Insiders Talk: Recent Episodes
Veronica Mam
While searching for a meaning and value addition journey, I came across many path breaking solutions that were implemented to solve the simplest of the problem. There are many ideas floating around but very few become successful. You know WHY? it is SIMPLE, they know how to set themselves apart through execution. Implementation Strategy is the key to get your ideas moving in the right direction. And it TAKES TIME AND EFFORT to get to your first milestone.Indian Entrepreneurs are the ones who have created solutions to the basic problems existing in their line of work which I want to highlight! And what better way to tell the story but straight from the Entrepreneurs themselves.Insiders Talk is a place where Indian Entrepreneurs come as guests and an inspirational talk begins! A talk with insights and values! Every Episode has a key takeaway - but what you get inspired from is entirely on your mindset and WHAT YOU HEAR!My missionI am Veronica Mam and I am on a mission to highlight Indian Entrepreneurs who have taken risks to solve problems through their groundbreaking solutions and bring a change that helps the Industries to Scale.
As a serial entrepreneur with an endless passion for innovation, he strives to
continually innovate and seek out challenge. The last 15 years of his learning
journey have led him to the right thing – Clocr.
Through use of an intuitive user interface, the latest advancements in security
technology (including our own patent pending encryption algorithm), we have
been able to meet our goal. With Clocr we have created the perfect digital asset
storage and distribution platform with the most secure personal storage
available. It’s like having a safety deposit box in the cloud.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/sreechintala/
Launched by a father-and-daughter duo, Clocr (short for “Cloud Locker”) is a U.S
based computer software company, and the first-of-its-kind all-in-one legacy
planning online tool for arranging digital assets.
Clocr Inc. was founded on Nov. 18th, 2018 to provide peace of mind for families
everywhere. Their focus is to provide the premier, all-in-one life planning solution
and eliminate the need for multiple service. It offers customizable onboarding and
Digital Vault with proprietary, patent-pending, multi-layered security protocol, built
on IPFS and blockchain concept and empowers its subscribers to organise digital
assets ranging from social media accounts to banking and financial details, identify
their heirs, and provide these heirs access to the digital legacies of their righteous
heirs. Even the idea of Clocr originated in the family after the passing of her
grandfather.
www.clocr.com
USPs
Management and protection of digital assets after death have become intensively
complex since the COVID pandemic. This painstaking and woeful task will be a word
of the past. In a short span, CLOCR has made an impressive case of its ‘Digital Vault’
feature internationally, and now we see the befitting time to enter the Indian
market with their ‘Unique’ services.”
Think about it, most families who were stuck indoors due to the pandemic started
using delivery platforms to order their groceries. Digital payments have gone up
tremendously. Most government services are now available online. Clocr feels India
has made considerable progress in its digital journey, and it will continue to grow
and spread.
Edukemy is India first non-STEM-focused EdTech startup. We strive to offer an immersive and personalised learning experience through an industry-leading AI-based evaluation system. We thrive on scaling up the learning experience for each one of our students, maximizing their potential and helping them achieve success.
Its mission is to build the next generation of EdTech, focused on a student-centric experience, enabled through deep insights, actionable feedback, quality content and hyper-personalised learning.
Founded by Chandrahas Panigrahi, Shabbir A Bashir, and Deb Tripathi, learner's first tech-based evaluation model for non-subjective and subjective competitive exams. Edukemy aims to scale the learning experience for every individual by offering an insightful and enriching environment for students, focusing on live classes, handwritten notes, and interactive platforms.
Recently, Edukemy entered into a first-of-its-kind partnership with actor and philanthropist Sonu Sood's - Sood Charity Foundation to offer 100% scholarships to economically weaker section students preparing for the Staff Selection Commission (SSC) exam. The idea behind the partnership is to provide financial assistance to the Economically Weaker Section (EWS) students. Edukemy, in collaboration with Sood Charity Foundation, will offer 100% scholarships on Foundation courses for SSC exams that would cover 6 months of end-to-end preparation with 300+ live classes.
Mayank Jain is the Co-Founder of Scalenut. At Scalenut he looks at sales & marketing, investor relations, HR & finance operations. Before Scalenut, he was the CEO at Selltm, a fully-owned subsidiary of Snapdeal. At Snapdeal, Mayank spent over 7 years building and leading various functions. During his tenure with Snapdeal, he built Supplier Ecosystem and lead Supply Chain and Customer Experience functions. Before Snapdeal, Mayank was a part of two start-ups, where he played a pivotal role in Business Development and Operations. He started his career with ITC, where he spent 3 years across operations and engineering functions. Mayank holds B-Tech and M-Tech degrees from IIT Kanpur.
Scalenut is a Seed-Funded AI-enabled content intelligence Saas platform for on-demand business services. At Scalenut, businesses can find various services at fixed prices, with pre-defined workflows & milestones, and delivered by top freelancers. Currently, the platform is offering fully managed content development services.
When said SaaS-enabled, Scalenut provides pre-defined requirements and standardized requirements. This helps freelancers in producing high-quality content. Also, end customers can share their requirements in a structured way. The end-to-end workflow module helps end customers in tracking their work, ensuring on-time and high-quality deliveries.
Scalenut is founded in August 2020 and started operations in October 2020 by Co-Founders; Mayank Jain, Gaurav Goyal & Saurabh Wadhwan.
Today is an era of managed marketplaces. Scalenut has seen various players disrupting industries like home service, ticketing, good delivery, and many more through a fully managed full-stack approach. The same has not happened in freelancing services yet.
India serving global demand is also limited to IT but has not expanded to other categories. We aim to bridge that gap and build an 'India serves the world' business.
eSec Forte® Technologies is a CMMI Level-3 ISO 9001-2008, 27001-2013 certified Global Consultation and Implementation firm, We believe in precision and quality above everything else. The areas of our expertise include Information Security and Cyber Security.
- Headquartered in Delhi, we have our delivery centres in Bangalore, Gurugram and Mumbai in India, Sri Lanka & Singapore.
- With 20+ solutions, eSec Forte has Global partnership with OEM's such as Cato networks, Micro Focus, Access Data, Data Resolver to name a few.
