The Emergence of Deep Tech Startups in India

Please join us for our 2025 Spring seminar series on "Entrepreneurship in Asian High-Tech Industries." Each year, this series surveys the most recent trends, patterns, and challenges of entrepreneurship in Asia and their relevance to Silicon Valley and the U.S. Guest speakers include entrepreneurs, investors and mentors, and other experts on the current entrepreneurial ecosystems of major Asia economies.

Panelists:

Dr. Ashish Gupta, Co-founder, Helion Venture Partners

Ashish is a co-founder of Helion Ventures investing in India. He serves on several boards including Gupshup, Indegene (INDGN), Infoedge (NAUKRI), Urban Company, and Whatfix. He also co-founded Drishti (AAPL), Tavant Technologies and Junglee (AMZN); and worked at Woodside Fund, Oracle Corporation and IBM research. His past investments include Flipkart(Walmart), MakeMyTrip (MMYT), Pubmatic (PUBM), Upwork (UPWK), Perfios, Redbus (MMYT), MuSigma, and Daksh (IBM).

Ashish is a Kauffman Fellow, holds a Ph.D. in CS from Stanford University, and a BTech from IIT Kanpur where he received the President’s Gold medal and the Distinguished Alumnus Award. He has published several research articles, patents and a book by MIT Press.

Madhu Iyer (Guest Moderator), Managing Partner, rocketship.vc

Madhu Shalini was the Chief Data Officer of Gojek and helped grow the business into a $1 billion unicorn. She was on the board and started the Singapore office. Prior to Gojek, Madhu was an operating partner at a 150M private equity fund building startups across South East Asia. She was part of the founding team of Intuit’s Quickbooks Lending Platform where she helped grow the platform to $300 million and holds 3 patents in the areas of user data augmented algorithms for financial inclusion.

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To attend in-person, please register over Eventbrite.

To attend by Zoom, please register here.

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Parking options:

• Memorial Way, Stanford, CA 94305 [Google Map]
• Lasuen St. and Roth Way, Stanford, CA 94305 [Google Map]
• Please check parking signs carefully to ensure that permitted parking (A or C) and metered spaces are free after 4:00 pm. Paid parking is enforced around The Oval until 6:00 pm.

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Our series on "Entrepreneurship in Asian High-Tech Industries" begins April 1, 2025 and continues weekly until June 3, 2025.

For our schedule of speakers, please visit our event page: https://asia.stanford.edu/course/entrepreneurship-in-asian-high-tech-industries/2025-entrepreneurship-in-asian-high-tech-industries/

Session Recordings are typically posted within 3 business days after each session on our .

Host or Publisher US-Asia Technology Management Center