Expanding entrepreneurial and technological networks across the globe
When & Where
Global Connect
The Global Connect track explores the process of increased interconnectedness among countries and innovation capital from and to the US, India, Israel and the Middle East, Japan, Latin America, and Europe. We explore investments in these regions across sectors and observe the fueling of entrepreneurship and the bustling growth in their economies. Speakers on this track are truly diverse and global from many of these countries.
This track covers The Gateway to The G20 and The World, The Gateway to Canada and The World, The Gateway to Global Teams and The World and The Gateway to Entrepreneurship and The World.
According to CB Insights, Global Venture funding fell 35% to $415.1 billion, and deal volume fell 4% to 36, 177 deals in 2022. The global unicorn count hit 1,205 in 2022. Early stage deals dominate at 62% deal share. Fintech startups raised $75.2 billion (5,048 deals) in funding in 2022. The two other leading sectors of funding are retail tech at $52.9 billion (3,614 deals) and global digital health at $25.9billion. (2,122 deals)
Annual US venture funding was $198.4 billion down 37% from 2021, accounting for half the global total. The US also saw a record high for yearly deals at 12,281. Early-stage deals were a key driver, accounting for 57% of total deals in 2022. Silicon Valley is still by far the tech capital of the US. Startups here raised $63.9 billion (2,571 deals), New York took the second spot at $28.8 billion (1,826 deals) in funding, and Boston took $17.38 billion (1,826 deals).
All geographic regions saw record funding, signaling the globalization of innovation capital. Asia is one of the top regions outside the US, for global deals in 2022 at $111.4 billion (13,610 deals), China was $46.6 billion (6,774 deals), Europe at $81.0 billion (7,564deals), India $20.7 billion (1,714 deals), Latin America $7.9 billion (1,019 deals), UK $26 billion (2,082 deals), Canada at $8.9 billion (726 deals), and Israel at $8.8 billion (474 deals).
Track Agenda
- 05/03/2023 | 2:00 pm – 2:15 pm PDT
- 15 mins Hall A2Speakers
Rana SarkarConsul General
Consul General of Canada in San FranciscoMr. Rana Sarkar was appointed as Consul General of Canada in San Francisco | Silicon Valley in 2017, with accreditation for Northern California and Hawaii. He is also a member of Canadas NAFTA Advisory Council. Mr. Sarkar previously served as National Director for High Growth Markets at KPMG Canada, and co-chairman of the advisory board at the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto. From 2009 - 2013, he was President and Chief Executive Officer of the Canada-India Business Council. In 2005, Mr. Sarkar co-founded Content Partners, a global content agency (sold in 2009), and, in 2001, the advisory firm Rawlings Atlantic Limited. He began his career as a consultant at Roland Berger Strategy Consultants in London and Munich and helped establish Roland Berger in India. He also served as a visiting lecturer at the London School of Economics and the CASS Business School at the University of London. He attended the London School of Economics, Queen’s University at Kingston, Ontario, and the INSEAD Executive Program in France. He is a member of the advisory council of the Mowat Centre for Policy Innovation, Canada2020, and The Literary Review of Canada and a Distinguished Fellow at the Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto. Mr. Sarkar is married to lawyer and author Reva Seth. They live in San Francisco with their three children and oversized labradoodle. Chris AlbinsonPresident & CEO
CommunitechChris Albinson is a seasoned tech investor and longtime champion for Canadian innovators in Silicon Valley, is the CEO of Communitech. In Canadian circles, Albinson is best known for his role as a co-founder of C100, a nonprofit organization that supports Canadian technology entrepreneurship and investment. He brought Canadian talent and values to Silicon Valley during his nearly 20 years there. He has invested in 37 Canadian founders coast to coast including PixStream, ImagicTV, Abatis and Passwordbox, while also helping global brands like Pinterest, DocuSign and Turo to scale and issue IPOs. In recognition of his support for Canadian innovation, Albinson was honored with the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal in 2012.
