Star Treatment
Does prominence change the questions? Every guest, plotted: their public prominence (rated 1–10 by an LLM, methodology below) against the host pushback they met, measured from every diarized word of their episodes.
An aggregate AI reading of public interviews: pushback per exchange, plotted against guest prominence. It describes questioning patterns across the whole catalogue, not any single guest, and every point opens to its episode. full disclaimer →
-0.08pushback per +1 prominence
0.5/10host pushback, prominence 8–10
1.1/10host pushback, prominence 1–4
338guests measured
dot size = rated episodes · gold line = average per prominence level · every dot links to the person
All guests, by prominence
| Guest | Prominence | Host pushback | Guest pushback | Eps |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sanjeev Kapoor Co-Founder, Wonderchef Home Appliances | 8 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Vineeta Singh Co-founder & CEO, SUGAR Cosmetics | 8 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Montek Singh Ahluwalia Distinguished Fellow, CSEP | 7 | 0 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Sabeer Bhatia Co-Founder and CEO, ShowReel | 7 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Harsh Mariwala Founder, Marico | 7 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Ghazal Alagh Co-founder, Mamaearth | 7 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Kunal Bahl Co-founder, Titan Capital | 7 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Sanjeev Bikhchandani Founder and Executive Vice Chairman, Info Edge | 7 | 1 | 2/10 | 3 |
| Amitabh Kant Chancellor, NIIT University | 7 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Dr. C. Rangarajan Chairman, Madras School of Economics | 7 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Vani Kola Founder and Managing Director, Kalaari Capital | 7 | 1 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Mark Mobius Chairman, Mobius Emerging Opportunities Fund | 7 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Aadit Palicha Co-Founder and CEO, Zepto | 7 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Jay Vijayan Founder & CEO, Tekion | 6 | 0 | 1/10 | 2 |
| Jayant Sinha President, Everstone Group | 6 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Duvvuri Subbarao Chairperson, Madras Institute of Development Studies | 6 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Rohit Bansal Co-Founder, Snapdeal & Titan Capital | 6 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| T. V. Mohandas Pai Former CFO, Infosys | 6 | 0 | 6/10 | 1 |
| Raj Shamani Founder, House of X | 6 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Roshan Abbas Co-Founder, Kommune India | 6 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Karan Bajaj Founder & CEO, Complement 1 | 6 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Varun Alagh Co-Founder and CEO, Honasa Consumer | 6 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Kunal Kapoor Co-Founder, Ketto | 6 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Beerud Sheth Founder & CEO, Gupshup | 6 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Aloke Bajpai Chairman & Group CEO, ixigo | 6 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Anand Chandrasekaran Managing Partner, Celesta Capital | 6 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Gaurav Munjal Co-founder & CEO, Unacademy | 6 | 0 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Rajan Anandan Managing Director, Peak XV Partners | 6 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| PC Musthafa Co-founder & Global CEO, iD Fresh Food | 6 | 0.5 | 1/10 | 2 |
| Kanwal Rekhi Managing Partner, Silicon Valley Quad | 6 | 1 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Shiv Shivakumar Operating Partner, Advent International | 6 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Subroto Bagchi Head of Skill Development, Karnataka Government | 6 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Jigar Shah Co-Managing Partner, Multiplier LLC | 6 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Tiago Forte Founder & CEO, Forte Labs | 6 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Hari Menon Co-Founder and Board Member, BigBasket | 6 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Amit Agarwal Co-founder & CEO, NoBroker | 6 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Vidit Aatrey Co-founder and CEO, Meesho | 6 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Sanjeev Sanyal Member, Economic Advisory Council to the PM | 6 | 1.3 | 3.3/10 | 4 |
| Yashish Dahiya Chairman and Group CEO, PB Fintech Limited | 6 | 1.5 | 2.5/10 | 2 |
