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Name : Tejasvi Musale Title: Co-founder and CEO Company Name : Luma World Website : https://lumaworld.in/ Great Companies: How did you get your idea or concept for the business? Tejasvi Musale: How many times have we heard from kids, parents, friends or maybe even ourselves "Oh, studying is so boring!" or "Oh no! Exams are coming up!". While others looked at education as something necessary, for me it was the process of acquiring knowledge and WHY we learn rather than WHAT that always stood out. So, I asked myself why don't we like studying at school but love playing a sport or watching a movie. What if we could make learning fun and entertaining like any other hobby! So, a couple years ago, I got together with my friends Sameer, Sajid and Venkat to start Luma World. We were passionate about education and have had the privilege of studying in prestigious educational institutions in India and abroad. However we found the system of education in India was focused on rote memorization while in other countries it was on practical application. Doing further research and speaking to a lot of educators, parents and kids we found that learning was more theoretical and monotonous in schools and not focused on enhancing the experience of learners. So, many students get bored or lose interest in a lot of topics. That’s when we had an amazing idea. We said, “Why not combine learning with play?” and Luma World was born. We take academic concepts, life skills and moral values and combine them into games and other activities so that kids never realize they’re “studying” but rather gain all essential skills while having fun. If learning cannot be made useful in the real world then what use is it? We make the process of learning fun and the knowledge gained useful in everyday life! Great Companies: What are the various services provided by Luma World Tejasvi Musale: At Luma World we like to call ourselves an Educational Experience Design Company which means we create products and offer services that make the learning ecosystem purposeful and fun! Our products are targeted towards families with kids between ages 3 and up with the primary focus of getting everyone OFF their digital screens and spend meaningful time together. By doing this parents, grandparents and siblings play an important role in a child's education while the child gains all-round development of academic and social skills. The best part about our products are they are curriculum agnostic which means it doesn't matter what school your child goes to or what syllabus they follow, all our games will give them a combination of 3 kinds of skills - Academic skills like math, science, etc. Life skills which are crucial in the 21st century like critical thinking, problem solving, creativity, communication, etc. Moral values like patience, honesty, sharing, etc. We have reached over 25,000 families in over 10 countries with our products and the feedback has been overwhelming! Whether at home, in classrooms, as gifts or even at events our products have been used and appreciated which brings me a lot of joy! Through the last 3 years, especially after COVID, we have opened up 2 other services we provide: We have coined the term GDaaS (Game Design as a Service) - where we help companies sitting on huge content banks to gamify it and release products for their target audience. As we are one of the few non-tech game design companies in India a lot of firms really value what we do especially from a product or merchandise perspective. Next, we host numerous events, workshops, contests and competitions around educational board games which are extremely niche in India. We not only get families and friends to enjoy games and have a great time but we have also conducted sessions where we teach kids on how to design their own games! I'm sure there's almost no other company in India that does this like a program like we do. Great Companies: What makes Luma World different from hundreds of other similar service providers? Tejasvi Musale: This is a great question! I think our biggest strength is how, in a world full of digital learning, we are focused on creating physical learning experiences. In a way, as odd as it may sound, we are a few years ahead of the market. Here there are two different scenarios, learning at home and learning at school. Let’s look at the former first. In today's age, especially after COVID, parents are slowly realizing the perils of screen time for young kids, especially those under the age of 12. Screens isolate kids and, though technology has some great powers, it almost divides families within the house. Gone are the days where the entire family could sit together at dinner and talk or sit around a table and play a game. Everyone is just glued to his or her phones or computers or TV. This, according to me, is the real pandemic! We are in the process of changing that. We want to provide an awesome experience for families to come together, have as much fun as they would on their gadgets and make some amazing memories together. This is even more important for families with young kids and old people because there is no age limit for having fun! When families play our games, the main reason they love it is because there’s something for everyone in there! Today, there is nothing of common interest for grandparents, parents and kids to play... our games have changed that! The second scenario is the classroom. When we spoke to educators in India the two biggest problems were engaging children in academics and dealing with different kinds of learners with different abilities and ensuring everyone is learning. In India, this gets tougher when classrooms have upwards of 35 kids and only one teacher to instruct them. This is where the magic of game-based learning comes in. Kids run away at the sight of textbooks and homework but keep a game on the table and kids become very curious. This is where we really stand out of the crowd. We have managed to blend core academic concepts like Numeracy, Decimals, Percentages, Measurements, Geometry along with life skills like