Poornima Kavlekar has been associated with The Smart CEO since the time of launch and is the Consulting Editor of the magazine. She has been writing for almost 20 years on a cross section of topics including stocks and personal finance and now, on entrepreneurship and growth enterprises. She is a trained Yoga Teacher, an avid endurance Cyclist and a Veena player.
Poornima Kavlekar Featured in #Cover Story
Sep 12, 2016
Roopa Kudva nearly celebrated a silver jubilee at CRISIL before she assumed her role as the leader of impact investment firm, Omidyar Network India. At Omidyar, parallel efforts to invest in impact…
Poornima Kavlekar Featured in #Growth Enterprise
Transerv’s strategy for scaling up a digital payments venture
Sep 12, 2016
Nirvana Venture and Faering Capital-backed TranServ, a digital payments company with over eight million customers on its platform, recently tied up with Micromax, which will help it redefine mobile payments for…
Poornima Kavlekar Featured in #Starting Up
Sep 12, 2016
IDFC and Khosla Ventures-backed Novopay has been conceptualized by thinking deeply about the concept of financial inclusion and by analysing a variety of use cases for the unbanked population. Founded by…
Poornima Kavlekar Featured in #Special Features
Where the clouds meet the ocean
Sep 09, 2016
New York-based cloud infrastructure provider, DigitalOcean, recently set up its data centre in India with a strong focus on capitalising on the growing developer and SMB community in India. Apart from…
Poornima Kavlekar Featured in #Growth Enterprise
Innovating for the developing world
Aug 03, 2016
Sedemac Mechatronics, a company that was founded by graduates of IIT-Mumbai in 2008, now supplies unique powertrain control products (for small engines) to leading Indian automobile brands including Mahindra, Tata Motors…
Poornima Kavlekar Featured in #Growth Enterprise
A marketplace for SME financing
Aug 03, 2016
Nexus Venture capital-backed Biz2Credit, an online marketplace which brings together an array of lenders with entrepreneurs seeking funds, aims to partner with the top 20 banks across the globe and grow…
Poornima Kavlekar Featured in #Starting Up
FIXING THE PROBLEM OF CUSTOMER SERVICE
Jun 21, 2016
Helpshift, a customer support platform, is installed in almost 1.30 million devices worldwide and serves more than 300 million mobile customers on a monthly basis. With a recent funding round of…
Poornima Kavlekar Featured in #Starting Up
Jun 20, 2016
Norwest Venture Partners-backed Pepperfry.com, which encourages artisans and SME suppliers through its market place, aims to grow the online home and furniture segment and cross a gross merchandise value of…
Poornima Kavlekar Featured in #Special Features
IN CONVERSATION WITH AMIT PATNI
Jun 20, 2016
Amit Patni talks about RAAY Global Investments, his investment philosophy towards different opportunities, the future of the family office and the sectors that are likely to see growth in the future Established…
Poornima Kavlekar Featured in #Special Features
“MANY HAVEN’T UNDERSTOOD THE OPPORTUNITY IN MAKING EARLY-STAGE INVESTMENTS”
Jun 20, 2016
Dr. Apoorv Ranjan Sharma, co-founder of Venture Catalyst, a seed investment and innovation platform, talks to us about the need of the hour for the investment community and the Indian startup…
