About the

India Startup Festival 2023

The India Startup Festival's (ISF) mission is to reimagine the startup revolution by empowering entrepreneurs and fostering a robust startup ecosystem that will enable them to reach their full potential.

This festival is complementary to the great initiatives of Government of India (GOI) such as Startup India, Digital India, Make-in-India, etc and will bring together more than 10,000 startups to advance their missions and drive towards an Atmanirbhar Bharat.

Taking place at India's own Silicon Valley (Bengaluru) & the hub for the world-class technologies emerging from India, this will be a path-breaking exposure for the startups and will help them take their products and services global.

The first edition of ISF in the year 2022 saw more than 2000 startups participate, exhibit, discuss, compete, win & grow. The event had unprecedented support from Investors, Mentors, Corporate Leaders, & Policy Makers. The competition saw 15 startups come out on top out of the 2000 registered startups from the early to the growth stage. CEOs of prominent corporations and Industry experts are presently mentoring these entrepreneurs.

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ISF Partnering with STPI (Software Technology Parks of India)

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Top: India Start-Up Festival Partnering with London Chamber of Commerce and Industry.

Bottom: ISF Chairman Mr J.A.Chowdary Inviting Bart.S.Fisher

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ISF with UK-India Business Council CEO

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Meenakshi Lekhi (Minister of state for External Affairs and Culture, GoI) Accepting the Invite to be the Guest of Honour.

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Investor Connect Event

Investor Connect Event

17/06/2023    09:00AM - 1:30PM
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Curtain Raiser

Bangalore

Investor Connect Event

29/06/2023    09:00AM - 1:30PM
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Curtain Raiser

Hyderabad

ISF 2023 Exhibition Brochure

Aug 10th, 11th, and 12th, 2023    Bangalore
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ISF 2023

Exhibition Brochure

India Startup Festival 2023

India Startup Revolution is here and now! at Bengaluru Aug 10th-12th 2023

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VCs, HNIs, & Angel Investors

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CEOs & CXOs

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Speakers

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Startups

ISF Conference

Innovation at Bottom of the Pyramid in Rural Innovations and Entrepreneurship

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Startup Competition

Many innovative startups will compete to became one of the finalists. Learn from your rivals, pitch to investors, attain high visibility, win clients and close strategic alliances that will allow you to take your startup to the next level. We are sector Agnostic and welcome startups from idea to growth stage.

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ISF-TAL Transformers Youth Competition

The goal of this global competition is to engage, educate and empower youth towards creating innovative and sustainable social enterprise solutions towards eliminating global and local social issues. The competition encourages participating teams to submit their innovative.

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Exhibition

It will be one great place to connect, collaborate, showcase. So grab the opportunity to present your products, innovations, solutions, services to the investors, industry Experts and mentors to gain ultimate exposure and market traction.

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India Startup Revolution is here and now!

India Startup Fest'23

Honourable Chief Guests

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Sadguru Sri Madhusudan Sai

Founder
Sri Satya Sai University for Human Excellence Karnataka
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Meenakshi Lekhi

Minister of State for External Affairs and Culture
Government of India
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Priyank Kharge

Minister of Information Technology and Bio Technology,
Karnataka
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N. S. Boseraju

Minister of Minor Irrigation,
Science & Technology Department of Karnataka
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J A Chowdary

Key Architect, Indian Tech Industry Chairperson & Convenor,
India Startup Festival
India Startup Fest'23

Guests of Honour

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Rajesh Kumar Pathak IAS
Secretary,

Technology Development Board (TDB)

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Dr.E.V. Ramana Reddy, IAS
Additional Chief Secretary, Department of IT, BT,

Science & Technology Karnataka

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Arvind Kumar
Director General,

STPI

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G Satheesh Reddy
Former Chairman,

DRDO Govt. of India

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Ravi Kumar S
CEO,

Cognizant

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Desh Deshpande
Chairman,

Sycamore Networks & Sandstone Capital

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Thampy Koshy
CEO, ONDC
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Vineet Rai
Founder,

Aavishkaar

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Prashanth Prakash
Partner,

Accel

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S Siva kumar
Chairman,

Technico Agri Sciences Limited

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Richard Burge
CEO,

London Chamber of Commerce & Industry

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Bart S Fisher
Managing Partner,

