What is Startup Grind?
Startup Grind is a global startup community designed to educate, inspire, and connect entrepreneurs. We host monthly events in more than 150 cities and 65 countries featuring successful local founders, innovators, educators and investors who share personal stories and lessons learned on the road to building great companies. Our monthly fireside chat interviews, startup mixers and annual conferences provide ample opportunities to connect with amazing startups and the people behind them, tap into a strong support network, form meaningful connections and gain inspiration for the startup journey ahead. For more information visit StartupGrind.com or follow us on twitter @StartupGrind.
Agenda
6:00 Networking and Food
7:00 Fireside Chat
8:00 Networking
Karl Mehta is a serial entrepreneur, author, investor, engineer, and civil servant with over 20 years of experience in founding, building, and funding technology companies in the U.S. and international markets. He is currently Founder & CEO of EdCast Inc., a next-generation knowledge platform company and former venture partner at Menlo Ventures, a leading VC firm of Silicon Valley with over $4B under management.
Previously, he was the Founder & CEO of PlaySpan Inc., acquired by Visa Inc. (NYSE:V), the world’s largest payment network. Karl also served as a White House Presidential Innovation Fellow, selected by the Obama Administration during the inaugural[masked] term. He was recently appointed by Governor Brown to the Workforce Investment Board of the State of California. In 2010, Karl won the “Entrepreneur of the Year” award from Ernst & Young for Northern California. Karl is on the boards of Simpa Networks and on the advisory board of Intel Capital and Chapman University’s Center of Entrepreneurship.
Karl is founder of several non-profit’s including Code For India (http://CodeforINDIA.org), Skill Up India (http://SkillUpIndia.org) and Grassroots Innovation (http://grassrootsinnovation.org ). He is author of upcoming book, ‘Financial Inclusion at the Bottom of the Pyramid”(http://www.openfininc.org)
About Fremont Chapter Director:
Shilpi is Co-Founder & COO of Kvantum, a marketing performance and attribution company, working with top CPG & Retail brands. Shilpi holds a M.S. in Physics from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi and MBA from UC Davis.
Shilpi spent 15+ years in strategic consulting, M&A and product development. While advising companies like Adobe, Microsoft, McAfee, Teradata. Shilpi built a foundation of what it takes to scale the operations globally and sell software as-a service. Shilpi has also helped various startups in building their operations ground up. Shilpi grew up in northern part of India close to Himalayan valley. She came to California in 2001 and it is her home away from home since then.
Twitter @Shilpi_SV
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