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Rohan Murty on tackling the 'toggling tax' with Soroco's work graph, bringing empathy to the digital worker's last mile
In this episode, Rohan N Murty, founder and CTO of Soroco, talks about bringing empathy to dealing with the last mile friction that the modern digital enterprise employee faces, by harnessing data. Soroco offers a 'work graph,' which in essence, is a map of how teams execute digital work, and it lies at the intersection of people, work, and technology. Once discovered, the work graph enables teams to collaborate and work more effectively, raising the overall productivity of the enterprise
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Ayyappan R on plans to make Cleartrip an end-to-end decision-making platform for anyone who wants to travel
In this episode, Ayyappan Rajagopal, CEO of Cleartrip, talks about the next phase of his career at Flipkart group, where, in the past, he has been instrumental in growing various ecommerce categories, from fashion at Myntra to smartphones and furniture at Flipkart. Ayyappan, who took over as chief executive of Cleartrip a little over a year ago, has a clear plan to transform the business from a bookings provider to an end-to-end platform for people to research, discover, plan and shop for travel
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Prakash Govindan on his love for applied science, and the billion-dollar aspiration at Gradiant
In this episode, Prakash Govindan, co-founder and COO of Gradiant, a water treatment technologies company, talks about how his love for building products took him from academic research to being a first-time entrepreneur. Ten years on, Gradiant has evolved into a mid-sized leader in managing water treatment for global customers including semiconductor companies and pharmaceuticals giants. Gradiant, with its innovation and R&D efforts out of Boston and Singapore, has just won new contracts in India, where the company will soon establish an R&D team
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Ashwini Asokan on businesses' frustration with AI claims, a new acquisition, and plans at Mad Street Den
In this episode, Ashwini Asokan, co-founder and CEO of Mad Street Den, talks about how businesses are frustrated with tall claims about AI. Mad Street Den is a Silicon Valley and Chennai-based software company offering AI products that help customers organise and "stitch together" their data and extract useful information. On the other hand, there is an "uproar of demand" for products that offer tangible returns on AI investments, she says. The current macroeconomic business environment, however, is tough, with many imposing caps on SaaS spending
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Active vs Passive: Which investment strategy can deliver better long-term returns? Experts weigh in
An ongoing debate in financial circles is the role of active and passive styles of investing in constructing investment portfolios. The goal of active fund managers is to beat the market while passive investment managers duplicate specific index returns but have a lower fee structure. So, which strategy can deliver better long-term returns? Experienced mutual fund experts—Pratik Oswal, head, passive business, Motilal Oswal AMC and Aashish Somaiyaa, CEO, White Oak AMC—who have a keen understanding of how these two strategies influence returns in different market cycles, discuss
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Inside our venture capital special
The talk and effects of funding winter have gripped the Indian startup ecosystem. But, early-stage investments in the same ecosystem seem to have survived so far. For this 'VCs special' issue, Rajiv Singh interacted with a wide section of early-stage and growth-stage VC firms. In this podcast, he shares the insights he gathered and what to expect from this special edition
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Vishal Shah at Synersoft Technologies on what it takes to crack the Indian MSME market with a hardware IT product
In this episode, Vishal Prakash Shah, co-founder and CEO at Synersoft Technologies, talks about how his venture went from "miserable failure" to 10,000 installations with paying customers among India's MSMEs — offering an IT-in-a-box product fine-tuned for the needs of small enterprises. He also talks about "cloud-flation" and why small enterprises in India are still wary of the cloud, although Synersoft too is looking for funding to build the infrastructure for its cloud software product for that inevitable future
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James Foster on cybersecurity outside the firewall, and the growing talent base in India at ZeroFox
In this episode, James C Foster, founder and CEO of ZeroFox, outlines the growing opportunity in cybersecurity outside the enterprise firewall, as social media has changed how businesses interact with consumers. Foster recently visited Bengaluru, where his company has just added enough office space for 300 employees. The US-based company, with customers including NASA, Nike, Uber, United, Costco and AC Milan, doubled its talent base in India this year to 200 and is currently hiring in areas including cyber security operations, cyber threat intelligence, data science, and engineering
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Vikram Gupta and Yatin Kavishwar at Awiros on their ambition to build an OS and marketplace for video AI
In this episode, Vikram Gupta and Yatin Kavishwar, co-founders of Awidit Systems, talk about how they are developing Awiros, which is best described as an operating system on top of which multiple computer vision and video analytics applications can be brought together. Vikram, who brings the science and tech experience, and Yatin, a veteran tech salesman, are also building a marketplace for such applications. They've raised their first significant round of institutional venture capital recently and also bagged an order from the Bengaluru Safe City project, supported by India's Nirbh
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Ram Sukumar on how he plans to double revenue to $100 mln at Indium Software
In this episode, Ram Sukumar, cofounder and CEO at Chennai's Indium Software, talks about the opportunities for the digital engineering services company — in not only traditional IT outsourcing, but also in 'horizon 2' areas including modern software product engineering, low-code and gaming. Ram also talks about how he's been reorganising the company to sharpen the focus on valuable customers in both these areas to sustain a compounded annual growth rate of 50 percent, as he aims to hit $100 million in revenue over the next two years
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Invest or avoid: Should HNIs consider pre-IPO investments? Sreeram Reddy Vanga of Kofluence and Arvind Bansal of Avendus Wealth offer their takes
After a lull of about six months, IPOs are back with a bang. This is a time when wealth managers actively market pre-IPO investments. Should you bite the bait or not- what's the best portfolio strategy? To throw light on this, Forbes India's Neha Bothra is joined by two veterans—Sreeram Reddy Vanga, co-founder of Kofluence, and Arvind Bansal, executive director and head of products and advisory at Avendus Wealth—who have decades of first hand experience of investing in IPO bound companies, and have a contrasting take on the subject