- The vast base of its clientele is spread across UAE, USA, UK, Kuwait, Singapore, Australia, Brazil, Malaysia, Canada, Taiwan, Egypt, Indonesia, Philippines and many more countries across the globe.
- Its team comprises a bunch of enthusiastic and vibrant engineers, computer application specialists, business management professionals, and experts in Information and Cyber security services, product development, and cloud-based solutions.
Mr Kunal Bajaj, Chief Business Officer, eSec Forte Technologies.
Experienced Chief Business Officer with a demonstrated history of working in the IT and IT security industry. Skilled in Business Planning, Customer Management, Strategic Planning, Cloud Computing, and Vendor Management. Strong business development professional with a Master of Business Administration (MBA) focused in Sales, Distribution, and Marketing Operations, General from Xavier Institute of Management.Managing Business Operations for eSec Forte. Primarily Responsible for Channel Sales, Global SI Partners, Business Development, management of CXO relationship, acquiring new Logos & clients.
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Prathaa which means Tradition is a celebration of exquisite handcrafted fabrics that emerge from the heart of India and breathe, flow, and speak of the country's textile heritage. The brand believes in nurturing and preserving the Art and Weaves of India. It creates easy-to-wear, distinctive, and appealing contemporary fusion fashion.
Unique in its use of weaves, design touches, Prathaa excels in showcasing its fabrics. The brand embodies the modern urban woman, who welcomes change and innovation and is aware of her rich historical inheritance. It represents every woman who has embraced the past with respect, enjoys the present with abandon, and looks to the future with optimism.
Founded by Ms. Sukanya, Founder, Prathaa- She feels fashion is the collective voice of a generation. Sometimes, that voice speaks the language of style, and sometimes that of color, but the unspoken underlying need is always that of comfort. As a brand, we speak to this generation by keeping ourselves current and by constantly innovating and keeping our finger on the pulse. The Indian fashion industry, like its overseas counterpart, is veering towards sustainable and minimalistic fashion. There is consciousness now to create wealth for the artists at the grassroots, the karigars/weavers/artisans to make a positive difference in their lives. Our purpose is to tread lightly and leave a little carbon footprint. With the pace of life and the number of things we all want to fit into each day, minimal and breathable clothing is the go-to choice."
Vikram Ahuja is a serial-entrepreneur (4 startups, 2 exits) with 16+ years of experience building successful ventures at the intersection of technology, communities and art. He is currently a Co-Founder and CEO at Talent500, an AI-led talent marketplace helping some of the world’s best companies build global teams in talent-rich hubs. Vikram is also a Managing Director at ANSR, a global market leader helping Fortune 500’s setup and run large-scale global capability centres.
Vikram is also a member of and served on the board at The Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO), an exclusive network of 13000+ entrepreneurs in 190+ cities around the world. Vikram has a MBA degree from IESE, University of Navarra and The Anderson School of Management UCLA.
Vikram is an accomplished speaker on technology and entrepreneurship having taken stage at The Web Summit (the world’s largest tech conference), Surge, NASSCOM’s Product Conclave, TedX and more.
Pratik Guptafounder of Strom Motorsaims at changing the way we commute within vity ensuring that we get cleaner and healthier air not just for ourselves but also for our future generation!
A cool gadget to own, that will stand out and also address the problems of the environment! A 3 wheel car, makes one curious on why 3 wheels and not 4 !!! Listen to the episode!
Ms. Pooja Nagdev, is a proud mother and a woman entrepreneur who has put in lot of her time, effort, learning and money to make Inatur happen.
She believes:
To keep oneself mentally alert, one needs to put their mind to work.
Find your passion and explore to learn about a new world and opening up to new opportunities that enhances your vision!
We talk about womenhood, changes in mindset and entrepreneurship !!!!
Ms. Pooja Nagdev is bringing in transparency in how the essence is created making sure the consumers know what has gone into the product, making consumers aware of the product in depth!
Listen to more about her journey and how she has achieved wonders with Inatur
Corporate Gurukul, a learning and development company to make young managers, globally employable via the "Gurukul System". The platform has partnerships with world-class academic and industry partners. The brand takes each student beyond the classroom and into the real world & enables them to apply what they know in creative, playful, and innovative ways. As of now, 145,000+ alumni across continents are inspiring millions and transforming lives by following their purpose and passion.
Mr. Rajesh Panda, Founder & CEO, Corporate Gurukul, is an industry veteran with an experience of 20 years is also the Chairperson of the Higher Education Forum (HEF), Singapore Chapter. With the emerging need to deal with real time problems, challenging environment and pressure handling ability, the students are expected to have inherited management skills at multiple levels. Essentially, the idea to inculcate a Gurukul methodology in Indian education system is induced to inherit the capabilities to understand the corporate world workings.
A young Food blogger, who through her passion of food got the real insight of Food and Beverage Industry and started her journey of square Fork working
through her challenges and making people believe that she has a vision and it has nothing to do with her age!
She proved herself and today she is working with restaurants to help them sustain by helping them go DIGITAL!
Listen to Shreya Sabharwal talk about her journey and Square Fork!
SquareFork, Fork symbolises food and beverage industry and square that we cover each part of food and beverage industry equally. So out of hundred restaurants eighty restaurants shuts down within the operating period of 1.5 to 2 years. So how not to make them shut and how to keep them running was our vision. So we wanted to healthy restaurant or so, we came up with this concept called Square Fork. It's an award-winning result-oriented bespoke PR and marketing firm and the only agency which is just dealing in to hospitality client’s. SquareFork, incorporated in the year May 2018, is an agency committed to restaurant growth. Its agenda is to provide the best approach for the proliferation of the restaurant in the restaurant market. The company founder, Shreya Sabharwal is running nationally to cater to Social Media requirements of Big Restaurants and Cafes.
An initiative by IIT-D & XLRI Alumni to promote Coding Skills & STEM education among young minds Tinkerly was founded Sharad Bansal, O.P. Godara, Kapil Arya, and Vivek Pathak.
It cultivates future innovators by providing a unique initiative of mixing consists of superior pedagogy, blended learning, and a play-based curriculum to enable interactive learning for the students of grades 1-12.
