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Sasikanth is an international growth advisor, mentor, coach and consultant with 3 decades of experience in multiple industries. He is currently advising SMEs/Startups in India, UK, Africa, USA and helping them in their business strategies to scale the operations of the respective companies.

Person who can help the startup and existing business to maximum their revenue and can reduce their cost (value addition in the business). I am person with 10 year of experience in the fast growing market businesses. Awarded with many good comments from many business enterprises because when I start thinking the client business as my business and go into the depth to under stand the lacuna, I usually come out with extraordinary, which helps the organisation to grow at fast speed. To crux down: I can be Part Time CFO with full time responsibilities.

Working with entrepreneurs, investors, and incubators is something I am enthusiastic about. Aided three government startup projects. worked closely with more than 60 start-ups, 15 investors, and 20 incubators. Taught more than 200 management students. Partnership affiliation with more than 30 businesses. 7 years of professional experience in a variety of fields, including incubators, IT, B2B insurance, digital marketing, and agriculture business management. Excellent expertise in business development, farm business, government project management, digital marketing, promotion, branding, marketing, and sales. Developing and experiencing a startup ecosystem with knowledge of intellectual property, business-to-business communication, and relationship management. At the financial services companies owned by Kotak Life, I directly collaborated with the CEO, Directors, HR Head, and Finance Head. (Sales to Companies) I've gained knowledge from organisations like Kisan, WNS, FarmBee, Agrostar, BharatAgri, Krishi Career, Orbiting, Tudip Technologies, DPU FIIE, and Kotak Life through volunteer work, internships, and full-time employment. collaboration on web services and digital marketing with more than 20 companies.

Arijit Bhattacharyya is an accomplished entrepreneur, speaker, and mentor who has made a significant impact in the Indian startup ecosystem. While doing his graduation at the age of 17 Arijit started India's one of the first game development company in 1998, with education and training vertical and India's own game studio. He is a bootstrapped entrepreneur started with INR 49 in pocket, while doing his Masters in Computer Application Arijit created several 2D and 3D game from his own Kolkata based company. Started several other initiatives and programs in incubating startups and conducting courses on deeptech and entrepreneurship. His work has helped hundreds of startups to succeed, and his advocacy for social causes has made a positive impact in the lives of many. His legacy will continue to inspire and motivate entrepreneurs for years to come. He has over 25 years of experience helping Start-ups, Entrepreneurs and Govt. across the world to solve problems using Entrepreneurship, Technology, Finance Education and Innovation. Arijit is a technologist, artist, comics creator, author of books on entrepreneurship, VC funding and metahuman, superhero creator with a rare combination of finance and digital banking. As a faculty he served in several Indian and International college and universities. As visiting faculty & professor: He is also Corporate Advisory Board Member of few Universities in India. Advisor of three animation and gaming institute in UK and India. He has been invited as a visiting faculty by various institutions from time to time like IIM , IIT, NIT, XLRI, VSSUT University, Brainware University,ICAI, NSHM Knowledge Campus, Bengal Engineering & Science College, Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, Praxis Business School, Manipal University, Globsyn School of Business, SRM University, Poornima University, Camellia Group of colleges, iLead, IEM, BP Podder, Heritage Institute, SP Jain and so on. USP: Arijit speaks on techno-spirituality and always use Sanskrit as he speaks, read and write in Sanskrit. Helped 6,000 startups to start their venture, helped several many as mentor in 90+ countries. Arijit helped few banks to go digital with payment gateway solutions globally. Founder – Virtualinfocom- Since 1998 India's one of the first game development, VR AR, Hologram Blockchain, AI ML, Fintech & Blockchain solution - Deeptech solution company. Founder: World Leader Summit – World's one of the largest leadership summit and International business club with 95+ countries diplomats, ministers, VC funds, investors entrepreneur’s universities members network. Founder & CEO: Entrepreneursface - helps entrepreneurs to start up their business by helping them from the ideation stage to execution to fund raise. Uplifted thousands of students as a teacher. Helped several villages to become sustainable and become self-dependent. Producer of 500+ games & VR AR, given opportunity to more than 700+ indie developers around the World. TEDx Speaker Jury for Startup India Award – Industry 4.0. Govt of India. He is ranked 14 among world's top 50 blockchain thought leaders in the world. External specialist in few MNC for cybersecurity dept. External Consultant to ADB (Asian Development Bank ) Advisory Board Member at World Women Conference and Awards USA Mentor Seedstars Mentor BGI Portugal Advisory Board World Association for Small and Medium Enterprises (WASME) Global Ambassador of ICMEI International Chamber of Media and Entertainment Industry Mentor Board in various University around the world. Advisory Board Member The Future of Medicine Foundation USA (Founder, TFM/TFMF Global Business Development. Non-Profit & For-Profit Initiative Advisor) USA Business Consultant -- Private Office Of His Highness SHEIKH AHMED BIN FAISAL AL QASSIMI Group of Companies Mentor in Techstars Investor & Partner in Heroangels Mentor in IIMC Innovation Park India Industry advisory panel as an advisor in Majan University College - Oman. Institute Innovation Council (IIC), Techno International Kolkata, - Advisory Committee member At the start of Arijit's professional career he managed 7 countries with 12 new business centers Virtualinfocom industry leading multinational corporation that provides global gaming, blockchain AI, AR, VR solutions. Arijit has built high performance sales teams from the ground up to win significant engagements with Tier 1 networking. As leader Arijit embraces diverse backgrounds and global perspectives, and he cultivates diversity by respecting, including, and valuing one another. He contributes to a supportive and collaborative work environment that empowers each individual to excel. Arijit founded and grew a boutique management consultancy specializing in strategy implementation and performance improvement. In India Arijit opened the first Virtual Networking Space, and one large community where he brings 350+ business houses together, that brings together national and international entrepreneurs with a drive to contribute to local community and to its eco-system. Arijit's network includes global experts from the field of technology, AI, game development, Govt officials, investors VC fudnds, angel investors, C level executives, politicians, spiritual leaders, sports personality, university professor, real estate, tourism, sales, marketing school owners, movie personality, models, actors, directors, producers etc. Arijit brings the entrepreneurs together to network, collaborate and foster the community. Speaker in more than 2000 events world-wide in entrepreneurship, future of technology, innovation, game development, virtual reality, augmented reality, NFT blockchain, artificial intelligence, digital banking, SDG goals, future of fintech, creativity, arts and media. Few Milestones in virtualinfocom Since 2008, we’ve been making superhero characters from real actors and models from 5 continents. Made ecosystem for fresh actors and models to become game character and become popular in entertainment world. Producer of India’s first super hero Shaktimaan TV character as game. Created 350+ Superhero game character from real actors and celebs around the world and that became a history itself. Produced 7 movies and several short movies as investor and sleeping producer. Produced Bengal's first movie based game with Actor Jeet in their movie Boss 2. Created India's first real actor and actress based RPG game. Made several local actors and artists popular globally in TV series and international movies market in Asia. Created Bangladeh's first superhero based game Bizli as a movie partner. Digital Bank solution for few private banks. Ecosystem for gas stations using blockchain & AI.

