The Phoenix of Digital Content | Vinay Singhal @ WittyFeed

Breaking the paywall of high-skilled jobs | Prateek Shukla @ Masai School

1 hr 3 min 9 sec

Inspired by the teachings of the Masai tribe in Kenya, Prateek started Masai School to help Indian students bridge the skill gap. Hes been through a rollercoaster ride as a founder and he shares his journey of building Masai School, a journey that began soon after he graduated from IIT Kanpur.Additi...

Building the smart assistant for corporate employees | Adit Jain @ Leena AI

1 hr 6 min 40 sec

Adit Jain shares his story of building Leena AI straight out of college, including insights on finding product market fit and focusing like a pro. With 40 million dollars in funding, Leena AI proves that B2B products can be made in India and used worldwideAdditional links:1. Can AI improve the workp...

The employability edtech for Bharat | Anil Nagar @ Adda247

53 min 9 sec

The pandemic has impacted the edtech industry worldwide, and Indias edtech giants have been no exception. Adda247 has emerged as a unique player in this space, catering to the bottom of the pyramid with affordable online courses. Anil talks about his missiondriven approach and how it has helped buil...

Making health insurance frictionless | Mayank Kale @ Loop

58 min 55 sec

Mayank wanted to make healthcare as easy as pie by offering health insurance solutions to companies for their employees. But finding productmarket fit became tough. Not one to give up easily, Mayanks hard work paid off and Loop became the most wellfunded startup in the space. He shares his journey o...

Building the D2C success stack | Sonakshi Nathani @ Bik

59 min 8 sec

Bik helps companies increase the sales of their online stores through AIpowered customer engagement and communication tools. Sonakshi shares the journey of first building up Bikayi as a WhatsApp commerce tool for small businesses before making the pivot to Bik which offers solutions to large global ...

The debt funding masterclass | Bhavik Vasa @ GetVantage

18 min 47 sec

In the highstakes world of Shark Tank India, startup founders take centre stage to pitch their ideas to a panel of sharks. An intriguing statistic reveals that every third deal offered by the sharks is not an equity investment, but rather a debt deal. This episode decodes all things debt funding.Add...

Decoding alternative investing | Saurav Ghosh and Vineet Agrawal @ Jiraaf

52 min 59 sec

Jiraaf is helping the common man tap into the exclusive investment deals previously reserved for the elite few. Saurav and Vineet talk about how Jiraaf lets you put your money to work directly in corporate debt instruments, bypassing the banks.Additional links:1.How Fintech Startup Jiraaf Is Helping...

The first principle path to employability | Ashish Munjal @ Sunstone

51 min 15 sec

Sunstone—an educational disruptor thats solving Indias unemployability problem with first principle thinking. Ashish is a serial founder and he shares his lessons of finding product market fit, building pricing power, and growth hacking to reach scale.Additional links:1.This edtech startup is focusi...

The accidental mompreneur | Harini Sivakumar @ Earth Rhythm

1 hr 20 min 2 sec

Not fancy pedigrees but grit and determination Harinis journey is a powerful example of scaling up through these two. It resembles a captivating Hollywood movie, beginning with a homemaker turned accidental entrepreneur, and culminating in the creation of a 100crore business.Additional links:1.How H...

Challenging the Ola-Uber duopoly | Anmol Jaggi @ BluSmart

57 min 49 sec

BluSmart is an innovative ridehailing company that acquires vehicles instead of relying on drivers to buy them. Anmol, an accomplished entrepreneur, shares his insights on building sustainable businesses in India. He started his first business in college and took it to a public listing. Tune in to l...

Building the B2C communication stack | Shivakumar Ganesan @ Exotel

1 hr 15 min 28 sec

A small idea that grew into giant success Shivkumar Ganesan shares his story of building one of Indias pioneering SaaS companies and the rollercoaster ride of building it into the giant that it is today. Listen on for some amazing nuggets about market sizing, finding product market fit, fundraising ...

Building the e-commerce platform for factories | Siddharth Vij @ Bijnis

1 hr 34 min 42 sec

Siddharth spills the beans on starting up Bijnis while still in college. He talks about finding product market fit, raising funds without having an IIT or IIM pedigree, and how they continue to scale Bijnis profitably despite facing competition from extremely wellfunded competitors like Udaan and Aj...

The algebra of infinite patience | Ankit Oberoi @ AdPushup

1 hr 8 min 16 sec

Ankit struggled for years to build AdPushup, pivoting multiple times and struggling to attract investors. The company had only raised 2.5 mn before its recent phenomenal acquisition of 70 mn dollars. In this conversation, Ankit shares the ups and downs of building a global martech SaaS company and t...

Adding Intelligence To Location | Devashish Fuloria @ GeoIQ

50 min 26 sec

In a datarich world, companies that can leverage data for better decisionmaking are at the top of the value chain. GeoIQ helps businesses make smarter customer decisions by using location data. Devashish talks about how he built an API business that leverages big data and machine learning to help co...

Powering Hyperlocal Service Discovery | Satya Prabhakar @ Sulekha

50 min 24 sec

Satya Prabhakar founded Sulekha.com in the US in 2002 as a community and classifieds platform for Indians. After securing phenomenal funding, he relocated to India to start up Sulekha, a platform for finding reliable local service providers. Today, Sulekha is one of the largest service platforms in ...

Never back down | Tanay Pratap @ Invact

1 hr 34 min 24 sec

Tanay talks about his amazing journey of overcoming odds multiple times be it in getting a job with Microsoft and building the Microsoft Teams product or in the way Invact is disrupting how we are preparing the next generation for meaningful employment. Invact is a truly original edtech platform t...

Building India's answer to Ogilvy | Pratik Gupta @ Zoo Media

51 min 9 sec

If you search the top 10 advertising agencies in India, youll find that theyre all subsidiaries of international companies. There isnt a single agency on the list that is entirely owned by Indians. Zoo Media is on a mission to change that narrative. Pratik shares his decade and half long journey of ...