Tinkerly cultivates future innovators by providing a unique initiative of mixing the fun and hands-on learning experience in live AI, Robotics, IoT coding classes for students of age 6 to 16.Tinkerly's STEM Learning & Coding courses are based on superior pedagogy, blended learning, and a play-based course curriculum infused with interactive STEM learning kits.
The courses are divided into 4-grade levels like grade 1-3, grade 4-6, grade 7-8, and grade 8+. Each grade level offers 3 class packages- Explorer, Learner, and Achiever. All the course content is curated by a team of IITians and experienced educators. Both content and kits have received accreditations from US-based STEM.org. The infusion of STEM learning kits as a part of a play-based curriculum is one of the most unique features of Tinkerly. With the help of these STEM learning kits, children will experience the thrill of hands-on coding, and they will say goodbye to unproductive screen time by almost 50 percent. They will learn how to build next-generation projects that are capable of solving real-life problems. Discretionary online learning has just started.
The early success of coding classes across the world is the first evidence, and this will see massive growth as schools reopen and cumulative screen time of children decreases, allowing more space for after-school courses.
The market is worth $12 Billion in India alone, where Tinkerly's offerings complemented with STEM toys are positioned to:
- Advance kids' existing coding skills with applications on Robots, controllers, and sensors.
- Become an alternative and more engaging way to develop logical skills for first-time learners.
Funding Details
- Raised Rs. 41L in Sept 2015 from RAIN
- Raised Rs. 2.6cr in Sept 2018 from SucSEED, Keiretsu Forum, and Gray Matters Capital
- Raised Rs. 0.7cr (bridge) in Jan 2020 from existing investors - SucSEED, Keiretsu
- Raised Rs. 6.5 crores in Sep 2021 from Navneet Education Limited and other Existing investors
About Sharad Bansal
Sharad, an alumnus of IIT Delhi, is the co-founder & CEO of Tinkerly, a leading EdTech company for STEM learning. He has led Tinkerly to grow multifold in 6 years and is backed by marquee edtech investors including India's leading publication group Navneet Education Limited. Tinkerly helps school-age kids by preparing them for futuristic skills in technology. The company has benefitted 150,000+ students across India, Middle East, and North America for which Forbes has featured Sharad as Education Evangelist of India in 2019.
As for his personal growth journey, he believes in giving back to the ecosystem by various means including angel investments in early-stage startups and accelerators. He regularly mentors startup founders, has taken guest workshops at various incubators. He speaks regularly on public or media forums such as Business Today, Times of India, Forbes, Josh Talks, Rajasthan Startup Fest, TBCY, SGEF, IEEE, and others.
A brainchild of angel investor Aditya Damani, Credit Fair is a B2B2C Fintech lending startup.
CreditFair offers lending solutions to both businesses and private individuals at 0% or low cost, unsecured loan options even at the point of sale. It facilitates niche segments such as home furniture buying alongside conventional lending products. The average ticket size ranges from USD150-25,000 and tenure from 3 months to 3 years. Credit Fair offers loans in Electronic Vehicles, Education, patience financing,( elective treatment ). They have recently raised $15mil from two angel investors, aiming to expand their operations in smaller cities as well as enhance the technicality for better and robust processing. They have been able to manage to keep their NPA below 1.5% last year due to their strict due diligence and process. In July this year, Credit Fair has raised seed funding of $15 million from seasoned Angel investors Anand Ladsariya and Alok Agarwal, who have previously backed start-ups including Oyo, Ola, Myntra, Healthkart, Wow Momo, Uniphore and 1mg.
About Aditya Damani - Aditya Damani is the founder of India's emerging 360o lending platform Credit Fair and one of the directors of KM Global Finance Services Pvt. Ltd., exclusively leading its angel portfolio domain. Considered as an astute young mind of India's thriving start-up-focused investment sector, Aditya already has prominent start-ups such as Fynd (acquired by Reliance Industries Limited) and Zoomcar (Backed by Mahindra, Ford, and Sequoia) in his rapidly growing portfolio.
With a Banker Father as a Mentor, enormous support and understanding of the family to become the first entrepreneur, Manan Dixit Co-founder of FidyPay decided to start on his own and understood that what the Indian consumer needs.
Fidypay, a Fintech API platform, wants to provide an online payment services to businesses in rural and semi-urban cities making their lives easier by doing their transaction easily!
To get the population into cashless system, we need to target businesses to become cashless!
FidyPay, an Indore-based digital Payment startup.
FidyPay an API stack platform that enables the business of Bharat to change the way consumers transact and create a more digitally aware society by deploying plug & play solutions. With 10 key clients and with 30 integrated services, their monthly gross transactional value is close to 5,00,000,000. is a provider of a range of payment solutions to consumers through its network of merchants in rural and semi-urban areas of India. The merchants can provide services like recharges, bill payments, remittances, and ticketing to the customers. Apart from the merchants, customers can also directly use the FidyPay wallet to directly make payments. Partnered with ePayLater in Feb'18 to enable merchants to top up their wallets without paying upfront. FidyPay caters to SMEs and MSMEs and has a solid partnership with Pinelabs, NPCI, Kodak, Razorpay.
Misplaced the documentation, and time it took to locate the documents physically and unorganized storage led to the idea of document digitization which led to SIGNDESK! Document Automation was a huge opportunity in India, (government or private) as it leads to organized storage! Just a beginning!!! Listen to Krupesh Bhat talk about Signdesk and his journey on disrupting the way we create and manage our legal documentation through automation!
Tarusha Mittal is the COO and CO-Founder of Oropocket, Open DeFi, and UniFarm. Tarusha is a seasoned blockchain entrepreneur who has founded multiple tech-focused ventures, including Cloudrino, a cloud hosting and infra platform, and Soul Machine Innovations, a customer brand experience-enhancing AI. She came into the crypto and blockchain space with a vision of providing a trustworthy and stable platform for users and enhancing blockchain adoption. She believes blockchain technology due to its decentralized feature is the future.
About Mayank Banerjee
Studied in UK, Mayank was always keen to get back to India and start something on his soon and he did find what he wanted to do when he was applying for his Healthcare Insurance. Based on his experience in US and UK, he soon realized what Indian Healthcare system was lacking. A smooth process that enables the people to access their insurance in a claimless and cashless manner by showing a membership card! Thats what EVEN Healthcare is all about!
