In this episode of Pitch Cafe, I talk with Vishal Gupta 😃 His journey from IIT Bombay Labs to FalconX B2B Accelerator in Silicon Valley was worth a capture on my podcast, I learned every minute I interacted with him. He's the CEO at Seclore. He's an entrepreneur and business development executive with a special focus on the financial service industry. 😁 This podcast is extremely informative for building startups out of university research labs. Vishal's experience in Cyber Security is a north ...
Dec 17, 2021•36 min•Season 4Ep. 2
In this episode of Pitch Cafe, I talk with Vishal Gupta 😃 His journey from IIT Bombay Labs to FalconX B2B Accelerator in Silicon Valley was worth a capture on my podcast, I learned every minute I interacted with him. He's the CEO at Seclore. He's an entrepreneur and business development executive with a special focus on the financial service industry. 😁 This podcast is extremely informative for building startups out of university research labs. Vishal's experience in Cyber Security is a north ...
Dec 17, 2021•36 min
In this episode of Pitch Cafe ☕️, I talk with good friend Deepthi Rao 😃, product leader and angel investor. Some of her investments include Aisle, Just Egg, and Gatsby. It was fun exploring her journey into investing and just how adventurous and open-minded she is!She leads the Product Technical PM role at Facebook Pay. She is also an Angel investor and startup mentor for high-growth, mission-oriented startups in the US and APAC 🚀 If you wish to learn about how you can have a full-time job and...
Nov 12, 2021•32 min•Season 4Ep. 1
NEW PODCAST! BING! with Russ Bevans : Have you ever wondered what it takes to win an Olympic medal? What is the SWEAT and SLOG involved? Well, I can certainly share a taste of it with my podcast with Russ Bevans and this is just to give you a peek into an athlete's oops, a triathlete's life hacks.. Russ Bevans is an industrial designer at Nike who cross-applies his 5-point formula 1) preparation- 2)organization- 3) optimization - 4)determination- 5) perseverance from triathlon training in his pr...
Aug 11, 2021•29 min•Season 3Ep. 5
Russ Bevans is VP of industrial design and innovation at Nike for 32 plus years. He is not only a design enthusiast but also a fitness coach. He is actually a sportsperson who has won accolades at the national level and has qualified for a lot of international events as well. He has many lessons to share: about his life, about persistence, about training. And today's podcast is focused on how one can train as a sports athlete for a triathlon or an iron man. Triathlon, previously known as an extr...
Aug 11, 2021•29 min
A fascinating conversation with Akshatha Shetty who talks about her journey in finance in starting a fund, women empowerment, social impact investing, Maker's Bar, and in effect what it takes to survive and thrive as a woman entrepreneur. Some great hacks on maintaining mind-body balance and staying grounded amidst challenging high growth phases in life. Listen on...
Jul 02, 2021•30 min•Season 3Ep. 4
An ex-Wipro, Intel, Teradata-ite, and alumnus of BITS, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Leave Business School, most importantly a doting mother of two daughters, Singh is not only bringing about positive change in the agricultural domain but also in the workspace for women. This is probably why she has been rightly honored as an exceptional woman leader with a feature in the Top 100 Women in Technology and Top 50 under 50 Most Powerful Women in Technology. She gives valuable advice on career...
May 22, 2021•31 min•Season 3Ep. 3
It was a pleasure doing a podcast with the next-gen leader, and visionary in the education space, Founder-Director, Keystone Education Group, Srilakshmi Reddy. She has built her institution with 4 cornerstone principles, 1- Be prepared for change every day 2- Be realistic 3- Keep learning every day 4- Everything you build should be empathy-centric, at the end of the day in the education business which is a long term growth model and about raising a child and it is a deep and growth and self-refl...
Apr 29, 2021•1 hr 9 min•Season 3Ep. 2
#WomensHistoryMonth inspired me to bring in Nandini Shenoy, CEO-PinkVilla. Listen to her inspiring story of creating the top Bollywood platform by beginning her journey as a geek from Microsoft who pursued her passion as the top content creator and platform for Bollywood sitting in the US, and her market being in Mumbai, India. Brick by brick she built her villa, PinkVilla, a resounding story of success for all first-time founders.
Mar 31, 2021•38 min•Season 3Ep. 1
Talking about creating a predictive/warning system to understand and identify action items for a better healthcare system; Think about technologists like Thiel or Musk running for office. Speeding up governance for better social outcomes, also conversations on corporates helping healthcare sectors in speeding up data governance and on the other hand talk about how to improve adoption of startup products over products from large corporations. An insightful podcast with Sanjiv Goyal, IIT-Alumnus b...
