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Avnish Bajaj is the co-founder and Managing Director of Matrix Partners India. Previously he was the co-founder, Chairman and CEO of India’s Largest Online Marketplace  Baazee.com  which was acquired by eBay. Prior to Baazee, Avnish was an Investment Banker with the Hi-Tech group at Goldman Sachs in New York and San Francisco. He was also a management consultant at McKinsey & Co. and started his career with Apple Computer in the Bay Area.

Avnish currently serves on the Board of Matrix India portfolio companies Yo! China (Chinese fast food chain), itzCash Card (pre paid cash card business) and Quikr (online local classifieds site). He is also an investor and advisor to Cleartrip (online Indian travel agent), Pangea3 (Legal Process Outsourcing business), Pinstorm (Search Marketing company) and Indus Biotech (Biotech Products Company). Avnish is also an active member of various industry forums with a particular focus on Entrepreneurship and also serves on Advisory Boards of the incubator cells at various IIT’s and IIM’s.

He is a Baker Scholar from Harvard Business School, WARF Fellow from University of Wisconsin -Madison and a Top Ranked Graduate in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur.

Binny Bansal, 27, from Chandigarh, is the co-founder and COO of Flipkart.com. A Computer Science Graduate from IIT Delhi (classmate of Sachin Bansal), Binny started his career at Sarnoff India as a software engineer, working on US Defence Projects. His next destination was Amazon.com, where he realized his interest in and the potential of e-commerce in the country.

In 2007, Binny along with long time friend, Sachin, launched Flipkart.com; retailing books to begin with but with dreams of dominating the Indian e-commerce market. At Flipkart, Binny is the force behind getting the customer interface and logistics right and that has been a constant challenge with Flipkart continually exploring new product categories and market segments. Binny believes that with its strong focus on technology and delivery, the Flipkart team will constantly better their services to match customer expectations and compete with the best, globally.  Binny is passionate about sports and loves to travel when he has the time!

Bejul focuses on the firm's investment activity in India and brings over fourteen years of operating, entrepreneurial and investment experience in the US and India to his role at Lightspeed. His background and investment interests encompass technology and non-technology businesses, and he currently sits on the boards of Itzcash Card, Four Interactive and the Great Indian Restaurant Company.

Prior to Lightspeed, Bejul was Co-Managing Director of Twiga Fiberglass, a leading manufacturer of thermal and acoustic insulation solutions in India and a partner of Saint Gobain, one of the largest building materials companies worldwide.

Before moving to India, Bejul was Co-Founder and Principal Investor of Open List, a US-based vertical web-search company that was acquired by Marchex, Inc. Prior to founding Open List, Bejul was a Principal at General Catalyst Partners, a leading East Coast venture and growth equity fund where he focused on early- and growth-stage investments in Internet, media, travel distribution, loyalty and other consumer-facing applied technology businesses.

Previously, Bejul was on the startup team of edu.com, a strategy consultant with Bain & Company and an equity capital markets banker at Salomon Brothers. Bejul holds a BSc in Economics from the London School of Economics and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Suvir Sujan is co-founder of Nexus Venture Partners.

Suvir has been an entrepreneur and one of the pioneers of the consumer internet in India. Suvir has been co-founder and co-CEO of Baazee.com, the leading online marketplace in India that merged with eBay in 2004 to form eBay India. Post the merger, Suvir was Country Manager, eBay India and Regional Director, Asia Pacific, PayPal. Suvir has also worked as a Management Consultant at the Boston Consulting Group. He began his career at Nortel Networks.

Suvir has an MBA from the Harvard Business School where he was the Co-President of the South Asian Business Association and a BS in Electrical Engineering (High Distinction) from the University of Maryland at College Park. He is a charter member of the Internet and Mobile Association of India and a mentor to several entrepreneurs in the consumer services sector in India. He sits on the board of the Global India Venture Capital Association.

Founded by Harish Bahl, the Smile Group is India's largest privately held investment company in the internet industry with extensive holdings in digital media, e-commerce & retail infrastructure. The Smile Group has businesses with global leading corporates like WPP Group, Yahoo!, ScanGroup, Group Buying Global AG, BrandAlliance Group & operational agreements with other global leaders like Sabre Holdings (Travelocity) & comScore Inc.

