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Last month, we concluded India’s largest product conference — the second edition of The Makers Summit (TMS 2.0). The two-day virtual event brought together some of the most prominent product minds, makers, founders and leaders from the business community to decode the product and business strategies of India’s fastest-growing startups.

More than 75+ speakers explored the most revolutionary and industry-changing products, shared their insights and experiences across 30 live sessions on three parallel stages.

We’re glad to announce that the response we received was overwhelmingly positive! More than 5,000 attendees engaged, asked questions and interacted with the industry veterans and took home over 30 hours of comprehensive understanding about product building from the lens of business.

Not only that, over 32K messages were exchanged among the attendees and speakers and more than 920 one-on-one meetings were set as a result of rigorous networking. 

And none of this would have been possible without our partners and the enablers, who not only helped us successfully execute this conference but also played a key role in enabling and supporting India’s product ecosystem. 

We would like to take a moment to thank them all!

Presenting Partners

Google Cloud

Google Cloud, by global tech company Google, is a cloud computing service platform. Offering a suite of cloud computing solutions such as data management, hybrid & multi-cloud and AI and ML, it helps businesses across industries accelerate growth and meet new-age tech challenges. 

Apart from supporting us to execute the summit, the head of customer engineering, digital natives at Google, Rajesh Ramdas also joined us for a masterclass titled, ‘Consumer Startups’ Playbook To Driving & Managing Users At Scale’. Ramdas’ masterclass decoded how leveraging AI/ML can help drive product discovery and improve user experience. 

Searce

Founded in 2007 by Hardik Parekh, Searce is a tech consulting firm that aims to help clients future-proof their businesses by leveraging cloud, AI and analytics. Searce provides deep technical consulting and 24×7 cloud care support to enable a smooth digital transformation for businesses. For the past 13 years, the company has been working with Google Cloud to help more than 3,500 clients globally. 

Ankit Sinha, VP, cloud practices and consulting at Searce joined us for a panel discussion, titled ‘Building Fintech For The Next Billion: Balancing Scale, Simplicity & Security’. The panel also saw participation from PayU’s Manas Mishra, EarlySalary’s cofounder Akshay Mehrotra, the head of money management at GoToFinancial Monica Jasuja and Freo’s cofounder Anuj Kacker. The session was moderated by VP at Prime Venture Partners, Gaurav Ranjan.

“The Makers Summit was certainly engaging, thought provoking and high on energy. My experience was superlative! I interacted with dozens of passionate entrepreneurs during the event and several have contacted me on Twitter and Linkedin to collaborate in the near future,” said Sinha.

Co-Presenting Partners

Deskera

Singapore-based Deskera is a cloud-based business software provider of integrated business applications as a service (BAaaS). The company was founded by Shashank Dixit, Somesh Misra, Brajesh Sachan and Paritosh Mahana in 2008.

Its solutions allow SMEs to track finances, manage customers and hire and manage employees. Today, Deskera claims to have more than 400 employees across 10 countries, including Singapore, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam, the Philippines and the U.S.

CleverTap

Founded by Sunil Thomas, Anand Jain and Suresh Kondamudi in 2013, California-based CleverTap is a customer engagement and retention platform. The company leverages data analytics, AI/ML-powered insights and automation to empower brands to increase their customer retention and lifetime value. The company claims to have over 10,000 partner brands across the globe, including Vodafone Idea, SonyLIV, Daimler, Gojek and Carousell. It is backed by marquee investors such as Sequoia India, Tiger Global Management and Accel. 

CleverTap’s cofounder and CPO (Chief Product Officer), Anand Jain moderated a Fireside Chat with Meesho’s cofounder Sanjeev Barnwal. The session, ‘Building For The Next Billion: Decoding Meesho’s $5 Bn Ecommerce Play’ not only explored India’s $400 Bn ecommerce market opportunity but also the potential, scope and strategies to tap into its hinterland. 

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Dukaan

Founded in 2020 by Suumit Shah and Subhash Choudhary, Dukaan’s suite of marketing tools and plugins help sellers run, manage and grow their business online by adding products, managing inventory, and accepting payments and much more. The startup claims to have more than 2,500 paying customers (read sellers) and is aiming for $10 Mn in ARR over the next 15-18 months.

To support and promote the SMB cause, Dukaan’s cofounder, Shah hosted a masterclass titled ‘Delivering Value To Monetise The Indian SMB Potential’ on The Makers Summit. 

Simpl

Cofounded by Nitya Sharma in 2015, Simpl offers solutions such as one-tap checkout, buyer protection, pay later facility and more. The company claims to have partnered with over 10,000 merchants across India. 

From the startup, Sharma and the CBO (Chief Business Officer), Balu Ramachandran joined us to share their learnings and insights. 

Sharma took a masterclass titled ‘Breaking Down The BNPL Model (In India)’ to decode the potential and scalability of the BNPL model in India and how startups can align the model with the customer’s evolving buying behaviour. Ramachandran joined as a panellist in one of our panel discussions, titled ‘Engineering High-Growth Product Teams In A Hybrid World’.

The session hosted other names such as Vikrama Dhiman from Gojek, the cofounder of Upraised, Mona Gandhi, Appsmith’s cofounder Abhishek Nayak as panellists and Indiagold’s Ravish Bhatia as the moderator.