Ajay Lavakare is currently a director of TinkerTech Labs (https://www.transcribeglass.com), a startup developing an affordable heads-up captioning device, and a founding member & past Co-President of Stanford Angels & Entrepreneurs India (https://stanfordangels.co.in/).
Ajay is also an active angel investor. He has invested through Stanford Angels & Entrepreneurs, Indian Angel Network (IAN), and via online platform LetsVenture. His investments include Unacademy, Innovaccer, Consure Medical, Inspirit VR, Meme Chat, and several other startups in EdTech, B2B, AR/VR, and social.
Ajay is a charter member of The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE) Delhi chapter, and has been a mentor to entrepreneurs through programs organized by TiE, iSPIRT and NASSCOM.
His mentoring areas of interest are: Lean/Business Canvas development, Customer Development, product strategy, product management, and entrepreneurship. He has also taken on operating roles in some of the startups he has mentored and invested in.
Ajay was the Chief Product Officer of SmartVizX, the company developing Trezi, the immersive design collaboration platform for the building industry. Prior to that, he was the Managing Director of RMS Risk Management Solutions India and also worked at the parent company, Risk Management Solutions in Silicon Valley as senior vice president and managing director of data solutions. Ajay is the founder of RMSI (www.rmsi.com), one of India’s leading geospatial information services and solutions companies. He established RMSI in 1992 as a joint venture with Risk Management Solution, California. RMSI was sold to the Daily Mail, one of the UK’s leading media enterprises, in 2002. Prior to founding RMSI, Ajay worked in Tokyo with Kumagai Gumi Ltd., a leading Japanese architecture/engineering/construction company.
Ajay has a Bachelor of Technology degree in Civil Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (New Delhi, India) and a Masters degree in Structural Engineering from Stanford University (California, USA).
He lives in New Delhi, India.