Founder - BOLD KNIGHT, AI based Virtual Trial Room Technology and a clothing brand. B.Tech & PhD Scholar on Human Behaviour analysis and Influence using AI, SixSigma Greenbelt, PMI Member Certified graduate in digital Marketing. Bootstrapped BOLD KNIGHT, and made 5X revenue in one year. Raised Pre-seed and valued at 3X in 9 months. TEDx Speaker, Angel Investor, Authoring a Book. 14 Years of Experience and worked as Executive Director for a GROUP COMPANY having multiple portfolios like Construction, Manufacturing, Software Technology and Energy Management Devices Integration. Good Hands in: Idea Validation, Business Model Canvas, Bootsrapping, Financial Modeling, Go to Market Strategy, Competitive analysis, Pitch Deck, Seedfunding, Leadership Management, Team Building.

I am an accredited Chartered Accountant having a master's degree in Finance & Taxation with over 3+ years of experience in Audit and Assurance. I have diverse knowledge in the field of Startup ecosystem, Equity Research, Capital Markets, Accountancy, Auditing and Taxation. Currently associated with Capital Fortunes Private Limited, a boutique investment bank, where in I deal with Financial Analysis, Business Valuation, Transaction Advisory and Fund Raising for startups from seed stage to Series A. I'm also a founding team member at Charterprenuers - a platform built to empower CA community in entrepreneurship by mentoring, idea evaluation and angel investing.

Seasoned Ecommerce professional with experience in early stage investing. Passionate about building customer facing businesses from ideation stage. Professional journey - https://www.linkedin.com/in/vaibhav-arora-31973a9/

Chartered Accountant with 12 years of funding experience. Worked with 1200+ start-ups, advisor to 20+ successful businesses and raised over 3000 Crs for businesses. Expertise: Management Consulting, Start-up Advisory, Fund Raising and Process / SOPs.

Mentor of Change at Niti Aayog's Atal Tinkering Labs | Startup Mentor at Techstars & Founder Institute USA Founder of StartupNews.fyi, a dynamic platform dedicated to curating and delivering the latest news and insights from the ever-evolving world of startups. Adept at curating and delivering high-quality, relevant content that resonates with the startup community. I thrive on creating and nurturing communities that encourage meaningful interactions, networking, and collaboration. I'm always eager to connect with fellow entrepreneurs, industry leaders, and anyone passionate about the world of startups.

Sudhindra Paraki, known as Sudhi, is an experienced professional with diverse experience and expertise in Engineering Leadership, Startup Mentoring, Angel Investment, Angel Investment Advisor, Independent Corporate Director

In his career spanning over 25 years, he has built and managed successful Engineering groups focusing on Product Development, Technology transformations and adoption, Cyber Security, Digital Transformation, Cloud Technologies and migration, Intellectual Property Management, ESG Consultant in organizations such as Hewlett-Packard, Dell-EMC, IBM, Kyndryl and HCL Technologies leading teams and businesses across the globe.

