In this episode, we sit down with Swati Bhargava , co-founder of CashKaro , India’s largest cashback website with over 20+ million downloads and EarnKaro , India’s no. 1 deal distribution platform. Swati walks us through the innovative business models and strategies that have positioned these platforms at the forefront of India's cashback and affiliate marketing ecosystem: Personal Journey: Origin story starting from her childhood in Ambala, higher education in Singapore and London, followed by ...
Oct 12, 2024•37 min•Season 7Ep. 158
Join us for an insightful conversation with Anish Srikrishna , CEO of TimesPro , an education initiative by The Times Group which aims to revolutionize professional education in India. TimesPro serves as a Higher Education Technology (H.EdTech) platform , offering a wide range of courses and training programs across various sectors, including Post Graduate Programs (PGPs), Master's degrees, and specialized training in finance, banking, e-commerce, technology, and more. TimesPro has a tech enable...
Aug 29, 2024•48 min•Season 7Ep. 157
We spoke with Winny Patro , CEO & Co-founder of Recordent , a pioneering SaaS-based platform aiming to tackle the significant issue of unpaid dues that MSMEs encounter, which is estimated to be around INR5L cr across the sector. Recordent provides a technology platform designed to help SMEs manage their credit and collections more effectively. The company offers a suite of services that includes: Payment Reminder Automation : Automating reminders for payments to ensure timely collections. In...
Aug 16, 2024•45 min•Season 7Ep. 156
We spoke with Manikanth Challa , Founder & CEO of Workruit , an AI/ML assisted career and recruitment platform catering to the B2B, B2C and B2G segments. Offering a suite of solutions like an i) AI-assisted Resume, CV, and Cover Letter Builder with a ii) Job Search and Matching Play, Workruit has built an interactive dating app-like interface where employers/recruiters and job seekers can match with each other. Manikanth speaks about his personal journey from the US to India, throwing light ...
Jul 01, 2024•39 min•Season 7Ep. 155
We spoke with Balaji Subramaniam , Head of Global Sales and Strategy at Sattrix Group , a pioneer in cyber security solutions offering AI-driven managed security services to small, mid, and large scale enterprises. Founded in 2013, Sattrix’s core focus is to protect critical assets and sensitive information from cyber threats. Sattrix stays ahead of the curve by leveraging emerging trends like AI and machine learning, Zero Trust Architecture, and cloud security to address the evolving threat lan...
May 24, 2024•39 min•Season 7Ep. 154
We chat with RV Ramanathan ("Ram"), co-founder of Hyperface - a cutting-edge Bengaluru based company pioneering contextual banking solutions. With a particular focus on streamlining the credit card experience, Hyperface's "Credit-Cards-as-a-Service" platform simplifies end-to-end program management for credit cards, pay-later, and prepaid cards. Hyperface offers a comprehensive suite of products designed to launch impeccable Credit Card programs within a matter of weeks. With a focus on simplify...
May 23, 2024•49 min•Season 7Ep. 153
We spoke with Sandesh Chitnis , CEO of Core Integra , a regulatory technology company offering labour law compliance, payroll processing, permanent hiring, staffing, and employee benefit solutions to its clients. Ctrl F is Core Integra's flagship ERP-based software tool whose core features include automated statutory compliance management, risk management, regulatory compliance, and audit software to optimize business performance. Additionally, the platform has a comprehensive library of Indian ...
May 06, 2024•37 min•Season 7Ep. 152
We spoke with Shiv Parekh - Founder of hBits - a fractional ownership platform focused on democratizing Commercial Real Estate. Grade A Commercial properties, typically leased to multinational corporations and institutions, can potentially offer stable, secure, and relatively high yielding rental incomes to investors. hBits grants retail investors access to such high-value assets by aggregating demand on its platform, and on the way reduces average ticket size needed to participate. With rising ...
May 04, 2024•36 min•Season 7Ep. 151
We speak with Veer Mishra , Founder of Plus , a Bengaluru-based fintech platform aggregating and digitizing "jewellery savings schemes" in India. Veer gives us a primer on this interesting asset class and describes Plus' offering which includes facilitating discovery of 270+ jewellers nationwide while allowing its customers to plan and save for their next significant jewellery purchase with ease. Available over Google Playstore, Plus is free-to-use and offers an attractive 10% IRR along with exc...
Feb 27, 2024•29 min•Season 6Ep. 150
We speak with Alankar Saxena , CTO of Mudrex , a platform which has simplified the journey of crypto investors in India and abroad with innovative retail oriented product offerings like coin sets, vault, and now coins. This conversation is very timely considering the revival of crypto within mainstream narrative thanks to rising regulatory clarity (MiCA, UK Parliament, US SEC etc.) and the approval of Bitcoin ETFs within the US. Alankar shares his take on how 2024 may pan out for crypto within g...