| Naveen Tewari Founder, InMobi InMobi, which became one of India’s first major mobile advertising unicorns. He secured early funding from Kleiner Perkins, Ram Shriram, and Masayoshi Son, eventually building two unicorn companies. | 6 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Aditya Agarwal Partner, South Park Commons | 6 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Arjun Sethi Co-Founder, Tribe Capital | 6 | 2 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Tarun Mehta Co-founder & CEO, Ather Energy | 6 | 2 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Dheeraj Pandey Co-founder & CEO, DevRev | 6 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Krishnamurthy Subramanian Professor of Finance, Indian School of Business | 6 | 4 | 5/10 | 1 |
| Harish Bhat Former Brand Custodian, Tata Sons | 5 | 0 | 0.3/10 | 3 |
| Roopa Kudva Former CEO, CRISIL | 5 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Bhanu Chopra Founder & Managing Director, RateGain | 5 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Erik Allebest Co-founder and CEO, Chess.com | 5 | 0 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Kirthiga Reddy Co-founder & CEO, Verix | 5 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Manav Garg Founding Partner, Together Fund | 5 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Manish Mundra Managing Director, Indorama Eleme Petrochemicals | 5 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Oren Kaniel Co-Founder & CEO, AppsFlyer | 5 | 0 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Suhail Sameer Founder & Managing Partner, OTP Ventures | 5 | 0 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Shashvat Nakrani Co-Founder & Board Director, BharatPe | 5 | 0 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Anish Achuthan Co-founder & CEO, Open | 5 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Bipin Preet Singh Co-Founder and CEO, MobiKwik | 5 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Saahil Goel Co-founder and CEO, Shiprocket | 5 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Prashant Pitti Co-Founder, EaseMyTrip | 5 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Anjali Bansal Founder and Founding Partner, Avaana Capital | 5 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Tushar Vashisht Co-founder & CEO, Healthify | 5 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Shantanu Deshpande Founder & CEO, Bombay Shaving Company | 5 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Nitish Mittersain Founder & Managing Director, Nazara Technologies | 5 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Malika Sadani Founder, The Moms Co. | 5 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Mohan Lakhamraju Founder & CEO, Great Learning | 5 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Naren Gupta Co-founder & Managing Partner, Nexus Venture Partners | 5 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Vaibhav Domkundwar Founder and Managing Partner, Better Capital | 5 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Karthik Reddy Co-founder and Managing Partner, Blume Ventures | 5 | 0 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Ameera Shah Promoter & Executive Chairperson, Metropolis Healthcare | 5 | 0 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Somesh Dash General Partner, Institutional Venture Partners (IVP) | 5 | 0.5 | 1.5/10 | 2 |
| Ishan Sharma Co-Founder, MarkitUp | 5 | 0.5 | 1/10 | 2 |
| Sanjay Swamy Managing Partner, Prime Venture Partners | 5 | 0.7 | 1/10 | 9 |
| Baskar Subramanian Co-founder & CEO, Amagi | 5 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Asha Jadeja Motwani Founder & President, Motwani Jadeja Foundation | 5 | 1 | 2.5/10 | 2 |
| Matt MacInnis Chief Product Officer, Rippling | 5 | 1 | 4/10 | 1 |
| K. Ganesh Co-Founder and Partner, GrowthStory | 5 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Avnish Bajaj Founding Partner, Z47 | 5 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Sharad Sharma Co-founder, iSPIRT Foundation | 5 | 1 | 2.5/10 | 2 |
| Meena Ganesh Chairperson & Co-Founder, Portea Medical | 5 | 1 | 1.5/10 | 2 |
| Ashok Bhattacharya (A.K. Bhattacharya) Editorial Director, Business Standard | 5 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Pramath Raj Sinha Chairperson, Board of Trustees, Ashoka University | 5 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Ravi Kumar Co-founder & CEO, Upstox | 5 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Kaushik Mukherjee Co-founder & COO, SUGAR Cosmetics | 5 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Mithun Sacheti General Partner, Singularity Growth | 5 | 1 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Jaspreet Singh Founder & CEO, Druva Jaspreet Singh is the founder and CEO of Druva, a data protection and resiliency company established in 2008. Under his leadership, Druva has scaled to serve more than 4,000 global organizations. | 5 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Sandeep Jain Founder and CEO, GeeksforGeeks | 5 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Rajiv Srivatsa Partner, Antler India | 5 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Ashish Singhal Co-founder & Group CEO, PeepalCo | 5 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Vamsi Krishna Co-founder & CEO, Vedantu | 5 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Jon Sakoda Founding Partner, Decibel Partners | 5 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Shanti Mohan Founder, LetsVenture | 5 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Sheel Mohnot Co-Founder & General Partner, Better Tomorrow Ventures | 5 | 1 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Dhruv Kapoor Partner, Anicut Capital | 5 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Sanjay Nath Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Blume Ventures | 5 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Sanjeev Aggarwal Founder, The Fundamentum Partnership | 5 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Ashok Atluri Chairman and Managing Director, Zen Technologies | 5 | 2 | 4/10 | 1 |
