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Rahul Bhalla, CEO of Zenatix, on the opportunity in the US, Europe for IoT based energy management for small buildings
Our guest today is Rahul Bhalla, cofounder and CEO of Zenatix, an IoT based energy management solutions provider for small commercial buildings. Zenatix was acquired by the Hero Group in 2018 and is part of its Hero Electronix unit. In this conversation, Bhalla talks about the massive opportunity to take Zenatix's solutions to the US and European markets
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Simmi Sareen and Shravan Shankar, cofounders of Climake, on the state of climate tech funding in India
Our guests today are Simmi Sareen and Shravan Shankar, co-founders of Climake at Unitus Capital. Climake is a growth platform for climate tech startups to access markets and access equity and non-dilutive capital. In this conversation, Simmi and Shravan discuss their second annual report on the state of climate finance in India, in which they note that climate tech financing increased 4X in 2021, and is inching towards mainstream finance
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Tanmai Gopal, CEO at Hasura, on the unicorn's business plans while staying true to open source roots
Our guest today is Tanmai Gopal, co-founder and CEO of Hasura, a Silicon Valley company that is pioneering an open-source and cloud platform that makes it easy for developers to pull together data from multiple sources. Backed by Nexus Venture Partners and Greenoaks, Hasura has just become a unicorn. In this conversation, Gopal talks about plans to make Hasura much more widely available and capable of talking to many more databases, while staying true to its open-source ethos
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The Big Picture: Francisco D'Souza on his next innings, backing a new generation of IP-led tech services companies
Our guest today is Francisco D'Souza, co-founder and former CEO of Cognizant Technology Solutions. In 2020, after more than 25 years at Cognizant, Francisco stepped back from the IT services giant he helped found and build. He's now looking ahead at his next innings, as co-founder and managing partner at RECOGNIZE, a US-based private equity firm that will focus on a new generation of deep intellectual property-led tech services ventures
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Inside Forbes India Best Employer 2022 with Kincentric
In the third annual Best Employer issue of Forbes India, the spotlight was put on how companies are engaging with their employees after the Covid-19 pandemic changed the 'normal' ways of working. Monica Bathija talks about how the best were picked from the Kincentric survey, how the featured organisations are different from the rest and the process of putting the issue together
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Inside Forbes India New-Age CFOs special
Rajiv Singh gets into the details of the issue that profiles chief financial officers across some marquee organisations in the new-age Indian startup ecosystem. These CFOs do not necessarily come from a finance background. But they are finding solutions to the peculiar set of demands in a unique fashion. The role of a CFO has moved from behind the scenes to the leading fronts. And in this podcast, Singh summarises what do the new CFOs need to survive
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.jpg?impolicy=website&width=360&height=270 "Jani Pasha on building the hyperlocal playbook, and experiments with monetisation at Lokal")
Jani Pasha on building the hyperlocal playbook, and experiments with monetisation at Lokal
Our guest today is Jani Pasha, co-founder and CEO of Lokal, a three-year-old startup developing a hyper-local social media platform. In this conversation, Jani talks about the takeaways from building Lokal so far, which now covers the four southern Indian states as well as Maharashtra and Gurajat, and figuring out what users value that they'd be willing to pay for
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Ashish Lachhwani, cofounder, on the award-winning semiconductor technology work and plans ahead at Steradian
Our guest today is Ashish Lachhwani, cofounder at Steradian Semiconductors in Bangalore, which is developing chipsets for 4D radar sensing that can go into autonomous vehicles. In this conversation, Ashish talks about Steradian's partnership with a global tier 1 auto components supplier, an intelligent traffic system in India and university alliances to grow the semiconductor ecosystem in India
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How Mehul Mohan turned his passion for coding into a business for interactive learning at Codedamn
Our guest today is Mehul Mohan, founder and CEO of Codedamn, which he started right after engineering college, to turn his passion for coding into a business. Mehul's interactive approach to teaching coding within a web browser won him early funding from Antler, an international VC firm. Going forward, Mehul wants to build a platform that can automatically suggest jobs to people learning on Codedamn, based on their current levels of proficiency
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Vindhya C on demystifying product management and how to go from MVP to 'minimum loveable product'
Our guest today is Vindhya C, who is something of a products management aficionado. In 2019, Vindhya was named product manager of the year by Hacker Noons, an online community of techies. She is a co-founder at OnThatJob, an e-learning startup, and currently works on products at Pexels, a curated photos and videos platform. Vindhya writes a blog on the subject and consults with startups on launching and improving their software products
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Tyler Sloat on selling marbles in fifth grade, products culture, the IPO and the billion-dollar aspiration at Freshworks
Our guest today is Tyler Sloat, CFO at Freshworks. Tyler is a software industry veteran and, most recently, is credited with being instrumental in Freshworks's successful IPO. Six months on, Freshworks crossed the $100 million quarterly revenue mark. In this conversation, Tyler looks back at how he got onto a career track that made him a successful CFO. He also talks about Freshworks's next target of a billion dollars in revenue, and how the products culture within the company will get it there