As a thought leader on the digital space in emerging markets, Harish has been a speaker in several prestigious international forums such as DLD 2009 & TED and is on the Advisory Board of leading global entities such as WPP Digital & comScore Inc. He is also an active member of NASSCOM & was the Ex-Chairman of IAMAI (Indian Digital Advertisers Forum). He is also the recipient of “Udyog Rattan” by Institute of Economic Studies, India for his contribution to the digital industry in India.

John Kuruvilla is the Founder and CEO of Taggle Internet Ventures Pvt. Ltd.
Taggle is the culmination of over 25 years of experience covering Marketing, Sales, Brand building, Customer Relations, Revenue Management and Pricing.

As Chief Revenue Officer at Air Deccan - India's pioneer in the Low Cost Airline business, John led a team that revolutionised almost every aspect of Marketing & Sales in the aviation space -be it in Pricing, Distribution,Route planning, Yield management and brand building.

As Executive Vice President at The Oberoi Group , John was responsible for Marketing for Oberoi Hotels and Resorts worldwide including Trident Hotels.
John comes with a rich background in advertising having spent over 14 years in some of the biggest agencies in the country like J Walter Thomson, Lintas( now Lowe) and Leo Burnett. John has been instrumental in the launch of several successful brands in the country and was part of the team behind award winning and memorable campaigns like Hamara Bajaj, Maruti Omni, Maruti Gypsy, Kawasaki Cheetah, Toyota Qualis and Hitachi air conditioners among others. He was also instrumental in winning a Cannes for Leo Burnett.

Taggle will be John's second entrepreneurial venture, the first being Propmart Technologies , which he started way back in the year 2000. As CEO & Managing Director of Propmart, John turned Propmart into a leading provider of real estate solutions across both online and offline platforms across India and the Middle East.

Kunal manages the strategic vision, key business relationships, fundraising and growth plans for Jasper. An engineer from University of Pennsylvania, with a business degree from The Wharton School and an executive marketing program at Kellogg School of Management, Kunal has a variety of entrepreneurial experiences. Prior experiences also included product management and business development with Microsoft's emerging markets group, and at Deloitte Consulting as a consultant in the company's telecom practice in New York and Pennsylvania. Outside of Jasper, Kunal has a passion for financial markets, cults and politics.

Murugavel Janakiraman firmly believes that the Internet’s power lies in its enormous flexibility and reach. He decided to leverage this power to provide a life-changing service and launched BharatMatrimony.com in 1997. What started off with a member base of 4000 is today making waves as the No. 1 Matrimonial Brand with over 20 million members worldwide. The company has been recognized by Limca Book of Records for record number of documented marriages online.

A Master’s Degree Holder in Computer Science from the University of Madras, Murugavel, started his career at the Chennai-based Nucleus Software and moved on to work as a consultant in the U.S for leading companies where he acquired valuable insights on Internet technologies.

Murugavel has been honored by the Asian Indian Chamber of Commerce as one of the Top 5 Asian Indian Businessmen in the United States (US) below the age of 35. He was also honored by the India Today Group as the “Business Icon of the Year” and “Udhyog Rattan” Award by Institute of Economic Studies.

Gifted with an entrepreneurial mind & innovative business sense, Murugavel currently heads the Consim Group as Chief Executive Officer, with the portfolio comprising of BharatMatrimony, PrivilegeMatrimony, CommunityMatrimony.com, EliteMatrimony.com, IndiaProperty.com, ClickJobs.com, IndiaAutomobile.com, and IndiaList.com. His vision to give back to the society through the Internet also spurred him to launch non-profit CSR initiatives like BharatBloodBank.com, BharatEyeBank.com and AbilityMatrimony.com

Mr. T C Meenakshisundaram (TCM) is founding Managing Director of IDG Ventures India, a US$150 Million early-stage technology venture capital fund backed by IDG, the world's largest IT-focused media company. He currently serves on the Board of Directors at Apalya Technologies, Aujas Networks and Connect.
Previously, TCM spent three years with Walden International's India investment team working on investments in companies such as Mindtree Consulting, Venture Infotek, Jobstreet and Webvisions, across a range of technology sectors.
Prior to joining IDG Ventures India, TCM served as Chief Financial Officer and President - Corporate Services at Venture Infotek, a leading payments processing company in India. He also worked for fourteen years with Wipro, India's leading global IT services firm.
Previously TCM has served on the Boards of Jobstreet India, Webvision India and VIeTrans. TCM is a Chartered Accountant by qualification.
    

