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Founder Institute Mentors

New Delhi Spring 2023

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 New Delhi program below.

Mentors

Abhesh Verma

(Ex) Chief Growth Officer , Saavn

Abhijeet Sinha

Director, Ease of Doing Business

Abhinav Tandon

Founder, Creator's Gurukul

Abhinav Mathur

Founder, Million Sparks Foundation

Abhishek Gupta

VP - IT , DishTV India Limited

Adarsh Rai

Founder & Principal Consultant - Recruitment Strategy, HR Brain HUB

Aditi Khurana

Head of Business Development, SoftBank KK

Aditya Malik

Founder, Value Matrix

Ajay Rajgarhia

Managing Director, APM Finvest

Akshay Chhugani

FI Mentor

Amit Grover

Co-Founder, AHAtaxis.com

Amit Agrawal

FI Mentor

Amit Kumar

Partner, ahVentures

Amit Rai

Managing Director & Partner , BCG Digital Ventures

Amit Raj Gogia

Consultant , Shark Tank

Aneesha Jyoti

FI Mentor

Anika Raja

Program Manager, IBM

Anirudh Agarwal

Managing Director, PappaRoti India

Ankit Mehrotra

CoFounder, Dineout

Ankur Shrivastava

Founding Partner, Globevestor

Anna Lindbäck

CEO & Founder, Startup Strats

Annu Grover

Green Evangelist - MD, Nurturing Green

Anshul Saxena

Partner, XScale

Anupam Saronwala

Advisor, Mentor & Investor, .

Anurag Batra

Chairman, Businessworld

Arjun Ahlawat

FI Mentor

Arpit Chhabra

Co-Founder, MishTag

Arvind Jha

Director and Co-Founder, Pariksha Labs Private Limited

Ashish Tulsian

Co-Founder, Posist

Ashish Sarawagi

Investor & Growth Partner. , Gangupp

Ashwini Anand

Founder, Monsoon CreditTech

Ayami Wanasinghe

Regional Director - South Asia, Founder Institute

Brett Steve

Vice President, Jaarvis Accelerator

Chetan D'souza

Founder & CEO, KidzByte MediaTech

Chintan Oza

Founder, Anantam Ecosystems

Chris Foltz

Entrepreneur In Residence, Founder Institute + Responsible Solutions Ltd + IRG 100 CMO's & Change Agents

Deepak Sharma

Head Of Operations, Housr

Deepanjali Shanmugam

Start-up Ecosystem Lead, Jio Business

Deepanshu Manchanda

FI Mentor

Dheeraj Sood

FI Mentor

Dhianu Das

Founder, Alfa Ventures

Dhiraj J

Founder CEO, Verve Talent

Dhruv Khanna

CEO & Co-Founder, Data Resolve

Dinesh Jain

Founder, IndianMaze Advisory

Dip Sengupta

Chief Growth Officer , Creative Land Asia

Dojo Jose

Founder CEO, Aspire Media Pvt. Ltd.

Dr. Pallavi Singh

IP and Technology Lawyer and Consultant, Founder, Episteme Legal

Felix Schlenther

Managing Director, realworld one

Gagandeep Singh Sapra

Co-Founder, Sproutbox

Garima Seth

Founder, Boon Capital Advisors

Gaurav Luthra

Founder, Whats Up Life

Gopal Shrivastava

VP - Patents, Glocon KPO Solutions Pvt. Ltd

Gopal Kedia

Managing Partner , GK Kedia & Firm

Guv Dhaliwal

Advisor, Fuel Ventures

Harish Saini

Founder & CEO, Bharat Infotech

Harpreet Singh Grover

Co-Founder & CEO, cocubes.com

Hemant Dua

Promoter Inspiranti and Ex CEO Delhi Daredevils, Inspiranti

Hetal Sonpal

Angel Investor, Multiple (BabyChakra, Vahdam, Explara etc.)

Hitendra Gosain

CEO, Create Value

Hormazd Charna

Founder, MergerDomo

Ingeborg Gasser Kriss

Board Member, Advisor , Agent21

Ish Anand

Founder CEO, Business Doctors India

Jamie Cid

FI Mentor

Janet Todorova

Head of Expansion, Founder Institute

Janhvi Pradhan Deshmukh

Partner , Helios Legal

Jitender Ahlawat

Managing Partner, HJA & Associates LLP

Jyothis Ks

Co-Founder and Head of Sales, Zappy Hire

Kabir Kochhar

Founding Partner, The Glitch

Kairav Joshi

Founder and President, ChessUniversity.com

Kaselin Naidoo

Advisor, TEMAMII South Africa

Kevin Chetty

Founder CEO, Macrocomm Financial Services / Xtenda Housing Finance

Kishore Reddy

Founder CEO, KK Corp

Kshitij Naik

Partner , Sigma Ventures

Kshitij Puri

Founder & CEO, Ziploan

Lloyd Mathias

Business Strategist, Angel Investor & Ind Director, Self employed

Madhu Kiran

FI Mentor

Mahendra Lalwani

CEO, TelExcell Information System Ltd.

