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Fuelling Start ups

Padmaja Ruparel wants to mobilise Rs 5,000 crore in 10 years and deploy that in 500 companies. The aim is to build a robust start up ecosystem.

Padmaja Ruparel has a simple philosophy in life. She calls it playing the game: "It is not what one gains; it is what one creates."

Ruparel has built institutions, and seen the gains flow. She involved herself with The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE) around 1999, when "people made errors spelling 'entrepreneurship'; she

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