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- 05/03/2023 | 2:15 pm – 2:45 pm PDT
- 30 mins Hall A2Speakers Suri ChawlaGlobal Head of Cloud Services
Tech MahindraSuri is a serial entrepreneur with over three decades in IT which includes experience in building successful global businesses for not only his own ventures but also for companies he worked for. He takes pride in building relationships that are natural fallout of having worked in multiple organizations. He completed his degree in computer science from the University of Ottawa (Canada) in 1983. Being an entrepreneur at heart, he started his first venture, FocusFrame Inc. as a co-founder in 2001 with a successful exit in late 2006 to Hexaware Technologies. FocusFrame leveraged the concept of nearshore for the first time and Suri found it a great complement to onsite and offshore options. His last venture, Digital OnUS (DOU) was acquired by Tech Mahindra. Chris AlbinsonPresident & CEO
CommunitechChris Albinson is a seasoned tech investor and longtime champion for Canadian innovators in Silicon Valley, is the CEO of Communitech. In Canadian circles, Albinson is best known for his role as a co-founder of C100, a nonprofit organization that supports Canadian technology entrepreneurship and investment. He brought Canadian talent and values to Silicon Valley during his nearly 20 years there. He has invested in 37 Canadian founders coast to coast including PixStream, ImagicTV, Abatis and Passwordbox, while also helping global brands like Pinterest, DocuSign and Turo to scale and issue IPOs. In recognition of his support for Canadian innovation, Albinson was honored with the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal in 2012. Rana SarkarConsul General
Consul General of Canada in San FranciscoMr. Rana Sarkar was appointed as Consul General of Canada in San Francisco | Silicon Valley in 2017, with accreditation for Northern California and Hawaii. He is also a member of Canadas NAFTA Advisory Council. Mr. Sarkar previously served as National Director for High Growth Markets at KPMG Canada, and co-chairman of the advisory board at the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto. From 2009 - 2013, he was President and Chief Executive Officer of the Canada-India Business Council. In 2005, Mr. Sarkar co-founded Content Partners, a global content agency (sold in 2009), and, in 2001, the advisory firm Rawlings Atlantic Limited. He began his career as a consultant at Roland Berger Strategy Consultants in London and Munich and helped establish Roland Berger in India. He also served as a visiting lecturer at the London School of Economics and the CASS Business School at the University of London. He attended the London School of Economics, Queen’s University at Kingston, Ontario, and the INSEAD Executive Program in France. He is a member of the advisory council of the Mowat Centre for Policy Innovation, Canada2020, and The Literary Review of Canada and a Distinguished Fellow at the Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto. Mr. Sarkar is married to lawyer and author Reva Seth. They live in San Francisco with their three children and oversized labradoodle.
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- 05/03/2023 | 2:45 pm – 3:15 pm PDT
- 30 mins Hall A2Speakers Richa GuptaChief Human Resource Officer
G-PRicha Gupta is G-P’s chief human resources officer. With more than two decades of experience leading HR in companies ranging from start-ups to high-growth and scaled, she prides herself in helping build talent practices, strong and purpose-driven global firms and high-performing teams/cultures that enable companies to thrive.?
At G-P, Richa leads all facets of the company’s global workforce, talent and employee experience. Her business expertise plays a strategic role in scaling the organization to meet the shifting demands of the remote work and global expansions across the globe. She leads with a “people-first” mantra and leads HR as a product organization.
Prior to G-P, Richa served in senior leadership roles at notable technology companies including GE, PayPal, Vantiv Worldpay and Castlight Health.?She has a master’s degree in organizational psychology from Delhi University and an MBA from Wright State University in Ohio. Richa lives with her husband and children in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Chris DavisContributing Journalist
CIO.comChris Davis is a Partner at Metis Strategy, a strategy and management consulting firm specializing in the intersection of business strategy and technology. Chris is the Head of the firm's West Coast office, where he advises Fortune 500 executives on the strategic role that technology plays in differentiating the customer experience, developing new products, unlocking new business models, and improving organizational operations. Chris is a columnist for CIO.com and public speaker at graduate schools and technology leadership conferences. Chris also contributed to the research and methodology development for Peter High's books Getting to Nimble: How to Transform Your Company into a Digital Leader (Kogan Page, 2021), Implementing World Class IT Strategy: How IT Can Drive Organizational Innovation (Jossey -Bass, 2014), and World Class IT: Why Businesses Succeed When IT Triumphs (Jossey -Bass, 2009). Chris holds a B.A. in Economics from Georgetown University and an M.S. in the Management of IT from University of Virginia's McIntire School of Commerce.
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- 05/03/2023 | 3:15 pm – 3:45 pm PDT
- 30 mins Hall A2Speakers Dheeraj PandeyChairman and CEO
DevRev, Inc.Mr. Pandey is the Chairman and CEO of DevRev, Inc., a SaaS company that is focused on using AI and design to automate software and customer engineering workflows. Previously, he co-founded Nutanix, Inc. in 2009 and served as its CEO and Chairman of its board of directors until December 2020. Previously Dheeraj served in software engineering roles at Aster Data Systems, Inc. (later acquired by Teradata Corporation), Oracle Corp, Zambeel, Inc., and Trilogy Software, Inc. Dheeraj is a global executive leader and technologist with an engineering expertise, financial acumen, an in-depth understanding of the technology landscape, and valuable insight on growing a company from a start-up to a publicly traded company. Mr. Pandey holds a Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, and a M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Austin. He was a Graduate Fellow of Computer Science in the University of Texas at Austin Ph.D. program.