Law Office of Bart S Fisher

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Padma Shri Dr.Nageswara Reddy
Chairman and MD ,

AIG Hospitals

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Lalit Ahuja
Founder, CEO,

ANSR

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Dr Raja Mohan Rao
Chairman,

United Telecom Limited

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Sri Atluri
MD, Global Head of Enterprise Quality Engineering,

BNY Mellon

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Dr. Kazuhiro Chiba
President,

Tokyo University of Agriculture & Technology

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Karena Belin
CEO & Co-Founder

WHub & AngelHub

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Galla Ramachandra Naidu
Founder & Former chaiman,

Amara Raja Group

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Suresh Babu Daggubati
Managing director,

Suresh Productions

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Shobu Yarlagadda
CEO,

Arka Mediaworks Pvt Ltd

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Vani Kolla
Founder & MD

Kalaari Capital

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Barry A Rudolph
Founder,

FalconStor Software

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C Srinivas
Chairman,

Sri Sathya Sai Sanjeevani Hospital

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B N Narasimha Murthy
Chancellor,

Sri Sathya Sai University for Human Excellence Karnataka

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Ramesh Iyer
Vice Chairman& MD,

Mahindra & Mahindra Financial Services

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Dr Velumani
Founder

Thyrocare

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Kanwaljeet S. Anand
Professor,

Stanford University School of Medicine

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Tarun Ghulati
Chairman, President, CEO and Board Member.

Ex-HSBC, Citibank and ING

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Dr. Viju Jacob
MD,

Synthite Industries

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Dr. Vishal U S Rao
Dean,

HealthCareGlobal

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Distinguished Speakers

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Dr. Anand Govindaluri
Founder CEO, Govin Capital

Singapore

Dr. Anand Govindaluri

Founder CEO, Govin Capital

Singapore

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Anand Kannan
National Director

IFIA Bharat Office

Anand Kannan

National Director

IFIA Bharat Office

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Anup Karva
Director, Input Market place,

Innoterra India

Anup Karva

Director, Input Market place,

Innoterra India

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Arindam Banerrji
EVP & MD,

Wells Fargo

Arindam Banerrji

EVP & MD,

Wells Fargo

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Arun Baral
CEO,

HarvestPlus

Arun Baral

CEO,

HarvestPlus

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Arun Dubey
Managing Partner,

Zenfold Ventures

Arun Dubey

Managing Partner

Zenfold Ventures

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Arvind Kumar
Director General,

STPI

Arvind Kumar

Director General

STPI

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Dr. Ashok Sangappa Alur
Vice Chancellor,

Kodagu University

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Ashok Chitiprolu
Founder CEO,

Techstar Group of Companies

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Ashok Vemuri
Ex-CEO,

Conduent Inc & Igate Inc

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Ashwinder R Singh
CEO,

Residential Bhartiya Urban

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Achyut Yerragangu
Founder CEO,

Nature Quotient Ventures

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B N Narasimha Murthy
Chancellor,

Sri Sathya Sai University for Human Excellence Karnataka

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B V Naidu
Founder & Managing Partner,

Startup Xseed Ventures Chairman, Karnataka Digital Economy Mission

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Balakrishna Adiga
Sr Advisor,

Prachetas Capital

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Dr. Bart S Fisher
Managing Partner,

Law Office of Bart S Fisher

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Dr. C Srinivas
Chairman,

Sri Sathya Sai Sanjeevani Hospital

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Chaitanya Gorrapati
Managing Director,

D. E. Shaw India

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Dr. Chandra Shekara
Director General,

MANAGE

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Dr. Chintala G R
Ex-Chairman,

NABARD

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Dayakar Puskoor
Co-Founder and MD,

Dallas Venture Capital

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Deepti Ravula
CEO,

We Hub

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Deepya lingareddy
Founder,

Absolute Milk

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Emmanuel Gosula
Head - Talent Development

APAC Region, EPAM Systems.

