Roundtable Recap: November 21 – AI Investment Thesis with Krishnakumar Natarajan, Mela Ventures

During this week’s roundtable, we had Krishnakumar Natarajan, Co-founder at Mela Ventures discussing his firm’s AI investment thesis.

Zukino

As for our entrepreneur pitches, up first, Ankush Banik from Bengaluru, India, pitched Zukino, a fashion personalization venture.

AlphaSheet

Then Manoj Taneja from Noida, India, pitched AlphaSheet, a data analytics venture.

ReealTech

Next, we had Saurabh Upadhyay from Gujarat, India, pitch ReealTech a real estate virtual tour venture.

MarketSquare

Last up, Sachin Sukumar from Bengaluru, India, pitched MarketSquare, a retail concept for new grocery brands.

You can listen to the recording of this roundtable here:

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