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The Startup Fridays Podcast is a weekly podcast series where Forbes India's Technology Editor Harichandan Arakali brings you conversations with startup entrepreneurs who are finding opportunities in solving problems in multiple areas. From agriculture and satellite imagery to digital finance and cryptocurrencies, venture capital investors, and more, meet the change agents on this podcast, out every Friday
 
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In this episode, Nishchay Ag, co-founder and CEO of Jar, talks about how there is a massive addressable gap in India's middle class with financial products that go beyond the top 30 million that everyone is targeting. Nishchay talks about how he and his friend Misbah Ashraf went from a few WhatsApp group pilots to 10 million users at Jar, in just t…
 
In this episode, Bala Srinivasa, managing director at Arkam Ventures, talks about experiences from the firm’s first set of 14 investments so far from their $106 million inaugural fund. Over the last four years, Srinivasa, and his fellow founding partner Rahul Chandra, have backed entrepreneurs who have successfully applied technology to create busi…
 
In this episode, Nitin Chhabra, co-founder and CEO of Ace Turtle, a tech-enabled retail business that’s the force behind brands like Lee and Wrangler in India, talks about how the company started out as a SaaS business, selling software for the so-called omnichannel retail. Nitin and co-founder Berry Singh then decided to risk that entire business,…
 
In this episode, Suresh Sambandam, founder and CEO of OrangeScape, better known for its product Kissflow, talks about persevering for over 15 years, before he found himself at the right place at the right time offering the right product. Suresh now dreams of making his company at least one of the top three in the world in its category. He also talk…
 
In this episode, Ben Mathias, managing partner at Vertex Ventures for Southeast Asia and India, talks about how he decided to leave behind a nice life in the software industry in Silicon Valley, to come to India as a VC investor. With over three decades in the tech and VC industry combined, Ben talks about what investors did to startups over the la…
 
In this episode, Anjani Bansal, partner and India country head at Global Brain, a Japanese VC firm, talks about why certain opportunities in small-town India are ready for startups to grab and create disruptive innovations. The time is also right for Global Brain to step up its own operations in India, Bansal says, who is looking to grow his team a…
 
In today’s episode, Rahul Garg, founder and CEO of Moglix, talks about what’s next for the company, which he says is knocking on $600-700 million in revenue. He also talks about his love of solving not just difficult problems, but difficult and large ones, which feeds his entrepreneurial decisions. Aspiring founders must understand this, and prepar…
 
In today’s episode, Cody Friesen, founder and CEO of SOURCE Global, talks about his dream of putting to bed one of humanity’s biggest and most urgent problems—the lack of access to clean drinking water for billions around the planet. Friesen is a scientist, engineer, teacher and entrepreneur. In this conversation, he also reflects on his approach t…
 
Our guest today is Anand Lunia, general partner at IndiaQuotient, a well-known domestic VC firm that backs entrepreneurs attempting to solve large problems for the Indian market at even “concept stage.” In this episode, Anand talks about how 2021 was an exception, and for the startup ecosystem to come back to its mean, two-thirds of the startups ma…
 
Our guest today is Madhu Shalini Iyer, a partner at Rocketship.vc—a Silicon Valley-based fund investing globally. Iyer started out with an engineering degree from the University of Sydney. In her 20-plus years as an engineer, operator and investor, her previous roles include chief data officer at Gojek, which she helped to grow into a business valu…
 
Our guest today is Sriram Viswanathan, the founding managing partner at Celesta Capital. In this episode, Sriram talks about his long association with technology and investing in deep tech companies, and Celesta’s strategic focus on the US-India corridor. He also has some experience to share with deep tech entrepreneurs, in areas including product-…
 
Our guest today is Sanjay Jain, partner at Bharat Fund and chief innovation officer at CIIE.co. Sanjay, who played a leading role in building Google’s Map Maker, and later was the founding chief product manager at UIDAI, talks about his journey going “from doer to enabler.” With a master’s in computer science from UCLA, and experience as a serial e…
 
