Forbes India - Tech Conversations
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Darshan Bathija, co-founder and CEO of Vauld, on ambition of building the Revolut of the crypto world
Our guest today is Darshan Bathija, co-founder and CEO of Vauld, a crypto trading exchange and lending startup. In this conversation, Bathija, who comes from a long line of financiers, talks about his disillusionment with traditional finance to make positive change, and his ambition to make loans from the crypto world accessible to anyone who needs them, anywhere on the planet
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Sravanth Aluru, CEO of Avataar, on spatial visual discovery in ecommerce and the metaverse
Our guest today is Sravanth Aluru, founder and CEO of Avataar, a Silicon Valley and Bengaluru company specialising in AI and computer vision for spatial-visual discovery. Avataar recently announced a $45 million Series B funding round led by Tiger Global. Existing investor Sequoia Capital joined in. In this conversation, Sravanth talks about his effort to develop a platform to deliver a holistic view of the consumer to enterprise customers, and about future applications in the metaverse
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Sunil Gupta, CEO of QNu Labs, on post-quantum cryptography and building a deep tech company in India
Our guest today is Sunil Gupta, co-founder and CEO of QNu Labs, a five-year-old Chennai startup that has developed commercially ready quantum-safe security products and solutions. In this conversation, Gupta talks about the founders' vision of building a globally recognised deep tech company from India in the quantum-safe cybersecurity space.
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Vinay Ravuri, CEO of EdgeQ, on how 5G is creating an inflection point for new semiconductor startups to emerge
Our guest today is Vinay Ravuri, co-founder and CEO of EdgeQ, a Silicon Valley chip design company working in the area of open cellular networks. EdgeQ's first commercial product, a 5G base-station-on-a-chip is currently being evaluated by customers. In this conversation, Vinay talks about how 5G takes cellular well beyond smartphones into the internet and large enterprise operations. He also talks about the company's development centre in India
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Gautam Nimmagadda, CEO of Quixy talks about why 'no-code' software is coming of age
Our guest today is Gautam Nimmagadda, founder and CEO of Quixy, a no-code software development cloud platform provider in Hyderabad. The concept and even some of the tech has been around from as far back as when Visual Basic programming language was introduced some 30 years ago, Gautam says. Cloud computing, and the needs of a post-pandemic world, are moving the idea from geeks to business users
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Om Malviya on efforts to popularise the Tezos blockchain in India
Our guest today is Om Malviya, President, of Tezos India, who is working to popularise the Tezos blockchain in this region. In today's conversation, Malviya talks about some of Tezos's unique characteristics, such as how it started with proof-of-stake from the get-go and its self-amending feature. He also spoke of various initiatives to grow the Tezos ecosystem in India
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Shrini Viswanath at Upstox on going from a small proprietary trading outfit to an investment platform for 7 million users
Our guest today is Shrini Viswanath, co-founder at Upstox, one of India's most popular online brokerages. In this conversation, Shrini talks about the long haul of entrepreneurship — taking the company from a proprietary trading outfit to a rapidly growing consumer-facing tech company used by millions of people to invest in the capital markets
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Ofer Bengal, CEO of Redis, on his journey from aerospace to toy design to data management
Our guest today is Israeli serial entrepreneur Ofer Bengal, co-founder and CEO of Redis, a data management company in Silicon Valley. In this conversation, Bengal talks about how Redis has grown to be a popular data management platform for customers around the world to make their software applications go faster. Bengal also has some simple advice for Indian entrepreneurs aspiring to build deep engineering-based companies.
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TranZact's founders on their aspiration to move 15 million SMEs from excel sheets to the cloud
Our guests today are Ritesh Kumar, Sharad Sen Sharma, and Rohan Sen Sharma, co-founders of TranZact, a five-year-old Mumbai startup that has recently raised its series A funding to take its digitalisation platform to more small and medium enterprise customers in India. The next, net-savvy generation of SME entrepreneurs is more willing to try out such solutions than its forebears. Eventually, TranZact's founders aim to build a data sciences based marketplace for millions of SMEs.
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Rajeev Shah at Celona on how 5G could enable a cloud paradigm for the physical world
Our guest today is Rajeev Shah, co-founder and CEO of Celona, a Silicon Valley company specialising in the field of 5G wireless-based private cellular networks for enterprise customers. Rajeev has spent more than 20 years working on wireless communications technologies. With Celona, founded in 2019, he is equipping businesses with their own 5G-based private cellular networks—from industrial warehouses to hospitals. Much of the software for Celona is being developed at the company's centre in Bengaluru
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Best of 2021 Ep. 10: Leonard Langsdorf at Capco on low-code and no-code tools and the rise of the citizen developer
Low-code software development has been around for several years. So has the idea of the 'citizen developer,' a term which the business technology consultancy Gartner is said to have coined. After the Covid-19 pandemic, however, they have become truly relevant. In this conversation, from earlier in December 2021, Leonard Langsdorf, CTO of Digital Innovation Labs at Wipro's Capco, talks about why the time has come for both low-code and no-code, and the rise of the citizen developer