| Subhash Chandra Garg Former Finance Secretary, Ministry of Finance | 5 | 2 | 4/10 | 1 |
| Ashok K. Lahiri Vice Chairman, NITI Aayog | 5 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Matt Clifford Co-founder & Non-Executive Chair, Entrepreneur First | 5 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Varun Mayya Founder & CEO, Aeos | 5 | 2 | 4/10 | 2 |
| Ankush Sachdeva Co-founder & CEO, ShareChat | 5 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Aprameya Radhakrishna Angel Investor & Entrepreneur | 5 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Amit Khatri Co-Founder, Noise | 5 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Rajesh Jain Founder & Managing Director, Netcore Cloud | 5 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Ashu Garg General Partner, Foundation Capital | 5 | 2.5 | 2/10 | 2 |
| Deepak Shenoy Founder & CEO, Capitalmind | 5 | 2.7 | 4.3/10 | 3 |
| Swapnil Jain Founder & CEO, Observe AI | 5 | 3 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Bhaskar Ghosh Partner & CTO, 8VC | 5 | 3 | 2.5/10 | 2 |
| Raviteja Dodda Founder, MoEngage | 5 | 4 | 2/10 | 1 |
| P. Rajeev Minister for Law, Industries, and Coir, Government of Kerala | 5 | 4 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Amrit Acharya Co-founder & CEO, Zetwerk | 5 | 4 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Ganesh Krishnan | 5 | 4 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Poojan Kumar Chief Product Innovation Officer, Commvault | 4 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Sudheesh Nair Founder & CEO, Tinyfish | 4 | 0 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Avanish Sahai Fellow, Stanford Distinguished Careers Institute | 4 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Shreesha Ramdas CEO and Co-Founder, Lumber | 4 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Dr. R. Balasubramaniam (Balu) Member, NITI Aayog | 4 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Vinay Singhal Co-founder & CEO, STAGE | 4 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Vikas Nahar Founder & CEO, Happilo | 4 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Bharat Sethi Founder & CEO, Rage Coffee | 4 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Vijay Arisetty Co-founder & CEO, Aurm | 4 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Shashank Mehta Founder, The Whole Truth Foods | 4 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Gautam Baid Founder and Managing Partner, Stellar Wealth Partners | 4 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Karan Shroff Co-Founder and CEO, LightFury Games | 4 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Rajan Singh Founder and CEO, HabitStrong | 4 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Sameer Guglani Founder and Curator, Supermorpheus | 4 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Manish Pandey Co-Founder & CEO, BeerBiceps SkillHouse | 4 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Sambhav Jain Co-founder & CEO, FamApp | 4 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Rajdip Gupta Managing Director & Founder, Route Mobile | 4 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Supriya Paul Co-founder & CEO, Josh Talks | 4 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Madhukar Sinha Co-founder & Founding Partner, India Quotient | 4 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Mohit Sadani Managing Director, DeVC | 4 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Nishith Rastogi Co-founder & CEO, Locus | 4 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Dr. Geetha Manjunath Founder, CEO & CTO, NIRAMAI Health Analytix | 4 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Abhishek Asthana Founder, GingerMonkey | 4 | 0 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Ashwini Asokan Co-founder & CEO, Mad Street Den | 4 | 0 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Viraj Sheth Co-founder & CEO, Monk Entertainment | 4 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Jishnu Bhattacharjee Managing Director, Nexus Venture Partners | 4 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Shripriya Mahesh Founder, Spero Ventures | 4 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Mekin Maheshwari Founder & CEO, Udhyam Learning Foundation | 4 