'THE PITCH' is a unified platform that helps startup founders pitch their business idea to the best suited investors across the country through pitch sessions, investor lounge and networking conference with 500+ startups and 50+ investors in Bengaluru, New Delhi and Mumbai.
The program will be culminated by the Disruptor Awards, where a highly coveted jury will identify and recognize the top 20 disruptors in the country.
The platform also provides access to an exclusive disruptor data hub, aa platform incorporating in-depth data and comprehensive analysis on startups and investors.
Pitching Sessions
Disruptor Awards
The Disruptor Data Platform
Understanding the journey of a Unicorn founder, diving deep into their original pitches, the roadblocks and the peaks. How did they achieve it and kept moving.
The new normal hinges on the intersection of people and technology—to stay connected and enable business continuity. Start-ups, often spearheaded by millennial entrepreneurs and teams, must prepare now to give users more choices of work environments and collaboration with a focus on people and performance. As a result, the time now is to build a long-term strategy to invest in leading-edge communications and collaboration solutions that enable rich interactions across dispersed locations and teams. The discussion will focus on— how to better connect customers, employees, and partners. More than ever, how to build a more agile, efficient, and sustainable business?
The raise of Indian startup ecosystem and entrepreneurial culture – how has this come to take effect, what has it done for the country? Where is it heading towards in terms of the cultural and socio-economic outcomes it can produce?
What do investors look into when evaluating a pitch, what are the critical factors that founders need to focus on? What does it take to build the right pitch?
Discussing the road to achieve DNB status – what does it take to digitalize all process, base revenue models on digital technology – what are the pitfalls that new companies should be aware of? How are the DNBs effecting cultural changes in Enterprises?
What are the pitfalls that high-growth startups should be aware of? How are changing policies, market conditions, and consumption patterns effecting business models? How important is pivoting in the right time?
High Tea & Networking lounge with Investors –interactive sessions on Indian startups ecosystem, the theme being Investing in India
Keynote session on the future of India, the cultural changes and focus on building products and businesses. Where is India heading?
Q&A session with India’s top industry stalwarts, entrepreneurs and investors. The idea of entrepreneurship – how does the cultural change and journey look like?
The rise of India and related startup capital. How India is showcasing their startup dominance to the World amidst uncertain market conditions.
An interactive session on the realization of digital interventions and related success – how tech is benefiting speed and scalability of success in startups.
Closing Keynote and Awards Ceremony
Akshay Ghulati is the Co-founder, Shiprocket Global & Strategy, a leading tech-enabled e-commerce fulfilment platform in India. Akshay leads the Strategy and Global Expansion team and is responsible for managing the overall revenue functions of the business including marketing, account management and customer service. His key responsibility is to make Shiprocket the most trusted logistics and fulfilment platform for e-commerce sellers.
Akshay has an exemplary academic background and extensive experience in the e-commerce industry. Having graduated from the prestigious Wharton Business School at the University of Pennsylvania with a BSc degree in Economics he then went on to pursue his MBA from Harvard Business School. Akshay joined Shiprocket in 2016 as the Chief Business Officer and in January 2020 he was appointed as a Co-founder.
Throughout the course of his career, Akshay has worked with notable organizations in senior positions. Prior to joining Shiprocket, Akshay was associated with e-commerce heavyweight Amazon in the UK where he served as a Senior Manager for the Pan-Europe FBA division. Before joining Amazon UK he worked with Smile Interactive Technologies as Director for Incubations and Investments. He was also associated with A.T. Kearney as a Senior Business Analyst at the start of his career and later with The Parthenon Group in the UK as a Principal.
With exceptional business acumen, Akshay’s career features several milestones. He was the youngest full-time employee for A.T. Kearney India post his bachelor’s degree at a time when the firm only hired MBA graduates. Akshay also helped set up the United Stock Exchange, which was the 4th pan India stock exchange. The organization was later acquired by Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE). Akshay was also recognized as the top performer at Amazon and was awarded the Just Do It award.
Akshay plans to make Shiprocket the leading SME e-commerce fulfilment platform both in India and key international markets. Passionate about the food supply chain in India Akshay is learning more about sustainable farming. A movie buff, he loves travelling and playing poker. He also frequently works with and supports NGOs that work towards educating girls.
Harsh Parekh is the Co-Founder and Whole-time Director of API Holdings, India's largest digital health platform. The group has businesses and brands like PharmEasy, Retailio, DocOn, Aknamed, and Thyrocare.
