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Blume Ventures is a seed-stage venture fund that backs startups with both funding as well as active mentoring and support. It funds startups through multiple rounds, leading up to larger institutional rounds from other Venture Capital firms.
Blume has been the most active venture fund in India since 2011, funding more than 20 companies per year. Its portfolio consists of more than 120 high-potential founders.
For more information, visit the Blume Ventures website.

Nandan Nilekani is an Indian entrepreneur and bureaucrat. He co-founded Infosys and was instrumental in its growth as CEO for several years. He is currently non-executive Chairman at Infosys. Earlier he was invited by the Government of India to be Chairman of Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) where he conceptualized and implemented the Aadhaar system. He also headed the Government of India’s technology committee, TAGUP. He is also the founder and chairman of EkStep, a non-profit literacy, and numeracy platform. Nilekani is a serial investor and he has invested in around 12 start-ups till date which includes Systemantics India Pvt. Ltd.

Accel is a leading venture capital firm that invests in people and their companies from the earliest days through all phases of private company growth. The firm seeks to understand entrepreneurs as individuals, appreciate their originality and play to their strengths, because greatness doesn’t have a stereotype.

Accel is a leading early and growth-stage venture capital firm powering a global community of entrepreneurs. Accel backs entrepreneurs who have what it takes to build a world-class, category-defining business. Founded in 1983, Accel brings more than three decades of experience building and supporting hundreds of companies. Accel has backed a number of iconic global platforms, including BlackBuck, BlueStone, BookMyShow, Housing-PropTiger, Collectabillia, FabHotels, Flipkart, Freshworks, Mitra Biotech, MuSigma, Myntra, Ola, Paxata, Portea, Power2SME, Swiggy, UrbanClap. For more information, please visit us at www.accel.com or on facebook.com/accel

Pradeep is the founder & Chairman of Aditi Technologies and Pengala Learning.He founded Aditi Technologies in 1994 after nine years in various management positions at Microsoft, including General Manager of the Windows 95 mobile services group. He is also the founder of Talisma, a CRM software product company. Pradeep previously held engineering and marketing positions at Texas Instruments and McKinsey & Company.Since founding Aditi, his focus has been on building world-class products and teams for software businesses worldwide.

Pradeep holds an MBA from Harvard University, and a B Tech degree from IIT, Delhi.

HBS Alumni Angels started in 2007 as a special interest group of the HBS Alumni Association of Northern California. Similar groups formed around the world and HBS Alumni Angels became a global alumni organization in December 2010.
Internationally, HBS Alumni Angels members have invested in over 100 companies since 2007.
Today, the HBS Alumni Angels organization is comprised of Harvard alumni interested in investing in high-potential early stage companies. HBS Alumni Angels is open to all Harvard alumni and others affiliated with the university, not just HBS graduates.
Website: http://www.hbsalumniangels.com