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Sarim Khan
Sarim Khan is co-founder and CEO of Triomics, a New York-based startup building oncology-specific AI agents that read the thousands of pages inside a cancer patient's chart so that clinicians don't have to. A chemical engineer trained at IIT Roorkee with a brief stint researching polymer gels in brain tissue at MIT, he started Triomics in 2021 with college friend Hrituraj Singh, went through Y Combinator's W21 batch, and by mid-2026 had raised $22 million in Series B financing led by Battery Ventures and deployed the platform at Memorial Sloan Kettering, Yale Cancer Center, and four of the top ten U.S. News cancer hospitals.
Sourabh Gupta
Sourabh Gupta is the co-founder and CEO of Skit.ai, the New York-headquartered voice AI company he started in 2016 with Akshay Deshraj as Vernacular.ai, straight out of IIT Roorkee. Skit builds an augmented voice intelligence platform used by contact centers and collections teams, and has raised roughly $30M across rounds including a $23M Series B led by WestBridge Capital in 2021. Gupta was named to Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia (2021).
Bimohit Bawa
Bimohit Bawa is the co-founder and CEO of TrueCare24, a San Francisco-based health and wellness marketplace that connects families and employers with vetted nurses, caregivers, and clinicians for in-home care, telehealth, and on-site COVID-19 testing and vaccination. A software engineer by training - IIT Roorkee, a master's from the University of Pennsylvania, and an MBA from Berkeley Haas - Bawa spent nearly a decade building systems at Cisco and ServiceSource before joining TrueCare24 as its founding technical lead in 2015. He has since steered the company through 500 Startups' accelerator, a pivot into pandemic-era testing logistics, and a current chapter rebuilding senior care around AI and automation.
Amit Dayal
Amit Dayal is Vice President and General Manager of Adobe's Digital Advertising, Learning, and Publishing Business - a portfolio that puts him at the intersection of AdTech, streaming media, and enterprise e-learning. With 30+ years of product leadership spanning Sequent Computer Systems, Oracle, Motorola, Yahoo, Samsung Electronics, and multiple Silicon Valley startups he co-founded or built PM functions from scratch, Dayal brings a rare depth of engineering-to-executive experience to one of tech's most creative companies. Based in Bengaluru, India, he leads strategy, product management, technology, marketing, and sales for Adobe Primetime and related platforms serving major media and entertainment companies globally.
Prachi Gupta
Prachi Gupta is VP of Engineering at Google, leading the Workspace Communication & Time Management portfolio - Gmail, Chat, Calendar, and Tasks - for hundreds of millions of users worldwide. A graduate of IIT Roorkee and Ohio State University, she spent over eight years as VP of Engineering at YouTube before moving to Workspace, where she now sits at the intersection of Google's AI transformation and its most-used productivity tools. Her current mandate: turning Gmail into a Gemini-powered personal proactive assistant.
Rohit Ghai
Rohit Ghai is the President and CEO of Barracuda Networks, appointed September 2025 after nearly eight years leading RSA Security through its spin-out from Dell Technologies and its pivot toward identity security. A two-decade veteran of enterprise security and SaaS - including Symantec, EMC and CA Technologies - he sits on the boards of Pegasystems, D-Wave Systems and MHC Software, and is known on the RSA Conference keynote stage for arguing that the human element, not the machine, is what wins in cybersecurity.
Akash Agarwal
Akash Agarwal is the Founder and CEO of Pibit.AI, a Y Combinator-backed insurtech company revolutionizing commercial insurance underwriting through AI. Building on a childhood watching his father toil as an insurance agent buried in paperwork, Akash set out to automate the most labor-intensive parts of underwriting. Pibit.AI's CURE platform - Centralized Underwriting Risk Environment - processes loss runs, submission documents, and risk data at machine speed, helping insurers cut underwriting cycle times by up to 85% and improve loss ratios by up to 700 basis points. After raising a $7M Series A led by Stellaris Venture Partners in November 2025, with participation from Y Combinator and Arali Ventures, the company is scaling its AI models and data partnerships to reshape how the $1T+ P&C insurance industry makes risk decisions.
Manish Jethani
Manish Jethani is the Co-Founder and CEO of Hevo Data, a no-code data pipeline platform that helps over 2,000 companies in 40+ countries move data from 150+ sources into cloud data warehouses. A serial entrepreneur from Shahdol, India, who became the first person from his hometown to gain admission to IIT Roorkee, Jethani built two companies before Hevo - including food-delivery startup SpoonJoy, acquired by Grofers in 2015. Hevo has raised $43 million in total funding, including a $30M Series B led by Sequoia Capital India in 2021, and has reached approximately $46.9M in annual revenue.
Anshu Agarwal
Anshu Agarwal is a General Partner at Converge, the Cambridge-based B2B tech venture firm, where she opened the firm's Silicon Valley office in 2023. A five-time operator with four enterprise-software exits to Akamai, Juniper, HP and Citrix, she co-founded and ran serverless pioneer Nimbella through its 2021 acquisition by DigitalOcean before crossing the table to back the next generation of B2B founders.