Debt Funding Without Drama | Abhiroop Medhekar @ Velocity

55 min 29 sec

In todays world, a startup is no longer dependent on investors to acquire funding. One can fund their startup through revenuebased financing. This is like a business loan, except the repayment of the loan is not via a fixed EMI but rather as a percentage of the revenue for a fixed period of time. Ab...

The global wearable leader from India | Gaurav Khatri @ Noise

56 min 56 sec

Consumer electronics brand and one of the top 5 global smartwatch sellers, Noise is a homegrown, purely bootstrapped startup. Gaurav talks about the journey of starting Noise by selling smartphone covers on ecommerce websites, and the many ups and downs in their journey before reaching a stage where...

Helping companies monetize content | Sunny Sen @ ConScent

55 min 13 sec

News and journalism are shifting their strategy from being free for consumption to going behind paywalls. ConScent is building a fullstack revenue solution for publishers, and in this episode, Sunny talks about the publishing landscape and the various ways to monetize content through smart user jour...

India's internet gaming pioneer | Vishal Gondal @ Indiagames

42 min 48 sec

If we were to write a history of tech startups in India, then surely there would be a pretty big chapter dedicated to Vishal Gondal. From becoming a tech entrepreneur while still in college to selling Indiagames to Disney for almost a hundred mn dollars Vishal recounts his fascinating story.Insight...

Democratizing access to finance | Bala Parthasarathy @ MoneyTap

1 hr 27 min 51 sec

Our guest today is an achiever in more ways than one. Born and brought up in Chennai in a humble household, he pursued his studies from the prestigious IIT, Madras campus. Well, he tells us that he wasn’t a risktaker or had an entrepreneurial side to him as a kid but loved to travel and explore new ...

Disrupting Car Ownership | Greg Moran @ ZoomCar

1 hr 10 min 5 sec

For the love of travelling, he would take international trips and immensely enjoy exploring diverse backgrounds. Growing up, he would travel to different destinations with his family, his first foreign trip being that to Italy. Today, he has changed the trend of car ownership with a car subscriptio...

A Saucy Appetite | Viraj Bahl @ Veeba Food Services Pvt. Ltd.

1 hr 22 min 3 sec

Our next guest on the Founder Thesis podcast is an entrepreneur who took no time to bounce back when his restaurant business failed.In a candid conversation with Akshay Datt, Viraj Bahl, Founder and Managing Director, Veeba Food Services Pvt. Ltd., takes us through his resilient journey, from being ...

SuperFoods Made by SuperMoms | Shauravi Malik @ Slurrp Farm

1 hr 25 min 36 sec

We often think or are made to believe that we will have to compromise on those taste buds in order to be fit and look good. But is there a way out for our food to be healthy and yummy at the same time With their Organic Food startup, Slurrp Farm, the two mothers Shauravi Malik and Meghana Narayan a...

Empowering India with Equitable Education | Sumeet Mehta and Smita Deorah @ Lead School

1 hr 27 min 37 sec

This week on Founder Thesis we are in conversation with a couple that’s on a mission to change the way India is educated. We are in conversation with the Founders of LEAD school Sumeet Mehta who is also the CEO and Smita Deorah who is the COO. Together they are working towards their vision of makin...

Reshaping India's Infrastructure | Hemant Kanoria @ SREI Infrastructure Finance Limited

58 min 15 sec

This week on Founder Thesis podcast host Akshay Datt is in conversation with Hemant Kanoria Chairman at SREI Infrastructure Finance Limited.A pioneer in the field of infrastructure finance, Hemant started SREI in 1989 and in the last two and half decades has scaled it to be Indias largest integrate...

Enabling Social Commerce | Abhinav Jain @ Shop101

1 hr 3 min 10 sec

“Building a product and building an organisation are two different things,” says Abhinav Jain, our guest today. A bunch of people were very excited about technology in school, they created a computer programming club.Somebody who was always up for honing new skills and specialising new crafts beyon...

Simplifying Finance for Businesses | Deepti Sanghi @ Kodo

1 hr 6 min 34 sec

Investment banker, active seed investor, problem solver and now a founder. Our guest today has worn numerous hats, but her greatest adventure yet is the one that’s allowing her to fulfil her entrepreneurial dreams. Always driven by a passion to do something for other businesses, Founder of Kodo, Dee...

Making India Financially literate | Prateek Singh @ LearnApp

1 hr 12 min 25 sec

Today’s episode of Founder Thesis is a story of finding opportunity in adversities and seeking lessons in all the curve balls that life throws at you. In what has been one of the most spirited conversations on the show join in as we catch up with Prateek Singh Founder of LearnApp.com over tons of i...

Making India Vokal | Aprameya Radhakrishna @ Koo/Vokal

58 min 9 sec

We all have that one habit which we’ve developed as kids and that’s still stuck with us even as adults. Aprameya Radhakrishna, our guest today, recalls that his childhood habit that stayed with him is observing things around him. A habit which helps him a lot today as an entrepreneur to understand t...

The Unicorn Factory | Sanjeev Bikhchandani @ Info Edge

1 hr 4 min 42 sec

It is rare that you come across a high school graduate who has chosen entrepreneurship as his career path. But our guest this week, is someone who was determined to be an entrepreneur and had made this choice on completing of his 12th Boards How When and Where Those pieces of the puzzle he was yet ...

The B2B SaaS Pioneer | Ambarish Gupta @ Knowlarity

1 hr 18 min

It is said that failure is the stepping stone to success, and that failures must be embraced. Our conversation with Ambarish Gupta of Knowlarity drives this home. Born into a business family of Kanpur, Ambarish had an early introduction to profit and loss as he helped around in his father’s shop. He...