creativity, teamwork, communication, problem solving, financial literacy and “gamify” all the learning objectives based on the curriculum. Kids do not even realize they’re learning textbook topics through our games and what’s better is that by constantly playing they are only getting better at it. Our games allow kids of different abilities to learn together too. One lovely case study we saw in a classroom was a student with a learning disability used to struggle in math as per the teacher. When we set the game out, this kid was playing with other kids who were amongst the top 1% of his learning peers. It was such a joy to see this student win the game. It provided the kid with a huge confidence boost that he told us “You know what, maybe I’m not bad in math, maybe exams are not meant for me!” It is so cool to see kids now have the opportunity to learn the way they want in an atmosphere where failure is not reprimanded but rather accepted. You lost a round of this game? No problem. Let’s play another one. The child only keeps learning that way. Educators love this aspect of our games. They see children are engaged and most importantly they learn in a cooperative and supportive manner. We give learners the freedom to explore, experiment and learn in the ways they want without any coercion. Like Einstein famously said “Everybody is a Genius. But If You Judge a Fish by Its Ability to Climb a Tree, It Will Live Its Whole Life Believing that It is Stupid.” Last, we have a unique position from a business perspective as well. We all know how the government is looking to make India a hub of manufacturing and designing toys. While most companies continue to import toys and sell them here we are doing the reverse. We proudly ideate, design, develop and sustainably make in India by helping small scale printers to use recycled paper and cardboard to manufacture our games. Then, we go a step forward and export these globally. Our goal is to Make in India for the entire World and I'm proud to say that we've managed to do that end to end within just 3 years! Great Companies: What were the struggles and challenges you faced and how did you overcome them? Tejasvi Musale: I think one of the biggest challenges in India specifically has been how most parents or educators don't view games as learning tools and resources. They don’t think games can teach their kids valuable skills they can use at school or in their lives. Hence, they are reluctant. For most of them learning and fun are separate with no overlap. Why does it need to be one or the other, why can't learning be fun? Breaking this perception and belief has been a huge challenge. However, thanks to my excellent team, we have overcome this and how. First, we have created an excellent experience through our product itself. Everything from the artwork, story, themes, creative and quality is top notch. It feels like an international product and people are surprised (and proud) to know it is Indian. Next, we make the user experience seamless. We provide QR codes to easily view videos teaching how to play the game and provide ideas on how the products can be used to benefit the child. We also have created free resources for everyone to access to continue their learning even beyond the product like downloadable activities and worksheets. All of this makes the parent and educator feel comfortable as they know Luma World, the brand, is supporting them in all stages. We build a connection and support system through our product experience which is crucial when the concept is new for them. If we look at how we convince parents who are sitting on the fence then once again we've overcome that challenge at a global scale. We have used clever marketing and real life testimonials of actual customers to show to a lot of reluctant parents HOW games can transform their child's life. Now, with the resurgence of physical events and exhibitions a lot of parents come with their kids and try out our games and within 10 minutes they are convinced that this product will help their child! Why? Because of 3 reasons - enthusiasm, engagement and affordability. They see how excited their kids get and how easily, even while doing maths, they are focused and concentrating. This never happens with a textbook or homework. They suddenly see a spark in their child which they use as a hook! Last, our products are extremely affordable, less than half the cost of a meal at a restaurant for the whole family! And twice the fun! Great Companies: How do you plan to grow in the future? What does 5 years down the line look like for Luma World? Tejasvi Musale: Though we create physical products the power of technology is immense. I often tell all our stakeholders that Luma World is not a tech averse company, we are one that wants to use technology purposefully. My entire team is of the strong belief that using technology as a marketing or sales gimmick is a short sighted view, we have been pioneers in our thought and design and we want to continue that with our use of technology also. So, what are we looking to create? We want to build a seamless "phygital" educational experience revolving around play. This means the child or learners will interact with products physically but all this data will be logged and recorded to provide parents and educators better reports of how each one is faring and also recommend personalised learning modules for each child. This is the future of education. Imagine playing chess and getting data about how each piece you've picked, how many times, what you could have done differently and what would be the result if you did! Imagine being able to gain skills in this efficient manner. Currently we find technology to be basic in providing such data and if it is able to do so it is intrusive to the playing and learning experience. We believe in the next 2-3 years we will be able to launch our first "phygital" product to let kids play and learn while helping parents and educators intuitively shape and define their educational journey. In the next 5 years, our goal is to become a globally recognised brand in educational games and toys. We want to put India on the map by