Karan Checker
Description
Karan Checker is a seasoned serial entrepreneur, technology expert, and marketing strategist with extensive experience in building and scaling startups. He has served as a technical consultant, acting CTO, and co-founder, specializing in solution architecture, product development, sales, and marketing. His background includes scaling startups to acquisition, developing large technical teams, and delivering citizen-scale projects like eSanjeevaniOPD in healthcare.
Currently, Karan is focused on advancing AI technologies at FourOne.ai, driving innovation as the world transitions from structured software to agentic, AI-driven systems. He is also a partner at ESS ENN Associates, 172 Tech, Drish Infotech, and D2C Ninja, and is actively involved in domains like synthetic biology, extended reality (XR), additive manufacturing, and AI-driven solutions. Additionally, he is working on nkgnt, a venture researching novel methods for data archiving and compression, pushing the boundaries of data efficiency and storage.
Karan is an alumnus of Babson College, Boston, MA, and Punjab Engineering College, Chandigarh. Beyond his entrepreneurial pursuits, he serves as a board member of the Delhi Global Senior School Panchkula (DGSS) and is involved in his family's ventures: SNA Power Engineering, O’Kinnaur, BabyBooey, and VRnuts. His diverse expertise spans technology, marketing, and strategic growth. He offers multiple engagement models including product development outsourcing, global capability centers, deep tech research, digital marketing retainers, and support and operations retainers, positioning him as a thought leader in AI, emerging technologies, and global business scaling. Karan also actively invests in interesting startups and ideas, and advises various startups on go-to-market (GTM) strategy, marketing, and sales.
Karan Checker, heads marketing and business development at Drish Infotech Ltd. He has a Masters in Business Administration (MBA) from Babson College in Boston, MA. He also has a Software Engineering degree from Punjab Engineering College (PEC) in Chandigarh, India. He has over 15 years of experience in Software Development, Product Development, Marketing and Sales. In the past, he has been a Director at SNA Power Engineering Pvt Ltd where he managed IT, Datacenter, Power, SmartCity and Software services solutions in North India for brands like Vertiv, HP, Lenovo, HPE, IBM, TATA and Panasonic. He has also actively been part of the startup ecosystem both as an entrepreneur and as an investor with investments in healthcare, retail, ecommerce, robotics, 3d printing, Augmented and Virtual Reality AR/VR, gaming – Spurr Proximity, Sidekick Healthcare, rot8co, Do Tools & 172 Games.
Karan is a Charter Member of TIE Chandigarh and has served on the Governing Council and Executive Committee for the proliferation of Entrepreneurial spirit in the region. He has been an active RoundTabler from 2016-18 where he participated in various social welfare projects like “Future Through Education”, health checkup camps & blood donation camps. He serves on the board of Tulips World School Sector 7, Panchkula and also CCI College for Women Sector 11, Chandigarh where he devotes time to improvement of the educational process.