The Fearless Explorer | Bijai Jayarajan @ Houm

52 min 28 sec

“I was never governed by fear” Bijai Jayarajan From being a young small town boy in South India to building a Multi Million Dollar company, Bijai Jayarajan is truly a fearless entrepreneur. Bijai founded Loyalty Rewardz in 2008. In his 10 year stint he raised venture capital investment to the tune ...

The Serial Founder | Hitesh Dhingra @ The Man Company

44 min 14 sec

“It pays to stay authentic and talk to millennials in the language they understand” Hitesh Dhingra.Hitesh Dhingra is the founder of The Man Company an exclusive men’s only grooming brand. He is a 4x Entrepreneur who has been a pioneer across various industries. Right from starting an eCommerce sit...

Unlocking Human Potential | Shobhit Banga @ Josh Talks

1 hr 1 min 10 sec

My loyalty is not to Josh but to unlocking human potential Shobhit Banga A school drop out, a state level Tennis player, India’s youngest qualifier of the elite “Paris Brest Paris” International cycling event, founder of two NGO’s Sach and Half Glass Full, a Forbes 30 Under 30 entrepreneur and t...

The People & Process Playbook for Scale | Hari TN @ BigBasket.com

47 min 8 sec

“You cant build a large company and build for scale without laying the foundations” Hari T.NIf you are seeking guidance on problem solving or building an organization for scale Hari is the person you should go to. As a part of the management team at various startups, he’s helped shape four successf...

Grooming his way to success | Shantanu Deshpande @ Bombay Shaving Company

1 hr 13 min 35 sec

The male grooming industry has come a long way in the past few years. Gone are the days when looking good was something exclusive to women.In a candid conversation with Akshay Datt, Shantanu Deshpande, Founder, and CEO, Bombay Shaving Company, shares his inspirational journey. He is an alumnus of II...

Powering Digitization of Offline Merchants | Shailaz Nag @ DotPe

1 hr 18 min 8 sec

All of you must be familiar with the phrase silver lining. Where the pandemic forced us to maintain social distancing, it has also enabled entrepreneurs to come up with innovative and disruptive business ideas.In a candid conversation with Akshay Datt, Shailaz Nag, Cofounder and CEO, DotPe, takes us...

Tackling Waste With Tech | Abhay Deshpande @ Recykal

1 hr 20 min 1 sec

Abhay started Indias first pure play ecommerce website called malamall.com way back in 1998, at a time when the internet ecosystem in India was nonexistent and not even 1 of Indias population was online. This episode is a candid and honest story of the struggles of entrepreneurship and proves how g...

The Payments' Business Masterclass | Akash Sinha @ Cashfree Payments

1 hr 33 min 9 sec

A few years ago, businesses were struggling to accept card payments, and thisdemanded a solution that could enable the smooth running of businesses acrossthe country. In this edition of Founder Thesis, Akshay Datt speaks with Akash Sinha,Cofounder and CEO, Cashfree Payments, a Bengalurubased FinTec...

The Trailblazer Venture Capitalist | Sanjay Swamy @ Prime Venture Partners

1 hr 10 min 31 sec

Sanjay Swamy is the doyen of the startup ecosystem. He envisioned mobiles disrupting the Indian economy in 2003 when the first reliance CDMA mobile phone had launched. Hes the man behind Prime Venture Partners one of the biggest homegrown VCs in India having funded dozens of iconic startups. He talk...

The $3 Bn Stock Trading Startup | Raghu Kumar @ Upstox

55 min 57 sec

Raghu Kumar is one of the unique founders we have featured. He and his brother grew up in the US and converted a ten thousand dollar investment into 2 million dollars through algorithmic trading in just 2 years. Upstox became a unicorn in 2021. In 2020, Raghu stepped down from the operational team o...

Building The On-demand Edtech Platform | Imbesat Ahmad @Filo

54 min 47 sec

Filo makes it possible for students to connect with teachers within 60 seconds for a live oneonone learning session. Imbesat is a serial entrepreneur in the education space. He talks about building products that deliver real outcomes for students and how to scale missiondriven educational ventures.K...

Building The Collections Stack | Anshuman Panwar @ Creditas Solutions

54 min 19 sec

When it comes to innovation, debt collection is a space that has lagged behind. Spotting this gap, Anshuman decided to build a SaaS product to radically disrupt traditional collection methods. By using data analytics, Creditas Solutions helps people recover debt seamlessly on their own terms. Listen...

Building A Medical Safety Net For India | Aniruddha Sen @ Kenko Health

48 min 56 sec

In an individuals lifetime, the majority of medical expenses are incurred on diagnosis, doctor consultation, medicines, etc. Kenko Health is aiming to build the countrys first Health Management Organisation HMO a health insurance plan that focuses on overall patient wellness and preventive healthcar...

Building The Employee Health Stack | Saransh Garg @ Nova Benefits

55 min 6 sec

Saransh Gargs journey represents the quintessential Silicon Valley founderstory that began with his first venture being launched straight out of college.An alumnus of IITBombay, Saransh has had a glorious career trajectory workingwith Boston Consulting Group, a prestigious global consulting firm and...

Building a D2C Growth Platform | Swagat Sarangi @ Smytten

54 min 17 sec

In this episode of Founder Thesis, Akshay Datt speaks with Swagat Sarangi,Founder of Smytten, one of Indias leading product discovery and trial platformthat is revolutionising the way consumers interact with brands.An alumnus of Indian School of Business, Swagat worked with Google as the Headof Busi...

Electrifying Mobility Through Tech | Saurav Kumar @ Euler Motors

48 min 29 sec

To tackle the serious challenge of pollution in Indian cities, Saurav founded Euler Motors in 2018 and named it after the Swiss mathematician Leonhard Euler. He is a serial founder whose last company was acquired by Paytm. He talks about his decadelong journey as a founder, his take on the commercia...

Fighting Disinformation With AI | Lyric Jain @ Logically

55 min 40 sec

In the hyperconnected world of today, fake news is everywhere. Tackling harmful and problematic online content is Logically. The startup started as a consumer news app but soon pivoted to fighting fake news with a focus on elections. If you hate reading fake news and want to know how to reduce its s...

