Jay Krishnan

CEO

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India21 yrs 5 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Led India's largest startup incubator and corporate innovation programs.
  • Achieved 30% IRR with multiple successful exits in venture capital.
  • Authored a book on entrepreneurship and business strategies.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Venture Capitalist and Startup Accelerator expert with deep experience in early-stage investments.

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Skills

Core Skills

Venture CapitalStrategic LeadershipSocial ImpactExecutive ManagementOperations ManagementTechnical Leadership

Other Skills

BudgetingBusiness AlliancesBusiness DevelopmentBusiness PlanningChange ManagementCloud ComputingConsultingCross-functional Team LeadershipDeal ClosureDeal SourcingEmployee EngagementFundraisingInnovation ManagementInvestmentsLeadership

About

Early stage Investor; Author; Entrepreneur; Nerd Partner @ Beyond Next Ventures India (Japan's top early stage DeepTech VC) CEO @ The Accelerator Centre: Canada's #1 Accelerator Program Partner @ Mantra Capital: Early Stage Venture Capital: Investing in Early Stage Digital India Startups 1st CEO @ T- Hub, India's largest Startup Incubator + corporate innovation accelerator. Successful Serial Entrepreneur & investor with exits (and a failure) in the US & India Product guy at Cisco Systems, Juniper Networks, Cantata/ Dialogic- Intel Author, “Unfinished Business”

Experience

Beyond next ventures inc.

Partner

Nov 2024Present · 1 yr 4 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

  • Partner & Head of Investments, India
  • Early Stage Investments in Deeptech
  • Health, Climate and all things Deeptech & Deep Science
Venture Capital

American india foundation

Chapter member

Feb 2023Feb 2023 · 0 mo · India

  • Advisory role/ Founding member of the India chapter
  • US non profit focused on impact in India
  • :Education, Healthcare & Livelihood
Social ImpactNonprofit Organizations

Accelerator centre

Chief Executive Officer

Feb 2021Apr 2024 · 3 yrs 2 mos · Waterloo, Ontario, Canada · On-site

  • P&L Management:
  • Pre Seed Incubator, Accelerator, Investor
  • Portfolio of 200+ cos. through Venture Incubation; Venture Studio and Cross- Border Accelerator
  • 50+ Seed- stage portfolio go from 0 to 1 through the Incubation Program.
  • 100 Early- stage companies in sustainability through Venture Studio.
  • 50+ early stage companies through corporate accelerators.
Strategic PartnershipsVenture CapitalStrategic LeadershipExecutive ManagementBusiness DevelopmentOperations Management+12

Mantra launchspace (mls)

Investor, Board Director

Jan 2020Jan 2024 · 4 yrs · India

  • Board position.
  • Early stage acceleration, Market access & investing

Mantra capital

General Partner

Jan 2019Aug 2020 · 1 yr 7 mos · United States, India

  • Early Stage VC (Seed to Series A)
  • US- India Venture Fund Management
  • Deal Sourcing, Fundraising, Syndication across B2B & B2C Startups in US & India
  • Deal Structuring, Syndication & M&A
  • Invested in 4 ventures: 2 Exits; 30% IRR
  • Portfolio management- Technology, Scaling, BD, GTM and Strategy
Strategic PartnershipsVenture CapitalStrategic LeadershipExecutive ManagementOperations ManagementEmployee Engagement+11

Sri capital

Venture Partner

Jul 2018Dec 2018 · 5 mos · India, US

  • US- India Venture
  • Invested in 10+ Cos.; 40%+ IRR fund-I
  • Drove early stage equity investments in bridge and lead rounds across Enterprise Tech & consumer Tech
  • Drove Scouting, diligence, structuring & syndication.
  • Provided channel sales and GTM assistance to aid multiple portfolio companies in enhancing revenue streams in the US & India
Strategic PartnershipsVenture CapitalStrategic LeadershipExecutive ManagementOperations ManagementEmployee Engagement+11

T-hub hyderabad

Chief Executive Officer

Jul 2015Sep 2018 · 3 yrs 2 mos · Hyderabad Area, India · On-site

  • CEO, India's largest private- public non profit focused on innovation
  • Managing India's largest Startup Incubator, Corporate Innovations Program & International Startup Programs at T- Hub
  • P&L Management
  • Venture Funding
  • Corporate Access & connects through
  • Co working, Incubation, Acceleration for startups
Strategic PartnershipsVenture CapitalStrategic LeadershipExecutive ManagementOperations ManagementEmployee Engagement+11

