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Get connected to the best mentors in the ecosytem
About Startup Mentor Collective
Kerala Startup Mission since its initial inception has been maintaining a strong panel of mentors for supporting the startups in its various stages of growth. The mentoring support offered to the startups has brought obvious advantages for the startups and KSUM has witnessed this transformation. Being the nodal agency the number of startups that KSUM now is catering to has spread across 3000 and in this regard KSUM is expanding its mentor network through this initiative Startup Mentor Collective.
Who can avail Mentorship
Startups having Unique ID / registred with Kerala Startup Mission are eligible to avail mentorship.
How to avail Mentorship
Startups can browse through the list of mentors classified based on their areas of expertise below. Once they identify the necessary mentor they can use the "Connect Now" button to connect with the mentor. The startup will be asked to login using their KSUM Unique ID credentials (or Startup India Credentials). Once loggedin the startup can send a connection request to the mentor. This will invoke a approval request to the mentor chosen. Once the mentor approves the request a meeting link is auto generated and details are shared with the startup and mentor.
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Dittin Andrews
Scientist E/Joint Director Cyber Security
CDAC
Product/Service design
Doulos Jose
Growth Evangelist
Tremis Capital
Business strategy
Dr Anil Kumar
Asst. Professor
NIT Calicut
Product/Service design
Dr Irfan Khan
Founder and CEO
eBikeGo
Capital structuring and Fund raising
Dr Manesh Thomas
Chief Executive Officer
Manipal-Government of Karnataka Bioincubator
Product/Service design
Dr Nakul Parameswar
Assistant Professor
Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad
Go to Market
Dr Varghese Thomas
Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon
Dr K M Cherian Institute of Medical Sciences, Kallissery, Chengannur
Product/Service design
Dr. Asharaf
IIITMK
Business strategy
Dr. Basil Kuriachen
Assistant Professor
NIT Calicut
Product/Service design
Dr. Jayasankar
DCSMAT
Business strategy
Dr. Omkumar
Faculty
IIM Kozhikode
Go to Market
Dr. Pradipta
Scientist
KRIBS BIONEST
Product/Service design
Dr. REJI JOHN
Scientist-G & Director (Materials & Sposored Research- Retd)rch
defence research & development organisation, Min. of Defence, Gov of India ( retired 31 July 2022)
Product/Service design
Duleep
Kerala CM's Hi Powered Digital Advisory Committee
GoK
Business strategy
Eby Kuriakose
Senior Solutions Architect
Amazon Web Services
Product/Service design
Firoz Mohamed
GTM
Recko
Go to Market
Gaghan ghai
Managing Partner
Crest Innovation Foundation
General
Ganesh Kaushic
Consultant & Advisor
India Blockchain Alliance
Go to Market
Gaurav Mishra
CEO
Startup Instant Private Limited
Business Development
Gautham Palaniswamy
Project Lead
StartupTN
Product/Service design
Geetanjali Gupta
Founder & Head Of Growth
Headspur Technologies
Product/Service design
Gineesh Sukumaran
Lead Data Scientist
Hydroinformatics Institute
Product/Service design
Ginu George
Head of Product
Almabase
Product/Service design
Girinath Pillai
Lead Scientist
Sygnature Discovery Ltd
Business Development
Gopakumar Menon
Founder and principal consultant
G-1 communications
Business Development
Gopi
CEO
Build next
Business strategy
Gopi Koteeswaran
Evangelist
LatentView Analytics
Business strategy
Haneesh Krishnan G
founder & IP Counsel
Kris - Hagan
Product/Service design
Hari Ramakrishnan
Ernst & Young
Product/Service design
Hariprasad R
Product/Service design