Mahesh Murthy is the Managing Partner of seedfund. He has 26 years of marketing and advertising experience, of which 15 are in online marketing.
Mahesh has worked with Grey in India and Ogilvy in Hong Kong, where he won notoriety and awards as a creative director on HP, The Economist, Pepsi and MTV - for whom he wrote and directed a spot voted “Asia’s best commercial of the decade”.

He moved to a Silicon Valley firm, CKS Partners (later, USWeb/CKS) as Creative Director, GM and Partner – where he helped launch the first commercial version of Yahoo in 1995 and the Earth’s Biggest Bookstore campaign for Amazon.com in 1997. After a successful NASDAQ IPO, Mahesh moved to head marketing at iCat, an e-commerce firm in Seattle.

Mahesh then returned to India to run Channel V, till its sale to Newscorp in 2000 and then founded Passionfund to invest in startups. He believed there was a need for a pay-for-performance digital brand management firm, and set up Pinstorm in Bombay. With over 120 people across 6 offices in India, Singapore, Malaysia, Europe and the US, Pinstorm is today among the world's leading digital marketing firms.

Mahesh has a passion for early-stage investing and teamed up with Pravin Gandhi and Bharati Jacob (ex-Infinity) in 2006 to set up Seedfund, today a leading early-stage venture capital fund in India. Seedfund already has 12 investments, including Carwale, RedBus, AFAQs and Vaatsalya.

 

Kunal is the founder and CEO of HealthcareMagic, an online health management platform. HealthcareMagic is a pioneer in the web based interaction between doctors and patients across the globe, with many globally acclaimed doctors on its panel. Everyday, thousands of online users find answers to their health queries at HealthcareMagic. Before starting HealthcareMagic, Kunal was the founder and CEO of TechUnified, a mobile banking product company. TechUnified’s product was used by banks across many countries. TechUnified was acquired by a public listed entity in 2007. Kunal graduated from IIT Kanpur and was working at IBM before starting TechUnified.

Mohanjit Jolly is the Managing Director of DFJ India. Mohanjit relocated to India in September, 2007 to establish the DFJ India office and help manage DFJ's India portfolio. Mohanjit currently serves on the Boards of Attero, Canvera, Cleartrip,  iYogi, Mchek, Naseeb Networks, Pressmart, and Seventymm.

Mohanjit Jolly has spent the last ten years working with and investing in technology startups. Prior to DFJ, Mohanjit was Managing Director at Garage Technology Ventures, a seed and early stage venture capital firm. While at Garage, Mohanjit worked with over 30 companies, including LeftHand Networks, PureSight (BCGI), Jibe Networks (CTRX), Qumu, Thermoceramix, Kaboodle (Acq: Hearst Media) and SimplyHired. Prior to joining Garage, Mohanjit was part of the strategic planning group at Mattel where he helped launch the Mattel/Intel joint venture, Intel Play. He also spent several years in both engineering and business development roles with Itek Optical Systems, a manufacturer of high-resolution reconnaissance systems for both military and commercial use. While earning his M.B.A from the Anderson School at UCLA, Mohanjit helped launch ViaSpace, a technology incubator in Southern California in conjunction with Caltech and Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Mohanjit earned a B.S. and M.S. in Aeronautics and Astronautics from MIT, with a specialization in electric propulsion systems.

Shailendra is a Managing Director with Sequoia Capital India. Prior to joining the firm in 2006, Shailendra was a strategy consultant at Bain & Company in New York. Earlier, Shailendra was an entrepreneur in the digital media industry. Shailendra received an MBA with Distinction from Harvard Business School and a B.Tech in Chemical Engineering from IIT Mumbai. Shailendra is also a Kauffman Fellow.

K Vaitheeswaran is a successful, serial entrepreneur in the Indian retail industry. He is also an internet industry veteran and is seen as the pioneer for e-commerce in India.

In 2001, he co-founded the Fabmall chain of grocery stores which went on to become a leading brand in the Indian organized retail industry and was subsequently acquired by the Aditya Birla Group for approximately US $ 100 million and later re-branded as the More chain of stores.