Feb 08, 2024•42 min•Season 6Ep. 149
We speak with Krish Ramineni , Co-founder & CEO of Fireflies.ai – a Canaan and Khosla Ventures backed startup whose flagship AI meeting assistant takes notes, transcribes, and analyses Meetings. Used across 200,000+ organizations, Fireflies is on a mission to transform work conversations into actions with its voice assistant, transcription tools designed to automate your team’s workflow. The idea is to unlock the treasure trove of knowledge buried inside voice conversations by creating a sea...
Feb 01, 2024•40 min•Season 6Ep. 148
We spoke with Peuli Das , Chief Insurance Officer at Future Generali India Life Insurance Company , a leading life insurance company headquartered in Mumbai offering total life insurance solutions across individual and group front. Peuli earlier served as MD, Actuarial, Insurance Analytics, and Artificial Intelligence at Accenture and as the Chief and Appointed Actuary in IndiaFirst. Her prior experiences include working in India and abroad for leading brands such as, Reliance Life, Exide Life, ...
Jan 24, 2024•47 min•Season 6Ep. 147
We spoke with Prashant A. Bhonsle , founder & CEO of Kuhoo , a Mumbai based fintech unlocking finance for Indian students. Kuhoo aims to become the first port of call for all Indian middle class students thinking about higher education, whether in India or abroad, premium college or not. Kuhoo leverages advanced technologies, data science and analytics to customise lending solutions for students and enable them to get loans without concomitant worries. Their approach involves evaluating loan...
Dec 28, 2023•1 hr 1 min•Season 6Ep. 146
We spoke with Rajesh Shet , Co-Founder & CEO of SahiBandhu , a trailblazing gold loan aggregation platform leveraging existing infrastructure, reach, and cost competitiveness of scheduled commercial banks to disrupt the traditionally NBFC-led gold loan sector. SahiBandhu aims to offer very convenient assisted customer journeys giving borrowers multiple gold loan products from best-in-class banks in line with their precise requirements and with a focus on underpenetrated semi urban and rural ...
Dec 27, 2023•45 min•Season 6Ep. 145
We spoke with Bibhu Prasad Das , CEO & Co-founder of Propelld , a Series B funded Bengaluru based fintech specializing in providing personalised education loans to students and families in Tier 2/3 cities. Propelld bases their lending decisions on selected course’s end-use, deep borrower underwriting, and by taking a partner-led model. Backed by marquee investors such as Westbridge Capital, Stellaris, and India Quotient, the company was founded with the mission to make education financing mo...
Nov 18, 2023•59 min•Season 6Ep. 144
We spoke with Sonam Motwani , CEO of Karkhana.io , a custom manufacturing platform helping OEMs source the right MSME manufacturing suppliers and high-quality components for their projects. Karkhana.io has emerged as a new age tech-enabled managed marketplace, providing a wide range of manufacturing services catering to the needs of businesses for small to large volume production, product assembly, product localization, and contract manufacturing. Their capabilities include CNC Machining, Inject...
Nov 16, 2023•49 min•Season 6Ep. 143
We spoke with Anuj Rajain CEO of Soteria , India's largest home grown integrated security, facilities management, remote monitoring, and video surveillance company offering its solutions to multiple industries like BFSI, retail, healthcare, construction, logistics, F&B, corporate offices etc. Anuj explains - through examples - how surveillance and remote monitoring are becoming more of a ROI driver than just a cost center. He walks us through the broader tech transformation underway converti...
Oct 25, 2023•47 min•Season 6Ep. 142
We spoke with Subhrangshu Kumar Neogi Co-founder of Escrowpay , a pioneer in digital escrow solutions enabling smarter, faster and safer transactions for businesses. Escrowpay is a trailblazer in the world of B2B escrow solutions, by digitizing a predominantly non-linear escrow mechanism involving multiple stakeholders including legacy regulated financial institutions, into an integrated single window platform. Escrowpay's stack includes secure banking infrastructure, trusteeship services, insta...
Oct 21, 2023•49 min•Season 6Ep. 141
We spoke with Vikrant Singh , Co-Founder of BATX Energies , who recycles used Lithium-ion batteries to extract critical metals chiefly Lithium, Nickel, Cobalt, and Manganese. BATX subsequently supplies these extracted raw materials as inputs to battery cell manufacturers to create a closed-loop Circular Economy for Lithium-ion Battery Manufacturing and Electric Vehicles. With a R&D center in Gurgaon and an industrial unit in UP, Vikrant lays the brass tacks behind India's energy storage supp...
Sep 28, 2023•43 min•Season 6Ep. 140
We spoke with Sudhir Kunder , Chief Business Officer at DE-CIX India , a leading carrier and data center neutral interconnection platform with organizational roots in Frankfurt. By offering a reliable and low-latency interconnection platform, DE-CIX India enhances internet performance and optimizes network traffic flow between internet service providers (ISPs), content providers, and network operators. This exchange plays a crucial role in improving the overall internet experience for users and ...