He has been an entrepreneur and he has gained Entrepreneurial ecosystem expertise in building start-ups and scaling them from Ideation phase to Go-To-Market Phase. Has in-depth understanding of the emerging technologies and landscape of the start-ups in India and other emerging countries and Markets in the world.

Sudhi has been an Angel Investor and an advisor for an investment firm engaged in early-stage investments in start-ups. He has the insight for identifying start-ups having the thought leadership and business models with potential to scale and succeed.

Has been playing the role of a Startup Mentor for early stage and growth stage startups helping them with Governance and growth strategy converge for success.

He is an MCA certified Independent Corporate Director with expertise Board room functions in the areas of Technology transformations and adoption, Cyber Security, Digital Transformation, Cloud Technologies and migration, Intellectual Property Management, ESG Consultant.

Founder & CEO | Entrepreneur | AshleyandAlvis | Retail | E-Commerce | Fashion | Start-up | Speaker | P&L Strategy | Talk about Brand Building | Business Development | Coach for Startups | 18+ Years Online & Offline. Smart & hard working with an eye for detail. Successfully handle the sensitivities among the departments and deal with high-pressure situations. Introduced innovative business ideas which yielded additional revenues to the group. Got 18+ years of experience in the Retail Industry (EBO's, SIS & E-commerce). Expertise in managing key account operations, channel sales, retail marketing, promotions, category management, Institutional Business, and E-commerce sales.

I have 15 years of experience in Manufacturing I have helped 3 startups in their funding journey I am currently helping one start up to grow. I have leadership, manufacturing, people management, organizational development skills.

Hello! I’m Abhijith Preman, a Chartered Accountant certified by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) with more than ten years of professional experience. I specialize in assisting Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) to enhance their financial strategies and operational efficiency. I offer comprehensive financial reporting and insightful data analysis to help business owners make informed decisions. My expertise includes enhancing financial transparency, optimizing operational processes, and ensuring compliance with regulatory standards. I guide new ventures through early challenges, focusing on effective fundraising, strategic financial planning, and business structuring. I aim to equip startups with the tools necessary for sustainable growth and successful investor engagements.

I am Praroop Lodha, an investment professional with a diverse background that reflects my unwavering commitment to excellence and a genuine passion for identifying and nurturing promising early and growth-stage startups. During my academic years at IIT Bombay, where I pursued civil engineering, I embarked on my investment journey through internships at distinguished venture capital funds and family offices such as Picus Capital, Sauce.VC, and Machani Group. My leadership skills took center stage when I served as the Head of Marketing at my college's Entrepreneurship Cell, Asia's Largest Student-Run Entrepreneurship Promoting body. I oversaw significant events and competitions at national and international scales, including the launch of the first NFT on campus and India's Biggest Virtual Stock Market Competition (with 10K+ participants). I represented my college at Expo 2020 in Dubai, scaled events to six countries in the GCC region, actively sourced investment opportunities for associated VC firms, and gained valuable insights into the global startup ecosystem, influencing my current investment strategies. At Samarthya, I manage investments across all sectors, with a particular focus on Deeptech, Cleantech, Healthtech, and Consumer. I actively engage in the entire deal acquisition process, from identifying opportunities and assessing them to conducting due diligence and making investments. Additionally, I provide ongoing support to our invested companies, overseeing investor relations and daily operations. Noteworthy contributions in multi-million dollar deals like Nutrifresh, Agnikul, Cab-E, and others underscore my significant impact within Samarthya's portfolio. A true baniya-Marwari, I find joy in exploring Rajasthani and Gujarati cuisines and engaging in discussions about traditional businesses on Sundays. Beyond work, my passions include travel, cricket (especially supporting RCB and Virat Kohli), and regularly delving into podcasts on business and economics.

Ambika Prasanna Dhal is the Co-Founder of Ambula, a HealthTech company leveraging UHI technology to enhance healthcare communication and access and NinthSem, India's first skill-based digital learning platform for engineering students.

As a Program Manager at Anthill Ventures, I lead the Urban Lifestyle vertical, overseeing deal discovery, investment thesis development, and collaboration with family funds to support sustainable innovations and new product ideas. Additionally, I lead speed scaling initiatives to assist startups with market access, expansion, sales, distribution, and celebrity engagements. Previously, as an Analyst at CIE, IIIT Hyderabad, I managed investments, portfolio management, accelerator programs, and government relations for deep tech startups. Additionally, I was a Community Manager at Vruksh Ecosystem, where I strategically planned and executed workshops for grassroots entrepreneurs, prepared comprehensive reports and government proposals, and established a strong network of stakeholders, organizing pitching events in the SEA region. My Area of Expertise includes: Venture Capital investments/fundraising/deal evaluations Overview of Startups and Entrepreneurship Business Model Canvas Market Size Analysis Growth Strategies Pitch Deck Refinement GTM Strategy and Overall Strategy Idea Validation Branding Strategy Investment and Fundraise Design Thinking Team Building Networking and Relationship Building