Shashank Gupta

Accel is a global venture capital firm that is the first partner to exceptional teams everywhere, from inception through all phases of private company growth. Atlassian, Bumble, CrowdStrike, Fiverr, Flipkart, Freshworks, Qualtrics, Scale, Segment, Slack, Spotify, Squarespace, Tenable, and UiPath are among the companies Accel has backed over the past 40+ years. We help ambitious entrepreneurs build iconic global businesses. For more, visit www.accel.com or www.twitter.com/accel.

Guided by our True North, we at Gemba Capital back tech enabled startups that are scalable and looking for seed funding. What we look for? At Gemba Capital we look for three things: Founder, Market and Product. • Ability, passion and vision in a founder. • Size, competition and growth in a market. • Need, differentiation and value in a product. We are sector agnostic, however below are our focus areas: SaaS, Fintech, B2B Commerce, Agri tech Our ideal investment will be: We look to invest in visionary founders, strong in execution and with complementary skill sets Significant growth potential over the next 3 to 5 years. Startups having paying customers. We prefer backing founders with at least 4-5 years of prior experience Differentiated products or services that have the potential to be "platforms“ Products or services which solve a particular problem or caters to a particular need/gap in the market How we invest? We typically invest US$200-250K per company. We are open to investing through convertible structures and instruments, however we prefer straight equity. Please visit our website to check our portfolio, team and advisors and to reach out to us !!

Carpediem Capital is a Private Equity firm focused on the India consumption opportunity through investments in emerging SME leaders. Investments are centered on two broad consumption themes - companies that are creating consumer brands or are providing organized services that have been traditionally unorganized and fragmented. The Fund serves as an ideal platform to make significant minority and control investments in fast-growing SME companies.

Accel is a global venture capital firm that is the first partner to exceptional teams everywhere, from inception through all phases of private company growth. Atlassian, Bumble, CrowdStrike, Fiverr, Flipkart, Freshworks, Qualtrics, Scale, Segment, Slack, Spotify, Squarespace, Tenable, and UiPath are among the companies Accel has backed over the past 40+ years. We help ambitious entrepreneurs build iconic global businesses. For more, visit www.accel.com or www.twitter.com/accel.

Guided by our True North, we at Gemba Capital back tech enabled startups that are scalable and looking for seed funding. What we look for? At Gemba Capital we look for three things: Founder, Market and Product. • Ability, passion and vision in a founder. • Size, competition and growth in a market. • Need, differentiation and value in a product. We are sector agnostic, however below are our focus areas: SaaS, Fintech, B2B Commerce, Agri tech Our ideal investment will be: We look to invest in visionary founders, strong in execution and with complementary skill sets Significant growth potential over the next 3 to 5 years. Startups having paying customers. We prefer backing founders with at least 4-5 years of prior experience Differentiated products or services that have the potential to be "platforms“ Products or services which solve a particular problem or caters to a particular need/gap in the market How we invest? We typically invest US$200-250K per company. We are open to investing through convertible structures and instruments, however we prefer straight equity. Please visit our website to check our portfolio, team and advisors and to reach out to us !!

Carpediem Capital is a Private Equity firm focused on the India consumption opportunity through investments in emerging SME leaders. Investments are centered on two broad consumption themes - companies that are creating consumer brands or are providing organized services that have been traditionally unorganized and fragmented. The Fund serves as an ideal platform to make significant minority and control investments in fast-growing SME companies.

The Birla Institute of Technology & Science (BITS), Pilani is a prestigious Indian university for higher education in science, technology and humanities. BITS Pilani has consistently ranked amongst the top universities in India. The acceptance rate of BITS Pilani is 1.47% making it the most selective university in India. The primary motive of BITS is to "train young men and women able and eager to create and put into action such ideas, methods, techniques and information"​. The Institute is a dream come true of its founder late Mr G.D.Birla - an eminent industrialist, a participant in Indian freedom struggle and a close associate of the Father of Indian Nation late Mr. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (Mahatma Gandhi). What started in early 1900s as a small school, blossomed into a set of colleges for higher education, ranging from the Humanities to Engineering until 1964 when all these colleges amalgamated to culminate into a unique Indian University of International standing. This university was christened as the Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, known to many as BITS, Pilani. Over the years, BITS has provided the highest quality technical education to students from all over India admitted on the basis of merit. Its graduates may be found throughout the world in all areas of engineering, science and commerce. BITS symbolizes the maturing of Indian technical ability and "can-do"​ entrepreneurial spirit, especially as derived from the private sector. BITS is located in the Vidya Vihar campus adjacent to the town of Pilani in Rajasthan. Admission is merit-based, as assessed by the online BITSAT examination. The fully residential institute is privately supported.