Mentors in Orbit.
Closed door office hours with founders and operators who have raised capital, scaled architectures, and hired engineering teams along the ORR corridor.
Avinash Ramakant
Dean & Faculty Advisor
Polaris School of Technology
Guiding institutional research and student venture spinouts. Passionate about helping CS undergrads bridge the gap between academic code and deployable production systems.
Priya Sundaram
Principal
ORR Seed Ventures
Seed investor backing technical founders along the Bengaluru Outer Ring Road corridor. Specializes in pre seed pricing, cap table hygiene, and institutional fundraising rounds.
Tanmay Sharma
VP Engineering
HyperScale Cloud Labs
Ex-Razorpay infrastructure lead. Has scaled microservices from 1,000 to 50M requests/day. Regularly reviews student database schemas and distributed system designs in FORGE.
Neha Kulkarni
Co Founder
D2C Pulse Collective
Scaled a direct to consumer lifestyle brand from 0 to ₹15 Cr ARR in 24 months. Master of quick packaging sprints, factory sourcing in Karnataka, and TikTok/Meta acquisition funnels.
Rohit Deshmukh
Head of Product
FinFlow API
10+ years shaping payments and account aggregator workflows across Southeast Asia and India. Helps student builders navigate RBI guidelines and design intuitive banking user journeys.
Sanya Mirza
Partner
Bengaluru Angel Network
Active angel in 18 Indian SaaS and developer tooling startups. Evaluates whether your wedge is a feature or a venture scale company. Direct, no sugarcoating feedback.
Kunal Varghese
Founding Engineer
VectorDB Engine
PST builder era pioneer who crack open source benchmarks and now writes high performance C++ vector indices. Mentors on low level system design and GPU inference cost optimization.
Deepak Iyer
Director of Battery Tech
ElectroMotion
Veteran EV powertrain engineer. Helps campus climate startups design ruggedized telemetry hardware that survives Indian monsoon heat cycles and road vibration.
Zoya Khan
Legal & Regulatory Counsel
IndieLegal Counsel
Startup attorney helping early founders with shareholder agreements (SHA), co founder vesting schedules, and intellectual property protection.
Vivek Ranjan
Growth Architect
IndieHacker Lab
Obsessed with programmatic SEO, viral invite mechanics, and guerrilla campus marketing. Never pays for Google ads when a clever script can get 5,000 signups.
Ananya Trivedi
Chief Design Officer
Studio Craft BLR
Former design lead at a leading unicorn. Helps PST technical founders stop shipping ugly forms and create products people feel an emotional urge to screenshot.
Gautam Shekhar
Principal Architect
Bengaluru AI Collective
Specializing in edge AI deployment and local model quantisation. Active angel reviewer for FORGE Cohorts.