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Microsoft's Activision deal: Forrester's Mike Proulx and Will McKeon-White tease out the nuances
Our guests today are Mike Proulx, VP and research director, and Will McKeon-White, analyst at Forrester—a leading technology strategy advisor to businesses around the world. In this conversation, they point out how Microsoft's deal to buy Activision Blizzard brings the enterprise cloud software maker out of stealth as a gaming and consumer company, as it takes a dominant position in what is essentially ground zero for the metaverse
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Manas Fuloria, CEO of Nagarro, on the digital product engineering company's next phase of growth
Our guest today is Manas Fuloria, CEO (custodian of entrepreneurship in the organisation) of Nagarro, an Indian heritage software services company listed in Germany. In this conversation, Manas talks about the 13,000 strong product engineering company's future and his own entrepreneurial journey—from apparel to education to software
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Chitresh Sharma, CEO of Refyne, on why accessing salary should be as easy as ordering pizza
Our guest today is Chitresh Sharma, a serial entrepreneur, whose latest venture, Refyne, has notched up over 700,000 users and funding of some $106 million in under a year, backed by investors including Tiger Global. In this conversation, Sharma talks about why he thinks Refyne will go on to be the category creator in India for earned wage access
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Sandipan Mitra, CEO of HungerBox, on going from cafeteria digitalisation to food tech platform
Our guest today is Sandipan Mitra, co-founder and CEO of HungerBox, his second venture in the food-tech scene. In this conversation, Mitra talks about persevering through Covid-19, and the long-term vision for the company—which has raised $16.5 million in funding so far—offering both a food tech SaaS platform and a food operations management service
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Darshan Bathija, co-founder and CEO of Vauld, on ambition of building the Revolut of the crypto world
Our guest today is Darshan Bathija, co-founder and CEO of Vauld, a crypto trading exchange and lending startup. In this conversation, Bathija, who comes from a long line of financiers, talks about his disillusionment with traditional finance to make positive change, and his ambition to make loans from the crypto world accessible to anyone who needs them, anywhere on the planet
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Sravanth Aluru, CEO of Avataar, on spatial visual discovery in ecommerce and the metaverse
Our guest today is Sravanth Aluru, founder and CEO of Avataar, a Silicon Valley and Bengaluru company specialising in AI and computer vision for spatial-visual discovery. Avataar recently announced a $45 million Series B funding round led by Tiger Global. Existing investor Sequoia Capital joined in. In this conversation, Sravanth talks about his effort to develop a platform to deliver a holistic view of the consumer to enterprise customers, and about future applications in the metaverse
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Sunil Gupta, CEO of QNu Labs, on post-quantum cryptography and building a deep tech company in India
Our guest today is Sunil Gupta, co-founder and CEO of QNu Labs, a five-year-old Chennai startup that has developed commercially ready quantum-safe security products and solutions. In this conversation, Gupta talks about the founders' vision of building a globally recognised deep tech company from India in the quantum-safe cybersecurity space.
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Vinay Ravuri, CEO of EdgeQ, on how 5G is creating an inflection point for new semiconductor startups to emerge
Our guest today is Vinay Ravuri, co-founder and CEO of EdgeQ, a Silicon Valley chip design company working in the area of open cellular networks. EdgeQ's first commercial product, a 5G base-station-on-a-chip is currently being evaluated by customers. In this conversation, Vinay talks about how 5G takes cellular well beyond smartphones into the internet and large enterprise operations. He also talks about the company's development centre in India
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Gautam Nimmagadda, CEO of Quixy talks about why 'no-code' software is coming of age
Our guest today is Gautam Nimmagadda, founder and CEO of Quixy, a no-code software development cloud platform provider in Hyderabad. The concept and even some of the tech has been around from as far back as when Visual Basic programming language was introduced some 30 years ago, Gautam says. Cloud computing, and the needs of a post-pandemic world, are moving the idea from geeks to business users
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Om Malviya on efforts to popularise the Tezos blockchain in India
Our guest today is Om Malviya, President, of Tezos India, who is working to popularise the Tezos blockchain in this region. In today's conversation, Malviya talks about some of Tezos's unique characteristics, such as how it started with proof-of-stake from the get-go and its self-amending feature. He also spoke of various initiatives to grow the Tezos ecosystem in India
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Shrini Viswanath at Upstox on going from a small proprietary trading outfit to an investment platform for 7 million users
Our guest today is Shrini Viswanath, co-founder at Upstox, one of India's most popular online brokerages. In this conversation, Shrini talks about the long haul of entrepreneurship — taking the company from a proprietary trading outfit to a rapidly growing consumer-facing tech company used by millions of people to invest in the capital markets