Silicon Valley welcomes Prime Minister Modi

Naren Gupta is the Managing Director of Nexus Ventures. Nexus has over $400M under management and Naren has investments in over 50 cross-border tech companies that create jobs in US and India. Naren has over 20 years of experience in early and early growth stage investment in the US and India. Naren was the co-chair of the Indian American Community Foundation which hosted the community reception for PM Modi at SAP Center on September 27th, 2015. 

Venk Shukla is the president of The Indus Entrepreneur (TiE), one of the most powerful networks focused on technology startups in Silicon Valley. TiE, a 21 year old non-profit, exists to promote wealth creation through entrepreneurship, and its membership includes the entire ecosystem of entrepreneurship – VCs, successful entrepreneurs, senior executives in public companies as well as budding entrepreneurs. He was the host of the Digital India Dinner and the Startup Konnect

Karl Mehta is the Founder of Code for India. He is a serial entrepreneur, investor, engineer, and civil servant with over 20 years of experience in founding, building, and funding technology companies in the U.S. and international markets. Code for India is a global community of software engineers who build technology that can solve the problems of the developing world. Karl hosted the Hackathon during PM Modi's Silicon Visit.