Headstart-X 2019- Bridging Ecosystems

Headstart X is a celebration of the spirit of ‘paying it forward’. Meet the who’s who from India’s top startups, VC’s & angels, Corporate CXO’s and Government Decision Makers.

Last year, at the debutant edition of Headstart X we had over 540 attendees, representation from 20 cities, 17 speakers/talks, 12 mentor sessions, 15 startups pitching to 14 investors, 3 focused hands-on workshops.

This year we are back with much more. At Headstart X 2019, we will have:
- Mentoring sessions by top founders and senior industry leaders ‘pay it forward’ to the community, by mentoring curated early-stage startup founders in a closed door, invite-only format.
- Workshops for 500+ aspiring entrepreneurs delivered by the entrepreneurs who have written India’s startup story
- Closed door pitches by top startups in the country to 30+ investors from India and abroad
- Round tables wherein small curated groups sit and discuss specific issues surrounding building for Bharat, tech industry and ecosystem development and more
- Talks wherein founder stories and Playbooks are shared through interactive talks

And much more!

If you're a Startup, we've got unparalleled news for you:

1. If you have got a startup idea or a prototyping or even a year old Startup which can move mountains or wreck the web for good, you get a chance to pitch your startup to the most astute investors of India at HSX 2019. We kid you not. Get your Startup funded from the most eminent investors by filling in your details here: bit.ly/kickstart_hsx2019

2. As a Startup, you can also showcase your startup at the experience zone of HSx. To book your stall space, fill in your details here: bit.ly/experiencezone_2019

Join us for the most impact centric startup conclave in history on 8th June, 2019 at Hyderabad.

Kumar Vembu

Speaker & Mentor

GoFrugal Technologies & Zoho Technologies

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Coach, Entrepreneur, Engineer, Product Manager and Learner

Vaitheeswaran K

Speaker & Mentor

AGAIN Drinks

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Vaitheeswaran is referred to as "Father of E-commerce in India."
He Co-founded India's first e-commerce company Fabmart.com (later branded Indiaplaza). Helped build brand, scaled company, raised investment of several million US dollars. Vaithee also Co-founded India's first integrated retail company Fabmall - acquired by Aditya Birla Group in 2006 and re-branded as More chain of stores. Now acquired by Amazon.
Vaithee is the Author of best-selling book 'Failing to Succeed - The story of India's first e-commerce company'
His specialities are Internet, e-commerce, start-ups, entrepreneurship, leadership, negotiations, deal-making, general management, fundraising, team building, data analytics

Krishna Prasath Muralidharan

Speaker & Mentor

GoFrugal Technologies

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Krishna Prasath heads investment at GoFrugal Technologies and is the Executive Assistant to the CEO of GoFrugal Technologies Pvt. Ltd.

Sanjay Nath

Speaker

Blume Ventures

Sanjay is a Co Founder & Managing Partner of Blume Ventures, one of India's leading early stage VC firms. Prior to Blume, Sanjay was also an active angel investor through Mumbai Angels. His angel investments include Inmobi (formerly Mkhoj), Appsdaily (formerly Onward Mobility), Little Eye Labs (acquired by Facebook), Tonbo Imaging, Atyourprice and Svasti Microfinance amongst others. He brings a strong global network across the US, South East Asia and India. Sanjay is passionate about mentoring entrepreneurs.

Vivek Gupta

Speaker

Licious

"Vivek brings to the table a vast set of multi-disciplinary skills and, can effectuate a kaleidoscope of roles, all at once. In July 2015 founded Licious, India's first fresh meat consumer brand. Also an Executive Director at MobiCom (A digital platform solution for your club to engage with your members along with an opportunity to promote your club's experience to a global audience)

Prior to his entrepreneurial dream, his 10 years stint at Helion Ventures (a $600 MM venture capital fund investing in early, to mid-stage companies in India)"

Arpit Agarwal

Investor

Blume Ventures

Arpit has been actively involved with the promotion of startups since 2006, his first brush with it being at the first BarCamp in Bangalore. I later joined hands with fellow campers to start Headstart Network, today India's leading early-stage entrepreneurs' network with over 20 city chapters.

Kapil Bharati

Speaker

Delhivery

Kapil Bharati is Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer at SSN Logistics Private Limited (also known as Delhivery) and served as its Head of Technology. Kapil Bharati is a First Generation Entrepreneur with over 11 years of experience in IT. Prior to SSN Logistics Private, he worked with Fortune 100 clients in multiple industries including E-Commerce, Logistics, FS and Telecom and founded two start-ups - 11 rupees and Contify. He occasionally blogs and tweets about his learnings and experiences in technology and start-ups.

Prof. Kazuaki Oda

Speaker

Slogan Inc.

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Professor Oda is a serial entrepreneur and a university professor in many countries. He has created more than 10 companies and some were bought by public companies. He is looking for business opportunities all over the world.

Prasanna Krishnamoorthy

Speaker

Upekkha Catalyst

Growing startups is everything Prasanna looks to do. Prasanna has Co-Created a scalable structured framework for startups to accelerate growth predictably, scalable, profitably. He has Worked intensely with 120+ startups to make them LARGE at Microsoft Accelerator India. He has even Invested in a couple of startups along the way.