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Farhan Ashar
Founding Trustee,

Laamakan & Co-founder Daana Organics

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Dr. G Satheesh Reddy
Former Chairman,

DRDO Govt. of India

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Ganapathy Subramaniam
Partner,

Celesta Capital

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Hitesh Sachdev
Head, Startup Engagement,

Innovation & Investments, ICICI Bank

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Jatin Desai
Managing Partner,

Inflexor Ventures & Parampara Capital

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Karena Belin
CEO & Co-Founder

WHub & AngelHub

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Kavitha Rajesh
President,

Hyderabad Management Association Treasurer of ALEAP

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Kiran Vasireddy
Partner,

Kalaari Capital Ex COO - Paytm

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Piyush Garg
Vice President CEED,

Chitkara University

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Seshadri Vangala
Founder & Group CEO(IFIN Global Group & SGlobal Group)

Co-founder & Co-Chair, India Startup Festival

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Somesh Chablani
FIS Global,

Global Head of Go-to-Market, & Business Development

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Tarun Singhal
Sopra Steria,

Director Business Development,Marketing and Communications

VC & Investor Connect

ISF 2023

JURY & INVESTORS

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Arindam Banerrji
EVP & MD

Wells Fargo

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Devaki Vasudeva Rao,
Founder

D V Rao & Associates

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Kiran Vasireddy
Partner at Kalaari Capital

Ex COO - Paytm

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Madan Padaki
Founder CEO-1Bridge

President, TiE Bangalore

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Prakash Bodla
MD

Carrier Technologies India Ltd.

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Rajesh Raju
MD

Kalaari Capital

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Ravi Thakur
Co-Founding Partner

StartupXseed Ventures LLP

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Ravindranath Kancherla
Chairman & MD

Global Hospitals

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Ravi Garikipati
Co-Founder Davinta Finserv

Ex-CTO Flipkart

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Srinivas Kollipara
President

Startup Ventures at Xelpmoc & GEN

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Srinivas Rao Mahankali
CEO

T-Hub

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Vikrant Varshney
Managing Partner

SucSEED Indovation Fund

ISF 2023

Round Table Discussion

Roundtable discussion draws its genesis from both Indian as well as Western worlds. "Rachabanda" is typically a stone bench around the trunk of a banyan tree in a central spot in the village. Village elders sit on the rachabanda to discuss, deliberate, and decide on aspects of common interest for the village. In the western world King Arthur conceived the concept of "Knights of the Round table".

Roundtable discussion as a framework for open and constructive dialogue and decision making has always been an important tool in government and business. This is an organized conversation with a chairperson and several expert speakers that bring a variety of perspectives to a subject, and an audience who may simply observe or participate by asking questions.

Roundtable discussion focuses on the challenge, reasons for current situation, opportunity to address the same. Essential focus in on the 'what', 'why', and 'how'. The outcome of the roundtable at ISF 2023 is to bring out a thought-provoking white paper with potential solutions and share with local and federal government authorities to pursue towards the envisaged change and progress.

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CONFERENCE TEAM

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J A Chowdary
Key Architect, Indian Tech Industry

Chairperson & Convenor, India Startup Festival

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Dr. Siva Mahesh Tangutooru
Founder CEO, Jama Botanics & TurfPearl Agritech

Co-founder & Managing Trustee India Startup Foundation

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Achyut Yerragangu
Founder CEO, Nature Quotient Ventures

Co-Founder & Joint Managing Trustee India Startup Foundation

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Deenanath Harapanahalli
Founder CEO, LifeCykul

Co-founder & India Startup Foundation

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Seshadri Vangala
Founder and Group CEO IFin Global Group & SGlobal Group

Co-founder & India Startup Festival

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Tarun Ghulati
Chairman, President, CEO and Board Member. Ex-HSBC, Citibank and ING

Co-Founder, India Startup Festival

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Dr. Bhanu Prakash Varla
Partner & Director, Plural Technology & EdifyPath

Co-founder, India Startup Festival

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Bipin Chandra Pendyala
CPO, InvenioLSI

Co-founder, India Startup Festival

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M. Sathyendra Kumar
Business Unit Head - India, Maccaferri Environmental Solutions Pvt Ltd

Co-founder, India Startup Festival

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India Startup Revolution is here and now! at Bengaluru Aug 10th-12th 2023