About

Amit Rathore is a visionary entrepreneur, investor, and creator who is passionate about co-creating 100 million new jobs through 10 million digital entrepreneurs. He is a jnana yogi who is excited about the end-to-end digital economies built on top of Internet 3.0. Amit believes that the future of business and value creation is decentralization, community-driven global market networks powered by fintech and mediated by AI. Amit has a deep understanding of venture and private equity, impact investing, and job creation. He is also knowledgeable in media, commerce/marketplaces, applied fintech, applied AI, and applied consciousness. Amit is a Lisper who knows how to beat the averages, and for those who really know, he knows nothing. Amit is the Founder and Chairman of newstype, a Social Market Network Platform-as-a-Service for newspapers and news media companies, bringing back monetization to publishers. He is also the Founder and Creator in Chief of shoptype, which turns the Internet into an Operating System for direct commerce, enabling brands to pay exact sales commissions to creators and influencers across the Internet in a success-based postpaid model. As the Founding Partner of awakevc, Amit leads a tech-enabled Private Equity 2.0 firm designed as a set of Internet Protocols. Awake is a global venture ecosystem and PE holding company building interconnected marketplace platforms for the future of work, life, and play. The firm is focused on media and markets, leveraging applied consciousness, applied AI, and applied fintech. Amit is seeing Entrepreneurs-in-Residence (EIR) across FinTech, AI, media, market networks, retail, gaming, metaverses, and capital markets. Amit has a Bachelor of Science in Electronics and Computer Science Engineering from PES and completed his high school education in Computer Science from National Public School. He has over 15 years of relevant experience and is proficient in AI. Amit is a forward-thinking leader who is passionate about creating a better future for all.