Harsh finished his graduation in computer engineering from DJ Sanghvi College of Engineering and post that he did his MBA in Marketing from NMIMS in 2009-2011. He was the founder member of Ekagrata (NGO for Children's education), ACM (International student body), and Secretary of Rotaract Club. He started his career ITC and then joined Bharti Airtel as part of Young Leader Group. After briefly working for one year, he decided to start the entrepreneurship journey with two friends. They are the first health tech unicorn and recently created history by acquiring the listed company Thyrocare.
Harsh looks after the Channel and Platform Business and has been responsible for scaling the business over the last 9 years. He leads the group's efforts in retailer, hospital, fintech and brands. He has recently been featured in the Fortune 40 under 40 lists and is now an active angel investor in new-age companies.
Hardika Shah is the Founder & CEO of Kinara Capital, a socially conscious FinTech that is powering the financial inclusion of small business entrepreneurs in India.
While studying at Columbia Business School, Hardika was highly motivated to address the missing middle credit gap for MSMEs that stifles entrepreneurship in India, the land of jugaad. The success of the business school pilot became the genesis of her journey into social entrepreneurship and she wrapped up her life in Silicon Valley and headed to Bangalore to build Kinara Capital.
Prior to launching Kinara, Hardika had built a storied career in Management Consulting with Accenture and worked on complex projects across multiple industries and countries. She still made time to serve as a pro-bono mentor for many years at top social entrepreneurship programs at Santa Clara University, Stanford University, Columbia University, Accenture Development Partnerships and the Acumen Fund.
Globally recognized for her passion and innovative approach, Hardika is a notable Ashoka Fellow, won the Financial Inclusion Award by Sankalp Forum, and won the People’s Choice Award at Wall Street Journal’s Financial Inclusion event.Hardika holds a B.A. in Computer Science from Knox College in Illinois. She earned her MBA from a joint program with Columbia Business School and UC Berkeley-Haas School of Business.
Karthik Prabhakar is Managing Partner at PeerCapital, an early stage tech focused VC fund.
In his previous role where he was Managing Director and Partner at Chiratae Ventures, he has donned multiple hats as global head of fundraising as lead investment advisor in many companies some of which went on to be among the best outcomes for the firm.
A few notable investments as lead advisor include PlaySimple Games (acquired by MTG), Fibe / EarlySalary , NestAway, PlayShifu and others.
He has been part of the Indian tech ecosystem since 2005 with experience spanning engineering, product development, marketing, fundraising, investment advisory and fund management.
Prior to Chiratae, Karthik worked with Intel in their Ideas to Reality team, a technology incubator focused on building IoT products. As a tech marketing person, he played a key role in rapid prototyping, conceptualizing field trial plans and creating Go-To-Market strategies for new product ideas. He has also worked on developing innovative embedded solutions and has co-authored a patent in the area of Wireless Networks.
Sunil has an extensive healthcare investment and transaction experience across the Asia-Pacific market and has been involved in some of the landmark deals in the healthcare space. In his career spanning 18+ years, Sunil has led and executed deals worth over US$ 7 billion across M&A and Capital Raise.
He serves on the board and committees of various healthcare companies and few prestigious institutions. He is a governing council member of NATHEALTH and a member on CII – National Committee on Biotechnology.
Prior to Quadria Capital, Sunil has worked with Religare Capital Markets and PNB Gilts at various senior positions. He has a Masters Degree in International Business from Delhi School of Economics.
Vivek Agarwal is the co-founder and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at Square Yards – India’s largest integrated platform for Real Estate. Vivek has been instrumental in building various tech and product platforms for the company. He rich experience spanning 18+ years with some of world’s largest companies like Intel, Nokia and Accenture. Vivek is also an avid researcher and recognized in industry circles as a thought leader having published multiple point-of-views on proptech, global mega trends, value chains, business models, products & service strategy.
Vaibhav, a technophile and problem solver, founded Shadowfax Technologies in 2015 with his batchmates from IIT Delhi.Vaibhav's technical intrusions and initiatives are focused on 3PL integrated services that offer comprehensive, one-stop solutions for enterprise supply chains in packaging, warehousing, transportation, and order fulfilment. He has developed algorithms that help solve complex logistics problems and keep Shadowfax ahead of the curve in a dynamic and fiercely competitive environment.
Vaibhav is a cricket enthusiast and loves to explore new places. In his free time, he also performs stand-up comedy routines at his favorite Bengaluru café.
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