S Mustafa

S Mustafa is a successful entrepreneur development and business incubation professional with extensive experience in promoting startups in India and its neighboring countries. With over 15 years of experience, he has contributed to the establishment of 5 government-approved Technology Business Incubators in India and has incubated over 500+ startups. Mr. Mustafa has also trained 15,000+ aspiring entrepreneurs and helped startups to raise seed capital to Series A funding through Angels, VCs, and CVCs.

Mr. Mustafa earned his Master's degree in Business Administration in India and a certificate in entrepreneurship from the University of California, Berkeley, USA. He has published more than 10 research and white papers on innovation, entrepreneurship, and incubation in national journals of repute.

Currently working on open innovation and corporate venturing in India, Mr. Mustafa advises Indian PSUs and corporates such as HPCL, ONGC, GAIL, NFL, among others, for launching their corporate venture funds to promote innovation and startups. He has contributed to many national and global organizations engaged in startup promotion such as UNDP, InfoDev, NBIA, DST, Lockheed Martin, Indo US S&T Forum, DC-MSME, BIRAC, DeiTY, TePP, APIN, and others.

Mr. Mustafa's experience also includes serving as CEO at StartupActivator.com, Head of Corporate Development & Strategy at Openlabs Technologies & Consulting (P) LTD, Manager Technology Business Incubator at JSSATE-STEP, Noida (Supported by NSTEDB, DST, Govt of India), and Founder & CEO at The Employment Horizon.com.