In today’s episode of the Pitch Cafe podcast, we have Vinay Bhardwaj with us. 😃💛 Vinay is a friend who has never failed to make me laugh even in the toughest situations. He is in an engineering leadership position, investor, and board member of many non-profit organizations. But is a huge rage on Instagram, TikTok, Facebook and other platforms for his short humorous videos and hugely popular Kannada YouTube Channel for his media company ಕಿತ್ತಾಕ್ಬುಡ್ತೀವಿ - Kittaakbudteevi Films Inc [KFI] https:...
Oct 19, 2022•38 min•Season 7Ep. 2
In today’s episode of Pitch Cafe Podcast, we have Nikita Jagadeesh, Head of Marketing at Instabase.😃💛 From startup to scale up, she has deep, tried and tested hacks on marketing, listen on! If you are a startup or a new marketing org. trying to scale, thinking deeply along the lines of volume versus focus, identifying customer segment and pain points of your customer, juggling with your very first hires, how can you do more with less? As a leader or even just a career aspirant in your organiza...
Oct 19, 2022•31 min•Season 7Ep. 1
In today’s episode of Pitch Cafe, we have Mona Sabet, Chief Corporate Strategy Officer at UserTesting, a company that believes businesses succeed when they understand the human connection. 💛😄 Her leadership philosophy is truly refreshing as she talks about building your genius by. embracing 1- Confidence over certainty ✌️ 2- Tribes over teams 🎳 3- Why over What ⚖️ Mona excels in driving accelerated growth in the tech business, both inorganically & organically through acquisitions, technol...
Oct 19, 2022•41 min•Season 6Ep. 10
In today’s episode of Pitch Cafe, we have a leading corporate manager, Preethy Padmanabhan, Senior Director of Platform Product Marketing at Freshworks, with us! 😄💛 Preethy has 20+ years of high-tech and leadership experience across marketing, product, sales & engineering. She is a strategic problem solver and connector who helps people to work as a team and bring exponential growth. 📈 Preethy has an Executive MBA from UCLA Anderson graduating with distinction, focusing on Entrepreneurshi...
Oct 19, 2022•24 min•Season 6Ep. 9
In today’s episode of Pitch Cafe, we have Rennu Dhillion, Founder of Genius Kids Development Inc, with us! 😄💛 Rennu is your one-stop shop for learning how to raise kids to uncover their inner genius. Parenting is about coaching and being a friend and uplifter to your child, she says. Listen all the way to the end with rapt attention, Rennu never lets you lose attention even for a second!! She is one of the most prominent women in Silicon Valley, and her venture Genius Kids franchise is respons...
Oct 19, 2022•29 min•Season 6Ep. 8
In today’s episode of Pitch Cafe Podcast, we’ve Vivek Dahiya, podcaster SCI-AI is with us! 😃💛 He is also the Founder of ‘Fika 'N' Tikka’ and now a seasoned Product Manager with significant experience building SAAS and Tech products. He is also experienced in building API products and has helped teams by developing product Vision, product roadmap, writing EPICS, and User Stories. 🔥 Apart from being a great PM, he is also passionate about Podcasting, Blogging, Astronomy, Machine Learning, Deep...
Oct 19, 2022•38 min•Season 6Ep. 7
In today’s episode of Pitch Cafe Podcast, we have a super-human 🦹♀️ Toastmaster, Abhijeet Joshi with us! 😃💛 Toastmasters International is a nonprofit educational organization that teaches public speaking and leadership skills through a worldwide network of clubs and Abhijeet is part of the 12 Toastmasters clubs! 🔥 Abhijeet has 15 years of experience with a background in product development, lithium-ion, materials, and reliability testing. He is also skilled in cross-functional team manageme...
