New Delhi, Feb 16: Over 200 founders, CXOs, investors, and operators driving the growth of India’s direct-to-consumer landscape will converge on 25th February at TiE Delhi-NCR’s D2C Summit. Following the success of its inaugural edition, this year’s Summit will spotlight the evolving consumer brand ecosystem and the strategic shifts shaping India’s next generation of digital-first and omnichannel brands.
This edition will feature insights from leading consumer-brand operators and enablers across D2C categories, including founders from lifestyle, personal care, fashion, food & beverage, and emerging Bharat-focused businesses. Senior investors from early-stage and seed-focused venture firms will further contribute perspectives on capital discipline, market-making, and the investment theses shaping India’s next wave of consumer-first companies.
A curated cohort of 60 selected D2C founders will participate in closed-door roundtables designed to facilitate transparent capital conversations, mentorship, and exploration of early-stage funding aligned with India’s growing consumer innovation landscape. The day will begin with an exclusive Founders & Funders Breakfast, featuring prominent D2C-focused investors, including Aditya Arora (FAAD Ventures), Amit Singhal (Fluid VC), Rishabh Katiyar (InfoEdge Ventures), and Yash Dholakia (Partner, Sauce VC), among others.
Across the Summit, discussions will map how India’s digital-first consumers are reshaping expectations around loyalty, discovery, and trust. The day will open with an inaugural keynote on India’s consumer-led retail evolution by Harish Bijoor (Brand & Marketing Expert), followed by a fireside chat between Prashanth Aluru, CEO & Co-Founder, TMRW, and Rohit Bansal, Co-Founder, Titan Capital & Snapdeal, on Fuelling the Next Stage of D2C Growth in India. Category-building founders including Siddharth Sharma (Founder, Days Ahead), Akriti Gupta (Founder & CEO, Loopie), Jatin Mahendru (Co-Founder, Kleenest), Jatan Bawa (Founder, Perfora) and Rachit Jain (Co-Founder, Bruno Milano) will decode playbooks driving Gen Z relevance, while leaders such as Neha Kant (Co-Founder, Clovia), Bharat Sethi (Founder, Rage Coffee), Shyam Sundar (Co-Founder, DeHaat), and Kabir Siddiq (Founder & CEO, SleepyCat) will share omnichannel scale strategies defining the future of modern retail in India.
A dedicated fireside chat will feature Kannan Sitaram, Co-Founder & Partner at Fireside Ventures, who will share strategic insights on value creation, disciplined scaling, and the frameworks essential for building enduring consumer brands.
Complementing these founder-driven discussions, the Summit will also spotlight the technology and infrastructure enablers powering India’s D2C growth. Experts, including Divyashree Bhat (Industry Head, Google), Pankaj Bansal (Assistant Manager, NIXI), and Ankit Kumar (Founder & CEO, Skye Air Mobility), will discuss the evolving enabler stack shaping brand visibility, domain readiness, and logistics innovation. A focused session led by Richard Eliab, CEO & Co-Founder, Cloud Ambassadors, will highlight how AI-driven workflows are improving operational efficiency and accelerating profitability for digital-first brands. Leaders building for Bharat-focused consumer segments, such as Manasa Garemella (Co-Founder, Kindlife.in), Arpana Shahi (Co-Founder, Gabit), and Divij Bajaj (Co-Founder & CEO, Power Gummies), will also share perspectives on the emerging opportunities powering the next wave of regional and vernacular-first businesses.
A pivotal conversation led by Rohit Lohia, Chief Business Officer, ONDC, will decode the future of D2C in an open-commerce ecosystem, followed by a presentation by Pradeep Sekhar Chandrasekaran (Country CEO, India, Base) finally, the closing discussion will feature Neha Singh (Co-Founder, Tracxn) on the evolving funding landscape.
Reflecting on the significance of the second edition, Geetika Dayal, Executive Director, TiE Delhi-NCR, emphasized the inflection point facing India’s consumer economy.
“Brands today are navigating a far more competitive and data-driven market than ever before. The winners will be those who pair deep cultural insight with disciplined execution across product, distribution, and consumer intelligence. With this Summit, our goal is to bring together leaders who are not just adapting to these shifts but defining them. The conversations here are designed to equip founders with perspective, clarity, and the networks needed to build enduring consumer brands from India.”
This year’s Summit is supported by key partners, including Cashfree Payments, Masters’ Union, Zoom, Cloud Ambassador (Google Partner), Base, and Skye Air Mobility, each contributing to the event’s mission of advancing India’s consumer innovation landscape.
With a carefully curated audience of founders, product leaders, marketers, retail operators, supply-chain experts, and venture investors, the Summit aims to deliver strategic clarity for emerging as well as scaling consumer brands. By convening diverse voices across commerce, technology, logistics, and brand strategy, TiE Delhi-NCR reinforces its commitment to strengthening India’s consumer innovation ecosystem through access to capital, expertise, and mentorship.