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Ganesh Rengaswamy Co-founder & Managing Partner, Quona Capital | 4 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Ritu Verma Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Ankur Capital | 4 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Pankaj Makkar Managing Director, Bertelsmann India Investments | 4 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Kitty Agarwal Partner, Info Edge Ventures | 4 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Ishaan Mittal Founding Partner, Mettle Capital | 4 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Rahul Chandra Co-founder & Managing Director, Arkam Ventures | 4 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Manish Singhal Founder, pi Ventures | 4 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Kanwaljit Singh Managing Partner & Founder, Fireside Ventures | 4 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Rajul Garg Founder & Managing Partner, Leo Capital | 4 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Rehan Yar Khan Founder & Managing Partner, Orios Venture Partners | 4 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| T. N. Hari Chief People Officer, BigBasket | 4 | 0.5 | 0.5/10 | 2 |
| Amit Somani Managing Partner, Prime Venture Partners | 4 | 0.7 | 1.1/10 | 9 |
| Shripati Acharya Managing Partner, Prime Venture Partners | 4 | 0.9 | 1.3/10 | 7 |
| Gaurav Jain Co-founder & Managing Partner, Afore Capital | 4 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Navneet Dalal Co-Founder, Matic | 4 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Vijay Krishnan Co-founder & CTO, Turing | 4 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Aneesh Reddy Founder & CEO, Capillary Technologies | 4 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Ashmeet Sidana Founder and Chief Engineer, Engineering Capital | 4 | 1 | 2/10 | 2 |
| Kiran Darisi Co-founder, Atomicwork | 4 | 1 | 2/10 | 2 |
| Umesh Padval Founding Managing Partner, Seligman Ventures | 4 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Thomas Dübendorfer President & Co-Founder, SICTIC | 4 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Rahul Sasi Co-Founder & CEO, CloudSEK | 4 | 1 | 1.3/10 | 3 |
| Khadim Batti Co-founder and CEO, Whatfix | 4 | 1 | 2/10 | 2 |
| Sharad Sanghi Co-founder & CEO, Neysa | 4 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Boris Wertz Founding Partner, Version One Ventures | 4 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Neha Bagaria Founder & CEO, HerKey | 4 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Anand Lunia Founding Partner, India Quotient | 4 | 1 | 2.5/10 | 2 |
| V.S. Sudhakar Co-founder, BigBasket | 4 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Raghav Verma Co-Founder, Chaayos | 4 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Ganesh Balakrishnan Co-Founder and CMO, Aurm | 4 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Akash Sinha Co-founder & CEO, Cashfree Payments | 4 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Akhil Gupta Co-Founder and CTPO, NoBroker | 4 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Abhishek Goyal Co-Founder & Vice Chairman, Tracxn | 4 | 1 | 1.5/10 | 2 |
| Neha Singh Co-Founder, Tracxn Tracxn alongside Abhishek Goyal, leading the company through its recent public market debut. She guided the tech startup to an early IPO stage at approximately $10 million in ARR. | 4 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Manish Taneja Co-founder & CEO, Purplle | 4 | 1 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Vaibhav Sisinty Founder & CEO, GrowthSchool | 4 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Vikaas Gutgutia Founder and Managing Director, Ferns N Petals | 4 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Yamini Bhat Co-Founder & CEO, Vymo | 4 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Nitin Sharma Partner and Co-founder, Antler India | 4 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Anirudh Singla Founder & CEO, Pepper | 4 | 1 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Avlesh Singh Co-founder & CEO, WebEngage | 4 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Arpit Agarwal Partner, Blume Ventures | 4 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Harpreet Singh Grover Co-founder, CoCubes.com | 4 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Krishna Kumar Founder & CEO, Cropin | 4 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Vishesh Rajaram Managing Partner, Speciale Invest | 4 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Nikhil Kapur Partner, Grayscale Ventures | 4 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Anup Jain Partner, Orios Venture Partners | 4 | 1 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Mark Kahn Managing Partner, Omnivore | 4 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Hemant Mohapatra Partner, Lightspeed India | 4 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Sarbvir Singh Joint Group CEO, PB Fintech | 4 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Sid Talwar Managing Partner, Lightbox Ventures | 4 | 1 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Mayank Khanduja Former Partner, Elevation Capital | 4 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Ajay Hattangdi Managing Partner & Co-Founder, Alteria Capital | 4 | 1 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Dr. Aniruddha Malpani Angel Investor & IVF Specialist | 4 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Alok Mittal Co-founder & CEO, Indifi Technologies | 4 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Ankit Garg Co-founder & CEO, Wakefit | 4 | 1.5 | 2/10 | 2 |