challenging the notion that great design and product companies from India cannot make a global mark! Great Companies: If you had one piece of advice to someone just starting out, what would it be? Tejasvi Musale: Wow, this would be an interview by itself! I have 4 very important bits of advice to every budding entrepreneur. Build a powerful business proposition Trust only your customers' feedback and your vision, Cut out the noise Don't chase wild geese. First, it is important to understand building a business is different from having an idea. An idea may be executable but it may not make money or in simpler words, an idea that helps you may not help everyone least of all make them pay money for it! Next, if your idea has business potential then test it with potential customers first. See if they'll pay for it and if so how much. Value their feedback and trust them blindly. Set your ego aside. If your customer says they don't like something, change it. If they say they have a problem, then find a way to solve it. Your business is nothing without it solving your customers' problems and supporting them in every way. At the same time, trust your vision for your company. If you feel a customer has a different view entirely from other feedback you've received then maybe they weren't your target to begin with. Sometimes, it's ok to say no rather than trying to please everyone! The next two points are crucial. Don't let trends and advice deviate you from your path. For example, people were shocked we're creating physical products in a digital world but parents and educators repeatedly told us this was a problem for them. We listened to the latter and it paid off and how! Imagine if we just made digital games and put them on phones, would our customers remain the same? Rather when we provide a purposeful solution we expand our core base and build a loyal community. This is the difference between a trend or fad and building a brand! Lastly, focus only on the task at hand. Sometimes we fear missing out on opportunities and end up doing justice to none! When building something from scratch it pays off to wear horse blinkers. It'll help you focus and become the master of one. Use the success, however small, to help you gain a foothold and then build the next level! Entrepreneurship is very fulfilling but very stressful. Also, you're on a journey with a lot of people so make sure your team is full of like minded folks! Website | Facebook | Instagram | YouTube

Company Name : MAVERICK Business Academy London Founders Name : SHAIK FAZIL SALEEM City : Sharjah Country : United Arab Emirates Founded In ( Year) : 2012 Employee Size : 1-10 employees Funding : Self-Funding Business Models : Business to Business to Consumer (B2B2C) Business Category : Education Management & Transnational Education Domain Website URL : www.mbalondon.org.uk LinkedIn URL : https://www.linkedin.com/in/energizer Company Detail: Offering Skill & Knowledge Based Accredited Higher Education Qualifications across 20+ courses. How you innovated or reinvented yourself or your business during the pandemic, the economic ups and downs, or other challenges? Our core ethos has been TBL which is the Triple Bottom Line laying emphasis on the order of PPP (People, Planet & Profit) Formula and deploying our DEI (Diversity, Equity & Inclusion) Metrics across all our verticals and deliverables made us to reinforce the belief in our roots and staying customer centric in a disruptive era. Top Reasons WHY Customers Choose to Do Business Transparency, Delivering Service Excellence, Happy & Conducive Learning Ecosystem, Focused on our ASK (Atttiude, Skills, & Knowledge) Teaching Mechanisms, Emotional Intelligence Enabled Courses & their ROI has been 150% on the amount invested interms of career prospects, skill upgrade and knowledge gain. Future roadmap To have MAVERICK International University registered in Poland & USA by 2024 and to be known as the most reliable and revered brand in the Transnational Education Sector by bridging the acadmia and industry interface. Founder's experience and background 10 Years of Experience, Top 100 Leaders in Education, Senior Advisor to the Board of H.H Sheikh Al Qassimi, Royal Ruling Family of UAE, Featured in the book Top 20 Influential Entrepreneurs in Asia.

Company Name : NicheHR Global FZE Founders Name : Sachin Shenoy City : Dubai Country : United Arab Emirates Founded In ( Year) : 2021 Employee Size : 11-50 employees Funding : Self-Funding Business Models : Business to Business (B2B) Business Category : HUMAN RESOURCES Website URL : Www.nichehrglobal.com LinkedIn URL : www.linkedin.com/sachinshenoy Company Detail: NicheHR Global is a privately-held Human Capital Solutions Company specializing in Global Executive Search and Selection, Recruitment Process Outsourcing and Human Resources Consulting across industries. NicheHR is led by a diverse group of young professionals who are experts in research and relationship building, which is the key to success in any HR related function. NicheHR Global's vision is to be known in the industry as a “Differentiation Partner” helping every client and candidate with a “Differentiation Edge” by partnering with NicheHR. NicheHR has strategic alliances with leading in-sourcing / out-sourcing solutions firms globally. How you innovated or reinvented yourself or your business during the pandemic, the economic ups and downs, or other challenges? We started post the pandemic Top Reasons WHY Customers Choose to Do Business with You We understand the business and ensure that they do not waste time in searching for the right talent at the leadership levels Future roadmap As of now we are among the top 3 executive search firms in the Middle East and Africa regions. Would be focusing on being in the top 3 in Europe, SEA and LATAM in the next 12 months Founder's experience and background 25 years of exp, 23 of them in Talent Acquisition. Initially with the IT/ ITeS companies across India, later diversified into Healthcare, Aviation, FMCG, FnB. Worked in the Middle East for 7 years managing hiring across 42 countries and travelling across 25 plus countries to recruit.

