Abhinav was co-founder & CEO at Perpule, a hypergrowth retail-tech startup in India. In 2021 he sold Perpule to Amazon and is now helping Amazon scale the POS offering to millions of merchants across India

Ankur has over 12 years of experience helping consumer brands and the associated ecosystem drive large-scale business transformation. Prior to joining Fireside, Ankur was part of the consumer markets leadership at KPMG where he worked closely with CXOs across startups, promoter-driven companies, and large MNCs chalking out strategic initiatives for accelerated growth. His clientele at KPMG included consumer tech, CPG, fashion, and healthcare in India and the Middle East. He has been involved with the Indian digital ecosystem for over a decade with cross-functional experience encompassing strategy consulting, performance improvement, and digital transformation for over 20+ brands. He also worked with multiple private equity/VCs on commercial due diligence for their proposed investments across the eCommerce ecosystem.

Ashish currently leads seller acquisition, seller listings, mobile app for India and other assistance platforms at Amazon. With more than 1 million sellers already launched on Amazon, Ashish is leading the charter to enable the next 1 million sellers to start their journey on Amazon. He is driving the thought leadership in providing new age experience to sellers via mobile app and enabling scalable assistance via chat, voice, video. Prior to Amazon, Ashish has 13+ years of experience in leadership roles in Business Management, Operations and Product Management in various industries ranging from e-commerce, retail, logistics, consultancy and consumer goods. He has a unique combination of experience in offline and online retail, startups and corporates. Ashish had his own share of failure in startups in social commerce and outdoor retail advertising, and success of starting and leading a furniture e-commerce startup FabFurnish.com. He has also led the strategy and product roadmap for Future Group for omnichannel grocery retail in India via neighbourhood shops.

Madan Padaki is an entrepreneur working at the intersection of transforming youth, enabling entrepreneurial journeys & empowering social changemakers. His vision is that every youth is an empowered youth, every empowered youth is an entrepreneur & job-creator and every entrepreneur is a social changemaker.
Madan Padaki is the Founder & CEO of 1Bridge, a village commerce network that delivers digital financial services & aspirational products to our villages. A serial entrepreneur, Madan was the co-founder of MeritTrac in 2000, India’s first skills assessment organisation that was acquired by Manipal Education in 2011. He is also the Co-founder & Managing Trustee of Head Held High Foundation, a non-profit that aims to create abundance by youth transformation. He is the Co-founder of Global Alliance for Mass Entrepreneurship (GAME), a network that aims to catalyse large-scale job creation by bringing together the government, businesses & civil society organisations to work collaboratively on igniting a mass entrepreneurship movement. He currently serves as a Board Member of YuWaah/UNICEF & is the President of TiE Bangalore.

Nakul Saxena brings in over two decades of leadership experience spanning a wide variety of roles across corporate sales, wealth management and policy advocacy for the technology and startup sectors. Currently, Nakul leads Fund Strategy and Investor Relations at LetsVenture. At LetsVenture, Nakul focuses on leading and building the investor side of the marketplace for early-stage business.
He also works closely with regulators and policymakers, to help with the right investor policies, to help build the vibrant startup ecosystem and help LetsVenture launch micro funds In India that will focus on ESG, Health, Bharat, AgriTech and Deep Tech startups. In addition to this, he will also help LetsVenture expand its reach to international investors.
He is an industry veteran with over 24 years of experience in policy advocacy, banking, airline and technology sectors, with past experiences in leadership roles at companies like AWS, iSPIRT, IndusInd bank, RBS, Standard Chartered Bank, Carlson Hotels, Jet Airways to name a few.
Nakul has also been part of executive committees and boards of government bodies like Chief Minister Start-Up Council for Rajasthan, Technical Committee on Digital Yatra and Drones stack with Ministry of Civil Aviation, focusing policy interplay with technological innovation and socio-economic development using India Stack.

Poyni Bhatt is a qualified legal and compliance professional- fellow member of the Institute of Company Secretaries of India, turned to dealing with entrepreneurship and technology business incubation, and helping entrepreneurs for over a decade. She is a founding team member and the CEO of SINE, the technology business incubator at IIT Bombay. She has been involved in more than 200 startups supported by SINE since 2004 and is actively mentoring startups and innovators outside SINE as well. She has handled several collaborative international programs for innovators and entrepreneurs, most recently with Switzerland and Canada.
Prior to SINE, she had a corporate experience of over a decade in manufacturing and investment banking sectors, where she had handled IPOs and fund raising, structured corporate M&A deals, and also dealt with various Indian regulators.
She is a member of several committees of government and trade associations for innovation, entrepreneurship, and incubation, and also a member on the boards of several incubators.

Venture Capital (8 years), Investment Banking (3 years), Technology (2 years)
Prayag leads investments in the F&B space at Fireside Ventures and serves on the boards of MamaEarth, Alpha Vector, Yogabar, Smytten, Slurrp Farm, Wellbeing Nutrition, Samosa Singh and Tasty Tales. Prior to Fireside Ventures, he was a Principal at IvyCap Ventures, focusing on early-stage consumer and enterprise technology startups where he worked closely with BiryaniByKilo, Bluestone, Vinculum, GrabOnRent, FieldEz, and RMLAgtech. He also led the domestic institutional fund-raising activities for the Fund. At SBI Capital Markets, he was part of the ECM vertical where he was involved in several closures, including the marquee follow-on public offering of $700 million by Tata Steel and the $200 million stake sale by GOI in Engineers India through a follow-on public offering.

Vatsal Kanakiya is currently Principal & CTO at 100X.VC, and Partner at his Family office Mehta Ventures. Through the two, he has led 50+ first cheque investments across India and the US across various sectors.

Abhishek is an award-winning marketing professional with experience in PLG-led demand generation, enterprise marketing, market research and analytics, and sales. His experience spans startups to Fortune 100 organizations. He is experienced in creating and capturing demand for products of varied scale ($30M ARR and $250M ARR), deploying channels, content, campaigns, analytics, operations, and technology. He is a speaker at The LinkedIn Masterclasses and at Indian School of Business (ISB).

Sanjay Anandaram has over 30 years of experience as an entrepreneur, investor, corporate executive, teacher, board member and mentor. He has been and continues to be part of several startups and technology investment funds.

As a passionate advocate of entrepreneurship and innovation, he writes, lectures, advises, invests and mentors startups, companies and industry bodies on innovation, entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial thinking. He is the co-founder of a not-profit company, Network of Indian Cultural Enterprises (NICE), global ambassador for iSpirt, Executive Board member of MOSIP, and advisor with the Data Governance Network. He also serves on the boards of Quess Corp, Allsec Technologies, Sattva Consulting and TiE Bangalore, and as Advisor to NSRCEL-IIMB, CWE and other organizations.

Sanjay has led or played key roles in several pioneering high tech cross border product development initiatives. As an entrepreneur, he co-founded one of the first VC backed software companies in Silicon Valley that was created by founders who had relocated from India, which subsequently became a part of Infoseek/Disney. He also set up Venturekatalyst, India’s first entrepreneur focused web magazine and JumpStartUp, one of India’s first tech oriented VC funds in 2000, investing in Silicon Valley and India. In 2016, he published Startup Mantras, one of the top business books of that year according to Business Insider, a collection of 100 lessons for entrepreneurs and managers.