| Jonathan Siddharth Co-founder & CEO, Turing | 4 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Samay Kohli Co-Founder and CEO, Budy | 4 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Viral Bajaria Co-Founder & CTO, 6sense | 4 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Kapil Makhija MD & CEO, Unicommerce | 4 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Raja Manickam Founder and CEO, iVP Semiconductor | 4 | 2 | 1.5/10 | 2 |
| Paras Chopra Founder, Lossfunk | 4 | 2 | 2.7/10 | 3 |
| Deepak Garg Founder, Rivigo and AnywhereJobs | 4 | 2 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Prayank Swaroop Partner, Accel | 4 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Dev Khare Partner, Lightspeed | 4 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Nilesh Patel Co-founder & CEO, LeadSquared | 4 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Ritesh Banglani Co-founder & Partner, Stellaris Venture Partners | 4 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Alok Goyal Partner & Co-Founder, Stellaris Venture Partners | 4 | 2 | 2/10 | 2 |
| Alok Sama Senior Advisor, Warburg Pincus | 4 | 2 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Luca Ferrari Co-Founder & CEO, Bending Spoons | 4 | 2 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Vipul Parekh Co-Founder and Board Member, BigBasket | 4 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Pallav Nadhani Co-Founder, Presentations.AI | 4 | 2 | 3.5/10 | 2 |
| Vinay Bagri Co-Founder and CEO, Niyo | 4 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Pranay Kotasthane Deputy Director, Takshashila Institution | 4 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Manjari Jaruhar Advisor, Tata Consultancy Services | 4 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Vishwanath Srikantaiah Trustee, Biome Environmental Trust | 4 | 2 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Aarti Gill Co-Founder and CEO, OZiva | 4 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Anand Jain Co-founder & CPO, CleverTap | 4 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Tanmai Gopal Co-founder and CEO, Hasura | 4 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Dilipkumar Khandelwal Chief Customer Officer, Celonis | 4 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Ranjeet Pratap Singh Co-Founder and CEO, Pratilipi | 4 | 2 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Sajith Pai Partner, Blume Ventures | 4 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Sameer Brij Verma Founder & Managing Partner, Northpoint Capital | 4 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Pratik Poddar Partner, Nexus Venture Partners | 4 | 2.5 | 2.5/10 | 2 |
| Phalgun Kompalli Co-Founder, Bodhium Labs | 4 | 3 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Ayyappan Rajagopal Founder and CEO, FirstClub | 4 | 3 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Brij Bhushan Managing Partner, Prime Venture Partners | 4 | 3 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Karan Virwani CEO, WeWork India | 4 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Rahul Chowdhri Partner, Stellaris Venture Partners | 4 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Shruti Gandhi Founder & General Partner, Array Ventures | 4 | 3 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Ishpreet Gandhi Founder, Stride Ventures Ishpreet Gandhi is the founder of venture debt fund Stride Ventures, established in 2018. Prior to launching the fund, he worked in debt funding across financial institutions including Citibank and Kotak Mahindra. | 4 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Manan Khurma Founder and CEO, Cuemath | 4 | 4 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Graham Blake Chief Product Officer, Merlin AI | 3 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Rohit Agarwal Co-founder & CEO, Portkey | 3 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Shikhil Sharma Co-founder & CEO, Astra Security | 3 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Vijay Rayapati Co-founder & CEO, Atomicwork | 3 | 0 | 1.5/10 | 2 |
