The Startup Fridays Podcast
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Startup Fridays Episode 16: 'Aiming for a million scooters across 7-8 cities in 3-4 years' — Amit Gupta, Yulu Bikes
Our guest today is Amit Gupta, co-founder and CEO of Yulu Bikes, an innovative urban mobility company trying to solve the problems of access, availability and affordability for the masses. Gupta previously co-founded ad-tech company InMobi, and AnalyticsWorks, a business intelligence venture. He is also an active angel investor in multiple startups in India and the US. He has an executive MBA from Harvard Business School, and a degree in mechanical engineering from IIT Kanpur, where he is a distinguished alumnus
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Startup Fridays Episode 15: More Indian entrepreneurs will soon go global — Ray Newal
Canada-based Ray Newal was instrumental in setting up the Indian unit of Techstars, a respected global startup accelerator, headquartered in the US, in Bengaluru. Newal was actively involved in mentoring its first few cohorts, before returning to Canada. He remains an advisor to the company and also serves on the advisory boards of Canadian VC firms Brightspark Ventures and StandUp Ventures. Today, Newal is MD and head of capital and ecosystems at the MaRS Discovery District, in Toronto, Canada
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Startup Fridays Ep 14: Looking at total customer experience automation-Yellow.ai's Raghu Ravinutala
A chance discussion over a breakfast meeting with friends about poor customer experience thanks to bad internet connection became the germ for an idea that would become a successful conversational AI-driven platform. Raghu Ravinutala, co-founder and CEO of yellow.ai, the company that built that platform, now has over 700 large companies using its technologies, this includes some of the world's biggest enterprises across 50 countries
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Startup Fridays Episode 13: We offer quality support for emotional wellbeing, and also run a sustainable business — Richa Singh
Our guest today is Richa Singh, co-founder, chief conceptualiser and CEO of yourDOST. For over six years now, Richa has been working to simply make it easier for people to talk to someone who can not only listen with empathy, but also offer professional help wherever needed. And she has built his into a growing network that now touches millions of employees of corporate businesses that have partnered her organisation
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Startup Fridays Episode 12: Culture and values are paramount even to a startup-Samir Bodas
Samir Bodas, co-founder and CEO of Icertis, is an exceptional technologist, with three decades in the industry. He took his venture, in the specialised field of contract lifecycle management, from India to the US and turned it into a corporation that was recently valued at $2.8 billion. In the process, he has successfully straddled the world of entrepreneurship and the demands of corporate leadership
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Startup Fridays Episode 11: Valuable deep tech startups are here and investor interest is rising, says Manish Singhal
The founding partner of pi Ventures in Bengaluru, is a technology veteran himself, having worked at Motorola and Sling Media among others. He has built products and also contributed to the MPEG 4 standards. In the last 5 years, Singhal has backed multiple AI-led startups in India with his first fund. He is now raising his second, with a target of $100 million, to expand pi Ventures' portfolio into space technology, material sciences and biotech
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.jpg?impolicy=website&width=360&height=270 "Startup Friday Episode 10: The duo building all-electric flying taxis")
Startup Friday Episode 10: The duo building all-electric flying taxis
Satya Chakravarthy and Pranjal Mehta, co-founders of ePlane Company feature as guests this week. The duo aspire to build all-electric flying taxis for passengers, as well as cargo transport aircraft small enough for last-mile delivery. They are currently testing a scaled-down prototype and expect to have their first cargo plane ready as early as next year. The entrepreneurs have also recently raised $1 million in their series A round of funding
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Startup Fridays Episode 9: In conversation with Vivek Goyal, co-founder and CEO of PlayShifu
Vivek Goyal, our guest this week, is the cofounder and CEO of MobilizAR Technologies, popularly known as PlayShifu. He and his cofounder Dinesh Advani build award-winning STEM toys that combine physical touch-and-feel toys with digital apps that can convert children's screen time into an interactive and learning activity. PlayShifu has also recently raised its series B round of funding to expand operations and add more products
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.jpg?impolicy=website&width=360&height=270 "Startup Fridays Episode 8: In conversation with serial investor Sanjay Mehta, founder, 100x.vc")
Startup Fridays Episode 8: In conversation with serial investor Sanjay Mehta, founder, 100x.vc
Mehta, our guest this Friday is a venture capital investor who has been backing startups in India for over a decade, with the aim of encouraging founders who might go on to disrupt large businesses with new products, services and business models. He has invested in more than 150 startups in everything from software-as-a-service to education, fintech and artificial intelligence. He has hopes that Indian giants will rise in technology over the next decade
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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