Dr. Madhu Mehta
Dr. Madhu Mehta is an active promoter of technology Entrepreneurship in the state and Managing Director of Anjaleem.
Madhubhai, an engineer from MSU, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from USA and has played a pioneering role in the fields of Computers, Software and Telecom both in domestic and exports sector.
Some of you may have known about the pioneering role played by Dr. Mehta and his company Anjaleem in shaping the STD PCO phenomena. It was Anjaleem, his company, which developed the first attended STD PCO with printed receipt and persevered to convince Dept. of Telecom to try it out as an alternative to the coin and card type payphones. That innovation changed Indian telecom scene permanently. Anjaleem has also won export award for Telecom exports from Export Promotion Council of India for their Call Metering Systems exports to Saudi Arabia against stiff competition from MNC's. Anjaleem, currently exports, such call metering systems, to many Middle eastern countries.
Six years ago, with a bid to give back to society, Dr. Mehta with the help of Nirma Education and Research Foundation started NirmaLabs, a unique incubator for techno entrepreneurship promotion at Nirma University campus. During his five year stint with NirmaLabs, they have taken in 33 participants from all over India, selected eight projects for incubation from which seven start ups have already emerged, three of which received first round of VC funding.
Techno entrepreneur himself, Dr. Mehta, who founded companies like Digital Innovations and Anjaleem, is a visiting professor at Indian Institute of Management for techno venture electives, is a convener of special task force on technology entrepreneurship of CII Gujarat, and is one who has spent time to push Gujarat on IT and knowledge businesses.
