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Prof. Nandini Vaidyanathan

www.carmagroup.inforstartups.blogspot.com

P : +91 98-802-20037

E : [email protected]

http://www.carmagroup.in/

My passion

Making every Indian an entrepreneur

I started my company Startups tohelp create magical thinkers, like Prometheus who stole fire from the fire gods

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Mentored over 500 entrepreneurs in the last four yearsDomain agnosticMentoring from concept to profit

• Four of us started CARMa (Creating Access to Resources and Markets) to make India an Entrepreneurially Progressive Nation by making opportunity-based SME’s robust, scalable and profitable

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http://www.carmagroup.in/index.html


Alumnus of Delhi School of Economics And London School of Economics


Twenty years in MNCs Working on all inhabited continents

Teacher and Mentor

• Last five years teaching Entrepreneurship in ivy league biz and engineering schools in India, US, UK and Singapore

• Mentor with New Ventures India, a joint venture between World Resources Institute, Washington, and Confederation of Indian Industry – Sohrabji Green Business Centre, Hyderabad, promoting clean-tech entrepreneurship.

• Mentor with Mentor Square, an online mentoring platform for entrepreneurs.

• Mentor with iaccelerator and Mentor Edge, Centre for Innovation, Incubation and Entrepreneurship, IIMA



Entrepreneurship Development Centreat PES School of Engineering,Bangalore, with incubator


Published in reputed Indian and international journals

Regular monthly column in the magazine Entrepreneur

Micro-enterprises

• Startups mentors entrepreneurs on a pro bono basis. Startups is also actively involved in helping women below the poverty line in building micro enterprises in economies as plural as India, Afghanistan, Ethiopia and other countries in the Sub-Saharan Region.



On the Boards of several companiesFrequent Speaker at conferencesAvid blogger

The me that friends know

• Greedy for crime and legal thrillers, (80 books a month)

• Back-to-back movies in multiplex• Impromptu back-packing holidays with

my daughter• Admiring our lab Mocha as she admires

her Cindy Crawford mole • Gourmet cook, all my Libran creativity

gets channelized into feeding people • Sobbed my heart out watching Hatchiko



To open a restaurant called concoctions Where Imagination is the only permanent ingredient

Unfulfilled ambition

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