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xto10x IPO Academy: Building great
public market companies.

Three components that will help you get IPO-ready

1. Expert Playbooks

Learn from the real-world experiences of leaders who’ve successfully navigated the IPO process.

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2. Founder trust-groups

Build a strong trust-group with other founders in the cohort to support each other in the 2-3 year journey to IPO and beyond.

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3. Investor Dry Run

Hone your public market pitch via practice with top institutional investors and receive actionable feedback.

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Delivered byindustry stalwarts

T.V. Mohandas Pai
Chairman, Aarin Capital Partners

Harsh Mariwala
Chairman, Marico

Ireena Vittal
Independent Director at Asian Paints, Urban Company

Santosh Mohanty
Former Executive Director and Whole Time Member, SEBI

Vishal Kampani
Non Executive Vice Chairman, JM Financial Ltd.

Amit Ramani
Chairman and Managing Director, Awfis

R Srinivasan
CIO, SBI Mutual Fund

Aloke Bajpai
MD and Group CEO, Ixigo

Mukul Arora
Co-Managing Partner, Elevation Capital

Kanwaljit Singh
Founder & Managing Partner, Fireside Ventures

Chirag Negandhi
MD, JM Financial Ltd

Vivek Khemka
Head- Board & CEO practice, Egon Zehnder

Dr. Karan Narang
Head- Consumer tech & Digital practice, Egon Zehnder

Arvind Agarwal
Group CFO, PayU, Former Group CFO, Nykaa

Abhay Mathur
CFO, Urban Company

Dhiresh Bansal
CFO, Meesho

Sudeep Bhatia
CFO, NIIF Infrastructure Finance

Sudhir Bassi
Executive Director, Khaitan

Arjun Mehra
Managing Director, JM Financial

Abhishek Bhagat
MD, Digital & Tech, JM Financial

Suman Gopalan
ex-CHRO, Freshworks

Ashish Kumar Singh
CHRO, Meesho

Binny Bansal
Co-founder & Chairman, xto10x

Saikiran Krishnamurthy
Co-founder & CEO, xto10x

Sessions

1. Define the right business shape to go public

Masterclass: Define the right business shape to go public

“If you are going public only to give an exit to private market investors — then don’t go.”- Founder


  • The story of Ixigo: From “thinking about the next round” to “building to last”
  • The story of Awfis: “Everyone was against the IPO, but here’s why we did it anyway…”
  • The biggest shifts eg. Simplifying the narrative for public market investors

Amit Ramani

Chairman and Managing Director, Awfis

Aloke Bajpai

MD and Group CEO, Ixigo

Fireside Chat with VCs: The right time to go public

“Public market discipline transforms a good startup into a great business.”


  • Why founders should focus on fulfilling the right business fundamentals, instead of optimising for another 10% EBITDA
  • Moments of truth in the journeys of companies like Ixigo, Meesho, Firstcry that made them ready for the public markets

Mukul Arora

Co-Managing Partner, Elevation Capital

Kanwaljit Singh

Founder & Managing Partner, Fireside Ventures

1:1 Business Design workshop

Identify the big moves that will make you IPO-ready in the next 2 years.

Saikiran Krishnamurthy

Co-founder & CEO, xto10x

2. Give Guidance, Hit Guidance
3. Build an IPO-ready org
4. Set up your board as a source of competitive advantage
5. Avoid last-minute compliance nightmares
6. Simplify your narrative as you go from private to public investors
7. Prepare for the journey after IPO

Public Investor Dry Run

Each company gets 1 hour per investor (5-6 meetings in total)

1:1 Speed Dating

  • Carefully curated meetings
  • Chance to educate investors on your unique industries and business models
  • Ability to gauge investor interest prior to IPO

Networking Lunch

  • Interact with other peers and investor community

The investor dry run will be organized in collaboration with JM Financial Ltd, featuring a balanced mix of public market investors:

Large Asset Management Companies
(Mutual Funds)
Large Insurance companies
Global cross-over funds
Pre IPO funds
Large family offices

Founder trust-groups: Journey together till IPO and beyond!

Trust Groups

  • Form a group with your fellow participants - 8 IPO-bound founders
  • All companies wil be non-competing in nature
  • Each founder pledges to Vegas rules for ALL discussions among trust circles

What to expect

  • Founder-to-founder hotlines for all IPO-emergencies (they will occur!)
  • Quarterly meet ups to exchange notes on IPO journey
  • Annual family retreats with fellow IPO-bound founders

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