Abhijith HK is a co-founder, and CEO at Codewave where he has helped 100+ enterprises architect and run 'speed at scale' technological solutions. He is an alumni of VTU, Bengaluru. Reach to Abhijith for talking about anything 'digital acceleration'.
Vidhya Abhijith is a co-founder and design thinking leader at Codewave. She is an alumni of IIM, Bengaluru. Her leadership style is deeply rooted in empathy, transparency, authenticity, trust, and accountability. Reach out to Vidhya for talks on design, culture, and tech.
About Codewave:Codewave deals with multisensorial design, product thinking, agile practice, cloud/edge programming to best productize your idea, solve critical business problems in alignment with your vision & strategy, co-creating outcomes in a highly agile, highly collaborative environment.
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About Goal Teller(Invite Basis ONLY)
Inception and Ideology
Incorporated in Bangalore, Goal Teller is the brainchild of Vivek Banka, a tech-savvy financial services veteran and a serial entrepreneur.
Goal Teller is an AI–backed online personal finance platform that allows users to plan, simulate, guide, monitor and track all their financial goals from cradle to grave. The objective is to ensure a 360 degree financial planning for users.
Obsession amongst wealth- tech startups on investment planning, rather than holistic financial planning led to the birth of Goal Teller.
Vision & Mission
Goal Teller aims to ensure that each individual would be advised on every facet of his financial plan, from investment planning to tax planning, goal planning to transmission planning and cash flow management to risk management amongst others. Goal Teller will strive to ensure that every aspect is well researched before creating any financial plan.
USPs
The following are Goal Teller’s USP’s
· Automation in planning process
With the help of complex algorithms and AI tools Goal Teller ensures its users to be able to get answers/guidance to their financial goals. The automated financial planning tool ensures that all the aspects are taken into consideration as mentioned in the vision above. Goal Teller’s platform will have automated tools and powerful simulators that will ensure investors find ways and means to reach even unachievable goals.
· Customized Financial Advice
Every individual is different and so are their needs. Goal Teller understands this and hence, they believe in customization of their product for each of its user further benefiting them to the fullest.
· Beneficial in volatile market conditions
Goal Teller’s algorithms will ensure that investors plan their finances in a manner that helps them navigate both good and bad times with equal ease and being prepared for exigencies like the one we are seeing today.
Future Plans
Goal Teller targets to have a MVP (minimum viable product) of its product released by early October followed by a beta launch early January. The company aims and will strive to reach a milestone of a million visitors and 50k -100k subscribers by 2021
About Vivek Banka A commerce graduate from St. Xaviers College Kolkata, Vivek is also a certified financial planner. With a career spanning over two decades in the financial services sector, he truly has seen it all, from working in his family stock broking outfit ( 1999-2003), to starting his own WM practise , Bullseye Investments in Bangalore ( 2003-2005), taking care of BNP Paribas's Private Banking initiative for Bangalore ( 2005-2010), building and growing IIFL Wealth's Bangalore practise ( 2010-2016) and finally creating a world class fintech platform Altiore Capital ( 2016-2018).
His last venture Altiore Capital was acquired by IIFL Wealth in Nov 2018. Altiore's proprietary platform allowed large investors to consolidate and run exhaustive analytics on their entire net worth in an easily maneuverable and visually appealing interface.
Post the acquisition’s transition period, Vivek has set out on his entrepreneurial quest once again with the founding of Goal Teller. Goal Teller is currently in stealth mode in the personal finance space
About Clevertize
They make smarter advertising a reality and stride towards scaling growth and inspiring knowledge. They have won numerous awards and are changing the way advertising agencies work. They offer services in
- Digital World : The magic of internet and a solution created to quench the promotion thirst of the client - from thinking to execution!
- Real World : People live in Real World, and it is not a forgotten space.
- Reel World : Motion drives emotions and helps connect with audience.
- Performance : At the end of the day, it is all about numbers to measure your reach and impact.
- Technology : Support development of apps, web applications, chatbots, facebook apps and more!
About Sagar NidvaniAn Alliance Business School Graduate and with an experience of over 9 years in the digital space, Sagar decided to go on his own and create Clevertize.
As the name suggests, Clevertize plans to change the way advertising agencies work making it more organized and client focused. The most amazing change that Sagar wants to lead is the way we hire professionals based on language. He wants to create a Language Agnostic space, where there is no hindrance if you are not fluent in talking in English as at the end of the day what matters is that you deliver the solution based on client requirement and exceed their expectations! Languages can be taught!
About Wonderhood
A Noida – India-based Edu-Tech startup, is on a mission to make early parenthood enjoyable, joyful, and simple. For children aged 2 to 6, they use 3T i.e toy-first, tech-enabled, and teacher-aided approach to early learning. They are disrupting the early learning field by demonstrating that learning outcomes CAN be effectively delivered anywhere with high student/parent involvement through "wonderLearn" - continuous as well as focused goal-based programming.
Wonderhood has created a plan to make the early parenting journey enjoyable and satisfying. The founders noticed that there are a few areas that are very close to each parent's heart as they went through their own parenting and Wonderhood adventures.
By combining its unique strengths in product design and learning material production, Wonderhood is trying to close the gap in the early learning sector.
The company's main goal is to provide rich and relevant learning opportunities for its younger children and a rising number of members. The company creates personalized interactive games for kids. Make them think and apply instead of just consuming. Digital material from wonderLearn includes Pre-recorded teaching video, games, puzzles, stories, rhymes, and much more are all available through online and app interfaces. This gives both parents and children more flexibility. to study at their own schedule and at their own time.
About Pooja Midha
Mrs. Pooja Midha is the co-founder of Wonderhood. Before founding Wonderhood, Pooja spent about 6.5 years at Intel. In her last role, she was a part of the Sales and Marketing team at Intel, working closely with MD, India, and South Asia on long-range planning, strategic partnerships, PR, and strategic business growth initiatives. She is an MBA from NMIMS, Mumbai; and Engineer who studied from NSIT, Delhi. She envisages Wonderhood as the largest player in the early learning space in India and the Middle East along with a meaningful presence in South East Asia. She thinks that her team is truly the foundation on which the present and the future of the venture and company can be built. Herself being a mother to two beautiful princesses, she brings her real-life experience as a parent to the company’s growth and strategic future planning.
