Raghav Gupta is a co-founder at Nymble where he is on a mission to put a Private Chef in every kitchen by building countertop cooking robots. Nymble is backed by 021 Capital, Waterbridge Ventures, and was most recently part of the Accel Atoms program. In the show, Raghav touches upon his journey of building Nymble starting from the early days of problem discovery, finding the right market, developing a prototype, assessing the technical feasibility, and many other such aspects of building a deep...
Jun 08, 2022•45 min•Season 3Ep. 4
Pierre is the co-founder of ScrapingBee , a web scraping API startup. He bootstrapped it to $1mil ARR in around 3 years and by incorporating quite a few learnings from his earlier failed startups. On the show, he discusses those learnings, how to decide when to move on, how to build differentiation in a crowded market, how to go about building a SaaS product MVP, and much more. Pierre, ScrapingBee - PierreDeWulf ( Twitter ) Pronojit, DTM Podcast - pronojitsaha (LinkedIn), pronojit (Clubhouse), p...
May 18, 2022•27 min•Season 3Ep. 3
Timothy Porter is the CTO of Modtech Labs, which is on a mission to simplify visual content creation into one automated pipeline. It provides mobile+cloud-based software that makes 3D in minutes and is a revolutionary way of creating 3D content. On the show, Tim highlights his personal journey of more than a decade-spanning major brands like Gameloft, Sony, Disney, Two Bit Circus, and more. Bringing his expertise to a forward-thinking market on the edge of technology has expanded his ability to ...
Apr 09, 2022•1 hr 14 min•Season 3Ep. 2
Hari is an angel investor focused on innovative startup teams. He practices lean startup principles and encourages founders to think global, act local and build an organizational culture suitable for innovation in startups. He is associated with Indian Angel Network (IAN), LetsVenture and IvyCap Ventures, among many others. On the show Hari talks about his entrepreneurial and angel investment journey till now. He shares insightful stories behind his major investments like Mukunda Foods (DosaMati...
Mar 01, 2022•1 hr 7 min•Season 3Ep. 28
Ankit is a Senior Product Manager & Fouding Member of Qure.ai, an healthcare AI startup. He lends insights into how they started on their path to finding the right problem to solve, to how they assessed the AI-problem fit and the technical feasibility of it in the early days. Ankit also shares his inputs about the technology behind the product and how they build their MVP. Finally he emphasizes on the important point on how to go about building AI teams and also gives some advise for aspirin...
Oct 11, 2021•1 hr•Season 2Ep. 27
Dr. Amritendu is an AI researcher and the co-founder of NeuroPixel.ai, an Indian startup that currently aims to build the future of fashion cataloging. In this episode, Dr. Amritendu walks us through his research experiences, his fight with cancer, going through the Entrepreneur First program, his startup story, the AI enabling the solution and future ambitions. More importantly, he calls upon the need to bridge the gap between research & industry and solve hard problems. Dr. Armitendu Mukhe...
Aug 14, 2021•55 min•Season 2Ep. 26
Parikshit is leading data science & advanced analytics at HUL & Unilever South Asia. We discuss the FMCG sector in general, its opportunities & challenges, and how AI/ML is currently being used in this sector. Parikshit also sheds light on some keystone AI/ML products currently being used at Unilever and given its scale of operations it's quite interesting to learn about them. This episode was hosted at the clubhouse app on the Data & AI club. Be sure to check out the club and fo...
Jul 23, 2021•1 hr 17 min•Season 2Ep. 25
Jibu Elias is one of the chief architects of INDAIai.gov.in, the national AI portal of India. Full of information, this episode is a treasure trove for anyone looking to gain insights into India's AI scene, especially from the industry & government's perspective. The portal itself is a "one-stop information shop" for everything AI in India and highly encourage interested participants to look and provide feedback. This episode was hosted at the clubhouse app on the Indian Startup Club. We wer...
Jul 19, 2021•1 hr 35 min•Season 2Ep. 24
Rishabh is a Forbes 30 under 30 award winner and founder of Redwing Labs, a drone logistics startup which has garnered many awards from industry stalwarts like NASA, Lockheed Martin, Boeing and Airbus. Rishabh gives us an overview of the drone logistics industry, its challenges & promises and the role that Redwings Labs is playing in this space. This episode was hosted on the clubhouse app on the small steps & giant leaps (SSGL) club. Also joining the session was Michael Mealling who is ...
Jul 09, 2021•1 hr 16 min•Season 2Ep. 23
This episode is a recording of the first ever session of DTM podcast on clubhouse. We had a discussion around the earth observation industry with all the three founders of Skyserve.ai, an Indian deep tech startup which is on a mission to democratize earth observation by providing easily accessible real-time insights at a cost that's more affordable for customers. Also joining us was Michael Mealling who is a VC at Starbridge, a prominent outfit in the SpaceTech arena. Be sure to follow them at b...