Making Manufacturing Smart | Vipin Raghavan @ Haber

1 hr 5 min 14 sec

Even though India has been slow when it comes to modernizing machines, Haber might change that. With pathbreaking AI solutions, the RobotasaService startup is set to revolutionize the manufacturing industry. Listen on as Vipin Raghavan speaks about the compelling value proposition of HaberKnow about...

Reimagining The Humble Bread | Aditi Handa and Sneh Jain @ The Baker's Dozen

1 hr 1 min 11 sec

This edition is a delectable one where Akshay Datt chats with a couple elevatingIndias experience of bread consumption. Aditi Handa and Sneh Jain are thefounders of The Bakers Dozen, Indias first artisan bakery brand serving anexquisite variety of authentic European breads and bakery products. Aditi...

Building Dashboards For The Body | Vatsal Singhal and Mohit Kumar @ Ultrahuman

42 min 57 sec

Secondtime entrepreneurs, Vatsal and Mohit, speak about building Ultrahuman,one of the worlds most advanced fitness and metabolism tracking platforms.Listen on as they share their journey of starting up again, getting into thefitness space, and coming up with Indias first metabolism tracker wearable...

Slumboy Millionaire | Amit Mishra @ iMocha

51 min 34 sec

Not every day do we come across entrepreneurs whove battled against all odds, challenged the status quo, and carved a space for themselves. Amit Mishra grew up lowest in the economic pyramid in India. From no shoes to wear till graduation to leading a global SaaS company that is on track to hit 10 m...

Taking E-Pharmacy To The Masses | Vivek Jaiswal @ Saveo

1 hr 0 min 54 sec

Growing up in a small town, Vivek personally experienced the lack of adequate access to healthcare services, which motivated him to build a pharmacy ecommerce business that tackles the same. Saveo enables local pharmacies to serve customers better by providing them with easy access to a wide range o...

Reimagining Call Centres | Murthy Chintalapati @ Ozonetel

44 min 34 sec

With AI disrupting the cloud telephony industry, the need of the hour is to provide businesses with simple, scalable customer interaction channels. Ozonetel is a CCaaS Contact/Call Centre as a Service player that launched the first cloudbased customer experience platform in the Indian marketplace. S...

The Gen Z Way Of Buying Two-Wheelers | Sumit Chhazed @ OTO Capital

1 hr 13 min 35 sec

Think of having the flexibility of eCommerce, home trial, home delivery of a bike, and being able to pay a monthly subscription rather than an outright purchase this is what OTO Capital is enabling. Sumit is a serial entrepreneur who had previously scaled the used 2wheeler platform CredR to its pea...

The Serial Mobility-Tech Founder | Brijraj Bhuptani @ Spry

1 hr 32 min 3 sec

Brijraj has explored the mobility space from multiple perspectives. His first venture Ridlr was an app to help people navigate public transport. He started Spry which is a fullstack digital health platform for physiotherapists to help their patients lead painfree lives. Spry is a great example of a ...

The Martech Masterclass | Srikrishna Swaminathan @ Factors.AI

1 hr 26 min 23 sec

Martech refers to startups disrupting traditional marketing tools and channels with technology. Srikrishna has had a frontview seat in the Martech revolution. Prior to starting up, he was part of the global leadership at Indias first unicorn, InMobi. With Factors.AI, he plans to help B2B marketers m...

Building SaaS For Small Businesses | Sumit Agarwal @ Vyapar

1 hr 9 min 44 sec

Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises MSMEs safeguarded the Indian economyduring the COVID19 pandemic. However, this segments financial health used tosuffer owing to the lack of a robust framework for logging data.In this episode of Founder Thesis, Akshay Datt speaks with Sumit Agarwal,Founder of Vya...

Building The People Mobility Stack | Nikhil Aggarwal @ Chalo

21 min 33 sec

Chalo is on the road to becoming one of the first unicorns in the public transportation space. The startup makes lives easier for millions who use buses for intercity commuting. Nikhil eventually exited Chalo and founded Grip Invest. This is part one of a twopart conversation where he talks about bu...

The Social Content and Gaming Pioneer | Anirudh Pandita @ Loco

1 hr 5 min 24 sec

Anirudh is an investment banker who returned to India to build a business around Bollywood content. He built Pocket Aces which makes viral video content for young India. In the quest to not be reliant on social platforms for distribution, he ended up creating Loco. Loco is Indias leading livestreami...

The Serial Unicorn Founder | Sandeep Aggarwal @ ShopClues and Droom

1 hr 2 min 45 sec

When one talks about the pioneers of building unicorns in India, there would be only one man who has done this not once, but twice. Sandeep Aggarwal has had a fascinating journey from quitting Wall Street to starting ShopClues to now building Droom thats soon headed for an IPO. In this episode, the ...

Scaling B2C Lending | Madhusudan Ekambaram @ KreditBee

1 hr 8 min 35 sec

Unsecured personal loans are nothing new but most of them come with lots of hassles. This episode is a masterclass in understanding unsecured lending to consumers. Madhusudan talks to Akshay Datt about starting up, building a strong product, building both demand and supply, and the importance of ris...

Building The Bloomberg For Private Equity | Neha Singh and Abhishek Goyal @ Tracxn

59 min 22 sec

The global company Bloomberg mines market data to help businesses make prudent decisions. In a similar vein, Tracxn helps private market investors in their decisionmaking by providing curated profiles of startups and companies. Tune in to hear the story of two analysts building one of the worlds lar...

Banker To Small Businesses | Anubhav Jain @ Rupifi

1 hr 7 min 43 sec

There are millions of small SMEs in India that are starved of credit. These businesses are too small to be viable for a bank or NBFC to go out and acquire. This is the unserved market that became the opportunity to build Rupifi. After stints as a founder of an EdTech company and a consumer lending c...

