Pramod Varghese – Ubikwites – Sprout Venture Partners Fund

At the Connected Ideas With Money session this morning, Pramod Varghese pitched Ubikwites – a Mysore-based Startup that provides tech-driven global Marketing, Sales and Export Management services. “Majority of Indian manufacturers of engineering goods, organic chemicals and Biotechnology products (sectors the startup is currently focussing on) – either struggle or never go out to sell […]

Luvnit Sawhney – Hotsauce – Sprout Venture Partners Fund

Luvnit Sawhney is seen here pitching Hotsauce – an App Startup, that allows customers at restaurants to order food and drink from their Smartphones straight to their table. Hotsauce is currently working with 12 restaurants and 1 hotel to make this service available and aims to revolutionize the casual dining industry. “Have you ever been […]

Taranbir Sahni – VSnapu – Sprout Venture Partners Fund

Taranbir Sahni is seen pitching VsnapU [vsnapu.com] – an online aggregator of photographers. Founder Parminder Sahni calls it the “uber for photographers”. It started off with a pilot in Munnar to validate the idea. Contrary to what one would assume that people on holiday want their privacy, Parminder found that converting tourists into customers was […]

Veer Shubhranshu Shrivastav – Tech Talks India – Sprout Venture Partners Fund

Veer Shubhranshu Shrivastav is seen pitching Tech Talks India – an Edtech Startup that is “bridging the gap between Engineering graduates and employers through education, assessment and Hiring.” “Engineering students aspiring for a bright future in software industry often come across various challenges during campus placements due to the lack of required technical skillset,” says Veer. […]

Thennavan Elancheral – Dowhistle – Sprout Venture Partners Fund

Thennavan Elancheral pitching Cupertino-based Dowhistle – an API-based hyper-local tweet platform to connect ‘haves’ and ‘needs’ on the go. The founders are Raja Appachi and Karthik. Both Founders are from Nandha Engineering College. While Raja holds a B.Sc Maths, MCA, Karthik holds a BCA, MCA. Raja has worked with Netflix and Sprint, while Karthik has […]

Sunil Jain – Sprout Venture Partners Fund

    At the ‘Connecting Ideas With Money’ session @ Lounge47 this morning, Sunil Jain of Sprout Venture Partners Fund is seen giving entrepreneurs feedback at the end of the session. He made a couple of points: Founders should introduce their teams at the beginning of the presentation. Investors are keen to know upfront ‘who’ […]

Nijil – Mashinga Memo – Exfinity Venture Partners

Bangalore-based Mashinga Memo is a SAAS- based solution – an “intelligent Meeting Assistant that makes team meetings productive and structured, tracks and follows-up tasks, shares screen over WiFi & serves as a ‘Voice Assistant’.” “More than half of business meetings are considered non-productive. Memo helps save time and uncertainty by bringing clarity, transparency and accountability to measure […]

Hemamali Gorthi & Sreenivas Karanam – TrakRay – Exfinity Venture Partners

TrakRay Innovations is a Bangalore-based Startup “developing precise indoor location tracking technology. The vision is to provide world class solutions for Location Of Things in the ever growing IoT market space.” Founders Hemamali Gorthi and Sreenivas Karanam graduated with a B.E from NITs and have 35+ years of combined work experience. They have worked at […]

Jaichander Ramesh – Sarcon – Exfinity Venture Partners

Jaichander Ramesh seen pitching – Sarcon (Sarcontech.com) – a cutting edge event app platform with a mission to make events more intelligent. “We are going after the ~$60 billion/yr event tech market,” says Jaichander. Sarcon is a NASSCOM 10K company founded by ex Intel, Oracle and Kellog employees. Sarcon not only creates event apps for […]

Sharad & Preeti Javeri – Kidstiffin – Exfinity Venture Partners

Kidstiffin is a foodtech Startup that supplies “healthy delicious vegetarian meals to school children and school staff.” It is Bangalore-based and a venture of Sivanta Software PvT Ltd. “Our platform specializes in kids meals. We take care of all the food catering requirement of schools- bulk meals to schools, individual lunch box delivery, canteen supplies, […]