Company Name : Tumbledry Solutions Pvt. Ltd. Founders Name : Mr. Naveen Chawla, Mr. Gaurav Nigam, Mr. Gaurav Teotia, Mr. Anuj Gupta, Mr. Tarun Arora City : Noida Country : India Founded In ( Year) : 2019 Employee Size : > 200 employees Funding : Self-Funding Business Models : Business to Consumer (B2C) Business Category : Laundry And Dry Clean Website URL : https://www.tumbledry.in/ LinkedIn URL : https://www.linkedin.com/company/tumbledry-dry-clean-and-laundry/ Company Detail Tumbledry offers World-class laundry and dry-clean services in India. At more than 350 stores spread across 100+ cities we are serving more than 4 lac happy customers. We are also transforming the Indian laundry industry with our innovative approach towards laundry & dry-clean. How you innovated or reinvented yourself or your business during the pandemic, the economic ups and downs, or other challenges? The prime challenge was matching the price of Tumbledry service to cost of doing laundry at home. We knew we cannot make it big by ensuring convenience and quality alone because customers are cost-sensitive. So, we matched our prices to the cost of doing laundry at home. Customers worry about both financial and emotional value of their clothes. A load of just 30 clothes might have a minimum cost of 10,000-15,000 to the customers. When they send their clothes to our stores they trust us with their belongings. And building this element of trust was another major challenge for us. Top Reasons WHY Customers Choose to Do Business with You Providing World-Class Service for Customer Satisfaction To ensure premium quality service to customers, our stores are equipped with American & Swedish machinery. We have adopted the latest Lagoon technology from Sweden. Moreover, we use organic chemicals imported from Germany. All of this ensures 100% preservation of fabric shine and texture. We have disregarded the manual processing of clothes and automated the process of cleaning to provide high-quality services consistently. Building Trust Among Customers With Transparency People didn’t know what happens to their clothes once they send them for laundry. They didn’t know what sort of chemicals, water, and methods were used to clean their clothes. So, there was a sense of doubt among customers about hygiene. We brought a significant change by introducing live laundry stores. In our live stores, people can see their clothes being washed with world-class machinery and chemicals. Moreover, we do not mix the clothes of the two customers. We wash each customer’s clothes separately. This helped Tumbledry in gaining the trust of customers. Along with this, it also reduced the delivery time. Generally, clothes are collected and then sent for processing at two different places. With our live stores, we shortened the process as everything is done at the store itself. Following Tech-Savvy Trends for Customer Convenience We have revolutionized the laundry industry to fit in with the lifestyle of the tech-savvy generation. Our customers get mobile apps to place and track orders easily just as they do on Swiggy, Zomato, or Uber. Our pick-up boys also use a separate mobile app using which they can take orders, send an e-invoice to customers instantly, accept digital payments and take digital signatures of customers as well. No pen-paper recording has removed room for loopholes in our service. Both these apps are further integrated into CRM software so that the store can send quick order updates and engage with customers as per their order history. With a 100% tech-integrated set-up, we ensure a smooth order journey for our customers. By providing easy access to premium laundry and dry clean service, we have successfully established ourselves as a trusted brand in just three years of operations. Future roadmap Laundry and Dry clean has been a major but less acknowledged problem of half a billion urban Indians. Tumbledry has a goal to remove these woes of people in every city. For this, we aim to launch 2000 live stores in every Indian state covering all Tier 1, Tier 2 & Tier 3 cities by 2026. We will have one Tumbledry store at every 3km radius to have a hyper local presence across nation. There will be a Tumbledry store for every 10 households PAN India so that everyone can have easy access to world-class laundry and dry clean services. Founder's experience and background Tumbledry is co-founded by industry veterans Navin Chawla & Gaurav Nigam. They have combined experience of 40+ years in reputed organizations like Airtel, Britannia, Reliance and LAVA. They have worked at senior leadership positions including COO, Product Head, Business Head, and Customer Service Head at these organizations. Mr. Navin Chawla was the Chief Operating Officer (COO) in his last job. Whereas Mr. Gaurav Nigam last served as the Product Head. After working in Telecom, Consumer durables and FMCG industry they have now come together as Co-founders of Tumbledry to solve basic but substantial problem of urban Indians – laundry.

Company Name : RutuTechnologies Founders Name : Santosh Randive City : Kalyan Country : India Founded In ( Year) : 2011 Employee Size : 11-50 employees Funding : Self-Funding Business Models : Business to Business (B2B) Business Category : Information Technology Website URL : https://www.rututechnologies.com LinkedIn URL : https://in.linkedin.com/company/rututechnologies Company Detail RutuTechnologies is committed to provide the best experience IT support to all its valued customers. All the engineers engaged with us are experienced for about more than 8 to 10 years and customer centric. We believe in delivering cost effective services without hampering the quality work and data security. In today’s economy, the business world has become increasingly competitive. Business owners need to carefully manage every aspect of their business to stay a step ahead of their competitors. If trying to manage IT issues is distracting you from the core issues of your business, it’s probably time to consider an alternative. Outsourced IT support services are an affordable and efficient alternative to wasting your time on IT headaches. How you innovated or reinvented yourself or your business during the pandemic, the economic ups and downs, or other challenges? We have been Microsoft Partners since 2014 in US & India. Due to COVID19 all the projects from US & US till date are at halt due to inflation. Hence we built a cross platform application Society-Management to help Housing societies to manage their daily activities using our app. Our app Society-Management is trending with a rating of 4.7 on Google play store since 5 years now and we have around 3000 Housing Societies registered into our app all over India and Malaysia too. We are planning to expand our business in the very next year 2023 and looking for Investors for the same. Top Reasons WHY Customers Choose to Do Business with You We help Business owners get their business online at a very low cost, as low as Rs. 2,000/-. Future roadmap If we find a investor we are looking forward to expand our Business to increase our team size and setup IT Support, Sales & Marketing Teams for our Franchise Model. Founder's experience and background I have been into IT since 27 years now and have worked with Aptech 4 years, Microsoft, Dell processes 11 years. I entered computer world since from the very beginning of DOS, Windows 3.1, updated myself to Windows 95 to Windows 10, MAC OS. I have expertise on Microsoft SharePoint all versions till date, SQL, Exchange. Server down issues, Deployment, Migration, Upgrade, Troubleshooting, custom SharePoint solutions Development. Cross platform application development for Android, iOS PHP Laravel. I have worked with many US & UK customers in my tenure. Being chosen as a secretary in my Housing society, I came up with an idea to build a cross platform app Society-Management.

