarded certificate of merit and medal of honor at REC/NIT Jalandhar for being one of the toppers in the college. He holds a Masters degree in Computer Science from Temple University and Bachelors degree in Industrial Engineering from REC/NIT Jalandhar. Ajith is an avid reader, an amateur photographer and a music aficionado. He is a 2012 Fellow in the Startup Leadership Program in Bangalore. Ajith has been a passionate part-time entrepreneur for the past three years and had co-founded a venture (Rhydoo.com) in the United States that was into group buying, a novel idea then (2007-08), but stale now. He is passionately pursuing his ambition to build Rent UrDuniya as the brand for Home Furnishing Rentals in India for people on the move and with temporary needs. He is 2012 Fellow in the Startup Leadership Program in Bangalore.

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