| Ishendra Agarwal Co-Founder, GIVA Ishendra Agarwal is the co-founder of the jewellery brand GIVA. He is known for building the business and navigating India's gold and silver jewellery market. | 3 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Rhea Karuturi Co-founder & CTO, Hoovu Fresh | 3 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Yadhu Gopalan CEO & Founder, Esper | 3 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Satej Sirur Founder & CEO, Rocketium | 3 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Ashish Tandon Founder & CEO, Indusface | 3 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Bipin Shah Founder & Managing Partner, Zeropearl VC | 3 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Abhishek Rungta Founder & CEO, Indus Net Technologies | 3 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Prasad Kompalli Co-Founder, Oncourse AI | 3 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Farooq Adam Co-Founder, Fynd | 3 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Ashvin Chadha Co-founder & Managing Partner, Anicut Capital | 3 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Arun Venkatachalam Investor, Habrok Capital Management | 3 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Pravin Agarwala Co-Founder and Group CEO, BetterPlace | 3 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Mitesh Shah Co-Founder, Inflection Point Ventures | 3 | 0 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Bhaskar Majumdar Founder, Unicorn India Ventures | 3 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Shailesh Ghorpade Managing Partner & CIO, Exfinity Venture Partners | 3 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Priya Mohan COO, JoulesToWatts | 3 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Ankur Bansal Executive, BlackSoil Capital | 3 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Deepak Gupta Founder, Equitycrest | 3 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Tej Kapoor Partner, Bay Capital Partners | 3 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Anjali Ravi Kumar Chief Sustainability Officer, Eternal | 3 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Priya Krishnan Chief Digital and Transformation Officer, Bright Horizons | 3 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Pankaj Bansal Managing Partner, Caret Capital | 3 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Mahesh Ram Executive Director, Founders FUNDA | 3 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Palash Soni Co-Founder and Former CEO, Goldcast | 3 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Animesh Koratana Founder, PlayerZero | 3 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Bhaktha Keshavachar Founder, Chara Tech | 3 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Vignesh Ravikumar Partner, Sierra Ventures | 3 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Karthik Chakkarapani CIO, Zuora | 3 | 1 | 1.5/10 | 2 |
| Shashank Bijapur Co-founder and CEO, SpotDraft | 3 | 1 | 1.5/10 | 2 |
| Hunter Somerville Partner, StepStone Group | 3 | 1 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Ashish Fafaria Partner, Blume Ventures | 3 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Srikrishnan Ganesan Co-founder and CEO, Rocketlane | 3 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Santosh Panda Co-Founder, Foundership | 3 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Bala Srinivasa Managing Director, Arkam Ventures | 3 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Ashish Jhina Co-Founder and COO, Jumbotail | 3 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Karthik Venkateswaran Co-founder & CEO, Jumbotail | 3 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Sushma Kaushik Head, L&T Innovation Fund | 3 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Kunal Khattar Founder & Managing Partner, AdvantEdge Founders | 3 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Sandeep Aneja Founder & Managing Partner, Kaizenvest | 3 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Girish Shivani Co-founder and Partner, Yournest Venture Fund | 3 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Shivakumar Ganesan Co-Founder and CEO, Exotel | 3 | 1.5 | 2/10 | 2 |
| Rajiv Sikri Former Secretary, Ministry of External Affairs | 3 | 1.5 | 1.5/10 | 2 |
| Lal Chand Bisu Co-Founder and CEO, Kuku FM | 3 | 1.5 | 3/10 | 2 |
| Krishna Mehra AI Partner, Elevation Capital | 3 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Arun Penmetsa Partner, Storm Ventures | 3 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Shashank Saxena Co-Founder & CEO, Pantomath | 3 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Sudarshan Kamath Co-founder & CEO, Smallest AI | 3 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Ashish Toshniwal Founder & Chairman, 10kR | 3 | 2 | 2/10 | 2 |