Company Name : Red Mammoth Ventures LLP Founders Name : Raj Sukheja City : Mumbai Country : India Founded In ( Year) : 2020 Employee Size : 1-10 employees Funding : Self-Funding Business Models : Business to Business (B2B) Business Category : Financial & Business Consulting Advisory Website URL : http://www.businessinitiativegroup.com LinkedIn URL : https://www.linkedin.com/in/rajsukheja Company Detail We provide comprehensive M&A (Merger & Acquisition) Services with support inclusive of licencing, paperwork, documentation and legal right from identification to acquisition. Our primary focus is towards providing Financial & Support Solutions for New and Existing Companies and Technology Consulting for New Projects. Another Red Mammoth Division looks after Licencing Support within India along with Legal and is Industry Agnostic. We advise and assist in application and registration with local licencing bodies and ensure results with minimal hassles to the company. Our Services also include ISO Certification Issuance and Audit. Our NRI Division provides all kinds of legal support to NRI's including support towards legal and taxation, filing returns, property management within India, heirship issues and more. How you innovated or reinvented yourself or your business during the pandemic, the economic ups and downs, or other challenges? Optimized Customer Response & Reach, Enhanced Expertise, Inculcated Processes Top Reasons WHY Customers Choose to Do Business with You Reputation for Straight Talk & Business Future roadmap Aiming To Become A One Stop Shop For Small & Mid Sized Company's Founder's experience and background 35 Years Plus in Business - International and Domestic

Company Name : PharynxAI Founders Name : Amit Sehgal City : Noida Country : India Founded In ( Year) : 2020 Employee Size : 11-50 employees Funding : Self-Funding Business Models : Business to Business to Consumer (B2B2C) Business Category : Voicetech, AI/ML, Meta, IoT, 5G Website URL : www.pharynxai.com LinkedIn URL : https://www.linkedin.com/company/pharynxai/ Company Detail: PharynxAI is amongst the few players, pioneering Deeptech via Voice. It is a platform that helps brands to interact with their potential customers at any time & anywhere just by the voice of a human command. PharynxAI VoiceTech solutions are capable of bringing all possible and existing devices on a unified platform that can be operated through Voice User Interface (VoiceUI). How you innovated or reinvented yourself or your business during the pandemic, the economic ups and downs, or other challenges? It has been an ardous albeit very interesting and learning journey. Voicetech is an upcoming area and customers need to be convinced about its value proposition. Top Reasons WHY Customers Choose to Do Business with You Pharynxai started as a pure voice application company in Jan 2020, with a services model. However it was a new concept and with Pandemic hitting, it became very challenging to reach out and convince customers. We used the time to develop proprietary tech stack and demo applications. Basis this we were one of the top contestant at a NASSCOM Hackathon. We again had to pivot in 2021, as some external tech we were using announced end of support. We focused on leveraging our end to end stack with IoT and won an Hackathon by MRSI (Market Research Society of India). This led to a successful pilot with the largest FMCG in India. Now we are basically a product company with proprietary hardware of the IoT device, filed patents that came out of this development, and the new concept is catching a strong traction with use cases across multiple Industry. Future Roadmap "We are looking at scale manufacturing to ensure supply and optimise cost. There are two versions planned. (i) As a small box that can be kept near the sales counter – In this avatar, smartbuddy acts as retailers buddy to keep record such as inventory, handle reminders, act as pay assistant, in future version an entertainment source. It will also collect valuable data that is useful for the industry for retail measurement. (ii) As a kiosk or a standee – In this format, smartbuddy will act as source of information and data collection. It can also be used for virtual try-ons, advertisements and activations. Working with our customers, we have also developed a use case that takes them to Metaverse initiation Once roll outs in India are achieved, we have plans to target western market." Founder's experience and background IIMA, IIIT-B alumni with technology strategy, innovation and product development as core competencies. 22 years of work experience with organisations such as CGI, Nokia, GSMA among others. Serial Entreprenuer and speaker at various National & Global Tech conferences. www.linkedin.com/in/amit-sehgal-4409117

Company Name : Level Up Live LLC Founders Name : Tyler Harris & Tom Chiarella City : Midway Country : United States Founded In ( Year): 2019 Employee Size: 1-10 employees Funding : Angel Funding Business Models: Business to Business (B2B) Business Category: Technology Website URL: www.leveluplive.com LinkedIn URL: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tylerhharris/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/tom-chiarella-5a2a0/ Company Detail What does your company do We invented a firearms target made of armored steel that detects hits, tracks shot and relays data back to the training participant. We also create highly advanced software for tracking and analyzing shooting performance. We do not sell firearms, we do not participate in violence or violent rhetoric of any kind. We are the other side of the firearms world. Responsible, safe, fun yet challenging. We are the first company to build a recurring revenue model for the gun range, make it safer, and something people actually want to go an do. This includes airsoft gaming and ranges also. Projected to be $8 Billion dollar company for Airsoft. This includes a 3 year contract overseas to build 22 smart shooters labs. We are going to revenue this year, and we will be making a big impact. Contracts are already in place. Nobody has heard of us yet, everyone will know us. How you innovated or reinvented yourself or your business during the pandemic, the economic ups and downs, or other challenges? The pandemic offered us a chance to build hardware, test hardware and continue heavy R&D without immediate pressure to get to revenue. It allowed us time to enter the market, strategically and how we desired. Top Reasons WHY Customers Choose to Do Business with You We have the most innovative technology to enter the airsoft industry ever, and we're the ONLY company that possesses this disruptive technology. We are partners with the global leaders of the industry for manufacturing, sales, logistics, etc. This gives us much credibility within the market too! Future Roadmap Q1, 2023 - Finalize Product Pricing with manufacturer, Q2. 