Online Event
How to Build Purpose-Driven and People-Centered Startups
Build purposeful startups with global investors & local leaders
Date
Oct 23, 2025
Time
01:00 pm - 02:00 pm
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Online Event
Join us online for a powerful session on building startups with purpose, people, and global perspective. Featuring Kaushal Chokshi, global investor and cross-border growth expert, and Sinan Güler, former national team captain and leadership advocate. Explore how values, vision, and human-centered leadership can shape the future of entrepreneurship.
What You'll Learn:
- How to build startups with purpose-driven strategies
- Leadership lessons from sports and entrepreneurship
- Global investor insights on scaling across borders
Featured Speaker:
- Kaushal Chokshi - Founder at Kawin Group - As Founder of Kawin Group, he leads ventures focused on long-term ecological and financial value, including Frescoserra (regenerative villages), Arboria (food forests and biodiversity units), ForestFire.Tech (AI-enabled wildfire resilience), and Karmic Unicorn Venture Studio (turning regenerative startups into billion-dollar companies). With over four decades of experience in M&A and strategy, he specializes in luxury off-market hospitality and eco-resorts. His work bridges capital markets and regeneration, transforming underutilized assets into high-value hubs that benefit both investors and the planet.
- Sinan Guler - Co-Founder at Guler Legacy - With over 20 years of playing experience at the highest level, he captained Galatasaray to a Eurocup championship and earned a silver medal with the Turkish National Team at the 2010 FIBA World Championship. These experiences shaped his leadership, discipline, and team dynamics, which he now applies to mentoring the next generation. Off the court, he co-founded Guler Legacy, a platform that uses basketball to teach life skills and leadership. As a mentor, speaker, and early-stage investor, he focuses on sports technology, governance, and youth development, with a mission to use the power of sport to unlock human potential.
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The Founder Institute is the world’s most proven network to turn ideas into fundable startups, and startups into global businesses. Since 2009, our structured accelerator programs have helped over 7,000 entrepreneurs raise over $1.75BN in funding. Based in Silicon Valley and with chapters across 100 countries, our mission is to empower communities of talented and motivated people to build impactful technology companies worldwide.
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