Oct 19, 2022•35 min•Season 6Ep. 6
In today’s episode of Pitch Cafe, we have Munisha Mirchandani with us.😄💛 She has lived in over five countries, with three kids, always launching a new business! How did she do it? Learn more in this super exciting conversation with Life Coach Munisha Mirchandani.. She is an experienced Financial Planner & Wellness Advocate, Life, and Wellness coach & mentor specializing in helping you create a global life of physical, mental, and financial wellness in your own style. ✨ Manisha is a glo...
Oct 19, 2022•18 min•Season 6Ep. 5
In today’s episode of Pitch Cafe, we have Preeti Shrikhande Founder & CEO of Vivensity with us. 😃💛 Preeti is a wellness-entrepreneur, bringing technology to mental health and wellness for the student community. Her encounter with Sadhguru, her journey at Kailas and Yoga training in Hrishikesh, India are all noteworthy. She is truly a nextgen wellness visionary helping build future leaders with great self-awareness at Vivensity! Preeti is passionate about human well-being in all its aspects...
Oct 19, 2022•24 min•Season 6Ep. 4
In today’s Pitch Cafe, we have a Women Leader, a revolutionary thinker, Dr Lopamudra Das Roy, Founder & President of Breast Cancer Hub. 💛😃 Dr Lopamudra Das Roy (Distinguished Cancer Scientist-Research Professor), a Social Entrepreneur, resigned from her career to creating BCH as a full-time Pro bono voluntary service, saving lives globally by making impactful sustainable changes working at the grassroots level, bridging the gap between the Developed & the Developing countries. ✨ She re...
Oct 19, 2022•33 min•Season 6Ep. 3
In today’s episode of Pitch Cafe, we have Rahul Tyagi, Co-Founder: SECQAI, with us! He talks about quantum computing and quantum computers and the ecosystem around them. Quantum computing is a type of computation that harnesses the collective properties of quantum states, such as superposition, interference, and entanglement, to perform calculations. The devices that perform quantum computations are known as quantum computers. He is an alumnus of London Imperial College. He’s an expert in the do...
Oct 19, 2022•24 min•Season 6Ep. 1
In today’s episode of Pitch Cafe Podcast, we have Gitanjali Paithane, COO & Co-Founder, InternMart | Career Discovery for High School Students, with us. 😃💛 Recently I visited an International Women’s Day Event at FalconX B2B Accelerator in Silicon Valley. This was a place where I met numerous Women Leaders and our guest is one of them! 😍 She’s an Ed-tech leader and her startup is called InternMart. This is her 3rd startup after great success in her previous two. Gitanjali talks about the ...
Oct 19, 2022•26 min•Season 6Ep. 2
#BreakTheBias Wishing you a happy #womensday2022! Here's to all the wonderful women in my life. “To tell a woman everything she cannot do is to tell her what she can.” YOU'VE GOT THIS GIRL! She is also a startup marketing strategist, tech enthusiast, speaker & mentor. She was also the Silicon Valley Business Journal's Woman of Influence 2021! 😍 She started her career as a Software engineer at Cisco Systems and carved her way to becoming a marketing entrepreneur helping startups. She is a me...
Oct 19, 2022•20 min•Season 5Ep. 10
In today’s episode of Pitch Cafe, we have Sanjay Sawhney, Co-founder of Tala Security (3 successful STARTUP EXITS). He is an experienced engineering leader and entrepreneur with a 20+ year background in software, security, storage, and networking. 💛😃 He has a successful track record of leading top-notch teams, delivering best-in-class solutions, and competing in new market categories. He is an execution-oriented individual who combines enthusiasm for creativity with business pragmatism. 😍 In ...
Oct 19, 2022•20 min•Season 5Ep. 9
Healthcare is up for disruption and decentralized technologies are In today’s episode of Pitch Cafe, I have one of my old friends, Akshay Sharma, CEO of hotg.ai with me! 😃💛 He is an entrepreneur and investor who builds edge computing, privacy, AI, and decentralized tech. 🤩 He shares how he implements the idea of AI and Deep Learning in medical science. He explains what Federated Learning is and why AI is the future of health care. He tells the audience that tokenizing everything is possible a...