Our guest today is Srikanth Velamakanni, cofounder, group CEO, and vice chairman of Fractal Analytics, which as the name suggests, provides deep analytical insights to customers in a range of verticals, including retail, financial services, and healthcare. Srikanth co-founded Fractal in 2000, and it turned unicorn earlier this year. The real aspira…
 
Our guest today is Grace Sai, cofounder and CEO of Unravel Carbon, a company that is making it easier for businesses to track and reduce their carbon emissions, with a focus on Scope 3 emissions and Asia. Grace is a serial entrepreneur and also a VC investor as a Kauffman Fellow. She has an MBA from the University of Oxford (where she was a Skoll S…
 
Our guest today is Ajeet Singh, cofounder and executive chairman of ThoughtSpot. In 2009, he co-founded Nutanix with Dheeraj Pandey and Mohit Aron. Today, it is a listed company in the US with $1.2 billion in ARR. In 2012, he co-founded ThoughtSpot with Amit Prakash. The company is seen as a leader in enterprise data analytics. At its last funding …
 
Our guest today is Smita Deorah, co-founder and Co-CEO of Boulevard Leadership, better known for its edtech business LEAD. Smita and her husband Sumeet Mehta started LEAD in 2012. Today the company reaches a million students in 3500 schools in more than 400 cities in India. It is now a unicorn, privately valued at more than a billion dollars, by in…
 
Our guest today is Pawan Kumar Chandana, co-founder and CEO of Skyroot Aerospace. Pawan and Naga Bharath Daka, both former ISRO engineers, started Skyroot in 2018 and over the last four years they—and their team of 200—have reached a point where their next big step will be the space flight of their first rocket, Vikram I. Earlier this week, they al…
 
Our guest today is Ashutosh Sharma, head of investments in India for Prosus, one of the world’s biggest technology investors. In this episode, Ashutosh, who has led Prosus’s investments in India for some six years, talks about how an emerging trend in the country’s startup ecosystem is led by entrepreneurs “building in India for India.” That is rea…
 
Our guest today is Bobby Balachandran, founder, president, and CEO of Exterro Inc., which provides a sophisticated tech platform for global corporations to better manage their governance, risk, and compliance needs. Bobby started out with a BSc in computer science from Government College of Technology in Coimbatore in South India, and an MS in from…
 
In this episode, Krishna Rangasayee, founder and CEO of SiMa.ai, a 30-year veteran of the semiconductor industry, with more than 25 patents to his name, talks about why the edge is the new battleground. He also delves into the reasons that compelled him to take his first entrepreneurial plunge after a long corporate career, building a cross-border …
 
Our guest today is Aditya Prakash, co-founder and CEO of Skidos Labs, an award-winning maker of a children’s educational apps company headquartered in Denmark. Aditya co-founded Skidos in 2013, which today offers a software development kit that can infuse math education for children into any game. Before Skidos, after an MBA from the Indian School …
 
Our guest today is Rajesh Jain, founder and group MD of Netcore Cloud. In the world of entrepreneurship, he is best known for selling one of his earliest ventures, IndiaWorld Communications, to Sify—then Satyam Infoway—for $115 million, in 1999, one of the biggest internet deals of the time in Asia. Jain founded Netcore in 1997, and has bootstrappe…
 
Our guest today is Vinay B Nair, Founder and CEO of TIFIN, which is a fintech venture in the US that provides technology and expertise to business clients to apply AI to personalise their financial products and services to their end customers or consumers. Vinay has a chemical engineering degree, and a doctorate in finance and economics. He founded…
 
Our guest today is Sunil Thomas, co-founder and executive chairman of CleverTap, which provides a software platform that a large number of brands around the world use to better engage with their customers. Sunil started with a computer science degree, and in a career that spans more than 30 years now, he has held several top jobs in tech and busine…
 