He also co-founded www.fabmall.com, the company which pioneered internet retailing in India in 1999. K Vaitheeswaran is the founder, CEO and currently runs www.indiaplaza.in – India’s largest online shopping destination.

K Vaitheeswaran is a veteran in the Indian internet and digital media industry and is seen as the pioneer of the Indian e-commerce industry. In November 2006, the Pitch magazine listed him among the Top 20 people in the Indian Internet industry.

Since 1999, he has spent all his time and efforts in not only building his company into a position of industry leadership but has also been engaged in evangelizing the cause of e-commerce in India.

Vaitheeswaran holds an electronics engineering graduate from Government College of Engineering, Tirunelveli affiliated to the Madurai-Kamaraj University.

He began his career in 1985 with Murugappa Electronics (part of the Murugappa & Parry Group) wherein he was responsible for sales and later product management of Test & Measuring Instruments.

He then spent 10 years in Wipro Infotech (1989-99) where he held various positions in sales, marketing and business planning of Computers & Peripherals. His last assignment in Wipro was as the Marketing Communications Manager in the Computers & System Integration division where he was responsible for Wipro’s brand development for computers.

Vaitheeswaran is a regular speaker on internet & e-commerce related subjects at various industry forums and management institutes across India.

His other interests include reading and passionately following the fortunes of the Indian cricket team and till some time back he was a registered cricket umpire in the Karnataka State Cricket Association. He can be reached on vaithee@indiaplaza.in.

Mukesh founded Myntra in July 2006 with the vision of creating a marketplace where people can design and find unique, innovative gifts and products and where creative people can showcase their designs in order to monetize them. Mukesh has more than 10 years of experience in multiple early stage start-ups in Silicon Valley [NexTag, eWanted, Centrata, newScale] in various product management and development positions. Mukesh holds a B.Tech. degree in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur.

Mukesh believes that there is no end to the number of products that can be custom made one at a time at affordable cost for end consumers. His vision is to continuously innovate and expand the product offerings that customers can tailor to their individual tastes. Mukesh aims to build Myntra as the leading brand in the personalized products space through a combination of the widest product range, great quality and awesome buying experience.

Before joining Accel Partners in 2008, Subrata was a Partner at Erasmic Venture Fund. At Accel he focuses on Technology, Mobile & Internet. Subrata has served on the Boards of Small-device (now a part of Digital Chocolate, Mu Sigma, Perfint, Chakpak, Flipkart and enStage. Prior to Erasmic, Subrata was MD, India, for Tavant Technologies, Inc., a US based Mortgage Solutions Company, which was acquired by privately held Ameriquest Mortgage Capital in 2004 (Ameriquest has since merged into CitiCapital). Previously, Subrata was the Founder at Firewhite, Inc., which was acquired by Ubiquio, Inc., and later merged into Mobile Planet. Subrata started his career at IBM's prestigious T.J. Watson and Santa Teresa Labs, working in the Software R&D groups. Subrata holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Delaware, and a B.Tech. in Computer Science from IIT, Kanpur.

Vivek Nayak: Vivek is the Chief Operating Officer  at Avenues India Private Limited. As COO, Vivek is responsible for implementing and monitoring business strategy, approving core corporate initiatives and projects. Responsible for operations, Vivek looks after issues related to customer support, marketing, sales and corporate communications and personnel. His past experience in strategic business development and corporate planning has proven invaluable in determining divisional strategy, setting operational and performance goals tailored to each division and allocating requisite resources among divisions. He also oversees the HR function and works on strategies to build critical core competencies that are in line with organizational values.

Avenues' first initiative, CCAvenue®; was launched in September 2001 and it today provides payment gateway services to thousands of eMerchants across the world. More than 85% of India's Web Merchants are using the CCAvenue payment gateway solution. Apart from processing the widest range of credit cards, one of the highlights of CCAvenue is India's largest direct debit engine, which connects to 35 Indian banks in real time and allows customers to pay directly from their bank account. ResAvenue®; the second initiative is the fastest growing Hospitality solution in the Indian sub-continent. Launched in 2005, more than 500 hotel properties in Asia are using ResAvenue's state-of-the-art booking engine and payment gateway services for direct-to-customer sales on their hotel websites. EventAvenue®; the third initiative has been launched in 2006 to help the Event Management industry to automate their work processes and use the convenience of the internet to maximize efficiencies. It is a cutting-edge web application which helps event organizers accept registrations, issue bar-coded entry passes, publish floor-plans online and accept real time payments for the booth as well as delegate pass sales right from their own website. HotelsAvenue®, gives instant room inventory access at over 1,00,000 global hotels to travel agents, online intermediaries and portals. Currently, in addition to hundreds of established travel houses and independent travel agents, over 24,000 ITZ Cash real world Retails Outlets have become Travel Agents overnight by plugging in the HotelsAvenue Solution. The next few solutions, MembersAvenue®; and TrustAvenue® are some of the new initiatives in the pipeline.