About Kavitha Mohammad
Mrs. Kavitha Mohammad is the co-founder of Wonderhood, with a vision to maximize the potential for the company both in terms of business and customer impact that it could have in the early learning segment. Kavitha shaped the first half of her career in the US with an Enterprise Startup and in Management Consulting in the SF Bay Area. She has also spent a couple of years actively in Sales and Growth initiatives at Cisco, Intel, Egon Zehnder in Asia. She is an MBA from Wharton and an engineer with a degree in Computer Science from BITS Pilani. She plans on shaping Wonderhood as the most comprehensive toy-first, tech-enabled early learning solution for preschoolers in India, Middle East, and Southeast Asia. She is socially active for the last 14+ years and has been volunteering her time for teaching and fundraising with several NGOs (Asha, Vibha, Akshaya Patra, and Whitefield Ready) to raise funds for girl child education.
About Sciative:
A leading company that leverages technologies such as Big Data, AI and Machine Learning to develop automated dynamic price optimization systems.
The company has worked with the leading organizations across industries such as retail, ecommerce, hospitality, travel, entertainment, technology services and CPG.
Established in 2015, Sciative was founded by husband and wife duo, Dr Anshu Jalora, Founder & Managing Director, Sciative (an IIT graduate and PhD holder from Texas A&M University) and Ms. Vijeta Soni, Co-Founder & CEO, Sciative (a graduate from IIM Bangalore and MS holder from University of Houston, Texas, USA). Sciative helps companies plug value leaks and build loyalty with their customers through scientific holistic value based pricing. Their wide suite of pricing solutions and services are powered by the most advanced and award winning prescriptive analytics frameworks, leveraged from its founder's +18 years' experience in the price optimization industry.
Growing at an annual growth of 3X on a YoY basis, Sciative has been recognized as India's top 10 fastest growing and most promising startup by FICCI and envisions to lead a dynamic pricing revolution globally. The company aims to become India's first AI and Data Intelligence unicorn in the next 5 years.
About Ms. Vijeta Soni Co-Founder and CEO, Sciative Solutions A Woman in Tech leader and a dynamic powerhouse, Ms. Vijeta Soni is the Co-Founder & CEO of Sciative Solutions. She is an alumnus of the prestigious IIM Bangalore and the University of Houston, Texas, USA. Vijeta is a proud member of Goldman Sachs 10K Women Entrepreneurs and an exceptional leader with over 16 years of experience in digital transformation, technology adoption, and client relations across retail, ecommerce, manufacturing, and education sectors.
She has played a pivotal role in driving some of the large-scale projects in India and has worked with industry giants like Overstock.com (USA), Reliance Industries Ltd., Jio Institute etc. Vijeta along with Dr. Anshu Jalora founded Sciative in 2015 after realizing the need for AI-driven Dynamic Pricing to empower businesses to have the right price for every product, every market, every customer, every single transaction. The company through its wide range of award-winning SaaS products caters to a wide array of industries such as Retail, Travel, Entertainment, Cinemas, Hospitality, and more.
Vijeta has been a keynote speaker at NHRDN-Delhi and LinkedIn LearningMPS Dubai. She is also a recipient of the Golden Peacock National Award. She enjoys spending her leisure time hiking and trekking. She has trekked multiple national and international wild parks including the Grand Canyon, Zions National Park, Olympic National Park, Chandoli National Park and more! She wishes to complete Annapurna Base Camp in Nepal and the Adams Peak in Sri Lanka in the next two years.
About Dr. Anshu Jalora Founder and Managing Director, Sciative Solutions
Dr. Anshu Jalora is the visionary force behind Sciative Solutions, leading the organization as its Founder & Managing Director. He is an alumnus of IIT Delhi and a PhD holder in Pricing and Revenue Management from the renowned Texas A&M University.
A seasoned professional with experience of more than 18 years in leading US companies like Starbucks Coffee, Overstock.com and PROS Revenue Management, he has also worked with corporate giants like Reliance Industries Ltd and ITC Ltd. in India in various capacities.
His accidental introduction to the transformation of the US airline industry through dynamic pricing and the rich underlying scientific models piqued his intere
ABOUT GOLDY NAGDEV:
Mr. Goldy Nagdev is an entrepreneur, Observer, Thinker, Learner, Traveler, and Motorsports Fanatic. In his own words, he is an entrepreneur, thinker, traveler, and learner. Even though he is at the helm of a legendary consumer brand, Hari Darshan, his energy, enthusiasm & ability to take initiatives for the industry are commendable, especially his constant motivation and guidance to young & new entrepreneurs.
Goldy Nagdev firmly believes in doing mutual, long-term, and most importantly, ethical business. The Managing Director of Hari Darshan Group, Mr. Nagdev vehemently believes that value is built with the passage of time and with consistent efforts. In his view, a business is about value creation and a brand is about value addition.
Mr. Nagdev asserts that small and mid-size companies must realize that business is more than trading, sale, purchase, processing, or simply put transactional aspects. A Business has to go beyond and be enriching and giving in nature. We need to ask ourselves a question, can our business enrich lives? What can or what must our business do for the society and environment. Goldy calls this the "Giving" aspect and sees this as an investment in creating not just a better business but a beautiful business.
In this episode of Insiders Talk, we get to listen to **Naman Mukund , Co-Founder of Tekie
About Naman Mukund**A graduate of IIT Delhi and a co-founder of Tekie. He has led and scaled tech and products for Edtech startups and gained insights into the Edtech domain by witnessing the difference education can make. He feels that there are very few avenues for school students to learn tangible skills that can help them become early innovators and changemakers.
About TekieTekie is an application-based live coding platform for kids that brings the art of storytelling to make learning a movie-like experience. We are entirely reimagining education as the learning habits of the current generation are changing, and our education system has not been able to keep up with it. To solve this, We introduced a first-of-its-kind curriculum that teaches text-based coding to kids aged 10+ with a long-format of animated sitcom series.
Our focus is on kid's engagement and tangible learning outcomes that can prepare them for the future. We aim to empower the next generation with future-ready skills and help them become innovators and changemakers.
