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Krishna Kumar at Cropin on mapping crops and land around the planet, and building an AI cloud for agri intelligence
Our guest today is Krishna Kumar, co-founder and CEO of Cropin Technology Solutions, an agri-intelligence provider to customers around the world. In this episode, Krishna talks about mapping crops and land around the planet and building an AI-based cloud platform for the agri and food sectors. He also talks about a new AI lab and taking Cropin to $100 million in revenue over the next three years
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Ecozen Solutions' co-founders on plans to take their connected tech beyond Agri into EVs
Our guests today are Devendra Gupta, Prateek Singhal and Vivek Pandey, co-founders of Pune-based Ecozen Solutions, who offer motor controls, IoT tech, cold storage and energy storage products, powered by solar energy. In this episode, the trio talk about how they started with customers in the Agri sector, establishing a significant market share. They are now looking to expand into other areas, including the EV space, and markets outside India
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The Big Picture: 'Bubbles compress time, busts expand it, so use this downturn wisely' — Sridhar Vembu
Our guest today is Sridhar Vembu, founder and CEO of Zoho Corp., India's biggest software products success story. In this episode, Sridhar talks about how the wise entrepreneur will use the current downturn to nurture talent, invest in R&D and lay a solid foundation for a sustainable, long-term business. He also talks about how SaaS companies are yet to reckon with the power of AI to replace software programmers themselves
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Shruti Kapoor at Wingman on being acquired by Clari, plans ahead, and AI's influence on sales
Our guest today is Shruti Kapoor, co-founder and CEO at Wingman, a conversational AI provider for sales teams that has just been acquired by Clari, a Silicon Valley company. In this episode, Kapoor talks about the rationale behind the decision to be acquired. Also shares some of the conversations that she and her co-founders Muralidharan Venkatasubramanian and Srikar Yekollu had about this, what comes next, and some thoughts on how AI is overhauling the enterprise sales process
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Akshay Singhal at Log9 on the imperative for India to seek self-reliance in commercial EV cells
Our guest today is Akshay V Singhal, founder and CEO of Log9 Materials, which is building quick-charging, longer-lasting batteries for electric vehicles in the country. In this episode, Singhal offers an update on the pilot plant Log9 opened in April, in Bengaluru, for local cell manufacturing, India's first, and the plan to expand it into a full-fledged commercial 'Giga factory,' with a capacity of cells worth 5GWh (Giga watt-hour), over the next 3-5 years
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Jatin Desai and Venkat Vallabhaneni at Inflexor on the way ahead for India's deep tech startups
Our guests today are Jatin Desai and Venkat Vallabhaneni, managing partners at Inflexor Ventures, a VC firm focused on deep tech ventures in India. In this episode, the duo talk about how India's engineering based ventures are beginning to mature, in areas ranging from augmented reality to rocket fuel; they also talk about their own aspiration to make Inflexor a pre-eminent technology-focused VC firm in India
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SolarSquare's co-founders on the $50 billion opportunity to bring solar power to Indian homes
Our guests today are Neeraj Jain, Nikhil Nahar and Shreya Mishra, co-founders of SolarSquare, which became the first Indian startup investment for well-known US investor Chris Sacca's Lowercarbon Capital. The entrepreneurs are betting they can differentiate themselves with their idiot-proof tech and superior after-sales service to bring solar power to millions of homes in India, which they say is a $50 billion opportunity
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The Big Picture: Sauvik Banerjjee at Tata Digital and Anand Chandrasekaran at Mad Street Den on 'whither personalisation'
Our guests today are Sauvik Banerjjee, founding CTO of Tata Digital, and Anand Chandrasekaran, co-founder and CTO of Mad Street Den, whose AI platform blox.ai plays an important role in the personalisation features of the Tata Group's new consumer app, Tata Neu. In this episode, Sauvik and Anand talk about bringing the power of AI to the evergreen quest for understanding the individual consumer's behaviour more intimately. They also have a non-techie piece of advice for aspiring CTOs
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What the future of work looks like for India?
The future of work—has its own set of challenges and anticipations for enterprises, especially from a work perspective enabling hybrid work models, and enhancing organisational agility and resilience
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Samit Mitra at Smart Power India on the role mini-grids and renewable power could play in boosting small businesses
Our guest today is Samit Mitra, senior director of programme implementation at Smart Power India, a subsidiary of the Rockefeller Foundation. In this episode, Samit, who's an expert on mini electricity grids, talks about how such grids connected to renewable sources such as solar power could help local businesses in large parts of the country where the main grid power isn't reliable
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Shailesh Vickram Singh at Climate Angels on the need for 'SIDBI-like' LPs in climate tech in India
Our guest today is Shailesh Vickram Singh, founder of Massive Mobility, an EV charging infrastructure company, and founder of Climate Angles, a syndicated climate tech investment platform, backed by other entrepreneur-investors including Phanindra Sama and Vijay Shekhar Sharma. In this episode, Shailesh talks about the need for large institutional investors to enter India's climate tech funding scene, similar to what SIDBI did for the earlier generations of startups in this country