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Gaurav Sharma
Gaurav Sharma is the founder and CEO of Hook, a New York-based AI music platform that lets fans legally remix and mash up licensed songs and share them to social feeds while artists and rights holders keep control and get paid. A Johns Hopkins and Peabody Conservatory-trained musician turned operator, he previously helped scale India's JioSaavn to hundreds of millions of listeners and built and sold two consumer-tech startups. In 2026 Hook closed a $10 million Series A led by Khosla Ventures, bringing total funding to roughly $16 million.
Neal Shenoy
Neal Shenoy is the CEO and co-founder of BEGiN, one of the fastest-growing early childhood education platforms in the world, the company behind HOMER, codeSpark, Little Passports and Learn with Sesame. A serial entrepreneur, he has built, run and sold a $3B+ portfolio of subscription ventures spanning education, music, sports and data, including JioSaavn, the largest South Asian music streaming service, which Reliance Industries acquired in a deal valued above $1 billion. He is also a founding partner at [212]MEDIA.