​IMA congratulates Dr Ritesh Malik s/o Dr Ravi Malik, Honorary Joint Secretary, IMA HQs. who has been honoured by being included in the “FORBES 30 under 30 Finance and Venture Capital List – ASIA” of the year 2016
A few words about Dr Ritesh Malik:-
Dr Ritesh Malik is an Indian doctor, entrepreneur and investor.
He runs a virtual Startup Accelerator in India, currently investing in and mentoring 20+ startups across various industries. He was the first investor & mentor of FIN ROBOTICS, which became the first Indian hardware product company to raise a Series a venture funding.
In 2015 Dr Ritesh launched his latest funding venture, ‘Project Guerrilla’, his vision for a premiere India based accelerator & incubation centre. He is on a mission to make India the next BIG entrepreneurial hub of the world.
His journey till now has been very exciting. Since March 2013, after finishing MBBS, he cofounded a technology company (Adstuck) that sold off its flagship product (ALIVE APP) to the Times of India. He is leading an angel fund, Guerrilla Ventures that has invested in over 20 companies mostly in the hardware space e.g. Fin, Sectorqube, Exploride, WooStays, Comet Core, Flip Technologies, Wigzo, Mashinga etc.
Since 2014, he co-founded Harvin Academy, Thinkpot, and Innov8 Coworking. Innov8 is a Single Point Power Focus space for Startup Activities. Dr Ritesh believes that nurturing startups would bring a lot of value to this ambitious project. On the same path, Innov8 is a journey of Transformation of India into a Product Nation.
His mission is to realize the dream of “Make in India” & “Digital India” by 2030. He believes that, India is a nation of Opportunities & Talent. By partnering with the right minds & organizations worldwide & with the support of the Government of India, he wants to make this dream come true.
Dr Ritesh has been passionately instrumental in building of the “Make in India” thought process. Ritesh is honored to be in FORBES 30 under 30 Finance and Venture Capital List- ASIA of 2016.
NOTE: IMA would like to acknowledge the similar contributions by all young doctors who have started different start up initiatives.
Kind regards,
Dr S S Agarwal Dr K K Aggarwal