Be it in research, in agriculture, or in the IT services industry.”. We would still love to hear from you. Kris is one of the co-founders of Infosys. Yashodhara leads the legal and compliance activities at Axilor. On the clinical side, we are going the traditional route by setting up a Centre for Brain Research. We are at a very interesting stage in the area of innovation at this point, and every industry will change. He was elected President of India’s apex industry chamber Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) for 2013-14, and served as one of the co-chairs of the World Economic Forum in Davos in January 2014.

VG serves on the boards of several companies and advisory bodies. Kris Gopalakrishnan (Co-founder – Infosys & Chairman, Axilor Ventures) is devoting all his efforts and a considerable sum of money into putting India in the lead of changes driven by technology by focusing on the entire value chain – tertiary education, research, innovation, and entrepreneurship. Asutosh leads Fintech, Enterprise & SaaS Investments at Axilor. For India to lead, we need to create new models and new businesses. Previous Post Next Post Related Readings. To that end, she has specific interest in new commerce models and science backed ideas.

Tags Axilor Ventures MiStay Press Release Startup Funding India. He is Trustee of the Infosys Science Foundation, a not-for-profit trust; a Member of the Board of Trustees, Boston University and a Member of the Board of Managers of Haverford College, Philadelphia. Facebook; Twitter; You might like View all.

We need to take entrepreneurship to Tier 3 & 4 cities and to rural areas.
Health care as we know it will change. Until mid 2018, Chetan was the cofounder/CEO of Vizury, a leading company in the Customer Data Management & Marketing Cloud space. Please drop a mail to accelerator@axilor.com. In 2016, he was recognized by the Academy of Management as Eminent Scholar for Lifetime Achievement in the field of International Management.

Kris is one of the co-founders of Infosys. S.D. Shibulal is the co-founder of Axilor Ventures. Over the 10 years at Vizury, he led a ~300 member setup of with offices across APAC, US & LATAM, while raising $30M in funding along the way. Amongst his innumerable achievements during his time at Infosys, he is especially proud of being instrumental in creating the Global Delivery Model. A larger number of people working on a problem will result in a quicker solution and India participating in research lowers the cost, because we are a lower cost economy. She actively helps startups set up their initial infrastructure and put the foundational systems and processes in place. Kris is one of the co-founders of Infosys. Chennai: "The big opportunity is ahead of us and the big opportunity for India is to be the laboratory where this (technology impacting society) transformation is going to materialise to the benefit of society," said Kris Gopalakrishnan, Chairman of Axilor Ventures and former executive vice-chairman of Infosys.

Kris Gopalakrishnan (Co-founder – Infosys & Chairman, Axilor Ventures) is devoting all his efforts and a considerable sum of money into putting India in the lead of changes driven by technology by focusing on the entire value chain – tertiary education, research, innovation, and entrepreneurship. 300 crore to various research activities. Kris is a Fellow of Indian National Academy of Engineers (INAE) and an Honorary Fellow of Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers (IETE) of India.


She has diverse experience advising clients on a variety of corporate matters.

Mr Gopalakrishnan invests in promoting research on Brain sciences, aging related disorders as well as investing in start-ups and start-up ecosystem. Kris Gopalakrishnan, co-founder, Infosys, and chairman, Axilor Ventures. VG holds a bachelors in engineering and a postgraduate degree in management from IIM Lucknow. India has about 4 million people who have Alzheimer’s and it’s estimated there will be 10 million in the next 20 years. Prior to co-founding Axilor Ventures, VG was Head of Strategy & Planning at Infosys. In about 30 years, we have created a world-class industry in India employing 4 million people with a revenue of $170 billion. He holds an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow and a Bachelors of Engineering in Computer Science from National Institute of Technology, Surathkal. He is an active writer on issues relating to startups. Updated: 11 Jun 2020, 01:32 PM IST Nandita Mathur. Prior to this, he was with the Corporate & Investment Banking (Treasury & Securities Services) team at JP Morgan.