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Umesh Sachdev on explaining 'unicorn status' to his daughter, IPO plans, and the billion-dollar ambition at Uniphore
Our guest today is Umesh Sachdev, co-founder and CEO of Uniphore, conversational automation and AI platform provider to some of the biggest companies in the world. In this episode, Umesh talks about the ambition to become the go-to AI layer in any conversation, and the roadmap ahead as an India-born Silicon Valley unicorn with the ambition of hitting a billion dollars in revenue as well
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Inside Forbes India Leadership Awards 2022
The 11th edition of Forbes India Leadership Awards is here. FILA 2022 is honouring the best entrepreneurs and business leaders from India who navigated the gradual opening of the economy, reshaped their ventures, and innovated along the way. From the burgeoning Indian startup ecosystem to the traditional behemoths of legacy or private businesses, FILA picked the best. How did the jury take on this daunting task? What went into putting this flagship issue together? Salil Panchal takes you behind the scenes
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Manish Dabkara at EKI Energy Services on building a billion-dollar market cap carbon credits company
Our guest today is Manish Dabkara, CMD and CEO of EKI Energy Services, a BSE SME listed company that shot to a billion dollars in market value within nine months of going public in April 2021. The company helps businesses make their projects more sustainable, and trade their carbon credits. In this conversation, Dabkara talks about the journey so far and opportunities ahead
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Vishesh Rajaram, managing partner at Speciale Invest, on why he's an optimist about India's deep-tech startups
Today, our guest is Vishesh Rajaram, managing partner at Speciale Invest, a deep-tech focused early-stage VC firm in Chennai. Vishesh and his friend and VC partner Arjun Rao are among a handful of investors in India backing entrepreneurs who are attempting to bring to market really difficult science and engineering-based products, in areas ranging from space exploration to quantum computing and solutions addressing climate change
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Pardeep Garg, cofounder of Uravu Labs, on how your beer and Coke could soon have renewable water
Our guest today is Pardeep Garg, cofounder of Uravu Labs, a Bangalore startup that has been developing a device to produce water from the air in a renewable manner. In this conversation, Pardeep talks about Uravu's efforts to make the water they extract truly renewable; and the opportunity to bring renewable water to the trillion-dollar beverages industry
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Geetha Manjunath, founder and CEO of NIRAMAI, on cancer detection using smartphones and AI
Our guest today is Geetha Manjunath, founder and CEO of NIRAMAI Health Analytix, who has won multiple awards for her work in computer science and AI applied to healthcare. In this conversation, Geetha talks about plans to take NIRAMAI's early-stage cancer detection technology to the advanced markets, starting with the UK. She also talks about how the day isn't far when cancer detection will be possible using smartphones
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Kausambi Manjita, CEO of Mason, on tech shifts in online retail and helping small retailers hold their own
Our guest today is Kausambi Manjita, co-founder and CEO of Mason, an award-winning startup that is making it easier for small retailers around the world to auto-run their online storefronts with its cloud-based no-code software. In today's conversation, Kausambi talks about the role she envisions for Mason as the online retail space becomes ever more competitive for her customers; and Mason's top priorities ahead as it begins to scale its solutions
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Rahul Bhalla, CEO of Zenatix, on the opportunity in the US, Europe for IoT based energy management for small buildings
Our guest today is Rahul Bhalla, cofounder and CEO of Zenatix, an IoT based energy management solutions provider for small commercial buildings. Zenatix was acquired by the Hero Group in 2018 and is part of its Hero Electronix unit. In this conversation, Bhalla talks about the massive opportunity to take Zenatix's solutions to the US and European markets
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Simmi Sareen and Shravan Shankar, cofounders of Climake, on the state of climate tech funding in India
Our guests today are Simmi Sareen and Shravan Shankar, co-founders of Climake at Unitus Capital. Climake is a growth platform for climate tech startups to access markets and access equity and non-dilutive capital. In this conversation, Simmi and Shravan discuss their second annual report on the state of climate finance in India, in which they note that climate tech financing increased 4X in 2021, and is inching towards mainstream finance
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Tanmai Gopal, CEO at Hasura, on the unicorn's business plans while staying true to open source roots
Our guest today is Tanmai Gopal, co-founder and CEO of Hasura, a Silicon Valley company that is pioneering an open-source and cloud platform that makes it easy for developers to pull together data from multiple sources. Backed by Nexus Venture Partners and Greenoaks, Hasura has just become a unicorn. In this conversation, Gopal talks about plans to make Hasura much more widely available and capable of talking to many more databases, while staying true to its open-source ethos
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The Big Picture: Francisco D'Souza on his next innings, backing a new generation of IP-led tech services companies
Our guest today is Francisco D'Souza, co-founder and former CEO of Cognizant Technology Solutions. In 2020, after more than 25 years at Cognizant, Francisco stepped back from the IT services giant he helped found and build. He's now looking ahead at his next innings, as co-founder and managing partner at RECOGNIZE, a US-based private equity firm that will focus on a new generation of deep intellectual property-led tech services ventures