Ravindra Barlingay

Venture Catalysts is Indias first Multi-Stage VC, dedicated to backing the most promising entrepreneurs in India, the worlds fastest growing startup ecosystem. Having started in 2016, we are amongst the most active investors in India with USD 200Mn+ deployed across 300+ companies through our syndication platform. The combined valuation of the portfolio companies is USD 10Bn+. We typically invest 0.25 Mn - 2 Mn across seed to early stage companies & are sector agnostic. Our 4000+ investor community is spread across 20+ countries in the world including India, Singapore, UAE, USA, UK, Hong Kong, Thailand, South Korea, Japan, Canada, Qatar, Oman, Mauritius, South Africa, Kenya, Zimbabwe & more. We are backed by some of the most marquee investors from India: Radhakishan Damani (DMart), Haldiram’s, Enam Securities, Ashish Kacholia (Lucky Investments), Authum Investments, Shahrukh Khan (Bollywood), Aishwarya Rai Bachchan (Bollywood), Abhijit Pawar (Sakal Media Group), Utpal Sheth (Trust Group), Vinod Dugar (RDB Group), Hardik Patel (Finquest), Karthik Sundar Iyer, Mukul Agarwal (Param Caputal), Capri Global, Anil Singhvi (Zee Business), Aman Gupta (boAt), Ritesh Agarwal (OYO), Nirmit Parikh (Apna), Srinath Ramakkrushnan (Zetwerk), among others. The Venture Catalysts ecosystem of funds includes: 100 Unicorns | USD 100 Mn | Early stage accelerator fund Beams Fintech Fund | USD 80 Mn | India’s first growth-stage fintech fund Elev8 Venture Partners | USD 160 Mn | Growth technology fund for series B & C investments Spyre Proptech Venture Fund | USD 50 Mn | Indias first proptech fund in partnership with CREDAI VC Grid | Exclusive community for family offices & CVCs Collectively, the group manages over USD 500 Mn and has supported 400+ companies. If you are a startup founder looking to raise capital, write to us at ideas@venturecatalysts.in If you are an investor, write to us at investors@venturecatalysts.in

AI Frontier Network (AIFN) documents, connects, and accelerates the people deploying production AI inside real organizations. The network focuses on the operating layer of artificial intelligence, where systems must perform under constraints such as reliability, governance, cost, and risk. As enterprise AI shifts from experimentation to infrastructure, the frontier is increasingly defined by operational maturity. AIFN brings together engineers, founders, operators, and executive leaders responsible for making AI work in practice. Through structured perspectives, insight panels, and practitioner contributions, the network captures working knowledge from those building and running AI systems at scale. The goal is to create a clear, continuously evolving picture of how AI is actually being deployed across industries. AI Frontier Network exists to increase signal around real-world AI implementation and to map the professionals shaping this transition.

Founded in 2004, CEdge is Minority Owned, St. Louis business company with a dedicated team of enterprise solutions architects and experienced technology professionals. Our Management and advisory board has exceptional leaders with several years of experience in commercial and federal sector. CEdge is built to be more responsive and innovative than larger competitors, while offering a depth of talent, capabilities, and experience that smaller companies just can’t match. We work closely with our customers to explore all appropriate technology options to find the best solution. This unique approach to systems integration, combined with our use of agile methodologies and open-source technology, gives our talented and experienced consultants the insight and tools they need to take government IT solutions to a whole new level.

The Centre of Excellence for Data Science and AI, powered by NASSCOM, is a pivotal initiative of the Government of Karnataka towards positioning the state as a premier global destination for Artificial intelligence. Key objectives of the CoE, DS & AI – 1. Fostering disruptive innovation and entrepreneurial eco-system and further make the state of Karnataka, the Indian global destinations in Data Science and Artificial Intelligence space. 2. Enabling deep research benefiting various industries (IT & Non-IT) as well as the Government. 3. Enhancing consumption of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence solutions and thus data-driven decision making within Government and User Enterprises (Non-IT industries) 4. Creating quality human capital to meet the analytics talent requirements.

Venture Catalysts is Indias first Multi-Stage VC, dedicated to backing the most promising entrepreneurs in India, the worlds fastest growing startup ecosystem. Having started in 2016, we are amongst the most active investors in India with USD 200Mn+ deployed across 300+ companies through our syndication platform. The combined valuation of the portfolio companies is USD 10Bn+. We typically invest 0.25 Mn - 2 Mn across seed to early stage companies & are sector agnostic. Our 4000+ investor community is spread across 20+ countries in the world including India, Singapore, UAE, USA, UK, Hong Kong, Thailand, South Korea, Japan, Canada, Qatar, Oman, Mauritius, South Africa, Kenya, Zimbabwe & more. We are backed by some of the most marquee investors from India: Radhakishan Damani (DMart), Haldiram’s, Enam Securities, Ashish Kacholia (Lucky Investments), Authum Investments, Shahrukh Khan (Bollywood), Aishwarya Rai Bachchan (Bollywood), Abhijit Pawar (Sakal Media Group), Utpal Sheth (Trust Group), Vinod Dugar (RDB Group), Hardik Patel (Finquest), Karthik Sundar Iyer, Mukul Agarwal (Param Caputal), Capri Global, Anil Singhvi (Zee Business), Aman Gupta (boAt), Ritesh Agarwal (OYO), Nirmit Parikh (Apna), Srinath Ramakkrushnan (Zetwerk), among others. The Venture Catalysts ecosystem of funds includes: 100 Unicorns | USD 100 Mn | Early stage accelerator fund Beams Fintech Fund | USD 80 Mn | India’s first growth-stage fintech fund Elev8 Venture Partners | USD 160 Mn | Growth technology fund for series B & C investments Spyre Proptech Venture Fund | USD 50 Mn | Indias first proptech fund in partnership with CREDAI VC Grid | Exclusive community for family offices & CVCs Collectively, the group manages over USD 500 Mn and has supported 400+ companies. If you are a startup founder looking to raise capital, write to us at ideas@venturecatalysts.in If you are an investor, write to us at investors@venturecatalysts.in