Fund Raising & Legal Compliance

Sanjay Anandaram

Venture Partner, Seed Fund

Sanjay Anandaram has spent over 2 decades as an IT industry executive, an entrepreneur, a VC, an advisor to early stage funds, start up mentor and teacher. He’s a founding partner of JumpStartUp, an early stage VC fund set up to invest in technology and technology enabled businesses that leveraged India. He brings significant international experience involving new business creation and business development in India, US, Asia, Middle-East and Africa.

Navin Rungta

Co-Founder, eLagaan

Navin Kumar is the Co-Founder of eLagaan.com, a company redefining the way Business Legal & CA services for Indians across the globe. Navin has over 14 years of experience in MNCs like Woolworth, AV Birla Group, Broadcom, Nortel. He brings with him rich experience in the areas of Software engineering, Program management, Financial & taxation planning etc. His experience in various domain like engineering, finance & management allows him to have a unique prospective about challenges faced by techies in non technical area of startup/business. He holds CFA, PGDBA, Masters and Bachelors in Engineering.

Shradha Sharma

Founder & Chief Editor, YourStory

Shradha Sharma is the Founder of YourStory.in – India’s leading online platform for first generation Indian entrepreneurs and also, the official online partner of CNBC TV18 Young Turks. Prior to starting YourStory, Shradha was one of the youngest Assistant Vice Presidents at CNBC TV18 and also, a Brand Adviser at Times of India. With a strong media background, she actively advises startups on marketing and communication strategies. Shradha holds a bachelors and masters degree in History from St.Stephens College, Delhi and an MBA from MICA.

Mukund Mohan

CEO, Jivity

Mukund Mohan is the CEO of Jivity, a leading social commerce company. He founded and sold BuzzGain, a leader in Do It Yourself PR, to Meltwater in January 2010. He has founded and successfully sold 3 Silicon Valley startups in the Internet & Enterprise software markets. Mukund has held executive and management roles in Hewlett Packard(Mercury), Inovis, Ariba and Cisco Systems. He studied at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County pursuing a Master's degree in Computer Science and holds a Bachelor's degree in engineering and computer science from the University of Mysore in India.

Vikash Rungta

Director, eLagaan, USA

He has over 14 years of strong engineering experience ranging from start-ups to Fortune 500 companies like Cisco Systems-USA, National Aerospace Labs (NAL), IIT-Bombay, etc. He is currently Director & Ex-President of Silicon Valley Indian Professionals Association (SIPA), USA. He has served in the Executive committees of various professional and social organizations including IEEE in USA. He holds a Master Certification from Stanford University and Bachelors in Engineering.

Pallav Nadhani

Co-founder, FusionCharts

Pallav is the co-founder and CEO of FusionCharts. He started FusionCharts at the age of 17 without any external funding. Today, FusionCharts has over 19,000 customers and 400,000 users. His entrepreneurial journey has been covered by various magazines like Forbes, Entrepreneur, Business Today, Economic Times and numerous blogs & websites.Pallav holds an MS in Computer Science from the University of Edinburgh, UK. He has co-authored a book on combining the power of Flash and .NET called 'Flash.NET' in 2002 and has written several technical articles for international journals ever since.

Ravi Gururaj

Founder & CTO, VMLogix

Ravi Gururaj has over 19 years of technology product development, management and marketing experience. Prior to VMLogix, he was Managing Director of Trilogy E-Business Software Pvt. Ltd., the Bangalore-based offshore development center of Trilogy Inc. of Austin, Texas. Ravi received an MBA with high distinction from Harvard Business School, where he was elected a Baker Scholar, and graduated with honors from the University of Pennsylvania as a Benjamin Franklin Scholar in the Management and Technology (M&T) program, receiving a BSE in Computer Science & Engineering from the Moore School and a B.Sc. in Finance from the Wharton School.