A Techie's Tale Of Spirituality | Prashant Sachan @ AppsForBharat

1 hr 8 min 18 sec

Bhakti and Bharat are inseparable. Finding its root in Sanskrit, Bhakti meansspirituality and encompasses community, mental wellbeing, and philanthropy.Being a uniquely Indian concept, the market for this space remains hugelyuntapped.Prashant is an Internet entrepreneur who created a spiritualtech a...

Helping Companies Win The Talent War | Abhishek Poddar @ Plum

1 hr 3 min 27 sec

In this episode of Founder Thesis, Akshay Datt speaks with Abhishek Poddar,Founder and CEO of Plum, the startup helping companies provide unique affordable employee health insurance plans.An alumnus of IIT Kanpur and Stanford University, Abhishek has had a gloriouscareer working with global giants l...

Pioneering India's Craft Beer Revolution | Prabhtej Singh Bhatia @ Simba

20 min 9 sec

Those of you who came of age in the 90s and early 2000s would recall drinking beer meant choosing between a regular strength beer or an extra strong beer. There was no such thing as choosing a beer for its taste and flavor. But the Craft Beer Revolution changed that and made beer more of a lifestyl...

The Overnight Success That Took Decades | Karan Bajaj @ WhiteHat Jr

1 hr 34 min 54 sec

What happens when a guy who wears many hats finally builds his personal thesison ownership He creates WhiteHat Jr, the coding platform empowering the nextgeneration to be creators versus consumers of technology.An engineer, an MBA graduate, a brand manager, a successful novelist, a yogainstructor, a...

Pioneering Healthcare @ Home | Vaibhav Tewari @ Portea Medical

32 min 20 sec

With one of the worlds largest ageing populations, the eldercare market inIndia is estimated to be worth 5 billion. But still, a substantial chunk ofthis sector remains disintegrated and unorganised. In this edition of Founder Thesis, Akshay Datt talks with Vaibhav Tewari,Cofounder and CEO of Porte...

Redefining Critical Care Delivery | Dhruv Joshi @ Cloudphysician

1 hr 11 min 29 sec

The Internet of Medical Things IoMT is an infrastructure that links thetraditional healthcare system with digital medical devices and softwareapplications to synthesise various healthcare services. It has truly beentransformative for the healthcare industry. Telemedicine especially proved to bea boo...

Personal Loans At Scale | Ashish Goyal @ EarlySalary

1 hr 3 min 10 sec

The availability of formal shortterm credit boosts financial wellbeing by helping people make ends meet when facing a temporary financial crisis. Ashish is an investment banker and CA by profession. His decadelong extensive experience in Portfolio Management combined with a deep understanding of gro...

Serving Notifications To A Billion Eyeballs | Neel Kothari @ iZooto

1 hr 13 min 27 sec

There are 2 ways to build a startup one is through cash burn and the other isby bootstrapping it the harder but sustainable way. This episode is amasterclass in building a startup the harder way.Akshay Datt speaks with Neel Kothari who built iZooto, a push notificationplatform that touches the live...

Simplifying Banking | Vinay Bagri @ Niyo Solutions Inc.

55 min 8 sec

Neobanks are one such disruptor that one day will completely eclipse the traditional banking system.In this episode of Founder Thesis, Akshay Datt speaks with Vinay Bagri, Cofounder and CEO, Niyo Solutions Inc, which is one of India’s fastest growing neobanks.After spending more than a decade in ban...

Amazon for Farmers | Shashank Kumar @ DeHaat

56 min 56 sec

Agriculture is the primary source of livelihood for more than half of India’s population. And with more than 3/5th of land under cultivation, the scope of incorporating technology becomes even more evident.In this episode of Founder Thesis, Akshay Datt talks with Shashank Kumar, Cofounder and CEO, D...

The Mobility Pioneer | Rajiv Vij @ Carzonrent India Pvt. Ltd.

1 hr 7 min 57 sec

In this edition of Founder Thesis, Akshay Datt speaks with Rajiv Vij, a person who became the Czar of rented cars in India. Rajiv is currently the Chairman and Managing Director of Carzonrent.An alumnus of FMS Delhi, Rajiv started his career at Hindustan Motors which gave him exposure to the taxi bu...

Building The Gen-Z Coffee Brand | Arman Sood @ Sleepy Owl Coffee

49 min 53 sec

There is nothing like a great cup of coffee in the morning that charges you up for the day, and this eternal love for coffee led three friends to start a coldbrew coffee company that today is one of the leading D2C coffee brands in India.In this edition of Founder Thesis, Akshay Datt speaks with Arm...

Fast Fashion Meets Beauty | Anurag Kedia @ Pilgrim

1 hr 32 min 2 sec

In the past two years, there has been a drastic shift in consumer behaviour, courtesy of COVID Users are now aware of what they are consuming and there is an increased inclination towards personal wellbeing and care.In this episode of Founder Thesis, Akshay Datt speaks with Anurag Kedia, Cofounder, ...

Building A Network For B2B Service Providers | Naman Sarawagi @ Refrens.com

1 hr 12 min 10 sec

You all must have heard – It is not the destination but the journey that matters. This is the same with entrepreneurship.In this episode of Founder Thesis, Akshay Datt speaks with Naman Sarawagi, Cofounder, Refrens.com, a Bengalurubased venture that offers free invoicing, payments and expense manage...

Building NextGen Marketeers | Varun Satia @ Kraftshala

1 hr 26 min 8 sec

MBA is the goto postgraduate degree in India. But there are two major issues students face. On one hand, where a minor chunk gets selected to the top institutes, the irrelevant curriculum fails to prepare students for what lies ahead in corporate life.In this edition of Founder Thesis, Akshay Datt s...

