Speaking

I’ve built and sold companies, backed unicorns, and rebuilt myself after each chapter. I speak from receipts, not theory. Audiences across Asia: founder events, corporate leadership offsites, universities.

Talks

Starting Over After Winning

Why reinvention is the defining career skill of the AI era, and the playbook from someone who left a $200M exit to do it again.

The AI-Native Operating System

How a company runs when AI is your team: small headcount, agents everywhere, human judgment as the bottleneck. Live examples from Garvik AI and ReBillion.ai.

What Two Unicorns Taught Me About Judgment

Pattern recognition from backing Unacademy at seed and building CommonFloor to a $200M outcome.

India’s Next Decade, AI-First

Where India-scale problems meet AI-native architectures, for leaders deciding where to place their bets.

Speaker bio

Vikas Malpani is a Bengaluru-based entrepreneur and angel investor. He co-founded CommonFloor (acquired by Quikr for $200M), Leher, and Garvik AI/ReBillion.ai, and was the earliest investor in Unacademy ($3.4B+). He is an MIT Technology Review Innovator Under 35. Organizers: feel free to copy this bio as-is.

Audiences

• Founder and startup conferences
• Corporate AI transformation offsites
• University entrepreneurship programs

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