Tom Thomas - COO

Currently part of the leadership team at Kerala Startup Mission. The broad areas of our operations range from setting up of fab labs for advanced prototyping to early stage startup funding to market access programs and investments into startups and VCs through Fund of Funds. Before he was part of ADIF and was involved in filing and overseeing one of the landmark cases against Google's abuse of dominance in In-App-Payments. They were able to secure a favourable verdict from the Competition Commission of India and as a representative voice of India's digital startups and also got to interact with the concerned Parliamentary Committee regarding the need for establishing ex-ante regulations for protecting Indian startups from predatory practices of big-techs.