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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.
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.
Rajendra Soni
Rajendra Soni runs the United States arm of PNG Jewellers, the 190-plus-year-old Pune house famous for gold, diamonds and old-school karigari. He turned a single Sunnyvale storefront into the Bay Area's go-to address for South Asian wedding jewellery, then helped open Fremont, and keeps showing up at every ribbon cutting with the same line: customer first, then employees, then the bling.
Vinay Manglani
Vinay Manglani is the co-founder and CEO of VigourSoft Global Solutions, a Pune-headquartered IT services and software engineering firm with offices across India, the US, and Poland. With over two decades of engineering and leadership experience at companies like Siebel Systems and Symantec, he built VigourSoft in 2016 into a 50+ person shop delivering cloud orchestration, AI/ML, healthcare analytics, software localization, and DevOps solutions for global enterprises. Based across San Francisco and Pune, he bridges Silicon Valley product thinking with India's engineering depth.