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Value vs Growth: Which is a better investment strategy in current times? Rajeev Thakkar of PPFAS MF and Samit Vartak of SageOne Investment Managers debate
After years of global liquidity sloshing around, worldwide, central banks are raising interest rates to tame inflation. In such times of financial tightening and global slowdown, what's the best strategy to construct an equity portfolio? Value stocks or growth stocks: Which is a better investment strategy in current times? Rajeev Thakkar, CIO and director at PPFAS MF, and Samit Vartak, founding partner and CIO at SageOne Investment Managers; two highly acclaimed fund managers who are known for their multibaggers and have stock picking styles as different as chalk and cheese answer
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Vijay Prateik at DeMITasse Energies on the need for zero-emission long-duration energy storage solutions
In this episode, Vijay Prateik, founder and CEO at DeMITasse Energies, and cofounder and COO Megha Rawat, talk about their effort to help mitigate climate change. Prateik has spent over a decade developing a zero-emission power plant and energy storage solution for industrial applications that the duo expects to commercialise over the next two to three years. Incubated at the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore's Nadathur S Raghavan Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning, DeMITasse is also in talks for its pre-series A funding to expand its R&D efforts into the US
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Saket Dandotia and Vinayak Shrivastav on ambition to build a one-stop destination for sports video in the metaverse
In this episode, Saket Dandotia and Vinayak Shrivastav, who co-founded a SaaS company VideoVerse, along with Alok Patil, talk about their AI technologies for all things sports video for enterprise customers. The trio had previously built an interactive video platform, called TOCH, at a company called Vogueme Technologies, founded in 2016. The broader metaverse-driven vision for its future led to Toch's rebranding as VideoVerse, in April. VideoVerse is a US-based company, founded in 2022, and has raised $58.6 million in funding, according to private markets insights provider Tracxn
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FIFA World Cup 2022: Inside Forbes India's football special collector's edition
FIFA World Cup 2022 will kick off on November 20 in Qatar. The world is already abuzz and Forbes India was not going to watch from the fences. Divya J Shekhar and Kathakali Chanda take you inside the collector's edition that features beautiful stories of Indian football from around the country, the history of the world cup, and also the players you need to keep an eye on
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Ankit Jain and Sidhant Pai at StepChange on the opportunity to 'productise' carbon reduction
In this episode, Ankit Jain and Sidhant Pai, co-founders of StepChange talk about the products they offer enterprise customers to track and reduce their carbon footprints. They also help companies attempting to build sustainable products get deep insights into the impact of their products and operations. Ankit and Sidhant are developing StepChange into a SaaS software platform that businesses can use to also specifically target what are called Scope 3 emissions, which the entrepreneurs say are the most difficult to curtail
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Hype vs Reality: How sound is the Indian economy? Sonal Varma of Nomura and Saurabh Mukherjea of Marcellus Investment weigh in
In this edition of Money Talks, Forbes India's Neha Bothra is joined by two of the most credible voices in the area of finance and economics; Saurabh Mukherjea, founder and CIO at Marcellus Investment, and Sonal Varma, MD and chief economist, India and Asia- ex Japan at Nomura, to probe the state of the economy and the resilience of stock markets. Both have a different take on India's growth path
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InFocus: VC exits — Sanjay Swamy and Anshul Rai decode what founders should know
In this episode, Sanjay Swamy, managing partner and co-founder of Prime Venture Partners, and Anshul Rai, co-founder and CEO of Happay, talk about the central role of exits in the venture capital-driven startup growth model. The VC investor and the entrepreneur break down everything from the timing of an exit to what not being able to provide a good exit to stakeholders can do to founders. Rai also reflects on what life is like, after Happay's success and $180 million sale to Cred
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What makes regional goliaths: The inside story
Forbes India's latest issue package is about the mega stars of regional brands of the nation. In this podcast, Rajiv Singh and Naini Thaker discuss how these brands have made a mark for themselves over decades. What separates them from the rest? What are their ambitions and where do they go from here? And why did they choose to become regional rulers?
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Rishabh Agarwal on 'human-centric' tech and US expansion plans at Peer Robotics
In this episode, Rishabh Agarwal, co-founder and CEO of Peer Robotics, talks about how more attention is being paid today to 'human-centric' technologies. Rishabh and his IIT Delhi senior Tanya Raghuvanshi founded the Delhi venture in 2019, and Tanya's former boss at Interra Systems joined them as the third co-founder the following year. With $2.3 million in recent seed funding, led by Kalaari Capital, these entrepreneurs are looking to expand the market for their collaborative robots in the US and in India
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ToneTag founders Vivek Kumar Singh and Kumar Abhishek on their next phase of growth
In this episode, Kumar Abhishek and Vivek Kumar Singh, co-founders of Naffa Innovations, a startup better known for its sound-based technologies under the name ToneTag, talk about how their tech is like the 'Intel inside' model, today making sound-based transactions possible on a 100 million Android phones. They also talk about a solution that allows feature phone users to make UPI payments using their voice, and the next phase of ToneTag's growth
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Taslimarif Saiyed on the urgent need for growth infrastructure and capital for India's deep-science startups
In this episode, Taslimarif Saiyed, CEO and director of C-Camp (Centre for Cellular and Molecular Platforms), in Bengaluru, talks about how Indian biotech startups are ready for their next stage of growth. What's needed, urgently, is the high-end infrastructure, in close proximity to research environments and the VC and private equity network that can quickly assess these deep science based startups and provide the growth capital they need
