Shruti Jain is the co-founder of Kaze Living – a curated marketplace for sustainably grown fresh produce and artisan gourmet foods based in Delhi NCR. Kaze Living was started with a vision to make clean eating easy, accessible, and affordable for urban India. They began their journey in January 2020 and grew during the Covid-19 lockdown, serving over 5000 customers to date. Check them out on kazeliving.com !
Apr 30, 2021•43 min
Sunil K Goyal is the Managing Director of YourNest Venture Capital, an early-stage venture fund he co-founded in 2011, that manages YourNest Angel Fund-I and YourNest India VC Fund-II. One of the early angel investors and a former member of The Indian Angel Network and Mumbai Angels, Sunil has led seed-stage investments and guided companies to successful exits. Prior to turning a full-time, early-stage investor and fund manager, he was a senior executive in the Telecom and FMCG industries. From ...
Mar 31, 2021•56 min
A special episode from our current theme focusing on a different aspect on how to build a career in research and science, getting different scholar Dr. Sounak Sahu completed his undergraduate and postgraduate studies from the Presidency College, Kolkata, India, and then he moved to England to do his doctoral research at the University of Oxford, UK. He was awarded the Clarendon Scholarship from Oxford and the Sloan-Robinson fellowship from the Keble College, Oxford to do his research. He complet...
Mar 27, 2021•35 min
Bombay Hemp Company (BOHECO) is India's premier Industrial Hemp & Medical Cannabis organisation providing hemp based products through sustainable agriculture & artisan empowerment. In 2016, BOHECO received an investment of $1.7 million from a few angel investors that included Ratan Tata, IIM Ahmedabad CIIE, and Rajan Anandan Yash oversees all internal and external communication with the aim to optimise offline and online media engagements. He has worked with leading media companies, whic...
Mar 27, 2021•42 min
Siddharth is an Investment professional with experience in private equity, venture capital and startup accelerator in India and US. Currently leading India hub for Shell Ventures and evaluating startup investments in mobility, logistics, power and oil & gas sectors. Part of the founding team of Shell India startup accelerator E4 with deep experience on legal and financial structuring of accelerator, program execution and deal structuring. Prior to venture role, He was leading project finance...
Mar 16, 2021•1 hr 9 min
About FableStreet: Founded in 2016, FableStreet offers solution-driven styles that address the lifestyle needs of working women. As an organisation, they strive for agility, authenticity & taking care of women’s work/life needs. Crafted thoughtfully using luxury fabrics, their premium pieces are timeless, effortless & tailored to body measurements. Like the women they design for, they are also constantly learning & unlearning but never stopping. And the same is reflected in their pro...
Mar 05, 2021•39 min
77% of men suffer from some sort of stress, anxiety or depression, 40% of men in crisis admit that they won’t talk to anyone, often because they feel like they have no one to turn to. Tethr is a peer enabled mental health and well-being platform . Tethr provides a dedicated 24/7 support community, where members can safely express themselves and get access to services such as forums and private messaging. Matt Zerker is the Founder & CEO of Tethr. Prior to tethr, Matt worked as a Portfolio Ma...
Feb 23, 2021•51 min
Fanis is a serial tech entrepreneur out of Greece. He is the founder of GreenPanda.io (The fastest way to sell your smartphone) and Intale (Enterprise SaaS for Retail). Fanis has raised successfully more than $10M for his ventures so far.
Feb 18, 2021•51 min
Apeksha Jain, ex-French-teacher and Food Blogger-turned-entrepreneur, is the Founder of The Gourmet Jar, a brand of premium and innovative condiments that are completely natural and preservative-free. Apeksha is an Economics graduate from Lady Shriram College, Delhi and has no formal training in cooking or making preserves. She is a self-taught confiturier who’s passion for cooking is guided by her instinct and a husband that loves food! The inspiration for her business came when Apeksha discove...
Feb 11, 2021•37 min
Behind The Deal is a new podcast series from BlitzBusiness focusing on the intricacies of venture capital. Sanjeev has spent three decades in the Indian technology sector. He has been an entrepreneur and is a venture capitalist. He was the founder and CEO of Daksh, a pioneer in the BPO sector and led the company till June 2006, scaling it over 20,000 employees . Daksh was acquired by IBM in 2004. He was chosen “Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year” in 2002. Sanjeev co-founded two venture c...
Feb 01, 2021•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 14
Jimmy Mistry is a Designer, Hotelier, Serial Entrepreneur, Adventurer, & Developer. He founded Della Group in 1991 with a core belief that anything he designs or creates should be unique, inspirational, path-breaking and should improve the lives of as many people as possible. Under the Della Group umbrella, he has launched 6 business verticals: Della Adventure, Della Resorts, DATA, Della Villas , Della by Jimmy Mistry and Della Talks. For more than 2 decades he has been at the forefront of t...
Jan 30, 2021•43 min•Ep. 13
Sridhar is a Chartered Accountant and Company Secretary with 35 years experience as Global CFO across multiple industries primarily in services sector both in India and Abroad with significant experience in operations of all education verticals and software industry He is a Finance Expert involved in investment banking and merger and acquisitions in the education sector having evaluated more than 200 opportunities globally and has raised more than 100 million $ in equity in the education sector ...