2023 Go to rev, (Goal $3M sales) via partner channel sales globally for installs of our smart range systems. Begin selling and collecting customer deposits. 12 accounts = $3M Revenue for the quarter, not hard to get. Q3, 2023 - Continue sales, building out install team, Series A - $60M - $100M valuation. Break Ground on partner range overseas. Q4, 2023 - Have recurring revenue from our software co, ammo co, and airsoft co. Boom. expand operations, plan and execute to scale for 2024 Founder's experience and background I'm a Cambridge Grad from the UK. I'm a Chartered and Syndicate Member of the Oxbridge Angels, a London based VC firm. I come from Technology, cutting my teeth at Tableau Software and learning I had a knack for tech sales. My partner Tom Chiarella, sold his first compnay in the Bay Area called "Questra." It sold for nearly $300 million. it was an IOT company that sprouted out of Xerox. Tom ran it and now understand everything IOT. He's our lead engineer, designer and tech builder. His wife, Sharon Chiarella was also named by Forbes to be a top ranking woman in tech. She is a senior executive at Netflix currently. We get to cheat a little, and lean on some of her expertise every now and then.

Company Name LivNSense Technologies Founders Name Founder and CEO – Avnish Kumar Co-Founder and Director – Priyanka Kumar Co-Founder and Customer Success Officer – Rajan Bhatnagar Co-Founder and Engineering Director – Ajatshatru Singh City: Bengaluru Country : India Founded In ( Year): 2018 Employee Size: 11-50 employees Funding: Angel Funding Business Models : Business to Business (B2B) Business Category : Manufacturing Industrial Automation and Net Zero Carbon reduction Website URL www.livnsense.com LinkedIn URL https://www.linkedin.com/company/livnsense-technologies-pvt-ltd Company Detail: "LivNSense™ is one of the most promising B2B Climate Tech ventures with unique positioning in Deep-Decarbonization. Its award-winning Green-AI platform, GreenOps™ addresses the Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions reduction by harnessing the power of First Principles, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Digital Twins technologies. The product delivers immediate financial gains and decarbonization benefits to industries which can be scaled rapidly at lower costs.” Unique Differentiation GreenOps provides a holistic carbon emissions analysis, benchmarking, and reduction across process value chain with patented IPs. The key differentiation is the use of patented “Energy Balance” solution, which gets far better results than traditional attempts to meet COP27 goals. How you innovated or reinvented yourself or your business during the pandemic, the economic ups and downs, or other challenges? According to the World Economic Forum, energy-intensive industries (EIIs) account for 22 percent of global CO2 emissions. It presents us one of the largest opportunities to address in terms of Climate Action. The pandemic has considerably hastened the need for adoption of addressing the climate change. Post pandemic, the industry has seen a major change in the digitalization demands much more than ever before. In fact, pandemic gave us the time to review, deep-dive into currently business strategy and re-align our strategy with a clear focus, especially on decarbonization value chain. This was one of the major transformations for us that has helped in the business acceleration post pandemic. The industries such as oil & gas, chemicals and pharmaceuticals and metals industry which involve continuous process manufacturing run with high Greenhouse Gas emissions having adverse impact on workers’ health and impacting our environment. This is where LivNSense invented its footprint to bring in world’s FIRST Green-AI platform with digital twins, GreenOps™ in order to transform process manufacturing industries with a mission to provide real time, accurate and measurable emissions insights with Real Time Recommendations to achieve “Net-Zero” goals. LivNSense culture is based on innovation ecosystem which is deep rooted into every employee with core focus on equal employer opportunity. We are woman founded company with more than 40% female employees. Every employee gets an ample opportunity to learn and grow which is the uniqueness of our company. Top Reasons WHY Customers Choose to Do Business with You The customers are looking for agility, innovation, and time to market with clear ROI proposition. We always focused on deep dive business analysis and understand customer pain points to deliver the right solution and ROI models. Its all about setting the right expectations and delivering to it. While organizations are adopting Green Energy as part of their manufacturing initiatives, we have realized the industry is still at the Infancy stage with lot of gaps in the value chain and a lot needs to be done on achieving de-carbonization. We are focused on addressing business problems with a holistic approach that can provide measurable and quantifiable impacts. Our holistic focus of not only the Industrial machinery & assets but the people working around in that environment as well (including vendors and suppliers) has been able to impact the complete process value chain to benefit from the change. Our product is built based on proprietary models that are easily configurable and deployable based on customer needs rather than generic models used to fit a scenario. The results in most cases are higher performance and ROI with time to market advantage. The success is evident from our product scale as its already deployed in North America and India markets across 10+ Fortune 500 customers. GreenOps™ is a subscription-based platform, which is deployed in North America and India markets, delivering up to 15 percent GHG emissions reduction for the petro-chemicals, chemicals and metals industry which translates to saving around 70,000 trees annually. Interestingly, the ROI is realized within 12 months with measurable outcomes. We have acquired another 10 customers in last one quarter and looking forward for 2X growth into our revenues in next year. Future roadmap Our mission is to reduce 100s Mega Tons of GHG Emissions across Energy Intensive Industries with world's first green digital metaverse platform for sustainable manufacturing, GreenOps™. We at LivNSense started our decarbonization journey almost 4 years back with process industries and innovated world’s first Full-Stack Deep-Decarbonization Technology - GreenOps. It enables Green-AI as a Service Model which supports industries across Chemicals, Petro-chemicals, Metals and Cement. The platform provides one of its kind abilities to deliver deep measurable insights across process value chain by capturing data from heterogeneous systems in plug-play manner with an ability to reduce GHG emissions with its predictive and prescriptive recommendations. There has been further advancements with its innovation in “Energy Transition” for Cement Industries where GreenOps is able to increase the AFR (Alternate Fuels and Raw Materials) usage by 20-25% and reduce fossil fuels (coal) by 17%. Decarbonization is not one time implementation but a journey and continuous innovation. It requires a long-term strategy with vision of creating AI based deep decarbonization stack by collaborating with ecosystem partners. We have extended our ecosystem partnership to build a more effective engagement model for safer and sustainable manufacturing. Our core focus is going to be growing the company focus on Climate Action and deliver GHG emissions reduction by 50% in next 3 years. We are looking at next year to move our headquarters to Dallas, US. US is going to pass the bill for carbon reduction and net zero emission. Both will be quite significant impact for us in terms of business acceleration and scaling GreenOps. And apart from US, we are going to focus on APAC, Europe, and Middle East in the coming year. Founder's experience and background : 1) Avnish Kumar Founder and CEO of LivNSense™, in India and USA, An MBA from University of Melbourne and Graduate from NIT Durgapur. Avnish has more than 25 years of experience in managing IoT and AI platforms/products for leading IT and Product companies LTI, TechM (Google), Wipro and Motorola Inc. Avnish is a Business and Technology thought leader, passionate about bridging engineering and business with market needs and solving complex business problems. Highly creative, thinker with strong business acumen & experience in delivering world class products. 2) Avnish Kumar, Co-Founder & CEO, has proven and astounding experience of 25+ years in Engineering & in AI/IoT led product innovation. MBA from University of Melbourne and BTech from NIT-Durgapur. Worked with Google, TechM, Wipro and Motorola Inc. 3) Priyanka Kumar - BTech in Computer Science from NIT-D, Responsible for Business Operations & Finance. Worked with Wipro, Pitney Bowes, Wind River and Motorola 4) Rajan Bhatnagar - BTech - IIT, Roorkee and M-Tech - IIT, Delhi. He leads the Global Sales & US Market Strategy at LivNSense. Worked with Capgemini and multiple startups 5) Ajatashatru Singh - BTech in Electrical Engineering from NIT-J, He leads the Engineering and Delivery at LivNSense. Worked with Bosch and Huawei

Company Name : KATM Technologies Pvt Ltd Founders Name : Amit Kumar City : Gurgaon Country : India Founded In ( Year) : 2016 Employee Size : 11-50 employees Funding : Self-Funding Business Models : Business to Business (B2B) Business Category : Consultancy Website URL: www.in.katm.in LinkedIn URL https://www.linkedin.com/company/13214154/admin/ Company Detail: KATM is India’s first online bulk commodity consultancy and trading e-commerce platform. It is an indispensable tool and can help in efficient decision making while trading and bring higher profitability and transparency to trade practices. KATM is a unique virtual marketplace for buyers, sellers & traders of bulk commodities to easily perform coal auction and trade, iron ore auction and trade, steel auction and trade, scrap auction and trade, pellet auction and trade, other raw material auction and trade. KATM is working with the top importers of bulk commodities in India and the exporter of bulk commodities in India. We aim to simplify buying and selling of bulk commodities mentioned earlier and also the Ferroalloys like Ferro Chrome, Ferro Manganese, Silicon Manganese, Ferro Silicon. Our users consist of the best bulk commodity suppliers and buyers in India. In addition, we also facilitate Metals selling and metals buying, which included Finished and Semi-Finished Steel and other metals. How you innovated or reinvented yourself or your business during the pandemic, the economic ups and downs, or other challenges We helped our team members and our society in that pandemic time stay united with our society and family by providing them medical help and concentrators. Top Reasons WHY Customers Choose to Do Business with You We are trustworthy and have trust of very important companies Future roadmap We want to make our self a best startup Founder's experience and background Our founders vision is to help and grow our society by our business.

