Forbes India - Tech Conversations
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Indian SaaS: Anant Vidur Puri at Bessemer on the AI upside to $50 billion by 2030
In this episode, Anant Vidur Puri, a partner in India at the VC firm Bessemer Venture Partners, gives us a quick overview of the firm's latest annual report on India's software-as-a-service sector. Bessemer projects the sector at $50 billion in annual recurring revenue by 2030. Puri also discusses his view that artificial intelligence software and solutions will likely provide an upside to that number. He also expects that the more number of cloud software startups touching $100 million in annual recurring revenue will see a jump
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Deep Tech India: Kaushik Mudda on building Ethereal, a precision machining-as-a-service venture
In this episode, Kaushik Mudda talks about how he and his friend Navin Jain turned a problem into an opportunity with their award-winning five-axis CNC machine to build a manufacturing services venture from Bengaluru--Ethereal Machines. Today, backed by Blume Ventures, Peak XV Partners and Steadview Capital, the 10-year-old startup is pioneering what the entrepreneur duo calls machining-as-a-service in India. Ethereal is evolving as a promising deep tech company. This episode was recorded on June 6
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What Vijayant Rai sees as the India opportunity for Snowflake
In this episode, Vijayant Rai, managing director -- India, at Snowflake, gives us a quick update on the cloud-based data warehousing and analytics platform company's plans in India. Rai took over as Snowflake India's boss in January. He was previously at Microsoft where he was an executive director responsible for banking and financial services. In this conversation, Rai talks about the Snowflake's centre of excellence in Pune, and its drive to add more customers, who range from India's startup unicorns to the largest conglomerates
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Deep Tech India: How Digantara is building a strategic space domain awareness platform
In this episode, Anirudh Sharma, co-founder and CEO of Digantara Research and Technologies, gives us a quick update on progress at his space situational awareness venture in Bengaluru. The aim now is for Digantara to become a more holistic platform providing broader space domain awareness, for both commercial and strategic purposes. In this conversation, Sharma also talks about the challenges of building a deep tech company from India that can sell its products to global customers
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Deep Tech India: Why Rajan Anandan at Peak XV thinks it's never been better
In this episode, Rajan Anandan, a managing director at the venture capital firm Peak XV Partners, talks about how India's deep tech ecosystem is today where the software-as-a-service (SaaS) sector was 10 years ago. In this conversation, Anandan, who also leads Peak XV's Surge accelerator program for early-stage startups, talks about why there's never been a better time to startup in deep tech in India
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Deep Tech India: Why Arpit Agarwal at Blume wants to see a lot more patient capital
In this episode, Arpit Agarwal, a partner at Blume Ventures, talks about how he sees India's deep-tech ecosystem growing. Returns on successful deep-tech companies can be impressive, but the ecosystem will need to find ways to match the money for long-gestation projects with focused execution, Agarwal says. Even as the next generation of deep science and engineering-based startups begin to emerge in India, long-term capital is necessary, especially in sectors such as life sciences, for example
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(800×600px)-148.jpg?impolicy=website&width=360&height=270 "Sriram Rajamani at Microsoft Research on AI and deep tech in India")
Sriram Rajamani at Microsoft Research on AI and deep tech in India
Sriram K Rajamani, corporate vice president and managing director of Microsoft Research India Lab, reflects on how computer science and engineering research has evolved at the centre, in Bengaluru. In this conversation, Rajamani touches upon how AI and large language models can be harnessed to solve local needs, some of the technical aspects of how modern AI models work, and best practices from the research lab that could apply to India's deep tech ecosystem
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(800×600px)-147.jpg?impolicy=website&width=360&height=270 "Freshworks CEO Dennis Woodside on the chess game to a billion dollars and beyond")
Freshworks CEO Dennis Woodside on the chess game to a billion dollars and beyond
In this episode, Woodside touches upon topics including the timing of his taking over the top job from Freshworks founder Girish Mathrubootham, who plans to focus on the company's products strategy, how Freshworks might get to its first target of a billion dollars in revenue by 2026, and how Dennis views India — not only from the point of view of technical talent, but also as a market as Freshworks evolves into a larger enterprise software company
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Deep Tech India: Behind the scenes at Agnikul with Srinath Ravichandran and Vishesh Rajaram
Agnikul Cosmos made a bit of Indian spacefaring history with the successful test of their Agnibaan SOrTeD (sub orbital technology demonstrator) rocket, which lifted off and flew as intended, on May 30. In this episode, recorded on June 6, Co-Founder and CEO Srinath Ravichandran and early investor Vishesh Rajaram, founding managing partner of Speciale Invest, offer a glimpse behind the scenes and into what was going on in their minds
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How GE HealthCare plans to build AI from India for the world
In this episode, Taha Kass-Hout, CTO at GE HealthCare, talks about his first-ever visit to India. Taha, a medical doctor-turned-technologist, was previously a VP at Amazon Web Services, where he was a Distinguished Engineer for machine learning. He is an example of the type of experts who are shaping GE HealthCare's AI and digital solutions strategy for the future. In this conversation, Taha spoke about how the company's R&D team in Bengaluru, its biggest outside the US, will play a bigger role in building these next-generation products
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Dennis Gada at Infosys on how AI is changing core banking
In this episode, Dennis Gada, Executive Vice President and Global Head of Banking and Financial Services at Infosys, talks about how banks are looking to tap digitalisation and what they are looking for from their IT vendors. Gada, who is also a member on the board of EdgeVerve Systems, Infosys's products and platforms business, also talks about how core banking software is evolving in the age of AI