Jan 25, 2021•40 min•Ep. 12
strategiesParas Fatnani is the Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder at Nectwork Foods Private Limited. The company aims to help consumers adopt healthier lifestyles by making small changes in every day habits. It offers easy to use, healthier alternatives in convenient and innovative packing solutions. The brand of Honey Twigs is a part of the Nectwork Foods family. Honey Twigs has both a B2B & B2C business and currently serves clients like Starbucks, Café Coffee Day, Chaipoint, Lavazza,...
Jan 24, 2021•39 min•Ep. 11
Snigdha Manchanda is India's First Certified Tea Sommelier, trained under Japanese tea master Nao Kumekawa. She's the Founder & CEO at www.teatrunk.com an artisanal tea company shipping worldwide. She's an INK Fellow 2013. Her vision is to build a global wellness tea brand from India and enjoys sharing her learnings on ecommerce and entrepreneurship.
Jan 14, 2021•31 min•Ep. 10
Rushil is the co-founder and head of product at Pidge. He is committed towards building brand-led businesses with strategic and data driven solutions. Through his time at Northwestern University (BA Economics and MSc Integrated Marketing) and working in the United States & India, Rushil rigorously and extensively developed a customer-first approach to problem solving. He has led the development of Pidge’s multiple products, creating industry-leading engagement and efficiencies. He was Busine...
Jan 06, 2021•34 min•Ep. 9
Bani Nanda’s love affair with pâtisserie goes back to when she first experienced a taste of her mother’s delectable home made cakes. Armed with a degree in Physics, this rush eventually led her to Le Cordon Bleu, Paris. A tryst at Dalloyau, one of Paris’ oldest pâtisserie dating back over 400 years, brought out her passion in French pastry and desserts. Bani started Miam in 2015 after she identified a noticeable gap in a heavily saturated market. Bani saw that French pastry was not popular and w...
Dec 27, 2020•35 min•Ep. 8
Alex is the co-founder and CBO of Drover, a continuation of his journey in the micromobility space having previously co-founded CLEVR Mobility and been part of the leadership team at Immotor. A true global nomad, Alex’s diverse lived experience informs his approach to entrepreneurship and desire to adapt to constant change. Drover is using AI and machine learning to remove the primary pain points experienced by shared micromobility users, cities and operators. Beyond micromobility, Drover has th...
Dec 17, 2020•45 min•Ep. 7
Hello everyone, Welcome to another episode of BlitzBusiness. Today with me I have Surabhi Talwar, co-founder of Happy Jars. Happy Jars is a health food brand, with a range of natural peanut, almond and cashew nut butters. In this episode, we discuss Surabhi’s Journey in setting up a health food brand, establishing a supply chain for procuring quality ingredients, and building a sticky customer base. I hope you will enjoy this episode. Surabhi is the co-founder at Happy Jars. A marketer and brand...
Dec 11, 2020•29 min•Ep. 6
Hello everyone, Welcome to another episode of BlitzBusiness. Today with me I have Jairam Balakrishnan, CEO of Edunation Services Pvt Ltd. Edunation is the leading operator of K-12 institutions across India, providing a managed school platform which enables over 18,000 students across India to get access to quality education. Edunation was formerly owned by Pearson India Education Services Private Limited. Edunation was acquired recently by Ryan Group, one of India's leaders in private K12 educat...
Dec 09, 2020•59 min•Ep. 5
Envolve is a revenue optimization tool for brick and mortar retailers and their suppliers. They help stores grow the top and bottom line, without hiring expensive consultants or wasting time with endless reports. Envolve has processed over 200 million shopper journeys so far, track more than 100,000 offline purchase occasions every day, and have delivered double digit increases in store level profitability for our customers. Brett (CEO & CoFounder) has 15+ years of experience in Retail Manag...
Dec 02, 2020•35 min•Ep. 4
Today with me I have Rashi Narang, founder of Heads up for tails. A prominent go-to brand for all your pets needs having products ranging from a wide variety of food brands to likes of orthopedic beds and organic supplements. In this episode we talked about RashI's journey of setting up Heads Up For tails after not finding any good products for her pet, scaling across India with a new business model and a key moment in her journey, when she won the highly competitive Lufthansa's Runway to Succes...
Nov 25, 2020•30 min•Ep. 3
Today at Blitzbusiness we have Swati Sahni, Founder of IvyPlus network . a professional network of more than 20,000 alumni from top global universities including Harvard, Stanford and MIT amongst others. A network where personally I have built great friendships and some amazing memories. In this episode we discussed her initial journey of setting up Ivy plus network, scaling to 20,000+ members, the challenges and new business models as she adapts to bring the networking experience to online chan...
Nov 20, 2020•39 min•Ep. 2
Greece owns 20% of global fleets, owning more vessels than whole of China. A fascinating story of a Greek startup to disrupt marine industry with their AI powered products from the heartland of shipping industry. In this episode we talked about Roberto's fascinating story of perseverance in building DeepSea, raising 3 million dollars , and the role of luck. Roberto Coustas was born in Athens. At the age of 17, he relocated in London and studied Mechanical Engineering at UCL. Following his intere...
Nov 18, 2020•48 min•Ep. 1
