Business management professional with over 8 years of experience in Strategic Partnerships, Business Development, Corporate Open Innovation, Operations, and Startup program management. I currently head the Startup Partnerships efforts of Vakilsearch where I have scaled the vertical rapidly by onboarding 120+ partners in the last 11 months and I also oversee the startup advisory services of Vakilsearch. The events vertical of Vakilsearch; with over a dozen events conducted in the last 6 months under my leadership has been able to acquire over 150+ startups into the Vakilsearch ecosystem. Previously as the Program Manager of Forge Corporate Open Innovation programs, I lead the Vedanta Spark global innovation & venture program; Identified over 1350+ startups across the globe with 80% of startups in the pre-seed stage, 20% of startups in seed-stage and beyond to drive Vedanta group’s ambitious business transformation efforts with an investment outlay of 100 M USD. I have personally advised over a dozen startups in their fundraising journey and helped them craft their pitch decks + GTM strategy. In the past, I had been a founder with my venture Crofters, where we worked on building self-sustaining indoor aquaponics home farms. Have vast experience working in the Augmented/Virtual reality technology space. I run Techstars’ India startup digest newsletter. Have always been passionate about building things, Pulse72+ was my college venture launched back in 2011 with a vision of being the defacto digital publishing platform for youth to express themselves via art and literature that amassed more than 2000+ monthly readers during the two years of its existence in the primitive ages of the internet in India. Get to know me better via my writings on my personal blog - https://www.deepaksrinivasan.in/ Always happy to connect with new folks for discussions, collaborations, and exciting opportunities.