Jun 30, 2021•1 hr 14 min•Season 2Ep. 22
Vishesh is the co-founder of SkyServe.ai which is on a mission to democratize earth observation by providing easily accessible real-time insights at a cost that's more affordable for customers. In this episode Vishesh walks us through his startup story, the major use cases & insights that it delivers on, its technology behind those insights, the business model and future ambitions. If you want to learn more about earth observation industry in general then be sure to also check out episode 20...
Jun 20, 2021•37 min•Season 2Ep. 21
Vishesh is the co-founder of SkyServe.ai which is on a mission to democratize earth observation by providing easily accessible real-time insights at a cost that's more affordable for customers. In this episode he will give us an overview of the earth observation industry, its current state at world level and in India specifically. He highlights what challenges exist in the industry and also what opportunities lie ahead, especially in terms of AI/ML application. LinkedIn...
Jun 13, 2021•25 min•Season 2Ep. 20
Gagandeep is an AI researcher and the co-founder of Minus Zero, an Indian startup that aims to build the world's first level 5 autonomous passenger vehicle. In this episode, Gagandeep walks us through his startup story, its patent-pending technology, business model, and future ambitions. LinkedIn : gagandeepreehal
May 29, 2021•45 min•Season 2Ep. 19
Gagandeep is an AI researcher and the co-founder of Minus Zero, a startup that aims to build worlds first level 5 autonomous passenger vehicle. In this episode Gagandeep will gives us an overview of the autonomous vehicle industry, its current state at world level and in India specifically. He highlights what challenges exist in the industry and also what opportunities lie ahead. LinkedIn : gagandeepreehal
May 21, 2021•33 min•Season 2Ep. 18
Mark is an industry veteran of more than 2 decades and is currently working at ServiceNow, one of the largest digital workflow management organizations. Mark has developed a training course recommender which establishes a direct association with the topline of the business. On the show he will help us to deconstruct the problem and his methodology and in doing so provide a primer to data science practitioners in approaching and solving analytical problems. Mark's LinkedIn Profile...
May 07, 2021•37 min•Season 2Ep. 17
Vikram has had an illustrious analytics career till now, will roles ranging from being the Analytics Lead at Fractal to being the Head of Analytics of two of the most well-known Indian startups - Delhivery (which is one of India’s largest e-commerce supply chain player) and Gaana (which is India's largest commercial music streaming service with over 200 million monthly users). Not surprisingly then he was awarded the 40 under 40 Data Scientist in India by Analytics India magazine recently. In th...
Apr 23, 2021•23 min•Season 2Ep. 16
Vikram has had an illustrious analytics career till now, will roles ranging from being the Analytics Lead at Fractal to being the Head of Analytics of two of the most well-known Indian startups - Delhivery (which is one of India’s largest e-commerce supply chain player) and Gaana (which is India's largest commercial music streaming service with over 200 million monthly users). Not surprisingly then he was awarded the 40 under 40 Data Scientist in India by Analytics India magazine recently. On th...
Apr 16, 2021•31 min•Season 2Ep. 15
Alex is a machine learning engineer and a serial entrepreneur. His latest startup Nansen.ai aims to combine two of the most hottest deep tech - Blockchain & Analytics. In this second part of a 2 part series, Alex outlays how Nansen.ai helps in the end-to-end crypto investor lifecycle and his future roadmap. He also shares his views on the current & future state of crypto markets and some personal musings. Links to few mentions in the episode is given below. Part 1 of the discussion : Lin...
Apr 02, 2021•24 min•Season 2Ep. 14
Alex is a machine learning engineer and a serial entrepreneur. His latest startup Nansen.ai aims to combine two of the most hottest deep tech - Blockchain & Analytics. In this first part of a 2 part series, Alex discussed what motivated him to start Nansen, how does Nansen help crypto-investors make better decisions and protects them and many other aspects of the blockchain ecosystem. Links to few mentions in the episode is given below. LinkedIn Profile Thought leaders to follow in Blockchai...
Mar 26, 2021•28 min•Season 2Ep. 13
Patents protect the inverter by granting them exclusive rights of an invention for a designated period in exchange for disclosure of the invention. However their applicability to AI lends some consideration. I am excited to have Santhosh with us today to shed more light on this. Santosh is an industry professional with experiences across caterpillar, Lennox Industries and now Philips. Recently he was awarded a patent for using an AI method to operate a HVAC system so as to save energy costs base...