Prior to joining Avenues n 2003, Vivek spent fourteen years handling brand development and operations in the Indian subsidiaries of some of the top global companies including WPP Group, Foote Cone & Belding and Grey Worldwide. Vivek is a Management Graduate with specialization in Marketing and Communications. Vivek is an active speaker at various forums related to the internet industry.

Vishal Mehta is the founder & CEO of Infibeam.com which is one of the leading Online retail portal for consuming Indians(www.infibeam.com).  Infibeam also offers technology and fulfilment services to major Retailers and brands in India including Hidesign, Prestige, IPLT20, Cafecoffeeday, NDTV and many more.
 
Prior to founding Infibeam.com in FY07, Mr. Mehta worked for more than 5 years in technology & business leadership positions at Amazon.com in Seattle, WA.  During his tenure at Amazon, he was responsible for Corporate development, Mergers and Acquisitions for Amazon.com globally where he originated and executed on several strategic transactions.  He was also leading finance teams as well as led the global network optimization team in Amazon Operations and Customer service.
 
Prior to Amazon, Mr. Mehta worked at Dell Computers in Austin, TX leading Order Management systems for all products and services.  Mr. Mehta holds a degree in management from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology graduating amongst the top in his class with honors.   He also holds a degree in Operations Research Engineering and business from Cornell University.  He is a movie buff, loves water sports and enjoys trekking.

Sanjeev is India's most successful internet entrepreneur and the founder of Naukri.com. He pursued his graduation in economics at St Stephens College, though he got into IIT. He worked for 3 years before getting into IIM A. The inner desire to be different made Sanjeev, leave a marketing job at HMM [now called GlaxoSmithKline] and along with a partner set up 2 companies. Indmark specialized on Pharmaceutical Trademarks & Info Edge producing salary surveys and reports.

Naukri.com was launched in March 97. Few years later company diversified. It added few sites like jeevansathi.com, 99acres.com, allcheckdeals.com, naukrigulf.com, brijj.com, shiksha.com under its umbrella. During November 2006, Info Edge became first pure Indian dotcom company to conduct an IPO.
 

Amarinder Dhaliwal, Head (E- Commerce) at Times Internet Limited, has a rich experience in managing online businesses, sale & marketing and investment banking.

During his thirteen years of professional experience, Amarinder has held various challenging and leadership roles. He was not only head of business for online commerce, auctions, auto (zigwheels.com), astrology (astrospeak.com) but was also national head of magazines & Int'l sales of Times Group.

Corporate planning & strategy, decision making related to product configuration, pricing and promotion across markets, evaluation of business proposals, performance monitoring and Innovation incubation are some of the areas in which Amarinder excelled during his stint at Powergen. Apart from this, he was also deputy manager at SBI Capital Markets.

With an exceptional track record in developing online properties in shopping, auto, astro and auctions domain, Amarinder is now in exploring latest developments and mapping trends in online consumer behaviour.

Amarinder holds technical and management degree from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, and  Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, respectively. 

Sachin Bansal, 28, is the co-founder and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Flipkart.com. Sachin hails from Chandigarh and did his schooling there before pursuing his engineering at IIT Delhi. He started his career at Techspan, a systems-integration and consulting firm, delivering business and IT solutions. In 2006 he moved to Amazon.com, after realising that his interests lay in developing software products.

After a short stint at Amazon, Sachin and Binny Bansal (also from Chandigarh and classmates at IIT Delhi) launched Flipkart.com, in 2007, with the intention to be the leading e-commerce destination in India. The experience at Amazon and personal experiences with the Indian e-commerce market helped Sachin define Flipkart’s service offering. Flipkart was and is about creating an e-commerce portal that offered superior customer service and delivered what it promised. Starting with books, Flipkart is today India’s largest online bookstore and have recently forayed into new categories such as Music, Movies, Games and Mobile Phones. Sachin is a connoisseur of electronic gadgets and if he has his way, Flipkart will have reasonable chunk of its revenue in the coming years, coming in from electronic goods.

