The Startup Fridays Podcast
_sm.jpg?impolicy=website&width=800&height=600 "Startup Fridays S3 Ep4: 'To win in startup investing, bring differentiated value to founders' — Ashutosh Sharma")
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Startup Fridays S2 Ep.15: 'Entrepreneurship is about selling a future only you see' — Rajesh Jain
Our guest today is Rajesh Jain, founder and group MD of Netcore Cloud. In the world of entrepreneurship, he is best known for selling one of his earliest ventures, IndiaWorld Communications, to Sify—then Satyam Infoway—for $115 million, in 1999, one of the biggest internet deals of the time in Asia. Jain founded Netcore in 1997, and has bootstrapped it to a profitable $100 million ARR SaaS company that is preparing for an IPO
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Startup Fridays S2 Ep.14: 'We knew we were onto something when we analysed our rejections' — Vinay Nair
Our guest today is Vinay B Nair, Founder and CEO, TIFIN, a fintech venture that provides technology and expertise to business clients to apply AI to personalise their financial products and services to their end customers or consumers. Vinay has a chemical engineering degree and a doctorate in finance and economics. He founded TIFIN in 2018. Previously he has been a hedge fund manager and sold a startup, 55 Institutional Partners, an investment advisory, to JP Morgan. He is a visiting faculty member at The Wharton School and co-author of 'Investing for Change'
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Startup Fridays S2 Ep. 13: 'In any pursuit, strive to be in a place where you can add value' — Sunil Thomas
Our guest today is Sunil Thomas, co-founder and executive chairman of CleverTap, which provides a software platform that a large number of brands around the world use to better engage with their customers. Sunil started with a computer science degree, and in a career that spans more than 30 years now, he has held several top jobs in tech and business. He and two of his friends—Anand Jain and Suresh Kondamudi—started CleverTap in 2013, in Mumbai, and since then, they've expanded their operations to the biggest markets around the world
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Startup Fridays S2 Ep.12: For lasting societal impact, ventures have to grow into enduring businesses — Sandeep Farias
Our guest today is Sandeep Farias, founder and managing partner at Elevar Equity, an early-stage VC firm that backs entrepreneurs who are solving large problems for the low and middle-income communities in India and Latin America. In this episode, Sandeep talks about the 'Elevar Method' for identifying ideas that could become enduring businesses with significant societal impact
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Startup Fridays S2 Ep. 11: 'Swabhimaan,' not simply money, drives our rural youth to entrepreneurship — Madan Padaki
Our guest today is Madan Padaki, founder and CEO of 1Bridge, which provides a host of services in small towns and villages, linking brands and businesses with India's rural economy, and creating micro-entrepreneurs from among the rural youth. In this episode, Madan, who is an entrepreneur and angel investor, talks about how rural youth have the same aspirations for a better life as anyone else, and how that represents a massive entrepreneurial opportunity
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Startup Fridays S2 Ep.10: Satya Bansal on the journey from his grandfather's 'bahi' to an international banker and climate VC investor
Our guest today is Satya Bansal, founder and CEO at Blue Ashva Capital, a Singapore and India VC firm that is focused on backing entrepreneurs building sustainable businesses in 'core sectors' in this region. In this episode, Satya talks about the clear gap in climate tech funding and efforts at Blue Ashva to incubate deep tech efforts in climate change; He also talks about lessons from his own career, including his earliest learnings — from his grandfather
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_sm.jpg?impolicy=website&width=360&height=270 "Startup Fridays S2 Ep. 9: 'We need to accelerate corporate adoption of climate tech from startups' — Pratap Raju")
Startup Fridays S2 Ep. 9: 'We need to accelerate corporate adoption of climate tech from startups' — Pratap Raju
Our guest today is Pratap Raju, founding partner of Climate Collective, an organisation that is building a platform to accelerate climate tech startups in India, by catalysing stronger linkages between the startups and large corporate buyers and users of their solutions. He is also the founding partner of a VC fund, Climate Seeds Fund, providing seed-stage funding to climate startups. Climate Collective also has a dedicated programme to encourage women entrepreneurs in climate tech
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Startup Fridays Season 2, Episode 8: We like to engage founders right from their -1 to 0 stage — Rajiv Srivatsa
Our guest today is Rajiv Srivatsa, partner and investor at Antler India. Rajiv's career spans going from software engineer at Infosys to product developer at Yahoo! to entrepreneur as co-founder of Urban Ladder to VC investor. In this episode, he talks about how each stage was the realisation of his overarching desire to always mentor people and take a deep passionate interest in helping them develop their careers
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Startup Fridays Season 2 Ep. 7: My hope is, entrepreneurs even crazier than us will rise and build for India — Rohan Verma
Our guest today is Rohan Verma, CEO and executive director at MapmyIndia, a Mumbai-listed company in the areas of digital mapping, geospatial technologies and automotive mobility technologies. In this episode, Rohan talks about why he is optimistic that a serious tech product ecosystem will emerge in India over the next five years. He also hopes that entrepreneurs with foresight will rise and make India self reliant for the crucial underlying infrastructure as well
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Startup Fridays Season 2 Ep. 6: 'Entrepreneurship isn't a lifestyle, it's a life time of perseverance' — Naga Prakasam
Our guest today is Nagaraja Prakasam, an angel investor and startup mentor. Before he turned investor full time, Naga, as everyone knows him, had a successful career in the software industry. Over the years, he's turned his focus to impact investment and it remains his passion. He is also a bit of a globetrotter and has visited 26 countries. He is an advisor and mentor at various startup incubators, including the NSRCEL in IIM Bangalore
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Startup Fridays Season 2 Ep. 5: VC or entrepreneur, seek to be relevant, enjoy the journey, deliver results: Sateesh Andra of Endiya Partners
Our guest today is Sateesh Andra, managing director at Endiya Partners, a VC firm that backs early-stage IP-led startups. Before Endiya, he was a partner at Ventureast and DFJ. Before turning to VC, Sateesh was a Silicon Valley entrepreneur, as founder and CEO of Euclid, in the IT management software space. Sateesh was also a top-ranked table tennis player representing Andhra Pradesh