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Prajit Nanu
Prajit Nanu is the co-founder and CEO of Nium, the Singapore-born fintech unicorn that has quietly become the plumbing behind global money movement for banks, airlines, and digital platforms. Starting with a frustrating attempt to wire INR 40,000 for a friend's bachelor party in Phuket, he built what is now a $1.4 billion payments infrastructure company processing over $8 billion annually across 190+ countries in 100 currencies. A commerce graduate from Mumbai with a sales background rather than a fintech pedigree, Nanu turned that outsider status into competitive advantage - building what incumbents told him was impossible.
Anuj Jalan
Anuj Jalan is the Vice President of Sales Marketing at Microsoft, based in Chandigarh, India. He has built his career across major technology and services firms, moving from process development at Genpact and customer support at Dell to senior sales and marketing leadership at one of the world's largest technology companies. With an MBA from Symbiosis Institute of Management Studies and a background spanning recruitment, operations, and client engagement, Jalan represents the archetype of a career professional who climbed the ranks through diverse industry exposure in India's booming tech sector.
Sarang Jagdale
Sarang Jagdale is a PhD engineer turned supply chain AI co-founder who spent over two decades cracking some of the world's hardest logistics problems - from IBM's global consulting floors to the startup that eventually became Lyric. As Head of Decision Science at Lyric, he architects the algorithmic core of a platform now trusted by Coca-Cola, Google, and Mondelez to make their supply chains think for themselves. Lyric raised $43.5M in Series B funding in August 2025, bringing total funding to $67M.
Shameel Abdulla
Shameel Abdulla is the co-founder and CEO of Clootrack, an AI-driven Voice of Customer analytics platform used by enterprises to convert billions of customer conversations into decisions. A serial entrepreneur out of Bangalore, he previously built the mobile studio Kode Blink and the local-grocery marketplace Jiffstore, which PepperTap acquired in 2015. He started Clootrack with Subbakrishna Rao in 2017 and raised a $4M Series A led by Inventus Capital India in 2021.
Fatima Husain
Fatima Husain is the Chief Business Officer at Numeral, a San Francisco-based AI-powered sales tax automation platform that raised $35M in Series B funding (led by Mayfield) at a $350M valuation in September 2025, bringing total funding to roughly $57M. By that round Numeral had processed $5B+ in transaction volume, filed 150,000 returns, tripled revenue year over year, and served 2,000+ ecommerce and SaaS brands across 11,000+ jurisdictions - and has since expanded into international VAT/GST compliance across 70+ countries. A Yale-educated operator-turned-investor originally from India, she spent six years leading growth and product at Airbnb - achieving 20x+ YoY growth on the supply side - before co-founding Mosaic General Partnership (formerly Mastry Ventures) with NBA champion Andre Iguodala. She was an early angel investor in Numeral and joined as CBO to build again, bringing two decades of operational instincts and venture capital pattern recognition to one of fintech's most unsexy yet massive problems.
Jahangir Mohammed
Jahangir Mohammed is a serial entrepreneur and inventor who built Jasper Technologies into the world's largest IoT platform - sold to Cisco for $1.4 billion in 2016 - then turned his attention to metabolic disease. As Founder and CEO of Twin Health, he is using AI-powered whole-body digital twin technology to reverse chronic conditions like Type 2 diabetes, with clinical results published in the New England Journal of Medicine Catalyst showing 71% of participants achieving A1C below 6.5% while eliminating most medications. Twin Health has raised $335 million total and reached a $950 million valuation in 2025.
Edith Elliott
Edith Elliott is the co-founder and co-CEO of Noora Health, a global nonprofit that turns hospital waiting rooms into classrooms and trains family members to care for their loved ones after discharge. What started as a Stanford design class project at a Bangalore hospital in 2012 has grown into an organization that has trained more than a million family caregivers across India, Bangladesh, Nepal and Indonesia. A TED speaker, Audacious Project winner and Skoll awardee, Elliott has built her career at the intersection of research, policy and design, betting that the most overlooked resource in any health system is the people already sitting at the bedside.
Ryan Berg
Ryan Berg is the co-founder and CEO of The Aruna Project, a Cincinnati-based athleisure bag and accessories brand stitched entirely by survivors of sex trafficking. With his wife April, he built a hybrid model that fuses a for-profit fashion label with nonprofit holistic care - transitional housing, counseling, healthcare and a living wage - to create what he calls lifelong freedom. The work started after a single TV news brief about children rescued from a brothel sent him hunting for that brothel on a business trip to India, where he found a two-mile stretch holding an estimated 15,000 enslaved women. The Aruna Project says it has helped free and employ more than 160 women across India and the Tri-State and contributed to an 86% drop in trafficking in that part of India.
RS Software
RS Software is a payments-focused technology company headquartered in Kolkata, India, with a US office in Milpitas, California. Founded by Raj Jain, the firm has spent more than three decades building payment infrastructure for banks, processors, networks and central institutions. It is the team that engineered core pieces of India's public payments stack, including the Unified Payments Interface (UPI) and the Bharat Bill Payment System (BBPS) for NPCI, and today offers a suite of cloud-native, API-led products for real-time payments, bill payments, switching, fraud and risk under a Payment Platform as a Service model.
