The Startup Fridays Podcast
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Startup Fridays Episode 7: In conversation with Vinay Bagri, co-founder and CEO of Niyo Solutions
Our guest this week is Vinay Bagri, who started his fintech company in 2015 to combine his two decades of experience as a banker with the best of mobile internet technologies to provide a modern banking experience to individuals and businesses alike. Today, Niyo has over two million individual customers and more than 6,000 corporate customers. The company is backed by investors including Tencent, Prime Venture Partners and Horizons ventures
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Startup Fridays Episode 6: In conversation with Mark Kahn, managing partner at Omnivore Capital Management Advisors
Kahn, our guest this Friday, is an American who has settled in India. He is a venture capital investor who has been backing agri-tech startups in India for the last decade, with the aim of encouraging founders who want to go beyond incremental innovations in the sector. To that end, he has invested in everything from internet-of-things based startups to satellite companies to insurers for farmers. His firm has 25 startups on its portfolio currently, and it aims to raise $150 million in its third fund through next year
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Startup Fridays Episode 5: In conversation with Srinath Ravichandran, co-founder and CEO of Agnikul Cosmos
Ravichandran, our guest this Friday, and his cricket buddy SPM Moin, are building rockets that will put small satellites into low-earth orbits. One interesting aspect about their work is that they are combining rockets technology with 3D printing. They can now 3D print an entire rocket engine as one single block in 72 hours. Srinath has a degree in electrical engineering, but spent a big chunk of his career in large insurance companies like AIG and AXA, before turning to rockets. This is a conversation about how he and Moin built Agnikul
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Startup Fridays Episode 3: In conversation with Awais Ahmed, co-founder and CEO of Pixxel
Ahmed and his co-founder Kshitij Khandelwal are ready to launch their first satellite into a low-earth orbit to grab hyper-spectral images of the planet. In a few years, they expect to have a constellation of 30 earth observation satellites covering the globe. They already have customers lined up and funding from marquee investors including Lightspeed and Techstars. Ahmed eventually wants to venture into deep space exploration for precious minerals and so on
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Startup Fridays Episode 2: In conversation with Ashish Singhal, co-founder and CEO of CoinSwitch
Singhal and his co-founders Govind Soni and Vimal Sagar Tiwari have built one of India's most popular crypto currency exchanges, with millions of users. The entrepreneur talks about why he is optimistic about the growing interest in crypto in India even though there is some uncertainty about what the government will eventually decide about private digital currencies
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Startup Fridays Episode 1: Industrial development can no longer be at the cost of the planet: Vishesh Rajaram, Speciale Invest founder
Vishesh Rajaram, and his fellow partner Arjun Rao started their VC firm in 2017 to back entrepreneurs attempting to solve difficult technological problems in multiple areas—from computer vision aided guidance for industrial robotic arms to electric planes and 3D printed rockets to put small satellites in space. They have invested in 18 startups and are now ready for their second fund to invest in deep tech. Rajaram talks about why this is important and what motivates him and Rao
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Startup Fridays Episode 4: In conversation with Akshay Singhal, co-founder and CEO of Log9 Materials Scientific
Singhal is building Aluminium and Graphene based fuel cells that address problems like range of the batteries and battery life and degradation. And he says the raw materials can be almost fully extracted back and recycled back into new fuel cells. He expects his solutions can be sold overseas also, and will be especially useful for long-haul transportation. Log9 is also already commercialising a second fast-charging battery technology, using Li-ion batteries