Forbes India - Tech Conversations
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Deepti Prasad and Sanjay Kumar on the journey from a wedding site to an AI product venture with top-notch ecommerce customers
Our guests today are Deepti Prasad and Sanjay Kumar, a wife and husband team that pivoted from a wedding events business to build Spyne, a startup that offers an AI-based instant studio-in-the-cloud to India's biggest ecommerce companies. In this episode, Deepti and Sanjay talk about the strong traction for their product — with customers including Amazon India, Flipkart and OLACars — and plans ahead, after a recent funding round led by Accel
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Prakash Ramamurthy at Freshworks on making CRM software as easy as using apps on a smartphone
Our guest today is Prakash Ramamurthy, chief product officer at Freshworks. Forbes India caught up with Prakash last week after he announced a new tailor-made CRM version that small businesses can find on Shopify's app store. In this episode, he talks about how getting and using these softwares is as easy as installing an app on a smartphone
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Shweta Jalan at Advent International on sectors of interest, M&A in IT, and valuations of Indian startups
Our guest today is Shweta Jalan, managing director at the private equity firm Advent International. In this episode, Shweta, who's spent more than 20 years in the industry, based in Mumbai, talks about how the PE industry has evolved in India, sectors that interest her firm, M&A in the IT services industry and why she may not invest in Indian startups just yet
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Harsh Rajat, at EPNS, on going multi-chain, new funding and a grant for developers for Web 3 ideas
Our guest today is Harsh Rajat, co-founder of the Ethereum Push Notification Service, or EPNS, a decentralised communications layer for Web 3 users. In this episode, Harsh talks about new funding, and plans ahead, including going multi-chain, building wallet-to-wallet communications features into EPNS, and also a $1 million grant for developers with the best ideas for expanding the reach of EPNS
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Dan Miller at Opus Research on the evolution of the conversational cloud and the companies leading the change
Our guest today is Dan Miller, founder and lead analyst at Opus Research, who's been looking at how conversational technologies have been evolving over almost the last four decades. In this episode, Miller talks about the emergence of the conversational cloud, and how companies ranging from hyperscalers to startups to India's large IT services system integrators are playing a role in it
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Nikhil Ramaswamy and Gokul NA of CynLr on pitfalls of 'fail fast and break things' and other lessons in deep tech
Our guests today are Nikhil Ramaswamy and Gokul NA, co-founders at CynLr, a Bengaluru startup that is developing computer vision and AI-based guidance technologies that can make industrial robotic arms much more versatile. In this episode, Nikhil and Gokul talk about their experiences, in building a deep tech hardware engineering startup out of India, including the absence of a playbook and the reality of having to deal with the 'India discount'
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Neil Shah, at Counterpoint Research, on Apple's manufacturing strategy and growing volumes in India
Our guest today is Neil Shah, vice president of research, and co-founder, at Counterpoint Research, who advises businesses about their mobile, telecom, semiconductors, and IoT strategies. In this episode, Neil offers his insights into Apple's manufacturing strategy and the iPhone maker's growing share in India
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Anirudh Suri, managing partner at India Internet Fund, on the tech imperatives for India, in his new book
Our guest today is Anirudh Suri, managing partner of India Internet Fund, whose book 'The Great Tech Game' was published recently. In this episode, Suri talks about the strategic imperatives for India in technology, including the importance of identifying the next big waves of tech and for India to find ways to be an early surfer of those waves
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Srikrishnan Ganesan at Rocketlane on second-time entrepreneurs, playbooks and long-term aspirations
Our guest today is Srikrishnan Ganesan, co-founder and CEO at Rocketlane—a startup that offers a feature-rich customer onboarding platform, to other fast-growing startups. In this episode, Srikrishnan talks about eliminating the hit-or-miss in customer onboarding. He also talks about the long-term aspirations at Rocketlane, and some takeaways from being a second-time entrepreneur
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Duncan Emerton at Pharma Intelligence on the biosimilars opportunity propelling Biocon's $3.3 bln Viatris deal
Our guest today is Duncan Emerton, executive director, custom intelligence and analytics, at Informa Pharma Intelligence. Informa is a UK based business intelligence provider and consultancy. In this episode, Duncan explains some of the basics of why biosimilars are a huge opportunity and how Biocon's deal to purchase the biosimilars unit of its long-term partner Viatris ticks several boxes for the Bangalore company
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Aditya Bhamidipaty at FirstHive on his mission to build an ever more holistic customer data platform
Our guest today is Aditya Bhamidipaty, founder and CEO of FirstHive, a customer data platform provider based in Silicon Valley and Bengaluru. In this episode, Aditya talks about how platforms like FirstHive that help enterprises get closer to a holistic view of consumers in the B2C space, will also help those enterprises become much more autonomous. On the business front, he also spoke about putting together a team in the US