Vinay Trivedi is an entrepreneur and investor. He has a background in venture capital and private equity at Blackstone, and has worked in growth and analytics at Locu, a venture-backed tech startup acquired by GoDaddy. Prior to Locu, he served as a team member on a TED fellow-led education technology challenge called ‘Future of the Book’ and founded a national non-profit organization called SeniorLink, a youth volunteer agency for teaching seniors about computers and the Internet.

Passionate about supporting innovation, Vinay is actively involved in The Blackstone Charitable Foundation’s Entrepreneurship Initiative to help strengthen entrepreneurial ecosystems around the US, and helps promote STEM education initiatives in New York. He is the author of How to Speak Tech, a book which explains the basic technologies and terms of the Internet, which he presented at SXSW 2014. Vinay earned the Congressional Award Gold Medal in Washington, DC for his work in technology education and community service. He received his A.B. Honors in Computer Science from Harvard University.