Feb 23, 2021•31 min•Season 2Ep. 10
A podcast with Sanjiv Goyal, IIT-Alumnus based in the Silicon Valley, and chair of. the conference IIT2020. Learn interesting insights on how IITians succeed in their academics and innovative abilities. Listen to forecasts during and post-COVID new normal by tech experts, address from PM Modi from India, also what it means to be a go-giver and be successful! Memory experts like Chester Santos talk about having more exposure to facts and experiences to sharpen your memory..a fulfilling, fun, and ...
Feb 06, 2021•25 min•Season 2Ep. 10
Podcast with Prem Talreja (30+ years experience in silicon valley) in cloud, semiconductor and being an investor for B2B startups. He talks about raising strategic capital and marketing solutions for small businesses, especially in the pandemic. Visit - svfinancialservices.com/ and svfinancialservices.com/digital-marketing/...
Dec 24, 2020•26 min•Season 2Ep. 9
Podcast with Prem Talreja (30+ years experience in silicon valley) in cloud, semiconductor and being an investor for B2B startups. He talks about raising strategic capital and marketing solutions for small businesses, especially in the pandemic. Visit - svfinancialservices.com/ and svfinancialservices.com/digital-marketing/...
Dec 24, 2020•26 min
Raj Jaswa explores in depth the nitty-gritty of acquiring your first customer and then repeat customer, focusing on case studies on Uber, Amul India, and the Central Government of India- tourism and commerce. He talks about the top 6 parameters that surprisingly make customer repeatability and reference more likely. Raj Jaswa is an accomplished serial technology entrepreneur. Raj currently teaches Engineering Entrepreneurship at IIT Bombay, IIT Gandhinagar, VNIT Nagpur and TiE Silicon Valley. Hi...
Dec 17, 2020•29 min•Season 2Ep. 8
Raj Jaswa, silicon valley investor-advisor and serial entrepreneur with multiple IPOs, explores in depth the nitty-gritty of acquiring your first customer and then repeat customer, focusing on case studies on Pizza Hut, KFC and Taco bell. He talks about the top 6 parameters that surprisingly make customer repeatability and reference more likely. Raj Jaswa is an accomplished serial technology entrepreneur. Raj currently teaches Engineering Entrepreneurship at IIT Bombay, IIT Gandhinagar, VNIT Nag...
Nov 28, 2020•23 min•Season 2Ep. 8
Prof. Khashu is a clinical leader reimagining healthcare, based out of UK and active in the silicon valley investor and startup circle. In part-1 of the podcast he focused on 3Ps (Product-People-Process) and Why-Why-Why approach to product development and also the importance of customer-centric innovation in healthcare. In the current segment, Prof. Khashu explores the future of digital health, provides guidelines on meaningful data sharing, the importance of doctor-patient bonding and eliminati...
Nov 14, 2020•23 min•Season 2Ep. 7
Prof. MINESH KHASHU is a clinical leader reimagining healthcare based out of the UK, but also trained in India, Canada and US and is active in the silicon valley investor and startup circle. In this podcast he focuses on 3Ps (Product-People-Process) and Why-Why-Why approach to product development and also the importance of customer-centric innovation in healthcare. He hints at data as the next frontier in healthcare innovation and also talk about acceleration of tele-health during COVID19 scenar...
Nov 01, 2020•29 min•Season 2Ep. 7
Part-2 of my podcast on NextGen AI platforms in healthcare with Uttam Ramamurthy covering topics like voice prescription and pick up, critical AI insights in automating emergency department workflows, prediction, and management of diabetes, heart conditions, and more. [Part 1] with Uttam Ramamurthy talks about NextGen AI platforms in India (with telehealth as a focus). In this podcast with Uttam Ramamurthy, who is currently leading cutting edge AI projects in healthcare at Cerner Corporation, ta...
Oct 18, 2020•21 min•Season 2Ep. 6
Podcast #15 [Part 2] with Uttam Ramamurthy talks about NextGen AI platforms in India (with telehealth as a focus). Part-2 of the podcast focuses on fascinating case studies of AI adoption in telehealth, prescription assistants/bots, emergency department workflow optimization, etc. He brings valuable insights as seasoned AI platforms professional, listen on. He has authored insightful blogs on this topic as well, to name a few: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/building-trustable-ai-predictions-heal...
Oct 18, 2020•21 min
In this podcast with Uttam Ramamurthy, who is leading cutting edge AI projects in healthcare at Cerner Corporation, talks about the accelerated pace of AI Adoption in India (in terms of data, compute and infrastructure). Uttam addresses issues related to data explainability, challenges in handling structured and unstructured data on AI platforms, cleansing, ingestion, also fascinating case studies of AI adoption in telehealth, prescription assistants/bots, emergency department workflow optimizat...
