ARTHA - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Vice President - Content Marketing - Ixigo.Com
- VP of Content Marketing at Ixigo
Aashish is the VP of Content Marketing at Ixigo. He is a best-selling author of ‘Fast, Cheap And Viral' and was featured in LinkedIn's official B2B marketing playbook. He is an award-winning viral video marketer, having made and marketed videos with millions of shares and gazillion views. He has been featured on Forbes and is passionate about content and believes that in times of declining attention spans and chaotic news feeds, creativity is the differentiator.
Ashish is a General Partner at the Fundamentum Partnership. He is an alumnus of IIT Kanpur. He has worked as a technologist, a technology entrepreneur and an investor across geographies. He's started multiple companies many of which had successful exits. He's a prolific angel investor and his portfolio has delivered exceptional returns.
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- Founder & CEO - Cantilever Labs
Avanish, Founder at Cantilever labs partners with reputed professional educational institutions across India and has positively impacted 27,500+ students from 152+ colleges since its inception. Prior to his entrepreneurial stint, he worked with Futures First as the Global Head of Recruitment and Training and covered their India, China, and Kenya operations. In the space of 12 years, he managed recruitment in 350 odd colleges, addressed roughly 55,000 students, and interviewed/trained 8000 odd candidates. Avanish is a B.Tech graduate from Visvesvaraya Technological University in electronics and communication engineering.
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- Co - Founder & Chief Financial Officer at Open
Deena is the Co-founder & Chief Financial Officer at Open - Asia's first neo-banking platform for SMEs and Startups. She is the winner of the Best Start-Up CFO by Business World in 2021, and also the winner of CIMA most influential CFOs award in 2016 and CFONEXT 100 in 2013. Deena is a dynamic leader with significant experience managing large teams. She is a Chartered Accountant.
Job Titles:
- Co - Founder
- Co - Founder - Artha School of Entrepreneurship
- Co - Founder of Helion
An IIT Kanpur and Stanford alumnus, he co-founded Helion Ventures & is on the boards of Naukri, HUL, Skit, Urban Company, Gupshup & WhatFix. A Kauffman Fellow, he advises funds & startups.
Dr. Ashish Gupta is a co-founder of Helion and serves on several boards including Gupshup, Naukri (NAUKRI), Hindustan Unilever, Skit, Urban Companyand WhatFix. He advises funds and startups including Prime Ventures, Elucidata, and Interview Kickstart. Ashish has co-founded Drishti, Tavant Technologies and Junglee (AMZN); and worked at Woodside Fund, Oracle Corporation and IBM research. Some of his past investments include Daksh (IBM), MakeMyTrip (MMYT), MuSigma, Pubmatic (PUBM), Upwork (UPWK), Perfios, Redbus (MIH), Simplilearn and Flipkart (Walmart). Ashish is a Kauffman Fellow, holds a Ph.D. in CS from Stanford University, and a BTech from IIT Kanpur where he received the President's Gold medal and the Distinguished Alumnus Award.
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- Co - Founder and Chairperson - Portea Medical
Meena is the MD and CEO at Portea Medical which is a healthcare company. She co-founded it in 2013 and today it has become one of the fastest-growing home healthcare companies. She received the Kempegowda award for her contribution to healthcare during the Covid-19 pandemic. She was also recognized as the Health Entrepreneur of the Year in 2016 at the India Health Summit & Awards. She has been one of the most influential and powerful women business leaders in India.
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- Partner - Elevation Capital
Mukul is a Co-Managing Partner at Elevation Capital and focuses on early-stage investments in consumer tech and SaaS. Before Elevation, he worked as a management consultant at McKinsey. He has created an enviable portfolio that includes the likes of FirstCry, Meesho, Spinny, Swiggy, Unacademy and XpressBees. Mukul is an alumnus of NSIT and IIM-Lucknow.
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- Founder and CEO of Spinny
Niraj Singh is the Founder and CEO of Spinny. Spinny is a full-stack used car end to end retailing platform for new-age buyers in India and has established trust with customers. An IIT alumnus, he has also been the Co-founder of TechMonkey, which is an internet media company.
Job Titles:
- Co - Founder
- Co - Founder - Artha School of Entrepreneurship
An IIT Kharagpur and Stanford alumnus, he is an entrepreneur, angel investor & actively involved in the start-up and investor community. A TIE charter member, he guides startups through their scale challenges.
Pavan has spent over two decades in the Indian Technology sector. He is an entrepreneur, an angel investor, and a mentor to start-ups / scaling ventures. As a founder and CXO of high-growth organizations, Pavan understands the various challenges and aspects of building large enterprises. He is an angel investor and is part of the journey of start-ups like CurioEd (Science & Technology Learning Platform), INI Farms (Agri-Tech), and Lissun (Mental Wellness). Pavan is a member of the Young Presidents Organization (YPO) and a charter member of The Indus Entrepreneurs (TIE). Pavan works closely with the CEOs of multiple startups to mentor and guides them. He is actively engaged in both the start-up and investor communities.