Empowering Rural India with FinTech | Dilip Modi @ Spice Money

1 hr 15 min 34 sec

While numerous FinTech startups have started working towards empowering rural India, Spice Money is one such startup that is working categorically towards the financial inclusion of rural India.Founder Thesis brings you the inspirational journey of Dilip Modi, Founder, Spice Money, where he tells Ak...

Democratizing Lending | Bhavin Patel @ LenDenClub

1 hr 0 min 11 sec

Getting access to loans, that too timely is a painful process in India. There are numerous parameters for approval and one’s request might be denied for reasons which are nowhere related to a borrower’s credibility.In this episode of the Founder Thesis podcast, Akshay Datt speaks with Bhavin Patel, ...

Strengthening The Digital-First Economy | Anurakt Jain @ Klub

59 min 29 sec

With a huge market opportunity to grab, it’s a golden age for digitalfirst businesses. And with plans to accelerate growth for the digitalfirst economy is Klub.In this edition of Founder Thesis, Akshay Datt speaks with Anurakt Jain, Cofounder and CEO, Klub, a Bengalurubased startup that is pioneerin...

Automating CX | Raghu Ravinutala @ Yellow.AI

31 min 46 sec

Pivoting is not the end of the disruption process but the beginning of the next leg of your journey. This is exactly the essence of the journey of our next guest on Founder Thesis.In this episode, Akshay Datt speaks with Raghu Ravinutala, Cofounder and CEO, Yellow.ai, a hardcore techie who has worke...

India's Pioneering FinTech Company | Kunal Varma @ Freo (Part 2)

1 hr 23 min 26 sec

Innovation and disruption are the hallmarks of the technology world. Amidst the fintech revolution and the subsequent rise of digital banks in India, going to a bank branch is no longer in vogue.And with neobanking, this metamorphosis has reached a new level with stateoftheart technologies and provi...

Building A D2C For Baby Gear | Kunal Popat @ R For Rabbit

43 min

The most successful businesses are the ones that are built around solving a problem for others.In this edition of Founder Thesis, Akshay Datt speaks with Kunal Popat, Founder, R For Rabbit. Inspiration knocked at his door when he became a father and couldn’t find any certified and safe baby gear in ...

Making Fleet Management Smarter | Vidit Jain and Shridhar Gupta @ LocoNav

52 min 18 sec

When it comes to innovation, India has come a long way. But there is still a lot to be achievedIn this edition of Founder Thesis, Akshay Datt speaks with Vidit Jain and Shridhar Gupta, Founders, LocoNav. They have worked together at ClearTax before starting with their entrepreneurial journey.Intrigu...

Democratizing Access To Wealth Management | Sandeep Jethwani @ Dezerv.in

1 hr 0 min 43 sec

In this edition of Founder Thesis, Akshay Datt speaks with Sandeep Jethwani, Cofounder, Dezerv.in. He is an alumnus of IIM Bangalore and has an extensive experience in the wealth management domain.Before starting his entrepreneurial journey, Sandeep worked with IIFL Wealth for more than a decade. In...

The EV Game Changer | Akash Gupta @ Zypp Electric

34 min 40 sec

The country’s transportation sector is on the verge of a phenomenal change. Courtesy of EVtechIn this episode of Founder Thesis, Akshay Datt speaks with Akash Gupta, Cofounder and CEO, Zypp Electric, India’s leading B2B Delivery and shared mobility app.After an extensive experience in the corporate ...

Building The Pipes For FinTech | Aditya Kumar @ Niro

50 min 7 sec

“At the core of largescale transformations lies a single innovation. We believe that embedded finance is one such innovation.” – Aditya Kumar.In this edition of Founder Thesis, Akshay Datt speaks with Aditya Kumar, Cofounder and CEO, Niro, a secondtime founder, who is on a mission to transform consu...

Saying No To Brokers | Amit Kumar Agarwal @ NoBroker.com

1 hr 26 min 46 sec

‘The biggest risk is not taking any risk.’ – Mark Zuckerberg.In this edition of the Founder Thesis podcast, Akshay Datt speaks Amit Kumar Agarwal, Founder and CEO, NoBroker.com, the country’s first unicorn in the proptech space.Drawing inspiration from Mark Zuckerberg and his bitter experience of ho...

Building The Pipes For BNPL | Ramanathan RV @ Hyperface

1 hr 30 min 51 sec

In the last five years, digital payments have picked up pace in India and our economy is witnessing a shift towards credit products.In this edition of Founder Thesis, Akshay Datt speaks with Ramanathan RV, Cofounder, Hyperface, a Bengalurubased bankingasaservice startup that is helping companies in ...

Democratizing Satellite Technology | Sanjay Nekkanti and Chaitanya Dora Surapureddy @ Dhruva Space

1 hr 4 min 6 sec

Dhruva Space is in the business of making space accessible to businesses. Sanjay and Chaitanya talk about low earth orbit satellites, why satellites are a big business, and how they are building the full stack for enterprises to take advantage of satellite technology.Additional links: 1. Dhruva Spac...

Aggregating supply and demand of logistics | Gaurav Mangla @ Pickrr

1 hr 9 min 45 sec

Pickrr has built an assetlight logistics platform that aggregates logistics service providers and companies seeking logistics services. Gaurav is a serial entrepreneur whose first venture was in the B2B Saas space. He talks about the lessons from his decadelong journey as an entrepreneur and about s...

Leveraging data for smart manufacturing | Jagadish Gattu @ UptimeAI

43 min 26 sec

UptimeAI is a plugandplay solution helping manufacturers solve glitches before they manifest by ingesting data generated from the production process. Jagadish talks about how he identified problems in traditional manufacturing and built the venture thats powering smart manufacturing across the world...

The BNPL Masterclass | Gaurav Hinduja @ axio

58 min 27 sec

Market leader and one of the most wellfunded startups Axio is creating ripples across the lending ecosystem. But the journey of reaching the top has been full of highs and lows, and Gaurav candidly shares his lessons from a decade of building and scaling Indias pioneering lending fintech.Additional ...

