Prajakt has been a participant in the startup eco-system since 2004, when he had taken a sabbatical to be the director of TiE Asia. His personal goal in life is to encourage and assist a 100,000 people to become entrepreneurs.

Previously, he was Vice President at Indian Angel Network and Asia Director for The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE). Prajakt also co-founded Orange Cross and was a founding member of Idealake Technologies.

Prajakt’s book, ‘Starting Up & Fund Raising’, helps entrepreneurs understand the perspective of investors and the building blocks of a business.

Ashish is the Co-Founder & Managing Director of GrowX Ventures, a venture firm that invests in entrepreneurs building tech focused B2B companies in India (with a bias towards deep/ emerging technologies) to solve hard, real-world problems.

Over the years, GrowX has backed 38 teams leveraging technology to build disruptive businesses. Few of the investments include Locus (Automating supply chain decisions); Fynd (Helping consumer brands leveraging technology); Ziploan (building easier access to working capital loans for MSMEs); Quandl (building a data marketplace); Pixxel (building a constellation of nano-satellites); Wellthy (developing digital therapeutics platform), RACE (building EV infrastructure specifically for 2/3W segment) and many other market creators.

Ashish has led investments in a wide range of sectors including technology, financial services, tech-enabled marketplaces, and renewable energy, and sits on the Board of multiple firms.

Prior to GrowX, Ashish was the Country Manager at Vertex in India (private equity backed – Oak Hill Capital, GenNx360), and was responsible for managing business growth and service delivery. Ashish was the part of the start team at Vertex, responsible for managing project transition and enterprise quality, scaled to 2,500+ strong organization.

Before Vertex, Ashish spent a few years in management consulting with Accenture/ Andersen consulting and led various assignments for leading Indian business groups covering strategy, business process reengineering, and large-scale ERP implementations.

Ashish is a Chartered Accountant and has participated in the Executive Management Program at IIM Ahmedabad.

Lalit has 25 years of experience across key functions like Investment Banking, Transaction Advisory, Financial Planning & Analysis. 

His prior experiences include senior positions with leading organizations like SRF Finance, PWC, HCL Comnet, and Genpact. He is a Chartered Accountant from the ICAI and Cost Accountant from the Institute of Cost & Works accountants of India.

Madhvi has 8 years of experience across key functions like Financial Planning & Analysis, Financial Modelling, Valuation and strategy.

She has previously worked with organisations like KPMG, EY, Jubilant Food works and Lumis Partners.

She is a Chartered Accountant from ICAI and has done her MBA (EPGDIB) from IIFT Delhi.

She is enthusiastic about seeing entrepreneurs’ dreams converting into successful businesses.

Rohit is Managing Partner and Co-Founder of Lumis Partners. 

He has been working across a global footprint, in creating strategies & building a synergistic portfolio of businesses for the Firm, whose philosophy is – investing, building and scaling Managed Services Companies in domains with fragmented value chains. 

Rohit’s background has been in running technology & services businesses; managing M&As; and leading large Initiatives.