Oct 19, 2022•20 min•Season 5Ep. 8
In today’s episode of Pitch Cafe, we have Arvind Rapaka with us.💛😊 He is a 3-times successful exit entrepreneur and now is on his 4th startup. 🤩 At present, Arvind is at a VP-level position in a startup called Dragonfruit AI. He has also worked for big companies like Yahoo! He is a person with Midas Touch. 🔥 In this video, he talks about his journey and shares how childhood #scienceprojects like generating electricity invoked curiosity in him. He shares the 3 pillars to build a successful pr...
Oct 19, 2022•20 min•Season 5Ep. 6
In today’s episode of Pitch cafe, we are back with the second part where I talk with Madan Padaki, Founder - CEO, 1BRIDGE. Madan is the co-founder and director of Sylvan Advisors, in the field of education management; CEO and MD of Head Held High Services, a social enterprise for rural youth, and former co-founder of MeritTrac Services, a skill assessment, and testing company. Madan explains the fact that the biggest problem our country faces is job creation and also brings light to the fact tha...
Oct 19, 2022•17 min•Season 5Ep. 7
In today’s episode of Pitch Cafe, I talk with Sunil Cherian, CEO of Copperwire Systems, a Silicon Valley blockchain applications company, that helps easily unlock, accelerate and maximize value from Blockchain technologies. 😃💛 He is the cocreator of Tada SC, a recently-launched breakthrough supply chain suite of applications, that aims to make your supply chain safer, faster and smarter. 🤩 He is not only an expert in the supply chain, crypto, blockchain but also a person with an interest in p...
Oct 19, 2022•21 min•Season 5Ep. 5
In today’s episode of Pitch Cafe, I talk with Nilesh Trivedi, Principal Investor, J-Venture. 😄💛 Nilesh describes himself as a company-maker/company-builder. He has over two decades of Operational, Technology Management, and creating new businesses experience at fortune corporations and early-stage companies and helped create and guide more than a dozen new companies from the ground up. 🤩 Early in his career he designed and developed products ranging from VoIP, Security, video, data communicat...
Oct 19, 2022•21 min•Season 5Ep. 4
Welcome to another episode of Pitch Cafe. Today I talk with Puja Kapoor, Founder & CEO at Newmom.me . She’s on a mission to change the perspective about motherhood that general people possess. 💛😃 She's helping new moms to have healthy and happy motherhood, and supporting them in their ever-evolving journey. She has 15+ years of Product Management and Marketing experience in ML/AI, Mobile, Finance, and Healthcare. 😍 Today’s podcast is very special, it answers crucial questions on motherhoo...
Oct 19, 2022•19 min•Season 5Ep. 3
In this episode of Pitch Cafe, I talk with Madan Padaki, Founder - CEO, 1BRIDGE. He is one of the top influencers in the domain of education and entrepreneurship across many countries! 🤩 He is the co-founder and director of Sylvan Advisors, in the field of education management; CEO and MD of Head Held High Services, a social enterprise for rural youth, and former co-founder of MeritTrac Services, a skill assessment, and testing company. Madan describes how he feels about himself. He shares his ...
Oct 19, 2022•15 min•Season 5Ep. 2
Can we promote #mental #wellbeing and meaningful human connections through creativity? ✨ In today’s episode of Pitch Cafe, we have Deepa Vivekanandan with us. 💛 She is the Founder and CEO of MixLife, a startup focused on #creativity and #wellness. She was a product manager at Google for machine learning in fighting abuse - particularly focused on improving online conversations through machine learning. She was also a product leader and innovator on Youtube. She is an alumnus of Carnegie Mellon ...
