Audio
-
Karthik Rajaram at Freshworks on the India opportunity and top trends in global SaaS
Our guest today is Karthik Rajaram, vice president for India and ASEAN at Freshworks, one of the country's top software product companies, which has recently been empanelled as a vendor on India's Government e-Marketplace. In this episode, Karthik talks about his reasons for joining Freshworks, his mandate to add many more customers in this market, including from among the larger established enterprises and the nascent, but growing trend of category-creating global enterprise software being developed from India
-
Inside the first-ever Forbes India-INCA Top 100 Digital Stars issue
This is the world of social media stars and we are just living in it. They have gathered millions of followers by producing genuine content, telling engaging stories, and starting conversations about important and pressing issues as well. But these 'careers' are fickle. It takes creativity, consistency, and hard work to become a brand that marketers want to be associated with. Forbes India's special correspondent Naini Thaker, who anchored the issue, delves deep into the making of the special issue that acknowledges the efforts put in by these bright stars
-
Neha Singh and Abhishek Goyal on the counter-intuitive play at Tracxn and plans ahead
Our guests today are Neha Singh and Abhishek Goyal, co-founders of Tracxn Technologies, which over the last eight odd years has become a sought-after provider of private market intelligence to investment firms and corporate businesses customers in 50 countries. In this episode, Neha and Abhishek talk about the counter-intuitive play in starting Tracxn in the US but then shifting base to India. They also talk about the longer-term aspiration for Tracxn, which they expect to take public as well
-
Alok Goyal at Stellaris VP on opportunities in the slowdown for Indian SaaS companies
Our guest today is Alok Goyal, a partner at Stellaris Venture Partners, an early-stage VC firm in Bengaluru. In this episode, Alok—who focuses on SaaS companies—talks about the opportunities and challenges for such ventures, presented by the current downturn that many expect will last for a while. He also talks about how the Indian SaaS ecosystem is moving from me-too software to cutting-edge solutions
-
Bipin Preet Singh at Mobikwik on plans for this year and the vision for the future
Our guest today is Bipin Preet Singh co-founder and CEO of One MobiKwik Systems, better known for its eponymous app, MobiKwik. In this episode, Bipin talks about how the company is emerging as a leader in the buy-now-pay-later category, how MobiKwik aims to build on that, the bigger picture vision for the future, and also what lies ahead in 2022 and 2023
-
Meet the Bengaluru English prof whose innovation is replacing single-use plastic straws
Our guests today are Saji Varghese, an associate professor of English at Christ University, co-founder of Brown Reed Agri-Waste Innovations, and Shailesh Vickram Singh, founder of Massive Mobility and Climate Angels. In this episode, Saji and Shailesh talk about innovations that could replace single-use plastic, including Saji's idea of making straws from coconut leaves. That idea is now a reality, with the brand name sunbird straws, with some top food and beverage and hospitality businesses as customers
-
Prasanta Sarkar and Rochan Sinha at NewTrace on ambition to bring 'green hydrogen' to the mass market
Our guests today are Prasanta Sarkar and Rochan Sinha, co-founders of NewTrace, where they've just raised some funding to develop a new class of 'membraneless' electrolysers, largely built with locally available materials and components in India. The aim is to make a dent in the 'green hydrogen' market. In this episode, Prasanta and Rochan talk about their efforts to get to the commercialisation of their product starting next year
-
Enzen's chairman Satheesh Kumar on ambition to build templates for net-zero communities
Our guest today is Satheesh Kumar, founder and chairman of Enzen Global Solutions, which provides strategic advisory, engineering services and solutions to customers in the power, water, gas, and renewable energy sectors. In this episode, Satheesh talks about Enzen's ambition for building "templates for net-zero communities." He also talks about plans for an IPO or a capital raise from private equity companies
-
Divyansh Saini at Houseware on winning the Snowflake challenge and bringing data to those who need it
Our guest today is Divyansh Saini, co-founder and CEO of Houseware, whose eponymous data management product recently won the Snowflake Startup Challenge. In this episode, Divyansh talks about making data more accessible to revenue-facing teams so they can "bring intelligence from metrics into their data apps." He also talks about how India's SaaS ecosystem has evolved from the days when he first got interested in it, several years ago as an engineering student
-
How Sunil Vachani built Dixon Technologies into a electronics manufacturing behemoth
You may not have heard of Dixon Technologies but it manufactures electronics including consumer electronics, home appliances, and more, for some of the largest companies in India and around the world, including Xiaomi, Panasonic, Motorola, Philips, and so on. Cover story author Naini Thaker gives you a glimpse into Vachani's and Dixon's journey, and his travails and triumphs with entrepreneurship in pre-liberalised India and post it
-
Sirisha Bandla at Virgin Galactic on the potential for collaboration with Indian space tech startups
Our guest today is Sirisha Bandla, VP of government affairs and research operations at Virgin Galactic, which is looking to open commercial space tourism operations early next year, offering short rides to near space, around 60 miles above the surface of the earth. In this episode, Sirisha talks about how she always wanted to be an astronaut, and now, helping to run the business end of Virgin Galactic, how she's looking at collaborations with Indian space tech startups