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.jpg?impolicy=website&width=800&height=600 "Anand Anandkumar at Bugworks on how India could become a powerhouse of biotech research")
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The big picture: Mahesh Palashikar at GE South Asia on why India needs to accelerate its climate efforts
Our guest today is Mahesh Palashikar, President of GE South Asia, who leads the company's operations in this region in areas including aviation, power, renewable energy and healthcare. In this episode, Palashikar talks about India's ambitious climate goals, and why everyone — from governments and corporate businesses down to individual consumers — needs to significantly step up their efforts, if we are to meet those targets
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Ezhil Subbian and Vinod Kumar at String Bio on the promise of bioengineering in sustainability
Our guests today are Ezhil Subbian and Vinod Kumar, co-founders of String Bio, in Bengaluru which is developing multiple products with applications ranging from animal nutrition to sustainable personal care products. In this episode, Ezhil and Vinod talk about plans for String Bio's next phase of growth as a full-stack tech company — from the bioengineering tools to multiple commercial products
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Samir Bodas, Co-founder and CEO of Icertis, on the journey to the cusp of category-defining leadership
Our guest today is Samir Bodas, co-founder and CEO of Icertis, a SaaS specialist in the area of contract lifecycle management. In this episode, Samir talks about how CLM is moving from a good-to-have technology to a must-have system of record, as the world's biggest companies negotiate complex agreements on the cloud, turning to AI to identify opportunities and risks in those contract
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Kelly Forbes at AI Asia Pacific Institute on the need for 'Trustworthy AI'
Our guest today is Kelly Forbes, executive director at AI Asia Pacific Institute, in Singapore, a young interdisciplinary research organisation and think tank focused on artificial intelligence and technology policy. In this episode, Kelly talks about how, as the application of AI penetrates every walk of life, figuring out ways to build 'trustworthy AI' has become urgent
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Deepti Prasad and Sanjay Kumar on the journey from a wedding site to an AI product venture with top-notch ecommerce customers
Our guests today are Deepti Prasad and Sanjay Kumar, a wife and husband team that pivoted from a wedding events business to build Spyne, a startup that offers an AI-based instant studio-in-the-cloud to India's biggest ecommerce companies. In this episode, Deepti and Sanjay talk about the strong traction for their product — with customers including Amazon India, Flipkart and OLACars — and plans ahead, after a recent funding round led by Accel
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Prakash Ramamurthy at Freshworks on making CRM software as easy as using apps on a smartphone
Our guest today is Prakash Ramamurthy, chief product officer at Freshworks. Forbes India caught up with Prakash last week after he announced a new tailor-made CRM version that small businesses can find on Shopify's app store. In this episode, he talks about how getting and using these softwares is as easy as installing an app on a smartphone
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Shweta Jalan at Advent International on sectors of interest, M&A in IT, and valuations of Indian startups
Our guest today is Shweta Jalan, managing director at the private equity firm Advent International. In this episode, Shweta, who's spent more than 20 years in the industry, based in Mumbai, talks about how the PE industry has evolved in India, sectors that interest her firm, M&A in the IT services industry and why she may not invest in Indian startups just yet
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How Ravi Modi built Manyavar into a Rs 26,000 crore business
From a small family-run business in Kolkata to starting up on his own and transforming the wedding attire market, Modi, the latest entrant on the billionaires list has built Manyavar into a brand to be reckoned with. Cover story author Manu Balachandran gives you a peek into how and where it all started
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Harsh Rajat, at EPNS, on going multi-chain, new funding and a grant for developers for Web 3 ideas
Our guest today is Harsh Rajat, co-founder of the Ethereum Push Notification Service, or EPNS, a decentralised communications layer for Web 3 users. In this episode, Harsh talks about new funding, and plans ahead, including going multi-chain, building wallet-to-wallet communications features into EPNS, and also a $1 million grant for developers with the best ideas for expanding the reach of EPNS
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Dan Miller at Opus Research on the evolution of the conversational cloud and the companies leading the change
Our guest today is Dan Miller, founder and lead analyst at Opus Research, who's been looking at how conversational technologies have been evolving over almost the last four decades. In this episode, Miller talks about the emergence of the conversational cloud, and how companies ranging from hyperscalers to startups to India's large IT services system integrators are playing a role in it
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Nikhil Ramaswamy and Gokul NA of CynLr on pitfalls of 'fail fast and break things' and other lessons in deep tech
Our guests today are Nikhil Ramaswamy and Gokul NA, co-founders at CynLr, a Bengaluru startup that is developing computer vision and AI-based guidance technologies that can make industrial robotic arms much more versatile. In this episode, Nikhil and Gokul talk about their experiences, in building a deep tech hardware engineering startup out of India, including the absence of a playbook and the reality of having to deal with the 'India discount'