Forbes India - Tech Conversations
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EcoPreneurs: Bhaktha Keshavachar at Chara on ambition to cut India's dependence on rare-earth metals
In this episode, Bhaktha Keshavachar gives us a quick update on his four-year old company Chara, in Bengaluru, where he and his fellow co-founders are close to commercialising a type of motor that eliminates the need for rare-earth metals. Applications of such motors range from electric vehicles to industrial and HVAC systems, and even household appliances like washing machines. Chara is backed by VC investors including Exfinity Venture Partners, Kalaari Capital, and CIIE
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Harrick Vin and Siva Ganesan on Tata Consultancy's augment-and-enable AI strategy
In this episode, Harrick Vin, CTO, and Sivaraman Ganesan, head of the AI.Cloud business unit at Tata Consultancy Services, talk about the company's AI and generative AI strategies. With software and AI-based automation set to accelerate through this year and beyond, the aim is to augment customers' ability to get more from technology in every aspect of their operations, and help them become owners of creativity, they say
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Updapt's Satish Ramchandani on opportunities for the company's ESG software product
Satish Ramchandani, co-founder and chief business officer of Updapt, gives us a quick update about the company which offers software solutions for businesses to manage their ESG, meaning environment, sustainability and governance, reporting. Updapt's software product is past the product-market fit, Satish says, and the company has about 75 enterprise customers. The product is built for businesses anywhere in the world, he adds
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GE HealthCare's Chaitanya Sarawate on how care in India can leapfrog to deliver value to the masses
Chaitanya Sarawate, president and CEO for India and South Asia at GE HealthCare Technologies, talks about why he thinks India can leapfrog in healthcare delivery. Sarawate, who is also the managing director of the Wipro GE HealthCare joint venture, also talks about opportunities in India, a year after GE HealthCare became an independent company, listed on the Nasdaq, with the idea of becoming a more integrated medical technologies company and not just a provider of imaging equipment for medical diagnostics
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Chaitanya Sarawate at GE HealthCare on how India can leapfrog in delivering value to the masses
Chaitanya Sarawate, president and CEO for India and South Asia at GE HealthCare Technologies, talks about why he thinks India can leapfrog in healthcare delivery. Sarawate, who is also the managing director of the Wipro GE HealthCare joint venture, also talks about opportunities in India, a year after GE HealthCare became an independent company, listed on the Nasdaq, with the idea of becoming a more integrated medical technologies company and not just a provider of imaging equipment for medical diagnostics
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EcoPreneurs: Bhagyashree Jain's mission to get businesses to say no to plastics
In this episode, Bhagyashree Bhansali Jain, founder of The Disposal Company, gives us a brief overview of her work, trying to get businesses to reduce and recycle their plastics. In the process, Jain is also attempting to improve working conditions and earnings for rag pickers. In July last year, The Disposal Company was among the tech startups selected to the first Accenture Sustainability Value Accelerator Programme, in partnership with the Centre for Innovation Incubation and Entrepreneurship at the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad
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Deep tech India: Rohan Ganapathy and Yashas Karanam on dreaming about humans visiting Bellatrix one day
This is the last in a series of conversations, this year, on deep tech in India. In this episode, Rohan Ganapathy and Yashas Karanam talk about how their company Bellatrix Aerospace, in Bengaluru, is transitioning from a propulsion systems maker to an in-orbit space mobility business — like an Uber pool for satellites, they say. In this conversation, the two founders give us an update on how far they've come in their commercialization journey, and plans for the year ahead
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Deep Tech India: Rohit Grover and Pradeep Thangappan on their burn-any-fuel small gas turbine for trucks and gensets
In this penultimate episode in this year's collection of conversations on deep tech in India, Rohit Grover and Pradeep Thangappan give us an update on the small gas turbine they're developing at their IIT Madras incubated venture Aerostrovilos Energy. In this conversation, they talk about how close they are to their first commercial product, interest from potential customers, and the challenges of building a deep science and engineering-based hardware product from India
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Deep Tech India: Shashwath Ramkumar and Sharan Jagatrakshakan on their dream of designed in India semiconductor chips
Shashwath T Ramkumar and Sharan S Jagatrakshakan started Mindgrove, incubated at IIT-Madras, to build semiconductor systems-on-chip for applications in IoT (Internet of Things), computer vision and automotive sectors. With the tape-out of their first prototype chip, meaning making the physical chip from their design, these entrepreneurs would be taking a first small step in contributing a designed-in-India semiconductor processor not only for India but eventually for global markets
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Deep Tech India: Arindrajit Chowdhury and Tausif Shaikh on building space cities, one tiffin box at a time
In this next episode of our series on deep tech in India Arindrajit Chowdhury and Tausif Shaikh, co-founders of Inspecity Space Laboratories, talk about how they dream of cities in space. Their contribution is their two-year old venture, which is preparing to soon launch a small CubeSat propulsion system the size of a small tiffin box. It will take them one small step forward in developing an ecosystem of in-space life extension of satellites, involving repairs, navigations and eventually controlled de-orbiting manoeuvres
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Arvind Parthiban at SuperOps on product-market fit lessons and plans after recent funding
SuperOps is a Silicon Valley and Chennai SaaS startup that helps small and medium sized managed services providers automate many of their processes. Co-founders Arvind Parthiban and Jayakumar Karumbasalam, both serial entrepreneurs and former Freshworks employees, recently raised $12.4 million in series B funding from March Capital, Addition and existing investor Matrix Partners India. In this episode, Parthiban speaks about lessons from finding product-market fit and plans for expansion with the fresh funding