Founder Institute Mentors

Bangalore Virtual 2021

Founder Institute Mentors join weekly feedback sessions, host office hours, and in general provide you feedback every step of the way. In addition, through our Equity Collective, Mentors are invested in the success of your company both during and after the program.

See the list of current and past mentors for the Bangalore program below.

Mentors

Aakarsh Naidu

Founder, The Startupreneur

Abdul G Sait

Group CEO and venture catalyst, Basket Option

Aditya Kathpalia

Program Manager, YourStory Media

Ahimanikya Satapathy

Founder & CEO, DocEngage

Ajay Goel

Managing Partner, Crestlight Venture Productions LLC

Ajay Vasudeva

Chairman, Vice-Chairman, Verifylabs, FIICC

Ajay Batra

FI Mentor

Ajit Veerappan

Founder & MD, ABI-Health

Alexandra Di Nella

Partner, Productwise Talent

Amarendra Sahu

Co-Founder, Nestaway Technologies Pvt Ltd

Amit Kumar

Partner, ahVentures

An Rag

Chief People Office, Flipkart

Anand Varadaraj

CEO, Yo2Yoga

Anand Kadakol

Partner, Springup capital

Anil Jwalanna

Founder & CEO, WittyParrot

Anjali Pillai

Head of Entrepreneurial Engagements, Microsoft Ventures India

Anjana Vivek

Founder Director, VentureBean Consulting

Anshuman Bapna

CEO, mygola.com

Apul Nahata

Co-Founder, Kalpnik

Arjun G N

CEO, ArtPandora,Tudo Technologies Pvt. Ltd.

Arun Palatty

Director, Product, Exponential Machines

Arunabh Choudhary

Partner, Juris Corp

Arvind Lodaya

Co-Founder, Deccan Center for Innovation and Design

Arvind Vasu

Senior Vice President, Asia Investments, ABB Technology Ventures

Ashish Kole

Chief Sales Officer, THE GAIN

Ashok Pammidi

FI Mentor

Ashutosh Wakankar

Co-Founder, Cracker & Rush

Ashwin Krishna

Global Marketing Director, Tact.AI

Balaji Chakravarthi

Founder & Editor, FirstFewCustomers.com

Balu Masti

Vice President - Global Biz Dev and Eng., Vigyanlabs Innovations

Bharath Haridas

Lead Design and Marketing, Insurtech and Enterprise 2.0, Plug and Play Tech Center

Bhaskar Srivathsav

Founder, Furnish Mantra

Bv Naidu

FI Mentor

Chandrakanth B N

CEO, Pairee Digital

Chetan D'souza

Founder & CEO, KidzByte MediaTech

Chintan Oza

Founder, Anantam Ecosystems

Chiranth Patil

FI Mentor

Christoph Sollich

Christoph Sollich - The Pitch Doctor, The Pitch Doctor

David Keynan

Vice-Chairman, Federation of Indo-Israeli Chambers of Commerce

Debamita Chatterjee

Dr, ...not yet launched - "in my mind" stage...

Deepan Anand

Managing Director, Leisure Entertainment Pvt Ltd

Dr Lakshmi Jaganathan

COO, Derbi Foundation

Dr Manish Gupta

Co-Founder & CEO, Videoken

Dr Sujitha Karnad

Founder & CEO, LeadNOW

Ganesh Shankar

CEO, Fluxgen Technologies

Gaurav Maheshwari

Co-founder, GetLook

Gaurav Punjabi

Founder, Rs Financial Services

Gaurav Dubey

Founder, Home Of Marketing

Geetha Ramamurthy

FI Mentor

Geetha Ramamurthy

FI Mentor

Giri Krishna

CMD, Silvan Innovation Labs

Girish Krishnamoorthy

Vice President, TCS

Girish Rowjee

CEO, Greytip Software

Govind Nallur

Advisor and Startup Mentor, Ruminatee

Govindarajan VR

Director, Perfios

Hari Shashank

Head Sales, Entersoft Security

Jei Narayanan

COO, Black Pepper Technologies Pvt Ltd

Jonathan Greechan

Co-Founder & CEO, Founder Institute

Joshua Rozario

Principal Consultant, The Joshua Rozario Company

Joy Prabhakaran

FI Mentor

Kalpana Rao

CEO, Pari's Haute Couture

Karthik Kittu

Co-founder & CEO, Passion Connect Technologies LLP

Karthikeyan Sundaram

Co Founder, Greendzine Technologies

Kiran Nadkarni

Founder & Director, Kaati Zone

Kishore Kumar

Sr Investment Analyst, StartupXSeed

K . Ramesh Kumar

Founder, Incubators Global

Krishnakant Naik

Founder, Vayukrishi

KrishnaKanth Naik

Founder, VayuKrshi Private Liimiited

Kshama Ravikumar

Partner, Avigna Law

Kunal Varma

Co-Founder, Consumer Startup

Kunal Kashyap

FI Mentor

Laxminarayan Kakade

FI Mentor

Liz Alexander

Co-founder, Leading Thought

Madhur Malik

Founder & CEO, StartupNews.fyi

Madhusudhan Atre

CEO, VegaShakti Consulting

Mahesh Baxi

FI Mentor

Mahmud K

CEO, Doers & Others

Malavika Harita

CEO, Saatchi & Saatchi Focus

Manikandan Ps

Founder & Chief Architect, Devopstrio

Manoj Kumar Agarwal

Managing Partner & Co-founder, SEAFUND

Matt Mandell

Principal, PayNerd.com

Meeta Verma

CEO and Founder , Worksera

Mikhil Innani

MD , Apollo Finvest

Mukesh Ghatiya

FI Mentor

Mukund Mohan

Director, Microsoft Ventures

Murali Vullaganti

CEO, RuralShores

Muthukrishnan Chinnasamy

Director , Sonic Chips

Natarajan S

COO, Derbi Foundation

Naveen Lakkur

Founder & Chief Innovation Coach, Institute of Inspiring Innovation

Niranjan Gupta

CEO, Koruko Solutions

Niranjan Gupta

CEO, Trip38.com

Niteen Khemka

Co-founder & CEO, Startup Spine

Nivedha R.M.