Our product-first approach to delivering online coding lessons has resulted in high customer loyalty and learning impact.
We have seen a great response to our first course - Intro to Programming. And since our launch in June 2020, we've had 15000+ students learning text-based coding on our platform.
Our focus right now is to partner with schools to provide a robust coding infrastructure to them. Coding is an essential skill for the future and introduced in the school curriculum under NEP2020 as a 21st-century skill. We aim to ensure high-quality coding education is available to every school kid in the country.
You can reach out to them
- Phone : +91-8068975574, +91-8047483419
- Email: hello@tekie.in
Below are few other links where Tekie has been featured:
- Your Story
- Times of India
- Inc42
- Medium
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In this episode of Insiders Talk, we get to listen to **Pritam Onsker, Co-Founder of Brunch Bites, TailorSmart and The SKill Company
About Pritam Onsker**Believes in working towards making a new benchmark in everything he does, May it be HIS work or just anything he chooses to do… There is absolutely no point in dying Unknown.
Recent Industry Recognitions:
• Was recognized as the 100 best marketing minds of India 2018-19 by Enterprise IT world.
• Was Recognized as the 100 Most influential Marketing leaders of India By World Marketing Congress in Nov 2018.
• Was recognized as the 100 best marketing minds of India 2017-18 by Enterprise IT world.
With 22+ years of corporate experience in multiple leadership roles across India , APAC and Mecca, he quit his last assignment with Tata communication as the Head of Africa business on 5th feb 2021 to focus on his start-ups which he collaborated with like-minded people who are experts in their respective fields.
About His VenturesTailorSmart - Fashion and designer platform for made to measure clothing for men and women. You can connect with TailorsMart on 7887888666 and you can use Coupon Code: INSIDERS21 for your first order to get 20% discount
Brunch Bites -Food platform which promotes healthy hygienic and homely food .. will be a platform for moms also who can sell their home made food. Brunch Bites was also featured in Silicon India Startup India : https://startup.siliconindia.com/vendor/brunchbites-happiness-in-a-box-cid-11451.html
You can connect with Brunch Bites on 7262896969 and you can use Coupon Code: INSIDERS21 for your first order to get 10% discount
The Skill Company - edu tech platform focused on four verticals :
1. Life essential skills ( soft skills like Public speaking, listening etc
2. Passion based profession : Like RJ, Voice modulation artist , Movie making etc.
3. Corporate training
4. Corporate outbounds in Goa
This is a special section, where we focus on companies that are launching themselves on Indian Soil or their product and services in INDIA.
Paradigm would be soon creating their space in the Indian Market and setting an offshore center under leadership of their CDO, Mr. Azmath Pasha.
About Azmath Pasha:
CDO, Paradigm and a Member of Forbes Technology Council (2021).
Azmath is a Information Technology Executive with over 25 years of progressive experience across multiple industry sectors. Azmath is highly successful in establishing vision and strategic capability in the marketplace by effectively leveraging emergent technologies such as Data Sciences, Machine Learning and Predictive Analytics.
Azmath provides strategic direction and oversight of the programming, database, data modeling, unstructured data, big data, statistical modeling, economic modeling, machine learning, data visualization, and other quantitative and analytical skills that contribute directly to the development of predictive models and analytics that improve and business results.
Azmath with prior "BIG 4" high-performance technology consulting experience, had key responsibilities including help drive value/business initiatives for several large programs and projects across various industries. Also has demonstrated results in the solutions-based selling process and knowledge of account management (planning, prospecting and closing) in a fluid/changing market place.
About Paradigm
An award-winning end-to-end professional services organization, Paradigm Technology is a leader in digital and business transformation, working for 25 years with the Fortune 500.
We partner with clients to understand and solve business problems through innovative, value-driven solutions and strategies. Our team leverages years of experience and leading-edge technologies to deliver intelligent insights to answer the hard questions to grow revenues, reduce costs and avoid risk.
We focus on delivering and communicating measurable value and impact above all else - that's the Power of Paradigm.
Learn more about Paradigm at www.pt-corp.com
Check out our career opportunities at wwwpt-corp.com/careers/career-opportunities/
Follow Paradigm on LinkedIn to stay updated with upcoming opportunities to work with the company in India as they plan to start building up a team for their offshore center somewhere in next year!
In this episode of Insiders Talk, we get to listen to **Ashish Kushwaha, Founder of Farming For All
About Ashish KushwahaA technology enthusiast, Ashish Kushwaha** has over 14 years of experience in developing innovative software products. He is not just a person who is technically inclined but also works with NGOs, making sure he enriches the society around him.
He combined his passion and commitment with iOT to create an instrument that not only will help farmers maintain their area of work better but also help them study the requirements for a good farming through data.
He is moving the agricultural industry and making it more and more dependent on data which will help the farmers to understand and regulate online!
About Farming for AllFarming For All is a division of G Systems. G Systems works on cutting edge technologies and we have experienced team of different domain and technology. G Systems have expertise in Industrial Automation with Internet of Things, Cloud technologies, Amazon Web Services, Azure, Google Cloud, Artificial Intelligence, Mobile and Web Application Development.
Recognized my UP government under " Start in UP" program, they have been facilitated with 5 Lakhs of marketing assistance to launch a minimum viable product in the market.
Products that they offer:
- Smart Controller and Gateway : can convert any device into smart device. You can operate Water motor remotely on need basis, with mobile application and schedule it as well. This can control multiple data collector.
- Smart Data Collector : It collects soil moisture, pH, temperature, humidity etc. from the farm and sends it to cloud application on periodically. Plays key role in the growth and monitoring of farm crop
They provide solutions for Home, Corporate, Research and Farming. You can book a demo through their website.
If you are interested in any of their products, you can use the COUPON CODE : INSIDERS to avail a 10% discount.
You can connect with them on info@farmingforall.in or call them on 9560742211
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In this episode of Insiders Talk, we get to listen to **Punit Sindhwani , CEO of PAXCOM
About PUNIT SINDHWANIA technology enthusiast, Punit Sindhwani** has over 25 years of experience in developing innovative software products. Punit is currently the CEO of Paxcom, a SAAS based software firm which provides complete ecommerce automation solutions from creating and managing e-stores (or marketplaces) to advanced data analysis, exponential revenue growth, technical suite for managing warehouses and supply chains along with ensuring happy customers.
