Jay Shankarpure

Jay Shankarpure is a founder and general partner at Localhost. Prior to Localhost, he founded Shodh, a stock research platform aggregating data of thousands of Indian listed companies, with 500K lifetime users, backed by a 6-figure grant from Microsoft at the age of 15. He also founded Arthavruksha, a capital markets content company that, at age 14, amassing 20K subscriptions and more than 2 million lifetime traffic. He was a representative for Microsoft at the G20 Summit and is now building an international hackathon ecosystem for student engineers, raising 6-figures in sponsorships from 20+ companies worldwide.