Iot venture

CEO

Sep 2010Sep 2014 · 4 yrs · Greater Bengaluru Area

  • Built, managed & scaled a team of 50+ personnel
  • Built multi- channel partnerships to generate $M+ in revenue with 30% growth
  • Developed multi- protocol service delivery platform allowing enterprises across multiple sectors: Developed Direct & Channel GTM
  • P&L Management
  • Revenue, EBITDA and growth
  • BD, GTM
  • Strategic and operational expansion
  • Risk and change management
  • Geography & Portfolio Expansion
  • Fundraising
Strategic PartnershipsStrategic LeadershipExecutive ManagementOperations ManagementEmployee EngagementTeam Management+10

The minacs group

VP & GM (Post Acquisition of Startup Radifinity)

Jan 2010Jan 2011 · 1 yr · Bangalore, Mumbai

  • AI- Based IoT Asset Management
  • Direct & Channel GTM
  • Post Acquisition of Radifinity
  • VP of the Physical Asset Management Business Group
  • Revenue, P&L Responsibility for the Business Unit
  • Define, Launch and Market new Solutions for IT Services
  • Sales account development
  • Strategic Geography & Portfolio Expansion
Strategic PartnershipsStrategic LeadershipExecutive ManagementOperations ManagementTeam ManagementTechnical Leadership+7

Radifinity information systems pvt. ltd.

CEO & Co- founder

Dec 2007Jan 2009 · 1 yr 1 mo · Bangalore, San Jose

  • Radifinity's Core product offering Physical Asset Management using Wireless Technologies. The value proposition includes a customized consultancy engagement, Innovative product offering that is technology-agnostic, and mulitple wireless technologies act as the backbone for the customer to track, trace, manage and bring in visibility to the customer.
  • Radifinity is incubated out of the Indian Institute of Management (IIMB) with offices in Gurgaon and California.
  • Roles & Responsibilities:
  • P&L Management. Fundraising
  • Strategic, Mission and Operations Planning
  • Innovation, Technology and Product development
  • Resource Optimization
  • Budgeting, Finance & Cost Management
  • Business Development
  • Product & Program Management
  • Marketing & Outreach
Strategic PartnershipsStrategic LeadershipExecutive ManagementOperations ManagementTeam ManagementTechnical Leadership+5

Cisco systems

Global Partner Management

Nov 2007Jan 2009 · 1 yr 2 mos · Bangalore, San Jose

  • Responsible for Cisco CDO’s Partner Engagement out of India. The group oversaw partner engagements with billing over $100M
  • Overall responsibility includes quarterly presentations to Sr. Management covering spend analysis, productivity metrics and other strategic reports.
  • Performed scenario analyses, highlighting cost savings and synergies, and analyzing internal rates of returns
  • Responsible for oversight of multiple Business units within CDO across partners- Budgeting partner spend, customer Satisfaction, resource allocation, business planning and forecasting
Strategic PartnershipsStrategic LeadershipExecutive ManagementOperations ManagementTeam ManagementTechnical Leadership+5

Juniper networks

Program Manager, New Products

Aug 2005Oct 2007 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Bangalore, Sunnyvale

  • New Products Introduction Program Manager
  • Forms, plans for and directs a product team towards successful definition, development, completion, launch and management of New Products and Processes into the manufacturing environment.
  • Converts marketing requirements and product description documents into manufacturing plans and task descriptions. *Drive manufacturing tasks through with regional, third party and site engineering on early stages of development to ensure common understanding of the requirements as well as to assist with early architectural choices in the implementation.
  • Manage a product through inception to first year production. Assure that manufacturing readiness meets project launch timeline.
  • Manage projects for diverse Geo-Political Design Centers and multiple proto type / manufacturing sites.
Strategic PartnershipsOperations ManagementTechnical LeadershipStrategic Planning

Brooktrout technology

Product Development Platform Engineering

Jan 2000Jul 2005 · 5 yrs 6 mos · Boston, Massachusetts, United States

  • Designed, Developed and helped sustain and Launch new Hardware based platforms to Market
  • Fax over IP, Voice over IP
  • Media Gateway processing
  • Converged System Platforms
Strategic PartnershipsTechnical Leadership

Education

Indian Institute of Management Bangalore

Exec. MBA — Gerneral Management

RV College Of Engineering

B.E — Engineering- Electronics & Instrumentation

University of Hartford

M.S — Electrical Engineering

Kendriya Vidyalaya Pattom,Thiruvananthapuram

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