Manish Singhal

Founding Partner

pi Ventures

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About

Manish co-founded LetsVenture.com and led it to become the leading marketplace for startups & early stage investors in India. He is on the boards of startups like Locus, DropKaffe, Witworks, AdSparx, ApartmentADDA etc. He is an Alumnus of IIT Kanpur and loves wild life photography.


Before LetsVenture, he was the India country manager for Sling Media Inc, a silicon valley based consumer electronic startup. He built the R&D and product team in India from scratch and took it to a successful acquisition.


He is also a founder-mentor for an initiative called Women Entrepreneur Quest, which is an annual event for recognizing and rewarding women entrepreneurs in India. This initiative was founded in 2010 and will be hosting its fifth later this year.

Recognition

After doing his engineering from IIT Kanpur in 1992, he has been instrumental in building several products and teams in different startups and established organisations like Sling Media, Ittiam Systems and Motorola. He has contributed to the standardisation of MPEG-4 standard as well and holds couple of video technology patents to his name. He has experience in building hardware standalone products as well as cloud enabled software products.

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