Deepak Ravindran

Deepak Ravindran is a serial entrepreneur and a Founding Partner at Startup Village, India's largest technology incubator.  As one of the four founders of Innoz in 2008, Deepak helped architect and manage the SMS service to become the largest offline search engine. Ravindran subsequently helped found and manage Quest, a 500 Startups-backed social Q&A platform based out of Silicon Valley.  Upon returning back to India in mid-2014, Deepak launched Lookup, a messaging app for local businesses backed by Infosys founder Kris Gopalakrishnan. Deepak has had a lifelong passion for entrepreneurship, technology, culture, and improving society.  He has received numerous awards, including being named one of the outstanding innovators under 35 for the year 2011 by the MIT Technology Review.  Asia Society announced Ravindran as one of Asia's 21 emerging leaders under 40 for 2013. Ravindran was also a part of the inaugural Rajeev Circle Fellowship programme launched by Asha, wife of late Stanford Professor Rajeev Motwani. He has lectured at several universities including Stanford, IIT Bombay, IIM Ahmedabad, Semester at Sea and international conferences including WIRED Conference,Rolex Leadership Forum, TED and the Red Herring Global 100 forum.  His work has appeared in Forbes, WIRED, The Sydney Morning Herald, CNN, Bloomberg UTV and several other magazines, newspapers and blogs.  Most recently, National Geographic Magazine profiled him inside India’s Future Leaders in their show 'Onward' - a project to explore the world and share its untold stories.