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Ex-Ola advisor led Vans Group partners with YNOS Venture Engine

Vans Group (Vans Investments and Vans Skilling), founded by former Ola Advisor Dr. Srinivas Chunduru, today announced that the company had signed a partnership agreement with YNOS to strengthen its offerings for the early-stage startups.

By Dr. Srinivas Chunduru 

Ex-Ola advisor led Vans Group partners with YNOS Venture Engine; an IIT Madras Incubation Cell supported Start-up

~Will Strengthen its corporate finance practice for early-stage Start-ups and Yugma practice for B-schools

Mumbai, September 2020: Vans Group (Vans Investments and Vans Skilling), founded by former Ola Advisor Dr. Srinivas Chunduru, today announced that the company had signed a partnership agreement with YNOS to strengthen its offerings for the early-stage startups.

Vans Skilling & Advisory partners with organizations in their growth journeys through its unique “Interim model” (Meraki) and “Academy model” (recruit, train and deploy) and co-owns the outcome of business through rigor in execution. The partnership with YNOS will further enhance the company’s advisory services.

Vans group has also recently signed with Crowdera, a Singapore based fintech company, as Chief Advisor- StrategicAlliances; and Strategic Advisors with Snackamor, a leading health food company, and Successroute LLP, a leading boutique investment banking firm.

Dr. Srinivas Chunduru, Founder of Vans Group, said to Prittle Prattle News by sharing a press release, “We are pleased to welcome the team from YNOS (supported by IIT Madras Incubation Cell) into the VANS group family. The platform and partnership will help early-stage entrepreneurs to get complete access to the YNOS Intelligent Technology platform for understanding the start-up landscape, investor discovery, and estimated valuation. The platform brings together extensive research, domain expertise, deep technology, and data sciences in a unique bouquet of offerings, which complement our existing services to the startups and SME’s. This partnership will be an excellent addition to Yugma, our platform for B school students.”

Thillai Rajan A., Professor IIT Madras and Founder and Director of YNOS Venture Engine, said to Prittle Prattle News by sharing a press release, “Entrepreneurship has emerged an important focus area in business curricula and education. The partnership between Vans Group and YNOS would help the business school students and faculty in understanding various aspects of the start-up landscape in the country, viz., funding trends, prominent business models, valuation, prominent competitors, the background of start-up founders, and so on. Familiarity with the latest trends in the start-up landscape would help the students to understand the ground realities, which can be used to augment their classroom learning. Students would also be able to use the analytical results in their capstone projects. Further, students who opt to participate in the Clarity program to understand the nuances of venture fundraising would be eligible to get a certificate from the Centre for Continuing Education, IIT Madras. Going beyond business schools, the partnership with Vans Group will help in enhancing the reach of the YNOSplatform to early-stage entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurs could benefit from a variety of solutions such as investor discovery, understanding the start-up landscape, estimating valuation, and accessing top-notch experts in science and technology to strengthen their innovation.”

Vans Group is founded by Dr. Srinivas Chunduru (Dr. Srini), who has previously served two decades at the Piramal Group in various leadership positions, including Group CHRO, business head, and Executive Director at Piramal housing finance. In his last stint, he was a Senior Advisor for ride-hailing company Ola and has played the role of interim group CHRO and CEO of Ola Skilling (OSPL).

About Vans Group

Vans Group consists of Vans Investments and VANS Skilling & Advisory, a boutique firm that focusses on helping companies scale. Vans Investments, prop fund, which focuses on investments in pre-IPO, new age internet consumer, and Fintech companies.

VANS Skilling partners with organizations in its journey through its unique “Interim model” and co-owns the outcome through rigor in execution. It has served clients in FMCG, Housing Finance, Chemicals, consumer electrical, manufacturing, and New age internet companies over the last few years. VANS, through this model, has played a pivotal role as “Interim” (CHRO, CFO, CEO) for its clients. VANS is supported by its state of the art research and knowledge center in Mumbai

About YNOS

YNOS Venture Engine, founded by professionals who have substantial experience in the Indian venture industry, is incubated by IITM Incubation Cell. The objective of YNOS is to enhance the success of early-stage start-ups while creating a substantial impact on the entrepreneurial ecosystem. The various offerings leverage domain expertise, technology, and use advanced data science techniques and marker analytics to provide customized insights and recommendations that address the major pain points of early-stage entrepreneurs. YNOS has helped more than 450 start-up founders in their entrepreneurial and fund-raising journey.

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