About Speaker

Suryaprakash Konanuru (Suri) is a serial entrepreneur and technologist. He is currently the CTO of Ideaspring Capital, a venture fund investing in early-stage enterprise product innovation startups.After building compilers and networking software in Wipro Infotech R&D for close to a decade, Suri caught the startup bug in 1999 and co-founded his first startup, Alopa Networks. Suri has been part of the Indian startup ecosystem as an entrepreneur, mentor, advisor, and investor for the last 20 years.He has co-founded three startups (Alopa Networks, Yos Technologies, and funtoot) across multiple domains such as Networking, Healthcare, and Education, with two exits.