Helping marketers peek inside consumer minds | Ranjan Kumar @ Entropik

1 hr 15 min 29 sec

Entropik is solving a truly hard problem of how to read the mind of a consumer. They have built an AIpowered platform that helps companies decode the emotional state of consumers by using neuroscience and machine learning. This conversation is a masterclass in building deeptech products and scaling ...

Building a Payments Led Lending Business | Vaibhav Lodha @ ftcash

1 hr 11 min 25 sec

In the shadows of large payments companies exists a startup that is building with the reverse philosophy ftcash first acquires customers for loans and then gives them payment processing services. Vaibhav talks about how his unique background helped him build ftCash using first principles thinking.In...

Building on a formidable legacy | Akshay Munjal @ Hero Vired

50 min 36 sec

Akshay Munjal shares his firsthand experience of watching the Hero Group founder Brijmohan Lall Munjal build up Hero into a truly remarkable business. He shares his personal journey of first running the corporate training venture Hero Mindmine, then setting up the BML Munjal University, and finally ...

Financial inclusion for the bottom of the pyramid | Rahul Gupta @ Avanti Finance

47 min 5 sec

It is of no doubt that technology is a crucial driver of financial inclusion. Avanti Finance is building an ecosystem around tech to empower Indias unbanked sector. Backed by stalwarts Ratan Tata and Nandan Nilekani, this startup sees the promise of making India povertyfree. Rahul shares his learnin...

Building platforms to empower jobseekers | Tarun Matta @ IIMJobs and Juno School of Business

56 min 32 sec

As an IIM alumnus, Taruns passion for empowering his fellow batchmates with job opportunities drove him to create IIMJobs.His dedication paid off when Infoedge acquired his venture for a staggering 12mn in 2019. Now, Tarun is taking on his next challenge with Juno School of Business, a gamechanging ...

Empowering the blue-collar workforce | Pravin Agarwala @ Betterplace

59 min 37 sec

BetterPlace is one of the most successful HR Tech companies in India. The startup has built a platform of products for companies with a large bluecollar workforce. They help companies manage their employees better and help them get access to financial products previously unavailable to them.Read the...

The OG EdTech Founder | Rajendra Pawar @ NIIT Limited

1 hr 29 min 56 sec

For those who missed the top engineering college bus in the 90s but still craved an IT career, NIIT was an allpowerful educator. Rajendra Pawars journey of building NIIT is a masterclass in EdTech entrepreneurship, spanning decades and continents. With a public listing and a global reach, NIIT has b...

The Bharat way of insurance distribution | Balachander Sekhar @ RenewBuy

59 min 7 sec

Insurance is an industry where people used to rely on agents to buy policies. But then came PolicyBazaar, which went the Silicon Valley way and got rid of agents. Enter RenewBuy, which took the Made for Bharat approach and respected the agents spirit of entrepreneurship by empowering them. In this c...

Empowering founders with debt | Eklavya Gupta @ Recur Club

43 min 13 sec

Recur Club is solving the problem of access to funds for startups with predictable revenue streams. Their secret sauce lies in the deep tech integration that they are able to do with the borrowers.Additional links:1. Recur Club allocates 15 million in financing to Indian startup founders affected by...

Building the health tech super app | Prasad Kompalli @ Mfine

54 min 15 sec

Prasad Kompalli embodies the playbook for entrepreneurial success. With a strong technological background and 8 patents under his belt, Prasad had a rewarding tenure at SAP, the German tech giant that honed his skills and expertise. He recounts the challenges faced by Mfine, navigating through a nea...

Building a unicorn without really trying to | Dhiraj Rajaram @ Mu Sigma

1 hr 25 min 34 sec

“The rate of increase of data is very high, but the rate of increase of noise is much higher” Dhiraj Rajaram. In a world of knockoff ideas it is refreshing to come across originality and ideas that are truly authentic. Our conversation with Dhiraj Rajaram, the Founder of Mu Sigma was one such refre...

Making India Travel | Aloke Bajpai @ Ixigo

1 hr 3 min 4 sec

Our guest today is someone who was moved by the movie ‘Swades’ to an extent that he decided to leave foreign land in order to leverage his skill set in his own desh India. It was his love for his own country that moved him to pursue his bigger calling. He is none other than Aloke Bajpai, the CEO an...

The Phoenix of Digital Content | Vinay Singhal @ WittyFeed

1 hr 21 min 21 sec

Coming from a small village to building one of the fastestgrowing viral content websites, WittyFeed, Vinay Singhal has had an intriguing journey. He was the first person in his family to get educated, and hence he was completely clueless about the outside world. This did not dent his determination t...

Challenging Traditions & Simplifying Languages | Anuradha Agarwal @ Multibhashi

1 hr 20 min 2 sec

Being a modern person in a hidebound culture isn’t easy. Especially when you are a woman because then, your resume is crafted for getting a placement in a ‘good family’. Your qualifications, work experience, education and description all count But, the less the better Just like many other women, thi...

Fynding the path for online and offline sales | Harsh Shah @ Fynd

1 hr 32 min 30 sec

As an IIT Bombay graduate in metallurgical engineering and materials science, trying to figure out his way through life, he was not really sure what he wanted to choose as his field of work per se. A problemsolver, Harsh Shah is always thriving and striving to make an impact. In this episode, he sha...

India's Original Ed-Tech Founder | Satya Narayanan R @ CL Educate

57 min 58 sec

I am not the guy who makes the choice happen to him, I must make the choice Satya Narayanan R. In this episode we talk to Satya Narayanan R, the Founder and Chairman of what you could say is India’s original edtech venture CL Educate, better known as Career Launcher. Satya is not just an entrepren...