Oct 19, 2022•26 min•Season 5Ep. 1
In this episode of Pitch Cafe, I talk with Dr. Deepak Sekar. You may know him from his role as Founder and CEO of Chowbotics, which built the world's first fresh food-making robot named “Sally.” 💛😊 He completed his B. Tech. from IIT Madras, and his Ph.D. from the Georgia Institute of Technology, all in Electrical and Computer Engineering. Recently he co-founded Prof Jim to transform e-learning for kids. 😍 In this video, Deepak will explain to us what patenting is exactly and why is it so impo...
Feb 05, 2022•16 min•Season 4Ep. 10
In this episode of Pitch Cafe, I talk with BITsian Shourya Agarwal about building the nextgen social metaverse platform 😄 He is the co-founder & CEO of Flam, which is the world’s first Augmented Reality (AR) based social media network built for a global audience. Flam launched its first consumer product ‘FlamCards’, which are printed videos 👀 Internet was massively adopted because people can socialize via the internet. The idea was to develop a social media that stays forever so people don...
Dec 30, 2021•37 min•Season 4Ep. 9
In this episode of Pitch Cafe Podcast, I talk with Marcel Linza at 3Fit Fitness Center😁It was exciting to talk to mentors in the physical and mental fitness space and see how it impacts professional success. People usually think fitness is all about weight lifting and drinking supplements. But fitness is more than that. Physical activity or exercise can improve your health and reduce the risk of developing several diseases. It can have immediate and long-term health benefits. Most importantly, ...
Dec 30, 2021•36 min•Season 4Ep. 8
In this episode of Pitch Cafe, I talk with Raju Reddy 😃 BITSian, and legendary silicon valley investor successfully launching founders from India. He talks about building new kinds of societies as he explains about Kakatiya Sandbox - a novel innovation ecosystem for FRESH MINDS and a lot more! He is the founder and former CEO of Sierra Atlantic, a company that grew to be a best-in-class global services company over a period of 17 years 😃 Raju is the Co-founder of Kakatiya Sandbox, an initiativ...
Dec 30, 2021•27 min•Season 4Ep. 7
In this episode of Pitch Cafe, I talk with Reethu George 😁 We talk about her thought process while she was making the shift, Why we feel conflict, can somebody be happy without a purpose, what’s going on with women in this digital world, her views on social media, services she offers at ClarityBrew, her niche, difference between a friend and a coach, her theories and techniques, the market for coaching, the future of ClarityBrew, and much more! ✨ Reethu George is an Online Conflict Management C...
Dec 17, 2021•27 min•Season 4Ep. 6
How to generate leads and sell like a pro? Whether you are a founder or an employee, selling will take you far in scaling and succeeding your brand. In this episode of Pitch Cafe, I talk with Sandeep Chandrasekhar. 😊 We talk about how to generate leads using email marketing, cold calling, contextualizing, and customizing your efforts to connect with your lead. Also, how to pursue sales even if you are an introvert, sales as a game, playbook for new salespersons, enjoying what you’re doing as yo...
Dec 17, 2021•39 min•Season 4Ep. 5
In Episode#3 of Pitch Cafe, I talk with Dharam Singh, CEO, PgMP, PfMP, PMP, RMP, ACP, PBA, DASM, DASSM, PMI-ATP 😃 If you are to manage your life effectively, don't you think you need to plan it well? Where do you begin planning whether it is your company's next big deal or your child's school project? https://lnkd.in/gYYUNhgT Planning your startup and life with project management 🔖 Effective planning and management are key to business success, and today we have Dharam Singh with us, CEO at VCa...
Dec 17, 2021•30 min•Season 4Ep. 4
In this episode of Pitch Cafe, I talk with Vineet Johnson and Samir Sahoo 😊 IRegained, is a digital neurotherapeutics company that has developed a clinically validated, therapist-directed, smart, in-clinic, and in-home digital rehabilitation system that empowers chronic stroke and traumatic brain injury survivors to reclaim unassisted use of their upper extremities, including hand usage. IRegained’s portable MyHand System will allow therapists to treat loss of hand function, both in a clinical ...
Dec 17, 2021•40 min•Season 4Ep. 3
