Forbes India - Tech Conversations
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Sateesh Seetharamiah, CEO of Infosys's EdgeVerve, on how the cost of intelligence might go down to zero
Sateesh Seetharamiah, CEO of EdgeVerve Systems, products and platforms subsidiary of Infosys, talks about why it is inevitable that everything that can be automated, especially in the enterprise business context, will eventually get automated. The idea of what is automatable is changing every day, he points out — just look at the capabilities of ChatGPT. Sateesh also talks about the three digital platforms at EdgeVerve that today some 400 of the world's 2000 biggest companies are using. He leaves you with a point to ponder—what if the cost of intelligence were to become zero?
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Gopichand Katragadda on million-dollar customer opportunities for Myelin Foundry's edge AI solutions
In this episode, Gopichand Katragadda talks about turning entrepreneur as the next phase in a career that includes leading the GE John F. Welch Technology Center in India and being CTO of Tata Group. Four years ago, Katragadda co-founded Myelin Foundry with Ganesh Suryanarayanan to develop "global first" AI products for applications at the edge. In this conversation, he talks about the significance of the name of his company, innovations that customers are already paying for, the team at Myelin, $3 million in recent funding, and growth prospects
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Satvik Jagannath at Vitra.ai on building one-click translation on the fly for 75 languages
In this episode, Satvik K Jagannath, co-founder and CEO of Vitra.ai, talks about his company's context-based translation technology that is being used by some of India's biggest companies and startups — from HDFC Bank to Swiggy. Satvik and his school buddy co-founder Akash Nidhi PS have raised about $571,000 in seed funding from investors including 100X.VC and Inflexor Ventures for their Bengaluru startup. They've built a 25-member team and are currently in talks for a series A round of investment. Expanding into the US, where they already have a customer, and adding emoti
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Yamini Bhat and Venkat Malladi on learning as founders, 140 pct NRR, and the next phase of growth at Vymo
In this episode, Yamini Bhat and Venkat Malladi, co-founders of Vymo talk about how their 10-year-old venture has found traction for its financial industry focused sales engagement cloud software in the US, Japan, India and five other markets. The company enjoys a net retention rate of 140 percent, they say, putting them among the best SaaS businesses, on that metric — widely used to get a sense of how well a subscription-based cloud business is doing. They also talk about learning to traverse the changing landscape of challenges as they grew to a 500-person team over the last several ye
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Shashank Randev at 100X.VC on being an optimist and why 2023 is a great year to startup
In this episode, Shashank Randev, founder and partner at 100X.VC, discusses some of the highlights of a new report that the early-stage venture capital firm has recently published on the outlook for various startup sectors in India — from software as a service to quick-service restaurants or cloud kitchens. Several factors are coming together to make the way ahead a promising one for tech-led ventures in India, Randev says, arguing that amid all the noise about a slowdown and tough times ahead, 2023 is a great year to startup
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InFocus: Abhay Singh and Vaibhav Domkundwar on how Eeki Foods could transform agriculture in India
In this episode, Abhay Singh, co-founder and CEO of Eeki Foods, and Vaibhav Domkundwar, founder and CEO of Better Capital, talk about Eeki's innovations in hydroponics. Abhay co-founded the company with his fellow IIT Bombay graduate Amit Kumar in 2018 after they'd both spent more than a decade in the tech and engineering industries. The entrepreneur and the investor also talk about plans to establish an Eeki farm within a day's trip's distance of any city or major town in India and the potential for an innovative fintech layer connecting Eeki with India's agri supply
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Kumar Gaurav and Rajesh Dhiman unpack ThoughtSpot's $150 mln India expansion plans
In this episode, Kumar Gaurav, head of India and VP of engineering at ThoughtSpot, a data analytics specialist that won recognition for its search-based analytics solution, and Rajesh Dhiman, the company's senior director for global systems integrators, talk about a plan to invest in some significant expansion in India. The company's India-based workforce currently accounts for more than a third of its total strength of around 800 employees worldwide. Backed by investors including Lightspeed Venture Partners, Silver Lake and Snowflake, ThoughtSpot has a plan to invest $150 million in
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Apoorv Shaligram and Uttam Sen at e-Trnl Energy on reimagining cell technologies for India
In this episode, Apoorv Shaligram and Uttam Sen, co-founders of e-Trnl Energy, talk about the critical need for developing cell technologies and cell manufacturing technologies and processes locally, for the long-term sustainability of India's EV ecosystem. The entrepreneurs have just raised some funding to set up a full-fledged R&D centre in Bengaluru to turn their knowhow into a commercial product — a locally developed and manufactured cell with lower costs and higher quality than what is in the market today, they say
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Vishalini Paliwal on ambition to help developers debug their software in a jiffy at Zipy.ai
In this episode, Vishalini Paliwal, founder and CEO at Zipy.ai, talks about how developers often don't get the full picture when it comes to something that didn't work with their software code. Paliwal, a serial entrepreneur, has raised $2.8 million in funding from investors including Blume Ventures and Together to develop Zipy, an observability platform. The Silicon Valley-headquartered company, into its third year now, has a team of 20, working mostly out of Pune. Vishalini, a painter and a trained Kathak dancer, also talks about melding her artistic side and her passion for produc
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Kinner Sacchdev on helping creators 'crack the funnel' and plans ahead at Knorish
In this episode, Kinner Sacchdev, co-founder and CEO of Knorish, talks about how his company is growing, providing a SaaS platform for creators to go from showcasing and offering their knowledge and skills online, to winning paying customers. Knorish itself is sharpening its focus in this direction, to help creators "crack the funnel." The three-year-old Gurugram company has a team of 40 and $2.4 million in funding thus far. And a Series-A funding round is also around the corner, which will help Knorish strengthen its product, add leadership-level talent and grow faster
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Best of 2022 Ep10: Rohan Murty at Soroco on the digital worker's last mile as a data problem
In this episode from November, Rohan N Murty, founder and CTO of Soroco, talks about bringing empathy to dealing with the last mile friction that the modern digital enterprise employee faces, by harnessing data. Soroco offers a 'work graph,' which in essence, is a map of how teams execute digital work, and it lies at the intersection of people, work, and technology. Once discovered, the work graph enables teams to collaborate and work more effectively, raising the overall productivity of the enterprise