Forbes India - Tech Conversations
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Ankita Thakur on her fascination with data leading to a successful entrepreneurial journey at GeoIQ
In this episode, Ankita Thakur, co-founder and chief data officer at GeoIQ, talks about how her fascination with data brought out the idea that became her first successful startup. She also explains the connection between the availability of rich location data and real-world business outcomes for customers—made easy through APIs that GeoIQ offers, with all the heavy lifting happening in the backend. So much so that the profitable company is expecting to grow revenues 4X in the coming quarters
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Umakant Soni at ARTPARK on AI innovation and the dream of a trillion-dollar tech company from India
In this episode, Umakant Soni, co-founder and CEO of ARTPARK (AI and Robotics Technology Park) in Bengaluru, talks about supporting AI-led innovations with the hope that they will make a billion lives better and perhaps yield a trillion-dollar tech company from India. He also looks back at his entrepreneurial journey, and how the Indian startup ecosystem is changing, with a bit more depth today than when he started one of India's first chatbot startups
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Nitesh Nandy, co-founder and CTO, on why email still rocks, and plans ahead at Hiver
In this episode, Nitesh Nandy, co-founder and CTO at Hiver, talks about the long haul that he and his IIT Kharagpur senior Niraj Ranjan, embarked upon, and the multiple pivots they made, and the email-centric customer support product they've built for small and medium-sized businesses. With a recent $22 million series B funding, Nandy also talks about plans ahead at Hiver, which he expects will double its revenue this year
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Dhruva Goyal, co-founder and CEO of BugBase, on life as an ethical hacker and entrepreneur
In this episode, Dhruva Goyal, co-founder and CEO of BugBase, talks about how he and his schoolmate Kathan Desai went from tackling hackathons to dropping out of engineering college to set up their ethical hackers' marketplace. He also talks about bug bounties as a career choice and plans at their Bengaluru startup that has already won the second round of funding, after finding early backing from 100X VC
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Ambee's founders on how they are about to hit the major leagues in climate tech
In this episode, Jaideep Singh Bachher, Akshay Joshi and Madhusudhan Anand, co-founders of Datair Technology, better known for their flagship brand Ambee, talk about their startup journey from air quality monitors in Bengaluru to hi-tech SaaS company providing hyper-local emission information to customers around the world. They also talk about how they are about to break into the big league, with some global partnerships that will exploit their know-how
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Howard Wolk and John Landry, authors of Launchpad Republic, on what makes American entrepreneurship tick
In this episode, Howard Wolk, an American entrepreneur, who was also an advisor to the US government under President Bill Clinton, and John Landry, an economics and business historian and former editor at Harvard Business Review, talk about their new book, 'Launchpad Republic: America's Entrepreneurial Edge and Why It Matters' that will be released tomorrow. They also talk about how upstarts always tend to come in and reset the balance, no matter how powerful the incumbents might seem
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Vanya Seth, head of technology at Thoughtworks India, on the potential of 'data mesh'
Our guest today is Vanya Seth, a principal consultant and head of technology in India at Thoughtworks, widely known in the software world as one of the companies that pioneered the 'agile' way of writing software. In this episode, Vanya talks about the approach to software and products at Thoughtworks, and some of the work that the company has been doing out of India, where it has been present for some 20 years
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Aniket Bajpai and Nikhil Gupta at Limechat on their conversation AI tech for ecommerce companies
Our guests today are Aniket Bajpai and Nikhil Gupta, co-founders of Limechat, a Bengaluru startup that offers conversational AI tech to growing ecommerce businesses. In this episode, Aniket and Nikhil, who met at IIT Delhi and chose the entrepreneurial route straight out of college, talk about what makes Limechat stand out in a segment that has larger, better-funded rivals
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Ketan Patel at Mswipe on why credit on UPI will be a game changer
Our guest today is Ketan Patel, CEO of Mswipe Technologies, a point-of-sale tech company that wants to take on Paytm with its soundbox. In this episode, Ketan talks about how Mswipe will become a platform that will add opportunities like facilitating a large number of pay-later transactions. He also talks about why he thinks credit on UPI will be a real game changer in India
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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
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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