Job Titles:
- Co - Founder
- Co - Founder - Artha School of Entrepreneurship
An entrepreneur, institution builder & philanthropist, he is an IIT-K and a UPenn alumnus. He is the Founding Dean of ISB, the Founding Provost for Anant National University, Founder and Trustee of Ashoka University and many more.
Pramath Sinha is not only an entrepreneur but an institution builder and philanthropist. He is an alumnus of the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur and the University of Pennsylvania. He was the founding dean of the Indian School of Business. He served as the Founding Provost for Anant National University. He is the Founder and Trustee of Ashoka University, Founder and Director of 9.9 Group Pvt. Ltd., Founder of Vedica Scholars Programme for Women, Founder of the Naropa Fellowship along with being the Founder and Trustee of Harappa Education.
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- Managing Director - Arkam Ventures
Rahul was one of the earliest tech VCs in India, starting in 1998 as part of the team at Walden International's India-focused fund. He later moved to Palo Alto, CA to invest in Silicon Valley start-ups. In 2005, he co-founded Helion Ventures and relocated to India. In 2021, he founded Arkam Ventures, an early stage VC fund. Rahul is an alumnus of BITS, Pilani and UC Berkeley. He is the author of "The Moonshot Game - Adventures of an Indian VC".
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- Chief Financial Ofiicer - Helion Ventures
Sanjay is the CFO at the Fundamentum Partnership and Helion Ventures. He has a deep grounding in both the MNC and Start-up contexts. He has built and led successful teams across international geographies. He is an alumnus of SRCC Delhi University and is also a qualified Chartered Accountant.
Job Titles:
- Strategic Advisor - the Fundamentum Partnership
Sanjay is an alumnus of NIT Srinagar. He was EVP at Infosys and was responsible for building their consulting business. After an extremely successful corporate career, Sanjay went on to play a pivotal role in shaping many of India's most impactful social platforms. He is an advisor to numerous societal platforms in the domains of education, healthcare, urban governance and sustainability.
Job Titles:
- Co - Founder
- Co - Founder - Artha School of Entrepreneurship
Co-founder of Helion Ventures & the Fundamentum Partnership, he helps shape the journeys of several category creating enterprises in India across sectors. He had also co-founded Daksh (acquired by IBM).
Sanjeev Aggarwal is the co-founder of two venture capital firms - Fundamentum and Helion Ventures. He co-founded Fundamentum in 2017 with Nandan Nilekani. Fundamentum is a ‘scale-up' platform, to help build enduring technology companies. He also co-founded Helion Ventures in 2006. Helion invests in early-stage technology companies. Prior to Helion, Sanjeev was the founder and CEO of Daksh, a pioneer in the BPO sector. He ran the company till 2006 with over 20,000 employees. Daksh was acquired by IBM in 2004. Sanjeev was chosen as the Entrepreneur of the Year by Ernst & Young in 2002. He is currently on the boards of Azure Power, Axtria, BigBasket, and Livspace. He has also been on the boards of MakeMyTrip (Nasdaq) and Amba Research (Moody's). Sanjeev holds bachelor's and master's degrees from Punjab Engineering College.
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- SVP - Analytics & CRM - Lenskart
Saurabh is passionate about transforming lives with all things digital & data. With an entrepreneurial mindset, he loves to build digital enterprise & consumer businesses by using IoT, AI & Cloud in e-commerce, financial services & manufacturing domains. With 2 decades of experience, he has established profitable business units/divisions in marketing, digital product & enterprise analytics & businesses from scratch. He has also held various leadership positions with Amex, Tata group & Motherson Group. Saurabh is an industry-recognized speaker on AI, IoT, and Startups Leadership & has featured in ET, NASSCOM, CII, Analytics India Magazine, 3AI, and Upgrad. He is also a well-known Mentor, Coach & Advisor in reputed educational institutions. He has an Executive MBA from IIFT Delhi & a B.E. from DCE."
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- Chartered Accountant
- Chief Financial Ofiicer - Lenskart.Com
Smeer is a Chartered Accountant and is the CFO at Lenskart. He has worked across Retail, Telecom, FMCG and Manufacturing Industries with leading names like Wal-Mart, Airtel, Coca-Cola and McDonald's. He is a CFO with a strong business and strategic acumen. He comes with a strong understanding of corporate governance and risk management frameworks.
With a deep understanding of scaling start-ups in a global arena and cross-border cultural nuances, she led the Human Capital function at start-ups like UnitedLex and Exclusively.in She started her career at Daksh and was the CHRO of Lenskart.
An angel investor, advisor to VCs and founders, mentor to start-up accelerators, author & columnist he is an alumnus of IIT-M & IIM-C. He has been a part of 5 successful high growth start-ups and exits including an IPO on NASDAQ