Forbes India - Tech Conversations
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Vikram Karakoti at TCS on digital twins in precision and personalised medical care
Vikram Karakoti, head of the life sciences business unit at TCS, says critical transformational projects have not seen any pullbacks by customers in this sector in the US, the IT services industry's biggest market, where high interest rates and fears of a recession have prompted companies to cut back on tech spending. He also talks about TCS recently joining the Living Heart project, a consortium led by Dassault Systemes, to work on software simulations of the heart to advance medical care of cardiac diseases
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Deep Tech India — Venkat Vallabhaneni and Jatin Desai on a lab-to-market orchestration layer
As India readies its own deep tech startup policy, this is episode eight in a short series of conversations with some entrepreneurs and VC investors building this ecosystem in the country. In this episode, Venkat Vallabhaneni and Jatin Desai, founding managing partners at Inflexor Ventures, talk about how the current funding slowdown is affecting India's nascent deep tech ecosystem. They are also enthused by the government's draft policy on the sector and point to the importance of a strong labs-to-markets orchestration mechanism
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GE HealthCare's Roland Rott on the company's medical AI efforts in India
Rolant Rott, president and CEO of GE HealthCare's ultrasound business, talks about how while much has advanced in healthcare in India, the market is also ripe for technology-led disruptions on multiple fronts—from access and affordability to delivery of precision care based on AI-led solutions that can provide insights from data that was not possible earlier. Roland also spoke about the work being done by GE HealthCare's 1,800-strong team at its India Technology Center in Bengaluru, the company's biggest R&D facility outside the US
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Deep Tech India: Aditya Bhatia on passion for furniture design to robotics for SMBs
As India readies its own deep tech startups policy, this is episode seven in a short series of conversations with some of the entrepreneurs and VC investors who are building this ecosystem in the country. In today's episode, Aditya Bhatia, an NID alumnus and co-founder of Orangewood Labs, a US-based venture backed by investors including Y Combinator, with its R&D in India, talks about how he and his co-founders, Akash Bansal and Abhinav Das, want to make robotics-based automation much more accessible to small and medium sized businesses
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Deep Tech India: Amar Sri Vatsavaya on BluJ's plan for a 10-seater, 1,000 km hydrogen electric aircraft
As India readies its own deep tech startups policy, this is episode six in a short series of conversations with some of the entrepreneurs and investors who are building this ecosystem in the country. In today's episode, Maruthi Amardeep Sri Vatsavaya, co-founder and CEO of BluJ Aerospace, talks about how he and his friend Utham Kumar Dharmapuri want to build a 10-seater hydrogen-electric passenger aircraft that has a range of up to 1,000 km, by 2028. But first, BluJ is only months away from a commercial drone with a 100 kg payload capacity
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Deep Tech India: Karthee Madasamy on the role of the 'forcing function' in deep tech startups' success
As India readies its own deep tech startups policy, this is episode five in a short series of conversations with some of the entrepreneurs and VC investors who are building this ecosystem in the country. In this episode, Karthee Madasamy, founding managing partner at MFV Partners, an early-stage deep tech VC firm in the US, talks about why he thinks robotics is about to take off. He also talks about why, deep tech entrepreneurs must be aware of the state of the industry and how that will affect the adoption of their new technologies
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Deep Tech India: Sateesh Andra on whether, after SaaS, deep tech can find its playbook
As India readies its own deep tech startups policy, this is episode four in a short series of conversations with some of the entrepreneurs and investors who are building this ecosystem in the country. Today, Sateesh Andra, managing director at Endiya Partners, talks about helping the entrepreneurs to stay the course and run the marathon, while celebrating the small wins along the way. Investors have a role in this, he says, to support ambitious founders who want to build globally successful tech products ventures from India
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Deep Tech India: Jogin Desai on the challenges of productising the science in biotech
As India readies its own deep tech startup policy, this is episode three in a short series of conversations with some entrepreneurs and VC investors building this ecosystem. Today, Jogin Desai, founder and CEO of EyeStem Research, updates us on his company's effort to commercialise new therapeutics to combat degenerative eye diseases. Desai co-founded EyeStem in 2015, and the venture has raised about $10 million in funding so far. He also discusses some of the challenges of building a biotech venture in India
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Deep Tech India: Vishesh Rajaram on why more investors believe the sector can grow in this country
As India readies its deep tech startup policy, this is episode two in a short series of conversations with some entrepreneurs and VC investors building this ecosystem. Today, Vishesh Rajaram, founding managing partner at Speciale Invest, discusses why more investors have figured out that deep science and tech-based ventures can be built in India. While the sector is in its infancy, Vishesh points to examples, including from his portfolio, of such startups that have made significant strides towards commercialisation
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Deep Tech India: Satya Chakravarthy on the product versus commercialisation funding conundrum
As India readies its own deep tech startups policy, we bring you a short series of conversations with some of the entrepreneurs and VC investors who are building this ecosystem in the country. Today, Satya Chakravarthy, head of the national centre for combustion research and development at IIT Madras and co-founder of The ePlane Company, talks about some of the recent milestones at his venture. Chakravarthy also offers some advice on navigating the challenges of building a deep tech company and bursts a couple of myths involved
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Saurabh Chandra and Naveen Arulselvan on plans after a $10.85 mln Series A at Ati Motors
In this episode, Saurabh Chandra, CEO and Naveen Arulselvan, CTO at Ati Motors in Bengaluru, a company building autonomous mobile robots for industrial applications, discuss two new products they recently launched. Ati's flagship, the Sherpa, is running around in factories of marquee customers such as TVS Motors, Bosch, Hyundai and Ceat. With $10.85 million in a new round of funding led by True Ventures and with participation from existing investors, Chandra and Arulselvan plan on expanding further into markets, including the US and Japan