VigourSoft Global Solutions
VigourSoft Global Solutions is a digital transformation and software product engineering services firm founded in 2016, with roots in Pune, India and a presence in the United States. It helps enterprises build and sustain cloud-based products by combining big data analytics, AI/ML, cloud engineering, DevOps, identity & access management, and language/localization technologies. The team positions itself as an engineering partner for companies that want to turn unstructured data into business decisions and modernize aging software.
Voyager Partners Consultancy Inc.
Voyager Partners Consultancy is a Hyderabad-based professional services firm that bills itself as a 'growth acceleration partner' for medium and large businesses. It bundles four offerings under one roof: onshore/offshore IT and finance staffing, transaction risk advisory (fundraising, M&A, restructuring), technology/ITES implementation (SAP, cloud, automation, analytics), and corporate support services (incorporation, bookkeeping, tax compliance). Founded in 2021 and led by Neeraj Jha, the firm operates from offices in India, the USA, UAE and Singapore and says it has served 100+ companies and placed 1,000+ professionals.
Pronto
Pronto is a Bengaluru-based on-demand and subscription house-help platform that dispatches trained, background-verified cleaning professionals to urban homes in roughly 10 minutes. Founded in 2025 by Anjali Sardana, it applies a quick-commerce playbook to India's largely informal domestic-work market - transparent per-visit pricing, instant or scheduled booking, and structured shifts that give workers (about 99% of them women) predictable income. The company scaled from roughly 1,000 daily bookings to 24,000-25,000 in about a year and was valued at $200M in April 2026.
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.
Disha Rustogi
Disha Rustogi is the Vice President of Product Marketing at Twilio, where she leads global Product Marketing and Go-To-Market Enablement teams. With 15+ years of marketing leadership at household-name tech companies — Microsoft, Adobe, Atlassian — she has shaped how enterprise software gets positioned, launched, and sold to the world. Now at Twilio, she is at the forefront of the agentic AI communications era, helping define how companies build intelligent customer experiences using Twilio's platform.
Don Beckinsale
Don Beckinsale is Vice President of International Marketing at Microsoft, one of the world's largest technology companies. Based in the Mysore division of Karnataka, India, he leads international marketing strategy across Microsoft's vast product ecosystem - spanning cloud services, enterprise software, AI, and consumer products. Operating at the intersection of global technology leadership and regional market execution, Beckinsale is part of the team driving Microsoft's presence in high-growth international markets.
Rahul Sharma
Rahul Sharma is Vice President of Marketing at Microsoft, based in New Delhi, India. He leads marketing strategy and execution for one of the world's most valuable technology companies in one of its fastest-growing markets. Operating at the intersection of enterprise software, AI, and cloud computing, Sharma drives Microsoft's brand and commercial marketing efforts across India - a country Microsoft has identified as central to its global AI and cloud expansion strategy.
Abhay Singhal
Abhay Singhal co-founded InMobi in 2007 from a shared Mumbai apartment with three IIT Kanpur classmates, and helped build it into India's first unicorn and the world's largest independent mobile advertising platform - reaching 1.3 billion people across 190+ countries. As CEO of InMobi Advertising, he now leads a platform serving 80 billion daily impressions, while InMobi prepares for a 2026 IPO targeting a $4-5 billion valuation. An angel investor in Razorpay, Bright Money, and Goldcast, Singhal is known for betting on mobile-first futures before anyone else did.
Arun Ramchandran
Arun Kumar Ramchandran - known as 'Rak' - is the Chief Executive Officer of QBurst, a global product development and consulting firm backed by Multiples Private Equity. Appointed in April 2025 following a $200M investment, Rak brings 25 years of leadership experience spanning Infosys, Virtusa, Capgemini, and Hexaware Technologies. An IIT Bombay and IIM Calcutta alumnus based in Palo Alto, he is driving QBurst's transformation into an AI-first engineering services company with his 'High AI-Q' framework - embedding generative and agentic AI into every layer of software delivery.
Bipul Sinha
Bipul Sinha is the CEO, Chairman, and Co-Founder of Rubrik, the publicly traded data security company he built from a Bihar basement story into a $17B+ NYSE-listed cybersecurity platform. Before founding Rubrik in 2014, he spent nearly a decade as a venture capitalist at Lightspeed Venture Partners — backing companies like Nutanix and Hootsuite — and nine years at Oracle holding 30+ patents in distributed computing. An IIT Kharagpur and Wharton alumnus who grew up in poverty in Darbhanga, Bihar, Sinha turned a contrarian bet on backup-and-recovery software into the gold standard for enterprise data resilience in the ransomware era.