Sep 25, 2023•37 min•Season 6Ep. 139
We spoke with Rahul Khetawat , Head of Offline (Sales) at Property Share , India’s first and largest tech-enabled investment platform for commercial real estate. Property Share allows users to access investments in pre-leased institutional-grade commercial real estate in India and the UK - allowing them to diversify their portfolios and benefit from rental income and property appreciation. The company also provides property management services and resale support to ensure ongoing liquidity. Laun...
Sep 16, 2023•41 min•Season 6Ep. 138
We speak with Saurav Ghosh , Co-Founder of Jiraaf , a digital platform unlocking and democratizing high yield fixed income investment opportunities for retail investors. Jiraaf offers individual investors access to a wide array of alternate investment products beyond the usual suspects like listed stocks, mutual funds, real estate or gold, all via an easy-to-use convenient digital platform. The investment opportunities are spread across a great mix of asset classes, risk profiles, yields, and te...
Aug 23, 2023•53 min•Season 6Ep. 137
We spoke with Ritesh Srivastava , Founder & CEO of FREED , India’s 1st Comprehensive Debt Relief Platform. FREED was founded with the goal to provide an affordable and comprehensive debt relief solution to India's retail borrowers. Ritesh has been a serial entrepreneur for over 20 years and thanks to his background in Debt Relief in the US, he was naturally attracted to this segment in India. He understood the pain points of debtors in India and set out to solve the big problem. So far under...
Aug 22, 2023•50 min•Season 6Ep. 136
We spoke with Nishith Gupta, Director Sapana Carpet-Mats - a leading brand with a market share of 50-55% among branded plastic mats in India. Considering the lower propensity to spend on home décor among Indians vs. the west, Sapana decided to explore the world of plastic mats as they were much more affordable than conventional carpets. The company operates through an omnichannel distribution model with over 30,000 retail stores across India and a robust online presence. The 100% family-owned bu...
Jul 31, 2023•35 min•Season 6Ep. 135
We spoke with Sameer Aggarwal , Founder and CEO at Revfin , a specialist lending company focused on underwriting electric vehicle (EV) loans. Last we chatted with Sameer was in December 2019 ( link to the episode ) when Revfin was taking initial steps in its journey. The world has changed a fair bit since then, with the company having financed over 25,000 vehicles across 19 states, disbursed INR300cr in loans, and raised capital from a bunch of marquee investors including the likes of Green Fron...
Jul 28, 2023•36 min•Season 6Ep. 134
Saurabh Tyagi is the Co-Founder and CEO of PropChk , India's fastest growing tech-enabled home inspection company. An Electrical Engineer from IIT Roorkee, Saurabh started PropChk to help homebuyers and homeowners gain visibility around potential construction defects within a home before they purchase/invest in the asset. The company operates on a B2C business model that covers home inspection, dampness detection, area measurement, and multi-stage inspection for ready to move in properties. They...
Jul 13, 2023•47 min•Season 6Ep. 133
Abhishek Sharma is the Co-Founder & COO of Fashinza , a tech-enabled platform that solves manufacturing for fashion brands. Started initially to improve experience while dealing with suppliers, Fashinza takes a value chain approach to support brands, acting as a one stop shop for their sourcing requirements, from the placement of orders all the way to fulfilment, including design, pattern making, sales forecasting and even colour on latest trends and styles. Fashinza is able to do this by di...
Jun 02, 2023•38 min•Season 6Ep. 132
Piyush Gupta is the CEO of VOSMOS , connecting brands to customers through immersive, engaging and easily accessible virtual experiences. VOSMOS is helping companies create virtual and hybrid events, immersive DIY virtual stores, and transforming online customer interactions through creation of tailormade and realistic digital environments. Piyush takes a pragmatic take towards the evolution of digital commerce, blending arguments in favour of metaverse/related immersive technologies with on-gro...
May 23, 2023•38 min•Season 6Ep. 131
Anuj Parekh is the Co-Founder and CEO of Healthysure , an employee benefits insurtech company enabling comprehensive group health coverage for employees of SMEs, startups, and enterprises. Healthysure offers digitized policy and claims experience with curated health and wellness offerings, including an industry-first flexi top-up insurance product which allows employees to personalize & upgrade their corporate health covers and enjoy continuity benefits post-employment. Riding the post pande...
May 23, 2023•46 min•Season 6Ep. 130
We chat with Narinder Mahajan CEO of ODN Digital Services (short for ‘Open Doors Now’), a market leader in ‘Shop Now’ strategies, enabling brands and e-commerce platforms to sell successfully online. Narinder is a consumer-retail and e-commerce specialist, and has over 20 years of industry experience. During his corporate journey, he worked with various game-changing organizations across diverse industries and formats of consumer retail. In 2015, he turned entrepreneur and co-founded ODN. At ODN...
May 01, 2023•40 min•Season 6Ep. 129