Co-Founder, TrashCon

Pavan Soni

Founder, Inflexion Point Consulting.

Pinkesh Shah

Executive Board Member, Institute of Product Leadership

P K Gopalkrishnan

Angel Investor, Ex-CEO , WeP Solutions

Poornima Shenoy

Co-Founder & CEO, THE GAIN

Pradeep N V K

CEO & Founder, Beingtheparent.com

Pradip R Subramaniam

CEO, Growwtech

Prasantha Biswal

CEO, International Biotech Park Ltd

Pratik Poddar

FI Mentor

Raam Anand

Founder, Stardom Alliance

Rahul Chowdhri

Investor, Stellaris Venture Partners

Raj Gopal

CEO, Invenzo Labs

Raj Saxena

Founder & CEO, Cygnet Infotech

Raja Sekhar Kommu

CEO, ApnaComplex.com

Rajeev Pathak

FI Mentor

Rajesh Setty

Rajesh Setty - Serial Entrepreneur and Author, WittyParrot

Rajesh Kannan

CEO, Compassites Software Solutions Pvt., Ltd.,

Rajiv Srivatsa

Founder, Urban Ladder

Rajiv Raghunandan

Founder, SeedX

Ramachandra Padmanabhan

Vice President, Wipro Digital

Ramesh Bulchandani

Founder, Atlas Brands P Ltd

Ranganath S

Founder, Algotricx Technologies Pvt Ltd

Ravi Thakur

Co-Founding Partner, StartupXSeed

Ravikiran Annaswamy

Founder and CEO, Innohabit Technologies

Rk Misra

Founder, SAHYOG - Indian Council for PPP

Sachin Sandhir

Founder & CEO, GenLeap

Safdhar Adoor

CEO, SteppinOut

Sandeep Raizada

VP Operations, Stelae Technologies

Sandesh Shetty

Partner, Rakchamps

Sanjay Nadkarni

Founder, Babyoye

Sanjay Srinivasmurthy

India Head & Director, Silicon RD Ideation Labs

Sathya Prasad

Director, Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Satyam Bansal

Strategic Alliances, Flipkart.com

Saurabh Chandra

CEO, Neev Tech

Shailendra Marathe

Virtual CFO, CFOAxis

Shanti Mohan

Co-Founder, Lets Venture

Shekhar Kirani

FI Mentor

Shobha Shankar

Co-Founder & COO, WWStay

Shreyas Chandra

Director Deal Flow & Membership, Responsible Solutions Limited

Shruti Singhal

National Head, Indian Angel Network

Shwetambari Rao

Senior Partner, KLaw

Shyam Sundar Nagarajan

FI Mentor

Sonia Sharma

Co-Founder, Pantheon Inc

Sridhar Turaga

Delivery Head(Technical & Innovation), Mu Sigma Inc

Srikant Rao

CEO, Affordable Business Solutions

Srikanth Acharya

CEO, OffiNeeds.com

Srikanth Bhagavat

Managing Director & Principal Advisor, Hexagon Capital Advisors Pvt., Ltd

Srinivas Varadarajan

CEO, Vigyanlabs Innovations Pvt Ltd

Srinivas Njay

CEO, Payjo

Srinivasa Raghavan

CTO, StartupXSeed

Srinivasan G

Co Founder, RuralShores Business Services & Dawn Consulting

Sriram Srinivasan

Advisor, Reliance Retail

Subash C V

Executive Coach, Regal Unlimited

Subhabrata Ghosh

Founder & CEO, Celsius100 Consulting

Sudeendra Koushik

Chief Innovator, Prasu

Suman Prasad

Co-Founder & COO, Trisys

Sunil Bangalore

FI Mentor

Syed Shujauddin

FI Mentor

Tej Pochiraju

Director, Jaaga Startup

Uday Ramachandran

Vice President-India Business Development, Sankalp Semiconductor

Vadiraj Aralappanavar

Vice President of Product Management, Acko

Vaibhav Tewari

Co-Founder, CEO, Portea Medical

Vanishree P Acharya

Founder, Kromaspects SciTec Solutions Pvt.Ltd.

Varun Agarwal

Co-Founder, Alma Mater

Vasuki Upadhya

Mr, Wipro technologies

Veena Sujay

Founder & CEO, Konektup

Venkatachalam Krishnan

Director, Beyond Square Solutions Pvt Limited

Vibhakar Bhushan

Governing Board, Cloud Computing Innovation Council of India

Vijaya Verma

Founder & Managing Director , Yos Technologies

Vijetha Shastry

Executive Director, TIE

Vinay Kumar

Co-founder and Rainmaker, Verbinden Communication Pvt Ltd

Vipul Singh

Co-Founder & CEO, Aarav Unmanned Systems Pvt. Ltd.

Vishal Ramaswamy

Vice President - Venture Building & Strategic Initiatives, Alteria Capital Advisors LLP

Vishy V

VP, Shruth and Smith Holdings

Vivek Boray

General Counsel, Locus

William Miller

Co-founder and CEO, Values Centered Innovation Enablement Services Pvt. Ltd.

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