Gireendra Kasmalkar — Co-Founder

Gireendra is the Founder and Managing Partner at Pentathlon Ventures, a Venture Capital firm, for founders by founders and Founder of Ideas to Impacts Hub, a leading start-up ecosystem. Pentathlon Ventures completely focuses on funding and supporting early stage B2B-Tech start-ups and helps them go global. All the partners themselves have a track record of building successful B2B Tech ventures. After successfully deploying Fund 1, Pentathlon is on its Fund 2 journey, doubling down on the same thesis to lead in the early stage B2B Tech investment space. Ideas to Impacts Hub, a leading incubator / accelerator of Tech start-ups in Pune, is also home to Pentathlon Ventures. Ideas to Impacts Hub is growing fast both in India, taking the Startup ecosystem to the non-metros of India, and internationally, with our Land and Expand model. Thus, "Distributing The Future Evenly (R)"! Gireendra is a Mechanical engineer from IIT Mumbai (1987) and Univ. of South Carolina, USA, (1989). Starting his career with Tata Consultancy Services, he has been an entrepreneur for most of his 30+ years in the industry. His initial business was in the CAD-CAM space, before starting his pioneering independent testing business, VeriSoft, one of India’s earliest and leading independent testing companies. VeriSoft was acquired by SQS Software Quality Systems AG, the global leader in independent testing. Gireendra headed the India operations as the MD and CEO of SQS India. He was also on the board of SQS India BFSI (listed on NSE and BSE) and SQS USA. Gireendra is a Director and President of Executive Council at the Inter-Institutional Inclusive Innovation Centre, an independent non-profit company committed to student innovation in India. He is a member of the Social Innovation Lab of the Pune International Center, that promotes social entrepreneurs. He has also been associated with MCCIA, TiE and CSI. Gireendra has been a speaker at various international conferences on entrepreneurship and early stage startup investments.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Venture Capitalist with expertise in B2B-Tech startups and innovation management.

Location: Pune, Maharashtra, India

Experience: 31 yrs 6 mos