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Ganesh Krishnan

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Ganesh Krishnan is an angel investor, serial entrepreneur and promoter from India. His interests are startups and products from the areas of Consumer Internet, Healthcare, Education and Technology. He is currently the director of GrowthStory, an entrepreneurship platform that promotes greenfield ventures, working with marquee VCs and entrepreneurs. He is also the promoter director of startups like BigBasket.com, Bluestone, Portea Medical, HomeLane, HouseJoy, FreshMenu, HungerBox, ClearOut.io, Verloop.io, Marketics, KVN Foundation, FeedMyBangalore etc. He has previously founded an Edu-Tech startup called TutorVista which was later acquired by Pearson. He is an Adjunct Professor at Indian Institute of Management , Bangalore (IIMB) and served as one of the Board of Governors of Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta (IIMC). Ganesh Krishnan so far had four successful entrepreneurship experiences - starting with raising money, putting together a team, scaling and growing across multiple countries and finally successfully monetising through IPO and trade sale - IT&T (acquired by iGate), CustomerAsset (Acquired by ICICI), Marketics (Acquired by WNS) and TutorVista (acquired by Pearson). His specialties are: Starting up, raising capital, incubating ventures , scaling and growing startups.