Our guest today is Sandeep Farias, founder and managing partner at Elevar Equity, an early-stage VC firm that backs entrepreneurs who are solving large problems for the low and middle-income communities in India and Latin America. In this episode, Sandeep talks about the ‘Elevar Method’ for identifying ideas that could become enduring businesses wi…
 
Our guest today is Madan Padaki, founder and CEO of 1Bridge, which provides a host of services in small towns and villages, linking brands and businesses with India’s rural economy, and creating micro-entrepreneurs from among the rural youth. In this episode, Madan, who is an entrepreneur and angel investor, talks about how rural youth have the sam…
 
Satya started life in a village, some 80km north of Jaipur city, in Rajasthan. He earned a chartered accountant’s qualification and attended an advanced management programme at Harvard Business School. In a career that spans more than 30 years, he rose to become a top executive in private banking, first at ICICI Bank, in Singapore, and then at Barc…
 
Our guest today is Pratap Raju, founding partner of Climate Collective, an organisation that is building a platform to accelerate climate tech startups in India, by catalysing stronger linkages between the startups and large corporate buyers and users of their solutions. He is also the founding partner of a VC fund, Climate Seeds Fund, providing se…
 
Our guest today is Rajiv Srivatsa, partner and investor at Antler India. Rajiv’s career spans going from software engineer at Infosys to product developer at Yahoo! to entrepreneur as co-founder of Urban Ladder to VC investor. In this episode, he talks about how each stage was the realisation of his overarching desire to always mentor people and ta…
 
Our guest today is Rohan Verma, CEO and executive director at MapmyIndia, a Mumbai-listed company in the areas of digital mapping, geospatial technologies and automotive mobility technologies. In this episode, Rohan talks about why he is optimistic that a serious tech product ecosystem will emerge in India over the next five years. He also hopes th…
 
Our guest today is Nagaraja Prakasam, an angel investor and startup mentor. Before he turned investor full time, Naga, as everyone knows him, had a successful career in the software industry. Over the years, he’s turned his focus to impact investment and it remains his passion. He is also a bit of a globetrotter and has visited 26 countries. He is …
 
Our guest today is Sateesh Andra, managing director at Endiya Partners, a VC firm that backs early-stage IP-led startups. Before Endiya, he was a partner at Ventureast and DFJ. Before turning to VC, Sateesh was a Silicon Valley entrepreneur, as founder and CEO of Euclid, in the IT management software space. Sateesh was also a top-ranked table tenni…
 
Our guest today is Anish Achuthan, co-founder and CEO of Open Financial Technologies, a neobank with more than two million SMEs as customers, making it one of the biggest fintech companies in this sector worldwide. Open has marquee investors backing it, including Google, Tiger Global and Temasek and the company is building a very strong portfolio o…
 
Our guest today is Anirudh Damani, founder and managing partner of Artha Venture Fund. After a degree in Economics and Business Administration, he spent several years in the energy industry in the US. He returned to India in 2013 and started Artha Energy Resources, an advisory firm in Mumbai, and Artha India Ventures, his family office, through whi…
 
Our guest today is Ajit Isaac, Founder and Executive Chairman of Quess Corp. Ajit’s career started just as India’s economic liberalisation was beginning. Earlier in his career, Ajit was a British Chevening scholar. He had a successful corporate career before he turned entrepreneur, and built two large HR companies, including Quess. In today’s conve…
 
Our guest today is entrepreneur-turned VC investor, Vaibhav Domkundwar, founder and CEO of Better Capital, an early-stage VC firm. At Better Capital, Vaibhav has had phenomenal success in identifying a large number of promising startups very early and backing them. Today, collectively, his portfolio companies are worth over $5 billion…
 
Our guest today is Sangeeta Bavi, Director, Startup Ecosystem, Microsoft India. Sangeeta started at Wipro more than 20 years ago. She then had a long stint at Nokia where she led projects, products, as well developer outreach. At Microsoft today, she is helping startups from the idea stage, all the way to becoming established businesses. She is als…
 
