26th March 2020 | 12:00PM IST
COVID-19 and the novel corona virus pandemic has disrupted daily life as we
know it and caused the India and world economies to freefall into massive
downward spiral.
A distinguished panel of Investors & venture capitalists will discuss how
this global crisis will affect the Indian startup ecosystem in general and
funding for startups in particular.
Sanjay is well known for his founding role at ZipDial (now acquired by Twitter) and his role at mChek, the path breaking startup in secure payments, Sanjay has trodden the path of an entrepreneur all through his career. After completing his bachelor's degree in engineering, Sanjay headed to Paris where he earned his Master's degree.
After a stint at Xerox PARC in Palo Alto, Sanjay embarked on a journey to build world class teams and products that took him through startups like Ketera and Portal Software, mChek, Zipdial & Ezetap which he co‐founded in 2010.
An active member of the community, Sanjay is a Rotarian and a charter member of TiE, a volunteer at iSPIRT, and organizes the Fintech Panel at the Nasscom Product Conclave. He also played a prominent role on the UIDAI project under the leadership of Nandan Nilekani. He is a frequent speaker and evangelist in the entrepreneurship and payments circuits in the country. Sanjay loves to blog ‐ anything you say that is half‐way intelligent will turn into a subject for his blog.
Anjali is the founder of Avaana Capital, a fund platform that invests in and
supports scaling up of startups. Avaana backs exceptional entrepreneurs who
leverage innovation to solve large problems and catalyze impact while
generating returns.
She is the chairperson of the Investment Council of NITI Aayog's Fintech and
Women Entrepreneurship Platform. She was appointed as the Non-Executive
Chairperson by the Government of India to steer the merger of Dena Bank with
Bank of Baroda. She was previously global Partner and Managing Director with
TPG Growth PE responsible for India, SE Asia, Africa and Middle East. She
was the Global Partner, India CEO with Spencer Stuart and co-headed their
Asia Boards practice. She was a strategy consultant with McKinsey and Co in
New York and India. She chaired the India board of Women's World Banking, a
leading global livelihood-promoting institution and continues to be an
advisor to SEWA.
As an early investor in InMobi and InfoEdge, two of India's billion dollar
technology companies, Sandeep Murthy is one of the builders of India's
Internet economy. And he hasn't just seen the highs and lows play out as an
investor, but actually roughed it out in operational roles including one as
the CEO of Cleartrip in 2006 for three years.
Most of his time is spent figuring how to make something unprecedented
happen. With an all-in, nothing-held-back style, he loves diving in, getting
to the heart of the matter, trying new things and getting as many people as
possible involved. In a somewhat unpredictable market, Sandeep's investment
success stems from a combination of deep product instinct and unconventional
thinking.
Tej Kapoor has over twelve years of experience in e-commerce, media,
Internet and B2B information industries. He has work experiences in India,
China, the US and the UK.
Fosun RZ current portfolio in India includes Gland Pharma, Delhivery,
Makemytrip, Ixigo and Kissht.
Kapoor previously was the county head for Daily Mail Group of London where
he led investments in B2C and B2B businesses including Propstack, Liases
Foras and Skymet (agri risk and data company) and also established Daily
Mail India office. Before that, Kapoor worked for Naspers India as strategy
head.
Ashish Fafadia is a Partner at Blume Ventures, who manages the Growth Portfolio and all Exits, other than being responsible for a significant portion of the Fund's own capital raising. An early member of Blume since 2012, Ashish led the establishment of Blume’s platform and support services arm, Constellation Blu, that has grown into a 40-member team, providing a wide range of advisory services such as transaction
support, regulatory, compliance services and hiring for portfolio companies.
He was listed as a part of the “40 UNDER 40” ALTERNATIVE INVESTMENT PROFESSIONALS IN INDIA by AIWMI.
He was also listed by YourStory’s as a part of 100 Emerging Voices of 2019 in India.
Ashish is a Chartered Accountant, who has worked with SBI Treasury and the Bennett Coleman Company (Times Group) before joining Blume. At Blume, he has Board responsibility amongst Fintech companies such as Turtlemint and Slice, as well as
some of our strong growth companies such as Purplle and NowFloats.