Oct 12, 2020•21 min•Season 2Ep. 6
Enjoyed discussing fresh perspectives on unit metrics of clean energy with Nitin Vaish , in our podcast breaking it down to a 35 trillion dollar opportunity. A ray of hope for budding clean and energy tech entrepreneurs. Can energy be made freely available to everyone, and what will it take? An interesting conversation with investor and innovator Nitin Vaish, about the unit metrics of energy flipping towards cleantech. Nitin addresses topics like the need for cleantech and decarbonization, and h...
Oct 09, 2020•19 min•Season 2Ep. 4
“The cost of just running a coal plant is much higher than starting a greenfield solar plant,” says Nitin Vaish , an emerging and climate change expert, also an investor in the same space. I highly recommend his insightful personal blog which goes in-depth in analyzing metrics related to the climate and energy tech landscape. He talks about batteries, per capita energy cost and how this cost is becoming lower, accelerating the adoption of clean tech: https://medium.com/@nitinvaish He predicts th...
Sep 30, 2020•22 min•Season 2Ep. 5
In this podcast episode, he shares invaluable insights on corporate venture capital, corporate-startup engagement, and multiple ways for startups to engage with corporations. He touches upon exit strategies during and outside of COVID. This is part-2 of the podcast with Sudhir Kadam, partner at FYDA Growth Partners, Silicon Valley's startup and innovation & growth catalyzer. Sudhir is a seasoned entrepreneur, corporate executive, and academic.
Sep 11, 2020•19 min•Season 2Ep. 4
A podcast with Sudhir Kadam who carries a wealth of expertise in the startup and innovation landscape as an investor, seasoned entrepreneur and silicon valley corporate executive and academic. In this podcast episode, he shares invaluable insights on how to evaluate product-market fit pre-, during and post-COVID scenarios, specific guidelines on investment rounds during COVID, assessing cyclic and seasonal technology and business trends to assess your investments, on how to self-disrupt a busine...
Aug 27, 2020•23 min•Season 2Ep. 3
A podcast with Sanjit Dang, a seasoned Silicon Valley investor who has spanned corporate venture capital and successfully had one successful exit per year. His innovative ideas on tapping into upcoming industry trends, and helping corporations work with upcoming startups by U First Capital with the Venture-As-A-Service model. He has been an advisor, mentor, and innovation catalyzer all the way from Richard Branson’s team to the United Nations and Intel Capital. He brings great courage and deep i...
Aug 02, 2020•40 min•Season 2Ep. 2
Paul Singh, seasoned silicon valley investor, serial entrepreneur, and executive talks about building startups in enterprise space during COVID. How can you train your team to get into a culture of customer success, and why the founder is the first salesperson for the company. It is true that hiring a sales team for a startup's initial success is important, it is equally important for the founder or co-founder with a sales streak to engage deeply with the customer and sales duties. Learn more in...
Jul 07, 2020•13 min•Season 2Ep. 2
Paul Singh, seasoned silicon valley investor, serial entrepreneur, and executive talks about how there is no excuse for digital transformation, and founders and corporations did not have to wait for COVID for reinventing themselves. For startups and large corporations alike, Paul Singh endorses quick experimentation during COVID-situation to see what works and not limit your opportunities because of COVID e.g., Uber, Lyft, and Airbnb were started during the recession. He asks founders and execut...
Jul 01, 2020•35 min•Season 2Ep. 1
PODCAST#11: Surviving and thriving in COVID times with Ashish Seth seasoned entrepreneur and corporate professional with cross-border stints in both India and Silicon Valley. He advises start-up ecosystems and works on enabling digital tools for professionals to work from home during the COVID-19 lockdown. In his current role, he runs and leads the Partner Program and Strategy at NICE InContact, a leader in cloud contact-centered solutions. He offers valuable and holistic guidance for entreprene...
May 21, 2020•32 min•Season 1Ep. 11
I recently had the chance to have a fascinating conversation with the prolific Shashi Jain, Associate Entrepreneur in Residence and Innovation Manager at Intel. He was most recently in the news for equipping frontline workers with 3D printed protective equipment (PPE) for the ongoing COVID-19 response. Jain is an advisory board member at the Innovation Leader forum and a serial entrepreneur with a specific interest in inducting youth into the innovation ecosystem. His attitude as an innovator is...
May 12, 2020•49 min•Season 1Ep. 9
Inspiration, Ideation and Innovation — chat with Naveen Lakkur For this episode, I had a very stimulating conversation with Naveen Lakkur, the founder and Chief Innovation Coach at the Institute of Inspiring Innovation and a serial author with three books to his name. As a practitioner, he has built companies, mentored and implemented commercial ideas worldwide, and identified methods and models from these experiences that can enrich the experiences of entrepreneurs and innovators. Mr. Lakkur de...
May 06, 2020•43 min•Season 1Ep. 9
