SpeakIn honours Experts who guided start-ups during lockdown

India’s fastest-growing online business learning platform, SpeakIn honoured India’s top mentors for start-ups in the last quarter. Ankur Pahwa (Partner, EY); Jaideep Mehta (CEO, VCCircle); Rajan Anandan (Managing Director, Sequoia Surge); Sanjay Mehta (Founder & Partner, 100X.VC); and Alok Goel (Partner, SAIF Partners) are named as top start-up experts by SpeakIn.

While the entire economy has faced enormous challenges due to COVID-19 pandemic, start-ups, in particular, have been the most affected during this crisis. With the objective of empowering young entrepreneurs and businesses, many accomplished business leaders are helping out start-ups with their unparalleled guidance and expertise. Honouring the contributions and extreme dedication towards start-ups of such leaders, SpeakIn has named these five leaders, who have extensively provided subject-matter expertise and mentorship to start-ups across India.

All five mentors have successful and glorious track records in their respective fields. With over 20 years of consulting experience, Ankur Pahwa is at the helm of the e-commerce and consumer internet sector. His areas of expertise lie in strategy and transactions, start-ups and innovation. Jaideep Mehta is another business leader with a track record of delivering winning results. He is an expert in angel investments, market research and change management.

Rajan Anandan, in the past 15 years, has invested in many technology-based start-ups. He has deep knowledge about business transformation and is an established investment advisor, always looking for the next big unicorn. Sanjay Mehta is another leader whose immense knowledge of the start-up ecosystem makes him an incredible coach. He has invested in 103 start-up companies to date in diverse sectors and start-ups seek his guidance on topics such as financial planning, management consulting, vendor management, and sales negotiation.

Alok Goel is the next name in SpeakIn’s top-five list of start-up experts. He is a noted venture capital investor besides a successful entrepreneur. Alok is phenomenal in providing coaching to entrepreneurs and business professionals about e-commerce and product management.

While revealing the names of these start-up experts, Deepshikha Kumar, Managing Partner & Founder of SpeakIn, said, With the backing of over 15,000 industry stalwarts, at SpeakIn, our focus is facilitating learning and connecting start-ups to the best experts from India and abroad. During the lockdown, these industry experts have contributed greatly to several organizations, filling critical gaps and stand to be a huge asset to any startup advisory board. SpeakIn is proud to feature these experts and looks forward to recognising many more industry experts.