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Sudheer Kuppam:

He is the Co-Founder and CEO of Zebi

ebi is a full-stack core-blockchain company fund. Over the years, Sudheer held multiple board
founded by Silicon Valley veterans. Full- positions in Intel Capital’s global portfolio. Sudheer
Zstack means that Zebi operates in the entire was a selection committee member of the World
blockchain ecosystem – infrastructure and products. Economic Forum Technology Pioneers program.
Core blockchain means that Zebi does not offer any Prior to Intel Capital, Sudheer was an Engineering
other service apart from blockchain. Manager overseeing R&D, manufacturing and HVM
Zebi Public Blockchain (Zebi Mainnet) is a public transfer in Intel’s Technology & Manufacturing
blockchain designed to be a multi-chain and multi- Group.
token platform built on Cosmos, with Zapp (Zebi Sudheer is also cofounder and board member of
Pi Datacenters, Exatron Server Manufacturing and
Dapps) development, facilitating libraries for several
data and security use cases. INCX.
Sudheer has a B.Tech from the Indian Institute of
Zebi Chain 2.1 is an enterprise-grade private Technology, Madras, India and a M.S from Rensselaer
blockchain platform that is far superior to any open Polytechnic Institute, Troy, USA.
source offering. It is now live in 5+ enterprises and Zebi’s Products
government customers.
Zapps are Zebi’s products that are built on top of its Zebi Asset Chain
public and private chains with specialized IP/modules Zebi Asset Chain is a fool-proof blockchain-based
for each use case and the business vertical. solution that stores the property details and the
transaction data, making it immutable and tamper-
Zebi has 20+ PoCs, 5+ live products, 40+ customers,
and 2 Million+ digital records blockchained. proof. It provides an easy to use interface for different
stakeholders.
Skillfull Visionary behind the Company Zebi Edu Chain
Sudheer Kuppam is co-founder and CEO of Zebi.
Sudheer also founded and managed Epsilon Venture Zebi Edu Chain is a digital credential management
Partners, a pan Asian VC and growth equity firm with solution that offers a full suite for storing, retrieving,
investments in Pi Datacenters (India), FarmTaaza and verifying the data online for both students
and universities. It allows people to streamline the
(India), Cloudian (Japan), Ubiix (Taiwan), Zebi (SIN)
and INCX (SIN). workflow by using digital records.
Prior to Epsilon, Sudheer was a Vice President at Intel Zebi AI Chain
Corporation, overseeing investments in Asia Pacific Zebi AI Chain is an effective tracking system for
region. Sudheer was part of the investment committee the hospitality industry. It is a comprehensive
that approved all investments in the region. Sudheer solution to manage the digital identity including the
managed a team of investment professionals located characteristics and persona of the customers. Zebi AI
across Asia in Bangalore, Mumbai, New Delhi, Seoul, Chain also helps the government officials to report
Singapore, Taipei & Tokyo. He was also Managing criminal activities and maintain law and order.
Director of the $250M Intel Capital India technology

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