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Ram Sukumar on how he plans to double revenue to $100 mln at Indium Software
In this episode, Ram Sukumar, cofounder and CEO at Chennai's Indium Software, talks about the opportunities for the digital engineering services company — in not only traditional IT outsourcing, but also in 'horizon 2' areas including modern software product engineering, low-code and gaming. Ram also talks about how he's been reorganising the company to sharpen the focus on valuable customers in both these areas to sustain a compounded annual growth rate of 50 percent, as he aims to hit $100 million in revenue over the next two years
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Invest or avoid: Should HNIs consider pre-IPO investments? Sreeram Reddy Vanga of Kofluence and Arvind Bansal of Avendus Wealth offer their takes
After a lull of about six months, IPOs are back with a bang. This is a time when wealth managers actively market pre-IPO investments. Should you bite the bait or not- what's the best portfolio strategy? To throw light on this, Forbes India's Neha Bothra is joined by two veterans—Sreeram Reddy Vanga, co-founder of Kofluence, and Arvind Bansal, executive director and head of products and advisory at Avendus Wealth—who have decades of first hand experience of investing in IPO bound companies, and have a contrasting take on the subject
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Luxe Populi: Inside Forbes India's luxury special issue
At the onset of Diwali, Forbes India brings you a special luxury issue that dives into the world of private jets, yacht shows, expensive art collections, exclusive designers, and even gastronomy made with the luxury focal points. Issue anchor Darielle Britto flips the pages and gives an overview
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Arjun Gupta on ambition to lift millions from energy poverty, tackle carbon emissions and build a world-class company
In this episode, Arjun P Gupta, founder and CEO of Smart Joules in New Delhi, talks about his ambition to play a role in lifting millions of Indians from energy poverty and curtailing carbon emissions in the process. Arjun aspires to build an Indian company that can take on multinational giants such as Honeywell and Siemens in offering a building and energy management automation technology platform. He is currently looking to raise his series B funding for Smart Joules, which he founded in early 2015
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Mrinal Rai at ISG on the demand outlook for IT services and the opportunity to double down on transformation
In this episode, Mrinal Rai, senior research manager and principal analyst at Information Services Group, a leading technology services outsourcing advisory company, talks about how demand is likely to shape up in the coming quarters for India's top IT companies. With demand still strong, but caution seeping into actual spending, this is also the time for the vendors to do more, by investing and ramping up their business-transformation-oriented IT capabilities, Rai says
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Varun Badhwar at Endor Labs on the massive opportunity to make borrowing open source software safer
In this episode, Varun Badhwar, Indian-born serial entrepreneur in Silicon Valley, talks about his latest venture, Endor Labs, which has just come out of stealth mode, announcing a $25 million seed funding round to commercialise a software product aimed at mitigating the risks involved in borrowing software components from the internet — a growing trend. Investors include Lightspeed Venture Partners, Dell Technologies Capital, Sierra Ventures, and CEOs and executives from Microsoft, Zoom, Zscaler, Palo Alto Networks and Snowflake
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Jayanth Kolla on the state of 5G in India and the 'circular data economy' opportunities ahead
In this episode, Jayanth Kolla, co-founder and partner at Convergence Catalyst, a tech consultancy in Bangalore, talks about how India, which once lagged other economies in deploying wireless technologies, has begun to take the lead, starting with 4G and 5G wireless. He also talks about his own work over the last decade, that started with consulting in the telecom space, is evolving into helping companies prepare for the "circular data economy" that is beginning to emerge
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Value vs Growth: Which is a better investment strategy in current times? Rajeev Thakkar of PPFAS MF and Samit Vartak of SageOne Investment Managers debate
After years of global liquidity sloshing around, worldwide, central banks are raising interest rates to tame inflation. In such times of financial tightening and global slowdown, what's the best strategy to construct an equity portfolio? Value stocks or growth stocks: Which is a better investment strategy in current times? Rajeev Thakkar, CIO and director at PPFAS MF, and Samit Vartak, founding partner and CIO at SageOne Investment Managers; two highly acclaimed fund managers who are known for their multibaggers and have stock picking styles as different as chalk and cheese answer
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Vijay Prateik at DeMITasse Energies on the need for zero-emission long-duration energy storage solutions
In this episode, Vijay Prateik, founder and CEO at DeMITasse Energies, and cofounder and COO Megha Rawat, talk about their effort to help mitigate climate change. Prateik has spent over a decade developing a zero-emission power plant and energy storage solution for industrial applications that the duo expects to commercialise over the next two to three years. Incubated at the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore's Nadathur S Raghavan Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning, DeMITasse is also in talks for its pre-series A funding to expand its R&D efforts into the US
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Saket Dandotia and Vinayak Shrivastav on ambition to build a one-stop destination for sports video in the metaverse
In this episode, Saket Dandotia and Vinayak Shrivastav, who co-founded a SaaS company VideoVerse, along with Alok Patil, talk about their AI technologies for all things sports video for enterprise customers. The trio had previously built an interactive video platform, called TOCH, at a company called Vogueme Technologies, founded in 2016. The broader metaverse-driven vision for its future led to Toch's rebranding as VideoVerse, in April. VideoVerse is a US-based company, founded in 2022, and has raised $58.6 million in funding, according to private markets insights provider Tracxn
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FIFA World Cup 2022: Inside Forbes India's football special collector's edition
FIFA World Cup 2022 will kick off on November 20 in Qatar. The world is already abuzz and Forbes India was not going to watch from the fences. Divya J Shekhar and Kathakali Chanda take you inside the collector's edition that features beautiful stories of Indian football from around the country, the history of the world cup, and also the players you need to keep an eye on