He co-founded and led R&D and Product development for Erevu Inc in 2001, a company focused on providing virtualized, policy driven, computing. Erevu was acquired by Aladdin Systems in 2002.
He founded Paxcel Technologies Pvt Ltd in 2003 with a focus on building high performance software product development teams in India. Paxcel partnered with several US firms and delivered high performance software solutions in Capital Markets, Payments, Compression, Geo-tagging and Big Data Analytics.
He Co-founded Mirchimart.com in 2011 and managed its technology and operations. Mirchimart was a first of its kind omni-channel solution in India with integrated brand store (mirchimart.com), physical outlets, and listings on Amazon.in, Flipkart and other leading market places. The innovative technology underpinning mirchimart managed centralized product content, inventory and order management across all channels and automated pricing and inventory forecasting using analytics.
About PaxcomStarted in 2014, Paxcom is a technology company providing eCommerce and Omnichannel solutions trusted by leading global & domestic brands for their eCommerce growth. It helps over 150 brands and sellers across 19 countries to accelerate their digital commerce through Channel Intelligence, Strategy & Execution, and Omnichannel solutions. Their eCommerce solutions include analytics software, advanced data analysis, marketing & advertising, content management, sentiment analysis, custom web stores creation, order & inventory management solutions among others.
Paxcom has been helping brands like PepsiCo, Mondelez, Abbott, Zydus, Britannia, Wipro, Paperboat and many more to establish and scale up their eCommerce presence, and have been successfully supporting them in India as well as Global markets.Paxcom's founding team took its plunge into ecommerce in 2010 through an ambitious foray into omnichannel retail, before amazon.in marketplace was launched in India. The in-house omnichannel technology that was built, empowered them for seamless growth across their D2C website, 11 physical locations and to be the pioneer in D2C and marketplaces in India. Mirchimart was one of the first few sellers that Amazon onboarded when they started their business in India. They also won the award for the largest seller in the electronics category on the Flipkart marketplace in 2014.
In 2019, Paxcom became a part of the Paymentus group - a leading global paperless electronic billing and payment solution, ranked by Deloitte to be amongst the fastest-growing North American companies.
Their eCommerce solutions include a strong suite of proprietary technical solutions, supported by an experienced services team to ensure end-to-end support for brands looking to accelerate their digital presence.
In this episode of Insiders Talk, we get to listen to Ashwanii Rawat and Amarsh Chaturvedi, Founders of Transerve
About Ashwanii Rawat and Amarsh Chaturvedi Ashwanii is one of the leading experts in satellite navigation technology in India, particularly in the field of precision mapping and its applications. He has a decade long experience in the field of location intelligence and solutions built thereon. During his stint at US-based Technology major Trimble Navigation, he helped in establishing the brand and GNSS precision technology in India and neighbouring countries. He built solutions that leveraged machine learning on satellite imagery and has co-authored research papers with reputed scientists in this area. He has studied Civil Engineering from IIT Kanpur.
Under his guidance and vision, Transerve Technologies Pvt Ltd has expanded leaps and bounds and is currently working with customers of national and international repute. The company has also executed multiple projects for National and International multi-lateral agencies and plans to double its net worth in the next 5 years while expanding its network across India and abroad.
A civic-tech entrepreneur, Amarsh Chaturvedi is the Co-Founder and Director at Transerve Technologies Pvt. Ltd.- a technologically driven organization that offers Geospatial technology-based SaaS solutions for urban issues like property tax, water, sanitation & solid waste management.
Mr. Amarsh leads Transerve’s technology team and has pioneered in building and deploying its solutions for cities. He has a keen interest in building technology stacks for solving critical urban problems and has been involved with stakeholders in this domain.
About TranserveTranserve offers geospatial analysis (Transerve Online Stack) platform to visualise and process the data for insights. Transerve Online Stack Platform is available for individuals and enterprises for sharing spatial data and map visualisation with their team and public through Map APIs. Leveraging the platform's capabilities, users can design forms, collect information on ground at a large scale with location-integration, manage, analyse and publish it online. Data collected from field upon approval updates the maps in real time.
CityOS module built on Transerve Online Stack helps in solving complex problems related to urban setup, such as inventorying urban assets, revenue enhancement, land records modernisation etc., Transerve solution facilitates increase in municipal revenue and improve civic service delivery by helping urban local bodies maintain an accurate database of properties on spatial platform. The solution is available at https://online.transerve.com as SaaS.
Transerve is ISO 9001:2015 and ISO 27001: 2013 certified company with offices at three locations in India. The company is funded by Belgian Sovereign Fund & DFID UK through Tara India IV fund, Omidyar Network, CIIE-IIMA and CIBA Goa. The company is headquartered in Panaji city and our solutions are being used at national level.
In this Episode of Insiders Talk, you will get to hear **Sonil Jain, Founder of Sowtex.
About Sonil Jain**Sonil Jain is a focused and ambitious person who is the Founder and CEO of Sowtex Network, a company that helps fashion and textile companies transform digitally. He is an over achiever and a keen learner with over 20 years of experience in the fashion and textile industries, having worked in sales, marketing, manufacturing, exports, fashion retail, ecommerce, and business technologies.
He has an MBA from CQ University in Australia and is currently studying new innovation skills at MIT in the United States.He started his textile career as a wholesaler and went on to make, export, retail and online fashion. His company, Ozelfashion.com, was among the initial online fashion startup companies in 2013, which he scaled to compete with fashion eCommerce players such as fashion & you and 99 Label, before exiting the race to Amazon, Mantra, Jabong, and Limeroad in 2016. He is an astute observer and a brilliant intellect. He did not give up, and after learning from his experiences, he established sowtex, one of Asia's fastest-growing B2B marketplaces for the fashion and textile industries.
His analysis of recurring business issues for small and medium-sized firms inspired him to work on new solutions, conceptualise, and integrate business automation tools for the Textile Eco-system.
About SowtexSowtex, headquartered in Gurgaon, is one of Asia's fastest-growing B2B marketplaces for fashion & textile Industry offering sourcing & E-learning solutions to over 10000+ listed textile businesses from Asia and around the world via smart tools and IOT solutions for design discovery, ready stock, available capacities, and lead generation in targeted textile categories. Silicon India awarded the tech aggregator platform as the Startup of the Year in 2020.