Dipti Agrawal
Dipti Agrawal is the Co-founder and CEO of Tudip Technologies, a Pune-headquartered global IT services company she built from a team of four in 2010 to a 600-person enterprise serving clients like Google, Adobe, and Databricks across 8+ countries. A Chemical Engineering graduate from NIT Durgapur with an MBA from IBS Hyderabad, she pivoted from Oracle ERP consulting at Infosys and Hitachi Consulting to co-found Tudip on April 5, 2010 with Tushar Apshankar. Under her leadership, Tudip has achieved CMMI Level 5 certification, earned Databricks Silver Partner status, and expanded into AI/ML, cloud transformation, cybersecurity, and digital innovation—while championing gender diversity with 15 women in top management.
Raviteja Dodda
Raviteja Dodda is the co-founder and CEO of MoEngage, an insights-led customer engagement platform used by more than 1,200 consumer brands. He started the company in 2014 with his IIT Kharagpur classmate Yashwanth Kumar after a failed local-offers app made it painfully clear that marketers had the data but no way to act on it. A decade later MoEngage runs Merlin AI, a suite of AI agents for marketing teams, and just closed a $280M Series F led by Goldman Sachs and ChrysCapital.
Dashverse
Dashverse is an AI-native entertainment company building tools and platforms that let anyone create, publish and monetize stories - from comics to microdramas - at a fraction of the time and cost of traditional production. Its ecosystem includes Frameo.AI (generative video studio), DashReels and ShortFree (microdrama apps), and Dashtoon (AI comics).
Sumit Pawar
Sumit Pawar is a Vice President of Growth at Microsoft, one of the world's largest technology companies. Based in Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India, he operates within Microsoft's expansive global organization - a company with over 228,000 employees and annual revenues exceeding $281 billion. His role sits at the intersection of business strategy and technology growth, working with Microsoft's broad portfolio that spans cloud computing (Azure), productivity tools (Microsoft 365), AI services, enterprise software, and developer platforms.
InVideo
InVideo is an AI-powered video creation platform that turns plain text into polished, publish-ready videos. Founded in 2017 in Mumbai and now headquartered in Daly City, California, the company serves 50+ million users across 190+ countries. Its flagship product InVideo AI lets anyone - from solo creators to enterprise marketing teams - generate scripts, visuals, voiceovers, and complete videos by typing instructions in plain English. In 2025, InVideo became the only platform bundling access to both OpenAI's Sora 2 and Google's VEO 3.1 under a single subscription, cementing its position at the frontier of AI-driven video production.
LocoNav
LocoNav is a full-stack fleet management platform out of Gurgaon that combines GPS tracking, video telematics, IoT sensors and AI-driven driver safety into one dashboard. It serves more than 50 countries and operates across the emerging markets that legacy fleet software politely ignored.
Abhijit Kane
Abhijit Kane is Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer of Postman, the world's leading API platform used by 20+ million developers and 98% of Fortune 500 companies. A BITS Pilani alumnus, he joined Abhinav Asthana and Ankit Sobti in 2014 to turn a viral Stack Overflow side project into a $5.6 billion company that defines how developers build, test, and collaborate on APIs.
Abhimanyu Choudhary
Abhimanyu Choudhary is Co-Founder and Chief Sales Officer of Xoxoday, a B2B SaaS rewards, incentives, and loyalty platform serving 5,000+ enterprise clients across 175+ countries. After a decade-long career at Tata Steel rising to General Manager of Sales, he joined Xoxoday in 2018 to lead its commercial growth engine. Today, Xoxoday processes ~250,000 transactions daily and has raised over $100M in funding, most recently a Series C in January 2026 from Apis Partners and 57 Stars.
Abhinav Asthana
Abhinav Asthana is the co-founder and CEO of Postman, the world's leading API platform used by over 35 million developers and 500,000 organizations. Growing up in small-town Uttar Pradesh, India, he taught himself programming as a child, built virtual tour software before finishing college, and turned a side project Chrome extension into a company valued at $5.6 billion. He moved Postman from Bangalore to San Francisco in 2017 and has raised $433 million in total funding, including a $225M Series D in 2021.
Abhishek Humbad
Abhishek Humbad is the Founder & CEO of Goodera, the world's largest corporate volunteering platform, connecting 500+ enterprises - including 75+ Fortune 500 companies like Amazon, Nike, Oracle, and Target - with 50,000+ nonprofits across 100+ countries. A BITS Pilani and IIM Bangalore alumnus and Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree, Humbad co-founded Goodera in 2014 after pioneering NextGen, India's first cloud-based CSR management platform. Under his leadership, Goodera has mobilized 2 million+ volunteers across 1,000+ cities in 30+ languages, raised $26M+ in funding, and now deploys an AI Ops Brain managing 100,000+ tasks monthly - treating volunteering not as a charity checkbox, but as infrastructure for workplace belonging.
Abhishek Kumar
Abhishek Kumar is the co-founder and CTO of Xoxoday, a Bengaluru-based SaaS platform that powers rewards, incentives, and employee engagement for 5,000+ enterprises worldwide. An IIT Bombay alumnus who previously co-founded EveningFlavours (an early food-discovery startup), Abhishek has helped grow Xoxoday from a 2012 experiences marketplace into a $100M+ funded global platform processing 250,000 transactions daily, with products spanning employee engagement, sales gamification, consumer loyalty, and API-based transactional rewards.