Dhiraj is Co-Founder & CEO of Canvera.com an online Digital Photography company. Canvera's primarily clients are professional photographers who use Canvera's award winning customized coffee-table-books to service markets such as wedding, fashion, corporate and private events, etc. Canvera was twice given the "Best Photobook in Asia, Pacific & Japan" award at the annual HP Digital Print awards in 2008 and 2009.  Canvera was also given the "Best Innovation in Technology" award by Asian Photography magazine for bringing professionalism and innovation to an unorganized market. Canvera builds technology enabled solutions for Professional Photographers to help them run their businesses more profitably.

Dhiraj has been working in the field of Digital Imaging since 1991. Prior to founding Canvera Dhiraj was Director of Product Development and Operations at Naehas a Silicon Valley startup building technologies for multi-channel personalized marketing applications. Prior to Naehas Dhiraj was Engineering Manager/MTS at Shutterfly (NASDAQ:SFLY), a US based online Digital Photography company, where he was part of the core R&D team that developed their imaging and workflow automation technologies. Dhiraj has a PhD in EE from Purdue where his research was focused on algorithms for desktop printers. His PhD research was sponsored by HP's Imaging & Printing Group. Dhiraj has an MS in EE from Washington State University and B.Tech in EE from IIT Bombay. Dhiraj has numerous patents and publications to his name in the field of Digital Imaging.

With a broad range of hands-on experience founding, funding and supporting early-stage technology companies, Alok Mittal joined Canaan India in March 2006.  Alok focuses on investments in digital media and mobile companies, as well as innovators in managed software services and other IT enabled businesses.

Prior to joining the venture industry, Alok co-founded JobsAhead.com, a leading web-based recruitment business, which was acquired by Monster.com, the global leader in online recruitment. He also brings strong Telecom experience to Canaan having worked for Hughes Software Systems prior to that. Alok is also a co-founder of Indian Angel Network, and on the board of TiE (The Indus Entrepreneurs) in Delhi. During the course of his association with Canaan India, he advised Canaan Partners in their investment in Bharat Matrimony, iYogi, Cellcast, UnitedLex, Chakpak and MotorExchange.

Alok earned a BE in computer science and engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi and a MS in computer science from UC Berkeley.

Mr. Manik Arora is founding Managing Director of IDG Ventures India, a US$150 Million early-stage technology venture capital fund backed by IDG. Mr. Arora is based in Mumbai and invests across industry sectors nationally, with an emphasis on Internet, Wireless, Software and Services. He currently serves on the Board of Directors at Kreeda and Ozone Media. Prior to starting IDG Ventures India, Manik was at Battery Ventures in Silicon Valley. Previously, he spent time with General Atlantic Partners (GA) working on technology investments, including GAs first India investment, Patni Computer Systems.

Manik was part of the founding management team at GA-backed i-DNS.net International, the global leader in multilingual Internet DNS technology.  Previously, Manik managed global outsourcing initiatives for American Express in New York and ran sales and marketing for MasterCard International in Singapore. His early career was as a management consultant at The Boston Consulting Group in India and South East Asia advising clients on strategy and operations primarily in the e-commerce, financial services and consumer services sectors.

Manik is a Charter Member of The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE) and a Kauffman Fellow at the Center for Venture Education. He holds a BA in Economics from Swarthmore College where he received a McCabe Fellowship to pursue his MBA from the Sloan School of Management at MIT.

Mohit Dubey is the co-founder and CEO at Carwale.com. CarWale founded in 2005 is India’s no.1 car portal which empowers car consumers to research and buy their car. Led by Mohit this consumer focused Internet portal has raised a Series A funding of seven million dollars from U.S. based venture capital firm Sierra Ventures. In last one year they have served more than 10 million Indian car consumers and have influenced approximately $3bn of car transactions in India. Since its inception, CarWale has been honoured with many prestigious awards including the Red Herring Asia Top 100 (twice in 3 years), BusinessWeek’s Top 25 young entrepreneurs in Asia and PCWorld Web Award for best automotive website.