Jeevan Gnanam talks about building on his grandfathers legacy to create Sri Lanka’s tech scene.

Jeevan was visiting my good friend Manoj Ranaweera, who runs
Techelerate Ventures in Manchester.  


We spoke about Jeevan's entrepreneurial journey and his
entrepreneurial grandfather. Jeevan talked about the first
companies he started.  He started a cab driving company
while at University with friends in America. He moved back to Sri
Lanka and with his brother tried to start and e-commerce company
but that failed due to the Sri Lankan infrastructure and market
not being mature.  


Like all good entrepreneurs he pivoted to a successful idea of
running Orion City, Sri Lanka’s first operational IT Park to
build the infrastructure needed to help other startups.  He
soon opened Hatch, Sri Lanka's largest
co-working/incubator/accelerator space. 


Today he also runs Veracity AI an specialist outsourced company
that helps other companies build their own AI solution.  


He has come over to Manchester to partner with Techcelerate
Ventures who work with Founding and Management Teams of
Technology Product Companies to accelerate their growth and
eventually reach an EXIT, including helping them with product
development, customer acquisition, strategy, positioning,
fundraising and M&A backed by know-how, data, tools and
insights.