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Karun Tadepalli
Karun Tadepalli is the co-founder and CEO of byteXL, a Hyderabad-based edtech company that partners directly with engineering colleges across India to close the gap between what students learn and what the tech industry needs. After roughly two decades in the US working for companies like Accenture, Health Management Systems and AT&T, he left a corporate career to build a B2B skilling platform now used by more than 100,000 students. Under his leadership byteXL has partnered with dozens of institutions and, in 2024, teamed with Microsoft to launch AI and machine learning B.Tech specializations at universities across the country.
Haren Chelle
Haren Chelle is the co-founder and CEO of Pulse (PulseGen Technologies), an AI-native feedback intelligence platform that turns scattered customer signals - support tickets, sales calls, app-store reviews, social chatter - into prioritized product decisions for B2B SaaS teams. An IIT Patna alumnus who spent his earlier career scaling conversational-AI businesses across Asia Pacific at Yellow.ai, he started Pulse in 2024 with two old friends and raised a $1.4M seed round led by Endiya Partners. Pulse was selected for the Google for Startups Accelerator: AI First 2025 cohort, and Chelle has been recognized on Fortune's 40 Under 40 list.
Samarth Sindhi
Samarth Sindhi is the founder and CEO of Good Health Company (GHC), the Hyderabad-based direct-to-consumer wellness platform behind Mars by GHC (for men) and Saturn by GHC (for women). A Brown University mechanical engineer and Y Combinator S19 alum, he first built Digi-Prex, a subscription pharmacy for chronic care, before launching GHC in January 2021 to tackle topics men rarely talk about out loud. GHC has raised about $15.2 million, including a $10 million Series A led by Left Lane Capital in October 2022, and Sindhi has been named to Forbes 30 Under 30.
Gopalakrishna Kuppuswamy
Gopalakrishna Kuppuswamy is Co-Founder and CTO of Cognida.ai, an enterprise AI company headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, that raised a $15M Series A from Nexus Venture Partners in February 2025. With 30+ years in technology - starting at CMC Limited in 1994 and spending a decade as VP at Hitachi Vantara - he now leads the engineering behind Zunō, Cognida's agentic AI platform that cuts enterprise AI deployment timelines from 6-8 months down to 10-12 weeks. Based in Hyderabad, he holds master's degrees from both the University of Hyderabad and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and has helped grow Cognida.ai to 250+ employees and $37.7M ARR.
Shekhar Natarajan
Shekhar Natarajan is the Founder and CEO of Orchestro.AI and the inventor of Angelic Intelligence, a framework that embeds ethics directly into AI architecture rather than bolting it on as an afterthought. He grew up in a one-room home in Secunderabad, Hyderabad, arrived in the US with $34, and spent 25+ years scaling supply chains at Walmart, Disney, PepsiCo, Coca-Cola, Target, and American Eagle before founding Orchestro.AI in 2023. He holds 207+ patents, raised $15M in seed funding, and in May 2026 received Oxford's Bodleian Medal for his contributions to AI in the public interest.