Ganesh Krishnan

Ganesh Krishnan General Information

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Mr. Ganesh Krishnan is a Co-Founder and serves as Chairman at Portea Medical. He is a Co-Founder and serves as Board Member at FreshMenu. He serves as Board Member at HungerBox and GrowFit. He actively mentors, incubates and funds start-ups and is promoter of several Indian consumer Internet and ecommerce companies including Bigbasket.com - India's largest eGrocery company, Bluestone.com - leading online jewelry company, Avagmah.com - India's fastest growing online education company and HomeLane - India's leading end to end, vertically integrated interior design and manufacturing provider which delivered more than 1000 projects delivered across the country. In addition, his angel investments include little eye labs (acquired by Facebook in Jan 2014), mustseeIndia.com, overcart.com delyver.com, onlineprasad.com, Pokkt, SilverPush and Oximity. Previously, Ganesh founded of the data analytics BPO firm Marketics until March 2007, when the company was acquired by NYSE listed WNS for $ 63 MM. His previous venture, CustomerAsset was started in mid-2000 and later acquired by ICICI (NYSE listed, India's largest bank) and is now publicly listed in India as First Source Solutions. In 1990, he founded his first company - IT&T, one of India's top multi-vendor IT service and support company. The business was acquired by iGate (a listed company) in 2003. Ganesh has also worked as the CEO of Wipro/Bharti British Telecom - a British Telecom JV in India, and held a senior management position in HCL Ltd. He is also a popular speaker in entrepreneurship, start-up and technology events. He has been recognized as one of the "Iconic Entrepreneurs of India" in a document published by National Knowledge Commission, Government of India.