Byju Raveendran, Ola's Bhavish Aggarwal nominated to National Startup Advisory Council

The 28-member council will suggest measures to foster a culture of innovation amongst citizens and students in particular.
Bhavish Aggarwal & Byju Raveendran
Bhavish Aggarwal & Byju Raveendran
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A National Startup Advisory Council has been formed which includes Byju's founder Byju Raveendran, and Snapdeal Co-founder Kunal Bahl, among others, who have been nominated as non-official members. The government has nominated several people representing various stakeholders such as founders of successful startups, veterans who have grown and scaled companies in India, persons capable of representing interest of investors into startups, as non-official members on the council.

The council will suggest measures to foster a culture of innovation amongst citizens and students in particular, promote innovation in all sectors of economy across the country, including semi-urban and rural areas among others.

It will also support creative and innovative ideas through incubation and research and development to transform them into valuable products or solutions, and facilitate public organisations to assimilate innovation with a view to improving public service delivery. 

The council will make it easier to start, operate, and exit businesses by reducing regulatory compliances and costs, incentivise domestic capital for investments and provide access to global markets for Indian startups.

Other members on the advisory council include Lizzie Chapman of ZestMoney, Abhiraj Singh of Urban, Bhavish Aggarwal of Ola Cab, Kris Gopalakrishnan, of Axilor Ventures.

Chiefs of industry bodies are also part of the council, including Nasscom President Debjani Ghosh, and CII President Uday Kotak.

The term of the non-official members of the startup advisory council shall be for a period of two years.

The full list of members is as follows: 1. Byju Raveendran, Byju’s

2. Shradha Sharma, YourStory

3. Lizzie Chapman, ZestMoney

4. Abhiraj Singh, Urban Company

5. Kunal Bahl, Snapdeal

6. Deepak Garg, Rivigo Service

7. Bhavish Aggarwal, Ola Cab

8. Krishna Kumar, Cropln

9. Sanjeev Bhikchandani, Info Edge India

10. Sridhar Vembu, Zoho Corp

11. Kris Gopalakrishnan, Axilor Ventures

12. Dr Subba Rao Pavuluri, Anath Technologies

13. Mohandas Pai, Aarin Capital Partners

14. Gopal Srinivasan, TVS Capital Funds Limited

15. Ramesh Byrapaneni, Endiya Partners

16. Prashant Prakash, Accel

17. Vani Kola, Kalaari Capital

18. Manoj Kohli, Softbank India

19. Rajan Anandan, Sequoia Capital India

20. Amitabha Bandyopadhyay SIIC, IIT Kanpur

21. Kunal Upadhayaya, CIIE, IIM Ahmedabad

22. Renuka Ramnath, Indian Private Equity & VentureCapital Association

23. Venkatesh Shukla, The IndUS Entrepreneurs (TiE)

24. Sharad Sharma, Indian Software Product Industry RoundTable (iSpirit).

25. Debjani Ghosh, National Association of Software and Service Companies (NASSCOM)

26. Uday Kotak, Confederation of Indian Industry (CII)

27. Vineet Agarwal, Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India (ASSOCHAM)

28. Uday Shankar, Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry (FICCI)

With IANS inputs

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