Its Vision is to build a platform that connects buyers and suppliers in the business ecosystem in order to knit the industry together. As a result, the economy will be able to fully realise the enormous potential of digital connectivity, while also increasing overall prosperity.
Its Objective is to act as a catalyst and uplift the growth of small, medium, and large businesses, as well as to connect them digitally on a global platform. Sowtex hope to influence the business world through collaboration and teamwork by inspiring people every day and assisting the economy in reshaping the way we all live, work, and play.
It is divided into three distinct verticals:
- Sowtex Network - lead generation and portfolio management tools
- Sowtex Connect - E-learning and upskilling for the industry, Buyer & Seller meet
- Sowtex Design Lab - Design library for Fabric & Trim suppliers, and 3D visualisation solutions for design development
Sowtex collaborates with different communities in textile eco-system to connect, engage and facilitate business opportunities using improved technologies.
In this episode of Insiders Talk you get to hear Punit Gupta, Co-founder and CEO of EasyEcom
About Punit Gupta
EasyEcom, an industry-leading omnichannel inventory management and reconciliation solution for e-commerce businesses, was founded in 2015 by Mr. Punit Gupta along with Ms. Swati Jindal.
Punit has around two decades of professional experience. He started his journey by working as a Research Consultant with MiraLab in Geneva, Switzerland and then moved onto working for Endeavor Telecom as Head of Engineering for over 6 years. In 2012, he founded TradeStreet, a platform developed for active stock traders to network and exchange trading ideas.
He completed his Bachelors Degree in Communication Design from Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati and Masters in Human Computer Interaction from Georgia Institute of Technology in 2003.
Mr. Punit likes to indulge in informative Discussions that make him refreshed and engaged, with an always optimistic “Never Quit Mindset.”
About EasyEcomEnabling small scale merchants, manufacturers, retailers to sell their products online. Expert in scaling online business and providing end to end solutions
In this episode of Insiders Talk you get to hear Vineet Tyagi, Global CTO of Biz2x (India Business).
ABOUT VINEET TYAGI
Vineet, a BE from NSIT and MS in consultancy management from BITSPilani, has over 25+years of experience in the Technology and IT industry. Vineet is currently the Global CTO & Country Head for Biz2X , a turnkey global SaaS platform that enables financial institutions to provide a customized online lending experience for their small and midsize business customers. He is a strategic leader with a proven track record of building technology led businesses and delivering digital transformation for large businesses. He has led businesses right from formulating business vision & strategies to building and commercializing products that have generated maximum ROI for stakeholders, customers and employees.
His area of expertise includes Digital Transformation, Big Data, Cloud Computing, Open Source, Thought Leadership and Technical Pre Sales, Product Development, Product & R&D portfolio management, creating & nurturing and managing a culture of high performance.
You can connect with him on LinkedIn**.
ABOUT BIZ2X**Biz2X is a turnkey global SaaS platform that enables financial institutions to provide a customized online lending experience for their small and midsize business customers. The company partners with financial institutions to support their Digital transformation efforts with Biz2X’s digital lending platform- from front-end application to AI based risk, auto underwriting, cash flow analyzer, and servicing. Biz2X solutions not only reduce operational expense, but power lending growth by significantly improving client experience, reducing total turnaround time, equip relationship managers with powerful insights and alerts, thereby increasing overall efficiency of the entire lending process.
The Biz2X Platform is the natural outgrowth of Biz2Credit’s established platform software that brands like HSBC and Popular Bank have chosen to launch new online lending initiatives. With enhanced loan management, servicing, risk analytics and a configurable customer journey, Biz2X is helping banks like these run their lending operations at scale.
Biz2X uses a streamlined user interface, AI-driven analytics and a customizable white label environment to help banks enhance their core services such as offering focused customer service, growing their portfolio, and increasing the use of their products. The Biz2X Platform offers end-to-end loan management features, including:-
- Loan Level Pricing
- A Risk Analytics Tool Suite
- Credit Policies Configured to Banks’ Needs
- An Intelligent, Dynamic Application for Each Product Type
- Low to No IT Work Required
- Cross-Device Compatibility
In the conventional banking model, the lending process is paperwork-heavy for the customer and expensive for the bank. The Biz2X Platform is designed for banks that are ready to streamline that process.
Biz2Credit has been perfecting and optimizing its online lending platform since 2007 for over million small business customers. Biz2X provides this proprietary technology to banks so they can make accurate credit decisions instantly and offer loans to their small business clients within a day.
For More Information - https://www.biz2x.com/india/
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A mother of 2 amazing daughters and a devoted family person, I had lost my sense of existence which was creating a lot of gaps in my life. I wanted to re-invent where I continued being what I was doing for past 6 years but at the same time I wanted to get back in the world where I was known for ME and not MY FAMILY.
That’s how a PODCASTER was born!
A mother of 2 amazing daughters and a devoted family person, I had lost my sense of existence which was creating a lot of gaps in my life. I wanted to re-invent where I continued being what I was doing for past 6 years but at the same time I wanted to get back in the world where I was known for ME and not MY FAMILY. That’s how a PODCASTER was born!
I am a graduate in Computer Engineering from Mumbai University in the year 2004. I started working in the same year with TCS China, a story which is my second episode (go hear it!), and learnt the skills of being a professional. I developed my passion for on-the-job learning early on and got to interact with clients too, making me more confident in speaking.
In the year 2008, I came to Bengaluru with new chapter of being a wife. And then started my journey of Indian way of working. I would say, a lot has changed for the good. But this Pandemic has pushed people working more hours than what the offices have designed! Think about it! You should fight for your ME TIME!
I had a privilege to work in Europe and loved that they made sure that your personal life was also addressed by keeping strict office hours! That was a new experience and a honeymoon period for us! We got to explore Europe, my dream and listen about their history and culture which I believe has an impact in the way I think.
Travel and Reading, are my passion and hobby. I love to explore and learn new things as I believe-
“You start learning when you take the first breath as you come into this word, and you stop when you take your last”
To know more about me : www.veronicamam.com
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