Kshitij Saxena

Kshitij is the Founder and General Partner at Relentless VC and also Adjunct Professor of Entrepreneurship at Indian Institute of Management Bangalore. Kshitij Saxena is the CEO and co-founder of Autoninja, India’s largest Auto CRM. Kshitij started Autoninja in 2013, raised 2 rounds of venture financing, got the company to profitability and exited ICICI Lombard in a rare all-cash deal in 2019. Autoninja was Kshitij’s second startup. Before this, Kshitij started a gaming studio, 5Shells, that did not pan out. Kshitij was a Vice President at ICICI Lombard. He is also a visiting faculty member at IIM Bangalore where he teaches Venture Capital & Entrepreneurship. He also invests in technology startups through Relentless VC, his angel fund. Kshitij has spent more than a decade in the venture capital ecosystem pitching and building his two startups. Kshitij has an MBA from IIM Bangalore, where he was on the Director’s Merit List, and has a BTech from Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur. He is a programmer at heart and is also the father of a baby boy.

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