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- 05/03/2023 | 3:45 pm – 4:15 pm PDT
- 30 mins Hall A2Speakers Venktesh ShuklaFounder and General Partner
Monta Vista CapitalVenktesh Shukla has an impressive track record as a seed stage investor first as the Founding Chair of TiE Angels and, since 2014, as the Founder and General Partner of Monta Vista Capital. Prior to his career as a seed stage investor, Venk had a proven track record of leading companies through rapid growth in his roles in sales, marketing and general management. He has worked with over 50 startups as an executive, investor, or a board member. Venk is currently a TiE-SV Council of Trustee. He is passionate about influencing public policy in India to create a stronger ecosystem for Indian startups through his writings and as a nominated member of the Government of Indias Startup Advisory Council chaired by the Commerce Minister of India. He is also passionate about transforming the lives of bright but poor students in India through his 26 years long association with Foundation for Excellence first as the Founding President for 18 years and now as a member of the Board. Venk holds an MBA from MIT Sloan School of Management and BSEE from NIT Bhopal in India. Minoo GuptaPresident
Foundation for ExcellenceMinoo Gupta is a seasoned tech savvy and customer focused executive working in Silicon Valley since 1987. Her experience involves managing high-performance software teams throughout the product lifecycle, from inception to production maintenance. She is skilled in managing high degrees of risk while enhancing operational efficiencies and product quality. Minoo Gupta serves as President of Foundation for Excellence, a non-profit. FFEs mission is to enable academically brilliant and economically underprivileged students in India to complete their higher education in Engineering or Medicine through a Scholarship Program. The organization has supported over 28,000+ students to achieve their dreams since its inception in 1994. Minoo also serves as a Vice-Chair of India Philanthropy Alliance, a network of nonprofit, philanthropic and charitable organizations that mobilize people and funding for development and poverty-reduction programs in India. Nikhil BhaskarPartner
BCGNikhil Bhaskar is a Partner with BCG in the Silicon Valley office. He works closely with Fortune 50 companies and startups to build and launch innovative solutions for patients, providers and biopharma. As part of BCG’s tech build and design unit, Nikhil has launched 3 scaled startups in the e-pharmacy, telemedicine and disease management space. In the last few years, he has also supported the Indian Government to design digital public goods that can have a transformative impact on economic productivity especially in healthcare and financial services. He is part of the G-20 team that has been tasked with fostering partnerships with governments across the globe for promoting and showcasing the impact of DPGs designed and scaled in India. Nikhil is an economist by training and is passionate about leveraging technology to improve care delivery for all – and at all levels of the health system. He believes the combination of multiscale digital health data from patients can impact our understanding, prevention and treatment of disease. Pranav DeshpandeProduct Marketing
VantaPranav Deshpande currently works in Product Marketing at Vanta, having spent the past 8 years in GTM and product marketing roles at Twilio and Modern Treasury. He is also an early iSPIRT volunteer, helping evangelize UPI and the India Stack in the US via events like Startup Bridge India and op-eds in publications like TechCrunch and VentureBeat. He was one of the earliest sales engineers at Twilio and later moved to product marketing, contributing to revenue growth en route to an IPO in 2016, and beyond. As an early employee at Modern Treasury, he helped shape the early GTM strategy and positioning as the company grew revenues and headcount significantly. Pranav is interested in fintech, SaaS, and developer tools and writes about early-stage GTM and product marketing questions on his blog.
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- 05/03/2023 | 4:15 pm – 4:30 pm PDT
- 15 mins Hall A2Speakers JF GauthierFounder & CEO
Startup GenomeThinking and working globally is what fuels the creation of global category leaders. Startup Genome’s experience driving higher startup success across 50 countries and the wealth of its research delivers clarity as to the key success factors of ecosystems and startups that explain a 25X success rate at scaling to $100M and reaching unicorn status.
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- 05/03/2023 | 4:30 pm – 4:45 pm PDT
- 15 mins Hall A2Speakers John Pennett is the Partner-in-Charge of the National Technology and Life Sciences Group at Eisner Advisory Group LLC. He has 35 years of public accounting experience, with a strong emphasis on public and private life science and technology companies. John is a frequent writer and speaker on industry topics. He is the publisher of Catalyst. Additionally, John supports entrepreneurial organizations around the country with content, resources and program development, and serves as a mentor to several early-stage companies. John has led the accounting, auditing and strategic advisory work for more than a 50 IPOs, private financing and mergers and acquisitions with an aggregate valuation in excess of $3 billion. He is deeply involved in the firm’s Outsourced Accounting Services practice and the International Services Group. John previously worked as an Audit Partner for an international accounting and consulting firm. Navneet S. Chugh is the Managing Partner of Chugh, LLP founded in 1985. He is an Attorney and a CPA. He holds an MBA from USC and is a graduate of Senior Executive Leadership Program (SELP) from Harvard University. He is the founder of South Asian Bar Association of California (SABA); TiE Southern California; SABA North America; and Indian Lawyers Association. He is on the board of HAB Bank, Goonj, Kelp HR, Antara International, Foster India Foundation, Lotus Petal Foundation, and newspaper India West Journal. He has served on the boards of TiE Global, American India Foundation (AIF), Pratham USA, Ignify Consulting (sold to Hitachi), 1947 Partition Archives, Sikh Center of OC, India Community Center (Silicon Valley), and Asia Society SoCal. He is also a Founder of the Ashoka University.
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Track Chairs
iSPIRT Foundation
Mateen is the Co-Founder & CEO of Bizhance, helping scalable businesses through strategy, structure, connectivity and partnerships. Mateen has over 20 years of entrepreneurial and professional experience in the Silicon Valley ecosystem. He advises, mentors and speaks on innovation, leadership, entrepreneurship and networking platforms. He works with entrepreneurial organizations and governments on conducive business policies to connect, leverage cross border opportunities and build entrepreneurial vibrant hubs.
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