Karthi S. Mariappan

The Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, is among the foremost of institutes of national importance in higher technological education and in basic and applied research. The Institute, with nearly 360 faculty, 4000 students, 1250 administrative and supporting staff, is a self-contained campus and is located in a beautiful, wooded land of about 250 hectares in South Madras

Kae Capital Management Pvt Ltd. (Kae Capital) is an venture capital firm founded in 2008 by Sasha Mirchandani. The firm is headquartered in Mumbai, India.

Dallas Venture Capital LLC (Dallas Venture Capital) is a venture capital firm founded in 2011 by Prabhakar Reddy, Abidali Z. Neemuchwala and Dayakar Puskoor. The firm is headquartered in Irving, Texas.

Citylitics, Inc. provides water industry information and data platform. It specializes in early intelligence into utility pain points and needs. The firm’s services are primarily used by water industry leaders to gain a competitive advantage when pursuing potential municipal water infrastructure projects. The company was founded by Ahmed Badruddin and Sunit Mohindroo in 2011 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

Loanzen Technologies Pvt Ltd. provides short term working capital loans for small businesses. The company was founded by Ritesh Kadmawala, Madhu Sudhan, and Venkatesh Sankararaman in 2015 and is headquartered in Bangalore, India.

Heuristix Digital Technologies Pvt Ltd. develops learning delivery applications for K-12 schools, online educators, and corporate. It offers training programs to tutoring and online learning ventures, K-12 schools, and corporates on a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform. The company was founded by Subramanian Viswanathan and Kuljit Singh Charanjit Chadha on November 1, 2015 and is headquartered in Chennai, India.

Hypernova Interactive Digital Entertainment Pvt Ltd. develops fun multiplayer games for mobile. The company was founded by Mayur Bhimjiyani and Huzaifa Arab in 2015 and is headquartered in Bangalore, India.

Halaplay Technologies Pvt Ltd. engages in development of daily fantasy sports (DFS) platform that empowers serious and casual sports enthusiasts to play cash based games. The company was founded by Ananya Singhal, Aman Kesari,Swapnil Saurav, and Prateek Anand on August 31, 2016 and is headquartered in Bangalore, India.

Equals 3 LLC engages in the provision of advertising and marketing solutions using AI (artificial intelligence). Its primary product is Lucy, an AI-powered knowledge management platform. The company was founded by Dan Mallin, Marc Dispensa, and Scott A. Litman in 2015 and is headquartered in Minneapolis, MN.

StepFunction, Inc. is a company based on making SaaS operations a science by utilizing advanced analytics to customer behavior signals and operational data. The company is based in Palo Alto, CA. The company's mission is to empower SaaS clients with data-driven, real-time, and actionable insights to retain and upsell to the right customers. StepFunction's customer intent engine leverages machine learning to achieve top-line growth through increased customer retention, reduced churn, and targeted upselling. The company was founded by Navneet Singh, Tej Kohli. Navneet Singh has been the CEO since incorporation.

Foundamental Management GmbH (Foundamental) is a venture capital firm, a subsidiary of HeidelbergCement International Holding GmbH, founded in 2018. The firm is headquartered in Berlin, Germany.