| Prateek Mehta Partner, South Park Commons | 3 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Sachin Aggarwal Founder, Stackgen | 3 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Saurya Prakash Sinha Co-Founder, Recko | 3 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Matein Khalid Chief Investment Officer & Partner, Asas Capital | 3 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Manoj Kewalramani Chairperson, Geostrategy Programme, Takshashila Institution | 3 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Nishit Garg Partner, RTP Global | 3 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Sri Batchu Chief Marketing Officer, The RealReal | 3 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Suhasini Sampath Co-founder, Yoga Bar | 3 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Manoj Agarwal Co-founder & President, DevRev | 3 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Bhavna Suresh Co-Founder and CEO, 10Club | 3 | 2 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Shashi Kumar Co-Founder and CEO, Akshayakalpa Organic | 3 | 2 | 4/10 | 1 |
| Vara Kumar Namburu Co-founder & Head of R&D, Whatfix | 3 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Mohit Gulati Managing Partner & CIO, ITI Growth Opportunities Fund | 3 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Raja Ganapathy Managing Partner & Co-Founder, Spring Marketing Capital | 3 | 2 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Tanay Tandon Co-Founder & CEO, Commure | 3 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Prof. Arun Kumar Chair Professor, Institute of Social Sciences | 3 | 2.5 | 5/10 | 2 |
| Kushal Bhagia Founder, All In Capital | 3 | 3 | 2.5/10 | 2 |
| Saravana Kumar Founder & CEO, Kovai.co | 3 | 3 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Abhishek Goenka Head of Investments, RPSG Capital Ventures | 3 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Karthik Prabhakar Co-founder & Managing Partner, PeerCapital | 3 | 4 | 4/10 | 1 |
| Raj Rishi Singhal Financial Columnist & Policy Analyst | 3 | 4 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Dilsher Malhi Founder & CEO, Zupee | 3 | 5 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Karan Goel Co-founder & CEO, Cartesia | 2 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Sneha Kumari Co-founder & CEO, Merlin AI | 2 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Sridhar Krishna Senior Scholar, The Takshashila Institution | 2 | 0 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Raja Doddala Head of VC & Growth Equity, Churchill AM | 2 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Divyanshu Makkar Co-Founder and CEO, WizCommerce | 2 | 0 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Rohit Anand Founder & CEO, 1DigitalStack | 2 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Kshitij Jain Founder & CEO, Joveo | 2 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Hetal Sonpal Angel Investor | 2 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Glen Svensson Buddhist Teacher, Center for Contemplative Research | 2 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Daljit Singh Strategic Advisory Board Member, HealthQuad | 2 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Rohit Sarin Co-Founder, Client Associates | 2 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Atin Sanyal Co-founder & CPO, Galileo | 2 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Mehul Nariyawala Co-Founder, Matic | 2 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Srividya Srinivasan Co-founder & CTO, Amagi | 2 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Ameya Bhatawdekar Field CTO, Braintrust | 2 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Abdul Nasar (Nachika) Co-Chair & Co-Founder, iD Fresh Food | 2 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Vasanth Namasivayam Founder & CEO, Featurely | 2 | 1 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Sharath Narayana CEO & Co-Founder, Sanas | 2 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Laura Raggl Managing Partner, ROI Ventures | 2 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Vidit Agarwal Founder & Lead Designer, Witchcraft | 2 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Karthik Jagannathan Co-Founder and CEO, Gallabox | 2 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Nukul Upadhyay Co-Founder and CEO, Bijak | 2 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Pawan Raj Kumar Founder, Supa Foods & Hoi Foods | 2 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Prashant Pansare Co-Founder, Eagle10 Ventures | 2 | 1 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Victor Senpaty Co-Founder and CEO, Propelld | 2 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Anjali Sardana Founder and CEO, Pronto | 2 | 2 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Manish Jindal Early Employee, Cloudflare | 2 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Rangarajan Krishnan Managing Director, Prayaan Capital | 2 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Vamshi Ambati Investor & Director, Virama Ventures | 2 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Vishal Jain CEO, Zerodha Fund House | 2 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Kashyap Chanchani Founder, Rainmaker Group | 2 | 4 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Siddhartha (Siddharth) | 1 | 2 | 1/10 | 2 |
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