Karl Mehta

As home to more than 39 million people, California boasts one of the world's largest economies. The "Golden State"​ lies against the Pacific Ocean just north of Mexico and south of Oregon. California is widely known for its pioneers and leaders in technology and film production.

Simpa Networks is an award-winning, venture-backed social enterprise with a bold mission: to make modern energy simple, affordable, and accessible to everyone. Simpa sells solar-as-a-service to energy poor households and micro-enterprises that lack access to electricity in rural areas. Simpa helps its customers transform a daily expenditure for energy into ownership of a valuable asset using our innovative solar leasing model called 'Progressive Purchase'​. Customers make a small initial payment to get a high-quality solar PV system installed. Using pay-as-you-go approach (PAYG), each subsequent payment for the energy service also contributes towards the final purchase price. Once fully paid, the system unlocks permanently and delivers free solar energy for years. Simpa's model is enabled by its patented metering technology, deep rural sales reach and attractive customer financing. This business model is disruptive and highly scalable, re-imagining the value chain for delivering energy access at the base of the economic pyramid. We're present in India as Simpa Energy with our head office in Noida, and rural operations across several districts of Uttar Pradesh, Bihar & Odisha.

The Quad Investors Network was formed to develop innovative solutions to the greatest economic and security challenges facing the Quad nations in the Indo-Pacific region through joint research, co-investments, and strategic partnerships. The network will be an independent, membership forum composed of leading industry, government, capital market, and academic organizations from the Quad nations.

Private investment firm investing in businesses across the financial services sector including commercial and consumer finance, asset management and wealth management, insurance and insurance services, financial technology and tech-enabled business services.

EdCast, now part of Cornerstone OnDemand, offers a unified platform designed to operate end-to-end employee experience journeys spanning learning, skilling and career mobility. Its award-winning platform is used internationally by organizations ranging from large Global 2000 companies to small businesses and governments. With EdCast’s platforms, our customers are able to attract, develop and retain a high-performance and future-ready workforce. EdCasts offerings include its Talent Experience Platform, Spark for SMBs, Content Strategy & Solutions and MyGuide Digital Adoption Platform. EdCast is a World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer award recipient.

“Think Local, Hack Global” is the mantra for Code For India engineers who are building apps that empower marginalized communities with technology-based solutions to solve public service problems. Code For India is a non-profit organization based in Mountain View, CA and Bangalore, India. Its mission is to inspire millions of techies to volunteer their time and talent to give back to their communities and to the developing world. More information on Code For India – including the open source code for its solutions – please visit www.codeforindia.org.