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Aarthi Ramamurthy is the founder and General Partner of Schema Ventures.
Prior to Schema Ventures, Aarthi held executive roles at Meta, Microsoft, and Netflix, as well as has entrepreneurial expertise from building and exiting multiple YC-backed startups.
She's also a prominent voice in tech culture through Aarthi and Sriram Show, a top tech and business podcast.

Senior Director, Google DeepMind
Dr. Manish Gupta is a Senior Director at Google DeepMind, leading AI research teams across India and Japan.
Previously, he founded VideoKen and led research centres at IBM and Xerox, including work on the award-winning Blue Gene/L supercomputer.
A Fellow of ACM and the Indian National Academy of Engineering, he has co-authored around 75 papers and holds 19 US patents.

Former CTO B2B Applications, OpenAI
Srinivas Narayanan is former CTO of B2B Applications at OpenAI, where he led engineering for business products and helped scale ChatGPT and the OpenAI API.
Previously, he spent over a decade at Meta leading large-scale engineering and product initiatives.
An IIT Madras alumnus, he has also worked at IBM Research, co-founded Viralizr and advised AI startups at General Catalyst.

Partner, Y Combinator

Partner, General Catalyst
Akarsh Shrivastava is a Partner at General Catalyst, investing across AI, consumer technology, defence and government.
Previously, he led the SaaS, AI and B2B practice at Elevation Capital, where he helped significantly expand the firm's investments in the sector.
Before entering venture capital, he worked at McKinsey & Company. Akarsh is an alumnus of IIT Delhi and IIM Ahmedabad.

Managing Partner, Upekkha
Prasanna Krishnamoorthy is the Managing Partner at Upekkha, an accelerator supporting Indian B2B and vertical AI startups building for global markets.
He is also a founding volunteer at AIBoomi, formerly SaaSBoomi. Previously, he worked across product and growth at Microsoft Accelerator and Amazon, and has spent more than a decade helping founders build sustainable, revenue-led businesses.

AI Products and Growth, Exotel
Anuja Dhawan leads AI Products & Growth at Exotel and is the co-founder of Dubverse, an AI-powered dubbing platform that makes content accessible across more than 30 languages.
Her work spans multilingual voice AI, conversational intelligence and enterprise customer experiences, with a focus on building AI products that help businesses understand and improve customer interactions at scale.

Member, South Park Commons
Tanuj Bhojwani is a member of South Park Commons.
Previously, he led People+AI, an EkStep Foundation initiative focused on advancing population-scale AI adoption in India, and worked on technology policy at iSPIRT Foundation.
An IIT Bombay graduate and Young India Fellow, he is also the co-author of "The Art of Bitfulness" with Nandan Nilekani.

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