More than a decade of experience across entrepreneurship and consulting. Extensively involved in the innovation ecosystem and actively working with Governments, Investors, Startups, Academia, Incubators, Corporates and Mentors to evangelize open-innovation. Built, operated and exited two startups in travel-tech and ed-tech sectors. Created impact for over 160 innovative startups across early and growth stages in business readiness and fundraising. Accelerating startups across stages. Impacted an overall fundraise of $412m through exhaustive acceleration sprints. Leading Startup, Government and Corporate Innovation initiatives, including India's longest running acceleration program- LAB32; one of the most successful funding readiness programs- T-Angel; and the much celebrated Defence Innovation initiative- iDEX.