Mani Agarwal

Founder, I Wear My Style

Manish Johari

Senior Vice President & Partner - Investor Relations, Agility

Manoj Bhalla

Founder , (In Stealth Mode)

Mark Taylor

FI Mentor

Meghna Saraogi

Founder & CEO, Styledotme

Meher Gaurav

HR Consultant, EVENTZFORCE

Mercedes Bankston

Founder, Funderstar LTD

Mohd Siraj

Founder, Creator's Gurukul

Monika Agarwal

Private Wealth Manager, Bank of America Merill Lynch

Nakul Kumar

CoFounder, Cashify

Namit Pandey

Co-Founder, Autoflik

Nandini Rathi

CMO, Betaout.com

Narendra Arora

Partner, Arora Associates

Neeraj Mehta

FI Mentor

Neeraj Tyagi

Managing Partner, Venture Catalysts

Neeraj Saxena

Managing Partner, XScale

Neerav Jain

Co-Founder, CityFurnish

Nidhi Goyal

VP programs, Tata IIS

Nirav Choksi

Co-Founder & CEO, CredAble

Nisary Mahesh

Founder, Her Money Talks

Nishant Jain

Co-Founder, Toffee Insurance

Nitin Sethi

Vice President Digital, Indigo

Nitin Bajaj

Founder, EasyLeadz

Pankaj Judge

Founder, Chai Thela

Parul Tongaria

FI Mentor

Pawan Gupta

CoFounder, Curofy

Prabhat Kumar

Co-Founder & CEO, DreamSol TeleSolutions Pvt. Ltd. & Over2Cloud

Pramod Joshi

Advisor, Organizational Strategy & HR, myKaarma

Pranay Gupta

Co-Founder, 91springboard

Prateek Nijhawan

Founder , (In Stealth Mode)

Puneet Gupta

Investor & Entrepreneur, SimpliLend

Puneet Ahuja

Founder & CEO, Urja Unlimited

Purnima Anand

President, BRICS International Forum

Rabeth Khan

Founder & CEO , Maccom, Bangladesh

Rachna Khanna

Founder, Hatchtact

Rachna Nath

Executive Director, Microsoft

Rahul Chakraborti

Founder, Twyst.in

Rahul Dev

Director, Tech Corp International Consultants Pte. Ltd. (Singapore)

Rahul Agarwalla

Managing Partner, SenseAI ventures

Rahul Aulakh

Sales Partner, Target G

Raj Saxena

Founder & CEO, Cygnet Infotech

Rajiv Thaper

Director - APAC, MongoDB

Rajiv Nair

FI Mentor

Rakesh Sinha

Senior Engineering Manager, Google

Ramanuj Mukherjee

Founder, Superlawyer.in

Ranendra Datta

Advisor, CACHATTO

Riitu Chugh

Founder, Third Eye Catalyst

Rishabh Sawansukha

Co-Founder, Cloudacar.org

Saarthak Bakshi

CEO, RISAA IVF

Sahil Jain

CoFounder, Dineout

Sahil Baweja

Co Founder & Partner, Now Capital Group

Sahil Sapru

Consultant, Boston Consulting Group

Sakshi Vij

Founder, Myles

Sameer Gupta

CFO, Grex

Sameer Gupta

Director, Innovitas

Sameer Sortur

Founding Partner, SquareCircle Ventures

Sanchit Sethi

Founder StayUncle, StayUncle

Satyaprem Upadhyay

CEO, Nojoto

Saumyajit Guha

Co-Principal, Jaarvis Accelerator

Saurabh Kaushik

Founder & CEO, Peopleist India

Seema Jhingan

Partner and Co-Founder , LexCounsel, Law Offices

Shankar Nanivadekar

Founder CEO, Gyany Customer Solutions

Shaswati Saradar

Dy CEO, SayeNvest Caps Advisory

Shikha Suman

Founder, CEO, Medi Mojo, Sampling Research

Shivam Tandon

Co Founder, Xander Law

Shreyasi Singh

FI Mentor

Shuchin Bajaj

Founding Director, Cygnus Medicare

S M Raunaque Mustafa

Founder & CEO, StartupActivator.com

Subhajit Bhattacharya

Senior Program Manager - Innovation & Intelligent Automation, Accenture

Subhradeep Bhowmik

FI Mentor

Subhrangshu Neogi

Mentor, YourNest Venture Capital

Sudhir Garg

Director Marketing, Tata Communications Ltd

Sumit Garg

Founder CEO, Encriss Technologies

Sumit Maloo

Founder CEO, BuySupplies.in

Sunil Goyal

Managing Director, YourNest Venture Capital

Sunil Thakur

Managing Director, Quadria Capital

Sunil Cherian

SR VP, Wells Fargo Bank

Supriya Paul

Co-Founder, Josh Talks

Suresh Kabra

Founder, PriceMap Ventures LPP

Tamanna Dhamija

Co-Founder, BabyDestination

Tushar Agrawal

Seed Investor, TrueTribe VC

Uday Krishna

Venture Capital Advisor & Investor, Seed Stars

Utkarsh Nanda

TechnicalSenior Product Manager, Amazon

Vaibhav Jain

FI Mentor

Vandana Seth

Co-Founder, R V Solutions

Varun Chandra

FI Mentor

Varun Puri

CPO, InFeedo

Vibhore Sharma

CTO, Naukri.com

Vikas Lakhani

CoFounder, Insta Office

Vikas Bagaria

Founder, Pee Safe

Vikas Vikram

Vice President Portfolio, Niva Bupa

Vinod Madhok

Chairman , Council SME

Vishal Chandra

FI Mentor

Vivek Kapoor

CoFounder, Dineout

Vivek Agarwal

CoFounder, Square Yards

Vivek Yadav

Founder CEO, Entecres Lab

Vk Gupta

CTO & Head of OTT Business - DishTV, Director - Founder Institute

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