Sanket Atal

Speaker

Intuit

Sanket has 26+ years of experience in Software Development with Enterprise Software (Informix, Oracle and CA Tech) and E-Commerce (MakeMyTrip) companies. Sanket is an Execution focused with experience in business strategy, innovation, enterprise architecture, research & development, engineering, operations, program management, and process/governance.

Abhay Hanjura

Speaker

Licious

Abhay is a curious entrepreneur passionately building India's most loved food brand that aims to make a difference to the consumer & to elevate the entire ecosystem of meat and fisheries in India!

Vinay Singhal

Speaker

WittyFeed

Vinay is the Co-Founder and CEO of WittyFeed and has contributed greatly to the success of the company. Vinay along with his partners established this site for those who love to read real-time and imaginary stories, which are left unnoticed or left untouched by the mainstream media. It is a trending site that is making its way to go viral in the world of social media.

Tushar Vashisht

Speaker

HealthifyMe

Tushar Vashisht is the Cofounder and CEO of HealthifyMe. Tushar started his career as in investment banker on Wall Street and in the Bay Area before moving to Singapore with Deutsche Bank. He is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and a passionate musician by hobby.

Alex Prather

Speaker

Capria VentureBasecamp

Alex Prather is the Co-Founder of Capria VentureBasecamp and currently manages its global expansion activity in India, Latin America, MENA and Africa. Alex has been instrumental in the development and execution of the Capria VentureBasecamp program which partners with incubators in emerging markets, trains them on developing more effective incubation programs and provides a full-spectrum entrepreneurial training program to use with their cohort entrepreneurs. Previously, Alex worked at Unitus Ventures, The United Nations, public policy think tanks, NGOs and launched her own entrepreneurial venture. Alex is currently a fellow at MIT under the D-Lab Innovation Ecosystem Builders Fellowship and earned a dual degree in economics and politics from Washington and Lee University.

Shivakumar (Shivku) Ganesan

Speaker

Exotel

Co-founder of Exotel

Nemesh Singh

Speaker

Appointy

Founder & CEO of Appointy

Jasminder Singh Gulati

Speaker

NowFloats

Co-founder & CEO of NowFloats

Anil Chhikara

Investor

Bolt Blue

Founder & CEO of Bolt Blue

Krishna Prasath

Investor

GoFrugal

Investments at GoFrugal

Brij Bhasin

Investor

Rebright Partners

General Partner at Rebright Partners

Anirudh Pandita

Speaker

Pocket Aces

Founder at Pocket Aces

Takahisa Ohira

Speaker

Delloite Tohmatsu Venture Support Co., Ltd.

FinTech Leader at Delloite Tohmatsu Venture Support Co., Ltd.

Demo/Elevator Pitches

Corefactors

"Corefactors product teleduce is integrated sales and marketing tool(ISM) which provides a seamless experience from lead generation to lead conversion to customer retention to customer support.

We are 20+ team members across Bangalore and Mumbai. We are passionate and we love to solve customer problems always…

Currently, we are serving 100's of customers across India and Australia. Our happy customers are Finzy, Pidilite, Ujjivan small finance bank, Vmedo, Ujjwalpatni and more...

Our goal is to become India’s no 1 ISM and one among the world top 5 by 2022."

Evontex

Evontex is a Full-Service Web and Mobile App Development Company, with state-of-art capabilities to deliver business needs. We are headquartered in India and serve worldwide

Urban Rider

Free mobile application to connect riders and service providers during vehicle breakdown issues

Candiphi Healthcare Private Limited

"Candiphi Healthcare’s main objective is to bring healthcare to the home and help with the early detection of critical illnesses like cancer,diabetes,Alzheimer’s and cardiovascular diseases. The software diagnostic platform that we are building has an open and flexible architecture that will allow us to integrate with different kinds of medical devices.

Our first integration is with a unique, FDA approved, Clinic-In-a-bag product. With the help of this product our m-Health and online doctor consultation platform will bring a whole battery of non-invasive tests to the doorsteps of people and give them their test results instantly on their smartphones. They will then be able to spin up consultation calls via audio, video or chat to a doctor of lifestyle specialist of their choice, download prescriptions, order for medicines and have them home delivered. Our Integrated diabetes management platform will allow users to not only keep track of their glucose levels but will also keep them informed about how their other organs are being affected by diabetes, e.g. their kidneys, feet and eyes.

The second part of our platform that we will launch in Q4 of this year is our deep learning platform for the early detection of Alzheimer’s. Here, we analyse thousands of PET scans and MRI images and classify them as cognitively normal, EMCI or full-blown Alzheimer’s. Doing this will potentially help us save 10 years of a person’s life by starting their drug treatment earlier than they would have, had they been detected at the full-blown Alzheimer’s stage. Early detection and prognosis of Cancer will follow"

PeopleDaily

PeopleDaily is an interest-based social app for dreamers and doers. It is about what's happening daily in your world and people sharing their dreams and celebrating the achievements in their life