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Rutesh Shah and the art of becoming less necessary
He built Infostretch by asking what customers actually needed. Then Rutesh Shah faced a different question: how do you build a company that can carry on without you at the centre?
Chetan Sheladiya and the distance between two desks
Chetan Sheladiya co-founded Metizsoft in a tiny room in Ahmedabad. His path from software services to AI products turns on a persistent question: how do you make technology useful to the person using it?
Manan Thakkar and the hours after sunset
From carbon consulting to solar parks, Manan Thakkar has helped build Prozeal around the energy needs of industry. His next challenge begins when the panels stop producing.
Neel Kotak and the business of small potatoes
A potato too small for a chip maker became the starting point for a food business. Neel Kotak’s journey from Gujarat’s farms to international freezers is a story of finding value where others saw a problem.
Shreyans Chopra
Shreyans Chopra is the founder and CEO of Mstack, an AI-native specialty chemicals company based in Houston that helps North American and global buyers source custom chemicals from a diversified manufacturing network. A chartered accountant turned BCG consultant turned Lightspeed India investor, he started Mstack in July 2022 and scaled it to more than 100 enterprise customers and operational profitability, raising a $40 million Series A led by Lightspeed and Alpha Wave in 2024. In 2025 the company launched Chemstack AI, an R&D platform that compresses molecule synthesis timelines from roughly 18 months to days.
Sahin Mansuri
Sahin Mansuri is the founder and CEO of Perception System, a two-decade-old software and IT services firm with offices in San Jose, California and Ahmedabad, India. He has spent his career building dedicated offshore teams that handle Magento, mobile, AI and enterprise web work for clients across roughly 60 countries.