Youth Entrepreneurship Summit 2023

Did you know startups founded by young entrepreneurs under the age of 20 is rapidly on the rise? Many bright entrepreneurs have emerged while still in their teens. Entrepreneurship could be a viable career choice, especially when you are young and have no experience, but passion and an idea. Power of networking combined with developing an entrepreneurial mindset early can help you successfully navigate the Entrepreneurial World.

Join iStart Valley’s Youth Entrepreneurship Summit featuring Global Startup Battle Grand Finale!

After successful registration you will be sent a confirmation and link to attend the Summit.

Presenters

Priya Ramachandran is the Founder and Managing Partner of Foster Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm with a focus on B2B Enterprise SaaS. Foster Ventures focuses on cross-border startups to innovate and build products for the global customers from emerging markets including India, Vietnam, UAE and Saudi. As an Operator and a GTM expert, Priya works with cross-border companies, entrepreneurs with product market fit, international market entry advice and introductions. Prior to this role, Priya was with BoldCap, Better Cloud, Coupa, Intel Security and LogiGear Corporation leading various strategic leadership & operational roles with a focus on Product Strategy, Customer Strategy & Adoption and Customer Success. She is also an active mentor at SaaSBOOMi with a focus on enabling and empowering cross-border founders. Priya is also an INSEAD FELLOW at San Francisco. Priya holds a Global Executive M.B.A degree from INSEAD and a B.S degree from Bangalore University.

Dr. Richard Munassi MD MBA is a serial entrepreneur, the co-founder of Blackfin Technology Partners, co-founder of Medzoomer, Director at the Tampa Bay Wave Accelerator program, sits on the Advisory Board for SXSW Pitch, is an Executive in Residence at the University of Florida's UF Innovate program, and is part of the NASA iTech team (specializing in helping identify commercial technologies for utilization in the space program).

He also is an advisor for multiple national and regional entrepreneurship programs (including MassChallenge, MIT Solve, UCSF Health Hub, FedTech, Guidewell/Florida Blue, NSF I-Corps, and more).

R. Paul Singh is a successful entrepreneur and educator. He has been a founder and CEO of 5 companies and has taken one company public and sold the other three. As the CEO of Startup Strategies, he works with entrepreneurs in scaling their B2B startups. For the last 5 years he has been involved with various startups in the data analytics space - currently acting COO for The Modern Data Company and previously CRO for Tada Interactive and CMO for Okera. He is also an advisor to various startups including Optiwise. AI, Everest Robotics and mSense. He is also an adjunct professor of entrepreneurship and marketing at Northeastern University and UC Berkeley. Paul is also a TiE Silicon Valley charter member.

Suresh Narasimha Runs a fund & venture studio that has created 40+ deeptech startups from Universities. He perfected the model of working with universities & top 20% of the students. Suresh created a structure to attract some of the smartest talent to work with students in building great ventures. He developed a unique Venture Studio model to de-risk the investment in early stage startups & working with 300+ colleges. Launched a structure to bring PE model to start-up world. Acquire equity of distressed start-ups & transform them in to enduring businesses - Justbooks, Bonhomia. A Technology & consumer-focused entrepreneur with 17+ yrs. of entrepreneurial experience who built successful VC backed companies like TELiBrahma, MonkeyBox & Sensara. Suresh has more than 10 patents from US PTO & several awards around computer vision & communications and he is an avid reader

Vidyangi Patil is an innovation consultant, and working on her second book for reversing startup and innovation failures (with MIT Media Lab and Harvard Humanities & Social Sciences). From innovation strategy for a high tech Kumbha Mela (pop-up city of 30 million) to guiding AI student entrepreneurs who deploy their solutions to improve the community, with government bodies as clientele, she has advised incubators, startups, non-profits, and undergrads on digital transformation, pivoting, and more; and now her second book is focused on helping first time entrepreneurs and seasoned corporate professional increase their odds of success in problem solving for startup/innovation journey, with short one-page templates.