Our guest today is Ezhilarasan ‘Ez’ Natarajan, founder and CEO of CoreStack, which helps enterprise customers find the best way into the cloud. Prior to CoreStack, he held leadership, strategy and business ownership roles at Capgemini Group and Mindtree. He has been part of the Microsoft Azure Business group building Public Azure services for the w…
 
Our guest today is Manav Garg, founder and CEO of Eka Software Solutions. Eka today provides a comprehensive cloud platform for commodities and energy trading. When Manav started Eka, there was no playbook for software products companies out of India. Today, he is one of the central figures in India’s software-as-a-service startup ecosystem. He hel…
 
Our guest today is Rahul Saxena, co-founder and CTO of AiDash. Saxena is a serial entrepreneur and has previously co-founded Quiklo, a fintech startup in Bengaluru, and allMemoirs, a social commerce and product discovery venture. He was also an entrepreneur-in-residence at the VC firm Accel. He has a degree in electrical engineering from the Indian…
 
Our guest today is Shruti Kapoor, co-founder and CEO of Wingman, which offers an AI-product to help sales people do better on the fly, among other things. Previously, Kapoor worked at Payoneer, an American payments technology company, where she was part of the founding team and helped establish the company’s India operations. She has a BSc in Life …
 
Our guest today is Jahangir Mohammed, founder and CEO of Twin Health, based in San Francisco, with a centre in Chennai. The company offers a digital-twin based health service combining AI and machine learning, and the latest in medical science to help people reverse diseases like diabetes. Previously, Mohammed has built multiple tech businesses, in…
 
Our guest today is Atul Shinghal, founder and CEO of Scripbox, a company that has played an important role in making it easy for people to invest in mutual funds in India. And Scripbox is now evolving into a broader wealth management platform. Shinghal is also co-founder of Probe Information Services, which provides financial information on compani…
 
Our guest today is Parag Naik, co-founder and CEO of Saankhya Labs, in Bengaluru. Saankhya is an award-winning semiconductor design company that has a range of products and solutions in its portfolio today for both terrestrial and satellite communications. Parag went has a degree in computer science. He is a serial entrepreneur, and Saankhya Labs i…
 
Our guest this Friday was Brendan Rogers, founding partner at 2am VC, a venture capital firm in the US, which focuses on investing in Gen Z entrepreneurs in India. 2am VC, which Rogers co-founded with Hershel Mehta, has already made several investments in Indian startups in sectors including fintech and health care. This is not his first entreprene…
 
Our guest today is Amit Anand, founding partner at Jungle Ventures in Singapore. In previous stints, Amit has held executive positions in sales and business development roles at Progress Software, STT Communications-backed and Singapore-based Elipva, and at Tata Infotech Ltd, in India. In 2006, Anand turned entrepreneur when he founded Ettamina Stu…
 
Our guest today is Sharat Potharaju, co-founder and CEO of MobStac, a company he started over 12 years ago along with Ravi Pratap Madimsetty. Previously, he worked in investment banking at companies including Merril Lynch and Fieldstone Private Capital. Potharaju has a degree in chemical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, …
 
Our latest guest on Startup Fridays is an incredibly prolific entrepreneur and VC investor. Bala Parthasarathy is the co-founder and CEO of Mwyn Tech, better known for MoneyTap, the company’s app-based lending platform with millions of users. The company is now well onto its next phase of growth as a digital bank under the name Freo. He'd previousl…
 
Our guest this week is Suresh V Shankar, founder and CEO of Crayon Data, a nine-year old big data and AI company, out of Singapore and Chennai. Shankar is a second-time entrepreneur, and an evangelist of big data, analytics and digital personalisation. His first venture, RedPill Analytics was acquired by IBM. With more than 35 years in the industry…
 
Our guest this week is Ashutosh Garg, co-founder and CEO of eightfold.ai, a company with a sophisticated talent intelligence platform used by some of the world’s biggest companies. Garg is also the co-author of a book titled, “What’s Next for You - The Eightfold Path To Transforming The Way We Hire And Manage Talent”. Previously, he co-founded anot…
 
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