Tom Thomas

Background

About Tom Thomas

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 our Fund of Funds. Would love to connect with startup founders and ecosystem partners to help us in this effort. Before this I 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. We were able to secure a favourable verdict from the Competition Commission of India and as a representative voice of India's digital startups I 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. I continue to keep a close tab on how policies and monopolies affect innovation competition and freedom of choice for both consumers and startups.