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Hi, we are Start Up Mentors (SUM)

Start Up Mentors is a free platform for first-time founders and early stage startups to manage their resources and move forward.

“SUM” in Latin means I am. It’s the first certainty in the search for truth. Just like ‘sum’ was used to prove existence, we believe mentorship is the first certainty in a founder’s journey. “SUM” in English means the result of adding things together. A startup’s success is a sum of ideas, guidance, connections, failures, learnings and we add value through our mentorship.

At SUM, we share learnings from top founders, investors and industry experts to help build a community of founders helping each other.

This initiative is the brain child of Dr. Aniruddha Malpani, and is run by Malpani Ventures investment team with inputs from portfolio company founders and other industry experts.

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