Company Name : GreenArk Founders Name : Vishesh Khurana City : Delhi Country : India Founded In ( Year) : 2020 Employee Size : 1-10 employees Funding : Self-Funding Business Models : Business to Consumer (B2C) Business Category : Design, Construction & Interiors Website URL : www.thegreenark.in LinkedIn URL : https://www.linkedin.com/in/vishesh-khurana-9932b678/ Company Detail: GreenArk is India’s first all in one platform that brings sustainability to the everyday lives of people, by making it more accessible. We believe that eco-friendly homes are the way forward to accelerate India’s journey to become more sustainable. We create sustainable designs by measuring, minimising and mitigating. GreenArk uses tech to integrate design partners, logistics, manufacturing, reducing electricity demands, reduction in carbon footprint to make sustainability and green interior design services affordable for home owners. Knowing your energy savings is just one click away. How you innovated or reinvented yourself or your business during the pandemic, the economic ups and downs, or other challenges? The company was formed on the idea of lowering the carbon footprint of homes. It is line with the UNSDGs and the Paris Agreement. There are various policies being formed in different cities and parts of the world and governments are offering grants based on the national targets. GreenArk caters to the interiors & renovation sector, and provides end to end services for home upgradation, sustainable homes, improving energy efficiency and residential interiors. The top reasons why customers choose to do business with us USP is sustainable homes, eco-friendly/healthier interiors and improving energy efficiency of homes by upgrading/renovating the interiors. Future Roadmap As of now, GreenArk is bootstrapped. We are planning our seed capital round of fundraising in Q2, 2023. The purpose of this round of fundraising is to open experience centres and expand in Bangalore & Mumbai Founder's experience and background The founder is qualified as an architect & sustainability consultant. He specialises in improving energy efficiency & reducing the energy consumption of buildings by renovation/refurbishment techniques, additionally using eco-friendly materials for well-being.

Company Name : Excellent Global Endeavors LLP Founders Name : Vaishal Dalal City : Ahmedabad Country : India Founded In ( Year) : 2011 Employee Size : 51-200 employees Funding : Self-Funding Business Models : Business to Business (B2B) Business Category : Media & Advertising Website URL : www.excellentpublicity.com LinkedIn URL : https://www.linkedin.com/company/excellent-publicity/ Company Detail: Excellent Publicity is forever expanding your brand with high quality service that combines creativity with value pricing. We enjoy our work because, first - we admire the advertising world, and second, we know that our ideas and strategies make a difference. We play to win, with the primary goal of assisting our customers in promoting their successful brand campaigns. A 10 year old agency with a young mindset - we are Excellent Publicity. We are an award winning advertising agency providing solutions in digital, offline, sports and gifting. With having worked over 5000 brands from different areas, and with experience that has been demonstrated in the industry. We consistently work to stay one step ahead of the curve by embracing cutting-edge media technology early on in the industry and become pioneers. How you innovated or reinvented yourself or your business during the pandemic, the economic ups and downs, or other challenges? During the pandemic, we were absolutely clear that we wont be either removing our staff or deduct their salaries and for the same to happen, constant flow of revenue was absolutely necessary. For the same, we adapted ourselves quickly to the changing needs of the market for advertising & branding. We invested heavily in technology and instead of serving only 3 cities where we had our physical office presence, we switched to a PAN India agency. We increase our team strength from 28 to 90, vendor strength from 250 to 5000, increased services in our portfolio from 20 to 500 to be able to cater to requirements from clients across India. This helped and today 70% of our clientele are from the cities we are not physically present. Since pandemic, we hav grown our business to 5x. Top Reasons WHY Customers Choose to Do Business with You Our sheer commitment, honest & zeal to give our best for the client. The kind of energy Team Excellent has is rare in the market in the advertising industry. Future roadmap We want to take our made in India company on the global scale. To start with, we have started serving clients from UAE & UK. Founder's experience and background https://www.linkedin.com/in/vaishal-dalal