Utkarsh Garg

That’s a wrap on InvestoPitch 2.0 (pitch day) - a unique investment platform for startups to raise funds, generate leads, and enable deal closures. As a former founder with experience in designing leadership programs, media and storytelling, had the pleasure to help prepare our cohort founders for this accelerated funding event. We had some very promising solutions from emerging sectors including, biotech, industry 4.0, AI/ML, renewable energy, health tech, climate tech, circular economy, and green energy. Startups Pitched = 16 Participating Investors = 30+ 1 on 1 Meetings Conducted (on event day) = 75+ Had pleasure to host friends and our partner investors for the program. With transparent evaluation process, scoring and speed dating - investors were able to make up their mind while founders got 360 degree visibility with feedbacks. Also had the pleasure to host and listen deep insights from ecosystem and tales of building global business from India from some of the most respected leaders like Pawan Danwar sir, President & CFO, HCL, Rajat Kathuria sir, Dean, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, SNU, & our guest of honor, Mahesh Sachdev, President, UAE - India Business Council & retired diplomat who shared insights into industry trends to secure investments. Thanks everyone for being a part of InvestoPitch 2.0 and making it a success. Anand Govindaluri ANIL TANEJA Anil Joshi Mayuresh Raut Mahavir Pratap Sharma Rajesh Ranjan Dhianu Das Chandran Krishnan Manish Johari Agam Gupta Abhishek Kakkar Pushpa Saroj Alankrita Khera Shazib Siddique Sandro Stephen Mukesh Kestwal Aatif Jamal Yukta Kelkar Govind Kedia Piyush Lohia Ritvik Jain Jeel Doshi Nagendra Khatri T S Giridharan Shivank Tripathi Divyansh Rastogi Maneesh Rajeev Manjrekar Shantanu Chaturvedi Achyut Chandra 🇮🇳 ▪ AC ▪ Udayan Dasgupta HCLTech Shiv Nadar University Shiv Nadar University - Atal Incubation Centre SSN College of Engineering Startup India NITI Aayog Official

It was fun & pleasure to host, curate & partner with The Economic Times for ETSoonicorn Summit'25 in Bangalore. Idea was to have best minds & capital in one room. Spotlighting "India's Next Breakout Startups" Thanks to co-partners, investors, startups & team for making the idea come to life. We have some fantastic action lined-up \ (•◡•) / Mentors, Investors and Guests: CM Grover, Pawan Danwar, Pulkit, Nikhil, Naimil, Aswani, Manu, Chandran, MANOJ, Ganesh, Manish, Rohit, Sruthi, Kirti, Bhavika, Suresh, Saptarishi, Vishal, Divya, Abhishek, CA Manish, Sumit, Karan, Nivin Sheeba Khan, jatin dabas, Shehla Naaz Adil ' Rupali Khanna ARSH ABBAS, K Krishna Mohan -------------- 360 ONE | Shiv Nadar University - Atal Incubation Centre | Tracxn | Startup Karnataka | Government of Karnataka MeitY Startup Hub | Draper Startup House | Headstart Network Foundation

India needs more ecosystem plays and collaboration playbooks in place to drive economic and innovation growth. Last weekend at the GCC Summit, IIT Kanpur - had the opportunity to discuss the blueprint to create a replicable playbook that transform India's premier institutions into engines of global innovation, directly fueling the GDP of their states. I got the opportunity to discuss the key pillars, where strategic initiatives and collaboration can create an ecosystem for growth by enabling and aligning: 🔹Academia - as the R&D & talent hub 🔹Philanthropy - providing patient capital 🔹Corporates/GCCs - driving demand & adoption 🔹Investors - funding commercialization Followed from insights as shared by - Alok kumar (Principal Secretary, Planning, Govt. of UP), Sanjeev Kumar Gupta, ISS (CEO, KDEM), Kiran Cherukuri (EVP, HCL Tech), Manindra Agrawal (Director, IITK), and other leaders - here are some.. Key takeaways for corporates/GCCs to accelerate real-world innovation: 1. Move beyond funding to co-creation. Partner, don't just patronize 2. Embrace founder flexibility. Allow teams to work on their terms—sometimes from within your offices to drive action 3. Align Business Units directly with POCs. For scale-ups to work, they need internal visibility and championing to gain trust Had good time interacting and getting insights from leaders, mates and seniors, driving impact like: Rajesh Kumar Ojha (PwC), Vivek Jha (Eli Lily), Bibhu Choudhary (Trimble India), Jimmi James (Lowe's), Amit Verma (Nasscom), Kapil Kaul (IITKDF), Anurag Singh (IITK), Anand Sri Ganesh (NSRECL), Sanjay Sikdar (Samsung), Sandeep Sharma (Tech Mahindra), Venkatesh Kidambi (Vahan Mudra), Nilesh Kulkarni (Thoughtworks), Anuraag Dubey (VectorXdb), D Anil Kumar (Infor), Ronak Ajmera (JSA), Vineet Srivastava (GSK), Reema Mittal (IITK), Aditya Agrawal (SuperU), Dr Vibhuti Aggarwal (RTAF), Dr Aparajita Prasad and others. Grateful to the Alumni Association IIT Kanpur, Startup Master Class, Jai & Tarun sir for the invite. The playbook is being written. More action in Uttar Pradesh 🚀 #CorporateInnovation #GCC