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Hemant Ratubhai Kanakia

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Hemant Ratubhai Kanakia is a renowned entrepreneur, venture capitalist, angel investor, researcher, photographer, sailor and a traveller from India. His investment preferences include sectors and solutions involving solving hard technology problems with a big market opportunity. Hemant has been a serial entrepreneur with success mostly in computer networking equipment. He has founded Torrent Networking (acquired by Ericsson in 1999), Gemplex (acquired by VSNL, India in 2003), Photuris which is an optical switching company and currently founded Maker Bhavan Foundation which is a foundation engaged in reforming of Indian Engineering College Education. Hemant is also an active member of the Indian Angel Network.