Karthik Kittu & Co

Karthik Kittu is an Innovation Catalyst, Social Entrepreneur and Public Policy Professional with a proven track record in building startup ecosystems, driving transformative initiatives, and fostering strategic collaborations. His expertise spans the development of incubation and acceleration programs, managing public, university, and consular relations, policy advocacy, conceptualizing & drafting Communique and Compendiums and promoting entrepreneurship. Key accomplishments: Serving on Karnataka’s High Power Committee for Regional Ecosystem for Technical Excellence Committee to elevate district-level institutions into centres of excellence, co-authoring national compendiums on startup incentives, incubation, and procurement for and spearheading the National Incubator Capacity Development Program for DPIIT, which positioned India’s top 25 incubators for success, co-leading the Incubator/Accelerator Pavilion at Startup Mahakumbh, contributing to global startup policy through the help preparation of the Startup 20 Communique for G20, establishing TIDE 2.0 at IIIT Bangalore setting up of the IIIT Dharwad Research Park, conceptualizing regional programs like Kalyana Karnataka Startup Yatra for Beyond Bengaluru initiative. His entrepreneurial journey includes founding and scaling a startup, which provided him with hands-on experience in business growth, complemented by strategic roles at KPMG, Dimension Data, and Infosys, where he blended innovation with business strategy.