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Accel India Accel was established in 1983 and invests from offices in Palo Alto, London and Bangalore, as well as in China via |
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| the IDG-Accel partnership With over $4 billion under management, Accel has helped world-class entrepreneurs build over 300 successful companies, many of which have become category-defining enterprises. www.accel.com |
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| Draper Investment Company (DIC) is an active, global venture capital firm that specializes in investments in early-stage companies. It seeks entrepreneurs with the experience, energy, vision and desire to build great companies. Formed to diversify the Draper family investing initiatives, DIC is funding global companies of tomorrow and helping them to achieve maximum potential through contacts, advice and support. At the same time, DIC provides its portfolio companies assistance in the areas of strategy, executive team recruiting, operational execution and raising capital. |
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Ashish Gupta Ashish is a co-founder and Managing Director of Helion Venture Partners. He has invested in over 35 companies in the US and in India . His investments include Daksh (IBM), Odesk, Obongo (AOL), Speedera (Akamai), Make My Trip, Merittrac, and Kaboodle (Hearst). Ashish co-founded and helped grow two successful companies; Tavant |
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| Technologies and Junglee (Amazon.com) that pioneered comparison shopping on the internet. Ashish has worked at Woodside Fund, Amazon.com, Oracle Corporation, and IBM Research. He has to his credit several patents, international publications, and a book by MIT press. He is a Kauffman fellow, the world's leading venture education program. Ashish holds a Ph.D. in computer science from Stanford University and a bachelor's degree from IIT Kanpur, where he was awarded the President's Gold medal. |
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| Kiran Nadkarni | CEO |
| Kiran has been a pioneering figure in the Indian venture capital industry. He started the venture capital business of ICICI and managed it during the first eight years. Later, he was a partner at Draper International, a venture firm based in San Francisco , which invested in India and the US . Prior to starting the Kaati Zone venture, he was a co-founder of Jumpstartup, a venture firm that invested in technology businesses both in India and the US . During his career, he helped several entrepreneurial businesses by providing start-up and early-stage capital and brought the initial successes of venture capital industry to public markets. Kiran is a chemical engineer from IIT Kanpur and holds a post-graduate diploma in management from University of Mumbai. |
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| Prashanth Prakash | Director |
| Prashanth is a Partner at Accel, and has experience in information technology, internet product development and consulting services. Prior to Erasmic, he was the co-founder and CEO of Netkraft, a leading offshore solutions company in retail and healthcare verticals. The company had over 400 employees in India, USA, UK, France and Belgium, when it was acquired by Adea Systems, a Texas based software solutions company. Prashanth holds a graduate degree in computer science from University of Delaware and an undergraduate degree in computer science from Bangalore Institute of Technology. |
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| Mangala Nadkarni | Director |
| Mangala holds M.A. and M.Phil degrees in Geography from University of Mumbai , and has long experience in academics. She has taught at several reputed educational institutions like Sydenham College and L.S. Raheja College , Mumbai, and Bishop Cotton Boys School and National Academy for Learning, Bangalore. |
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| Vijaydeep Nadkarni | Director |
| Vijaydeep Nadkarni is a graduate in computer engineering from The University of Texas at Austin. After graduation, he worked at a technology company specializing in digital signal processing for video applications. He represents the founder group on the Board of Directors, and manages information technology function in the company. |
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| Profile |
| The idea of Kaati Zone was conceived by the founders as a brand of Indian quick service restaurants that will reach to customer... |
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| Management |
| Kaati Zone is managed by a group of professionals with experience in varied fields. |
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