Lakshmi Pratury

Entrepreneur, curator, speaker, and self-described "people collector", founder and CEO, INK "India's foremost platform for cutting-edge ideas and inspiring stories"
India

A visionary, entrepreneur, business leader, orator, former venture capitalist and curator of INK talks, Lakshmi Pratury has impacted much of the change that India is undergoing in its present ‘disruptive’ avatar.

She founded INK in 2010, with a certain urgency to tell India’s untold stories. She firmly believes that a strong community nurtures leaders from diverse disciplines to create a mindset of impact. She has been instrumental in bringing influential organisations like Google, Tata Trusts, Mytrah Energy on board to support the INK Fellows Program and has served twice as director and co-host of the SingularityU India Summit.

Lakshmi was also featured in the Forbes’ list of “Women to Watch in Asia”.