Mar 13, 2021•34 min•Season 2Ep. 12
On todays show we have with us Aditya who is the Operations & Logistics Analytics Manager at Swiggy, Indias largest and highest-valued online food ordering and delivery platform. Aditya will talk about how Swiggy utilizes location intelligence to pin-point accurate addresses of customers thereby ensuring a smooth delivery process and increasing customer satisfaction. He dives deep into the AI/ML approach implemented to address this use case and also reflects on his personal learnings and exp...
Jan 08, 2021•33 min•Season 1Ep. 11
Peter is a rapid prototyping specialist and the co-founder of Mixpose, a multi-award winning startup (Google, NVIDIA among others) that is solving a very pertinent problem in today’s COVID world that of creating an engaging online interaction between instructors and their students, specifically for Yoga. Mixpose utilizes two of the hottest deep tech i.e. AI at edge and live streaming to help yoga instructors across the world to deliver high quality & highly engaging yoga classes. In the epis...
Dec 26, 2020•25 min•Season 1Ep. 10
Excited to introduce today's guest David, who is the VP of analytics at India's largest and highest-valued online food ordering and delivery platform Swiggy! An industry veteran of 20 years, David has held multiple leadership roles in analytics at Mu Sigma & currently Swiggy. On the show David will be letting us know about his journey in analytics, how he faced & overcame certain challenges, what he looks for in data scientists along with certain other fun facts and what's in store in fu...
Dec 04, 2020•38 min•Season 1Ep. 9
Anton is currently pursuing his PhD from Norwegian Institute of Technology and conducting innovative research on the opportunities of blockchain solutions in health care and health science. His latest investigative research article on the state of Blockchain in healthcare is being well received and Anton will be sharing highlights from the same while helping us understand the basic components of a blockchain. Learn more about Anton and his work at the below links. LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/anton...
Nov 27, 2020•34 min•Season 1Ep. 8
Ashwin is a serial entrepreneur with 17+ years of experience in working in multiple early stage startups building high scalable software systems. His latest venture - CustomFit.ai focuses on the B2B marketing segment and intends to capitalize on the $1B opportunity in this space. Ashwin will be discussing on what are some important use cases in the B2B marketing space and how CustomFit.ai caters to the same. You can learn more about Ashwin's work on his LinkedIn profile and his company website b...
Nov 12, 2020•27 min•Season 1Ep. 7
Samik is an industry veteran of more than 20 years having worked at organizations like Oracle, 247.ai , Quickride & others. In the episode he sheds light on one of the most trending topics in AI today - MLOps. Listen in to find out what MLOps is, how it is implemented in a business use case and how it makes data scientists' lives a lot easier enabling them to close the loop of the AI lifecycle. You can learn more about Samik's work on his LinkedIn profile below and also do try out the open s...
Sep 25, 2020•50 min•Season 1Ep. 6
Roar is a ML scholar having rich experience in the O&G industry and currently the senior business developer at SINTEF, which is headquartered in Norway. It is one of Europe's largest research organisations, with multidisciplinary expertise in the fields of technology, the natural sciences and the social sciences. Roar helps us to deconstruct the O&G value chain, with special focus on oil well drilling and understand some of the AI/ML applications for the same. Learn more about his work a...
Sep 18, 2020•22 min•Season 1Ep. 5
Dr. Sebastian (@rasbt) is the Assistant Professor of Statistics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is also a best selling author of the "Python Machine Learning" book and the creator of the popular "mlxtend" python library. On the show he talks about his latest research article highlighting how ML & AI approaches are being used for drug discovery, something quite prevalent in the COVID world today. Article: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1046202319302762 Learn mor...
Aug 07, 2020•39 min•Season 1Ep. 4
Guest: Abhishek Ghose, Senior Principal Data Scientist, 247.ai Abhishek Ghose is the senior principal data scientist at 247.ai, a leader in conversational AI. Understanding customer "intent" is the most critical piece in a chatbot conversation and Abhishek highlights how AI, particularly new age transformer based NLP models like BERT, are enabling intent identification using very less data. Learn more about Abhishek's work at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/abhishek-ghose-36197624 Keywords: chatbot...
Jul 31, 2020•26 min•Season 1Ep. 3
Guest: Ashokraj, Founder, Intelizest In this weeks episode we speak to Ashokraj who is the CEO of Intelizest, an AI-Blockchain-IoT products and services company based out of Chennai, India. Among their top products is Rekochain which utilizes AI & Blockchain to facilitate supply chain operations and makes procurement streamlined and agile. In post Covid world, a new distinction in supply chain processes has emerged, those for essential and non-essential goods. Ashok highlights how Rekochain ...
Jul 24, 2020•29 min•Season 1Ep. 2