Incubating Dreams | Dr. Aniruddha Malpani @ Malpani Ventures

1 hr 18 min 12 sec

A human who is capable of multitasking at his best. We call our today’s guest on the episode, a Superhuman. He is an extremely passionate man, he is unabashed, and is hungry for achieving the goals he sets his mind to. An IVF Specialist by the day, he is also an Angel Investor. He is grateful every ...

Empowering Offline Retailers | Anshoo Sharma @ Magicpin

1 hr 8 min 29 sec

“Dream Big. Work hard. Make it happen.” Such is the story of our guest today Anshoo Sharma. The founder and CEO of Magicpin, the largest discovery platform for offline retail in India. Anshoo shares with us his entrepreneurial journey in the most honest way possible. He is a risktaker and an extre...

Hustling, Hosteling & Gaming | Dharamveer Singh Chouhan @ Zostel

1 hr 1 min 50 sec

In what has been one of the most fun conversations we’ve had on Founder Thesis we sit down for a chat with Dharamveer Singh Chouhan, CoFounder and CEO of Zostel the largest chain of backpacker hostels and experiential homes in Asia. An explorer and nonconformist at heart, Dharamveer’s journey into...

Taking Ayurveda Global | Rishabh Chopra @ The Ayurveda Experience

57 min 6 sec

“I believe little in luck and more in working hard and getting something done” Rishabh ChopraIn this episode of Founder Thesis we talk Rishabh Chopra, the founder of The Ayurveda Experience Transformative Learning Solutions. An alum of the prestigious student run global organisation AIESEC, Rishabh...

Making India Dine Out | Ankit Mehrotra @ DineOut

1 hr 8 min 32 sec

“In India, dining out is an event, smallest of things can ruin it, and smallest of things can make it better”– Ankit MehrotraAnkit’s tryst with entrepreneurship got ignited when he overcame his fear of failing an exam. The boy who grew in the bylanes South Delhi went to the University of Essex to pu...

The Lifelong Hustler | Nakul Kumar @ Cashify

1 hr 9 min 46 sec

“I do not limit myself from thinking insane things, and trying to figure a logic on if you can do it” Nakul Kumar Nakul Kumar is the Cofounder of Cashify, a recommerce leader in India with a focus on smartphones. Nakul is an MDI Gurgaon graduate and a serial entrepreneur. His first business was in ...

Upskilling India | Hari Krishnan Nair @ Great Learning

54 min 33 sec

“For education to be meaningful it cannot be superficial Hari Krishnan Nair. Cofounder of Great Learning, India’s largest online learning platform Hari Krishnan Nair is the entrepreneur who made professional education easily accessible to Indians so that they could equip themselves with career crit...

Resilience & Taking Risks | Tonmoy Shingal @ Mettl

1 hr 0 min 33 sec

“You can’t change what the market wants, you can only serve what the market wants” Tonmoy Shingal. For this weeks Founder Thesis episode, we sat down for a conversation with Tonmoy Shingal the cofounder of HFtech SAAS platform, Mettl. A tech solution that changed the way organisations hire talent. ...

Never Settle | Vikas Bagaria @ Pee Safe

58 min 51 sec

“The credit goes to my team always. You can not build a brand singlehandedly.” Vikas Bagaria. Vikas Bagaria is the founder of Pee Safe India’s leading personal hygiene brand on a mission to empower women with good health and easy hygiene solutions. With several accolades already under its belt, Pe...

The King of Tough Times | Girish Batra @ Netambit

33 min 50 sec

“Organisation has to be larger than yourself” Girish BatraGirish Batra is the founder of NetAmbit a 19yearold organisation that has been powering startups in India to scale their businesses through a unique sustainable sales growth model. The model was so successful that it was featured in Forbes ...

Evangelising Crypto in India | Nischal Shetty @ WazirX

1 hr 11 min 10 sec

Every problem has a solution. You just have to be creative enough to find it. Our guest in thisepisode is a problem solver at heart, who has used the art of coding to solve reallife problems.Brace for the resilient journey of Nischal Shetty, Founder and CEO, WazirX, India’s largest cryptocurrency e...

Taking the NPA challenge head on | Rishabh Goel @ Credgenics

1 hr 3 min 53 sec

India is on the cusp of a new fintech revolution. Post demonetization, where the sector has witnessed a surge in digital payments and lending, there have been very few fintech companies that focus on resolving the debt recovery opportunity.In a candid conversation with the host Akshay Datt, Rishabh ...

The Lifelong Slasher | Roshan Abbas @ Kommune India

1 hr 24 min 30 sec

He is a performing artist by heart, someone who hit the stage when he was merely 4 years old and guess what, he never got off A creator, writer, director and entrepreneur, he gets immense joy from words, phrases, and playing with them creatively. When kids his age would play cricket after school, he...

Taking the road less travelled | Dr. Ritesh Mallik @ Innova8

52 min 1 sec

“There are always two roads which will emerge for an entrepreneur, and you have to take the one less travelled.” – Dr Ritesh MalikOur guest today is a person who has donned many hats – an entrepreneur, an investor, a public speaker, and a doctor.In a candid conversation with Akshay Datt, Dr Ritesh M...

Unboxing supply chain excellence | Amitava Saha @ Xpressbees

53 min 8 sec

Achievement is selfcentric, but contribution is all about creating impact and building up values for a larger goal. Such is the outlook of our guest on the latest episode of Founder Thesis. Belonging to a humble background, Amitava Saha, Cofounder and CEO, Xpressbees, is a firstgeneration entreprene...

The Merchant Payments Pioneer | Ashneer Grover @ BharatPe

1 hr 13 min 49 sec

In November 2016, demonetisation was announced by the Indian government and the market witnessed an immediate surge in digital payments. And this was further propelled by the United Payments Interface UPI.While fintech giants like Paytm and PhonePe were the flagbearers of this movement, BharatPe has...

Making Commerce Social | Pulkit Agarwal @ Trell

1 hr 1 min 11 sec

What you seek is seeking you. This is what describes the story of our guest in this episode.For Pulkit Agrawal, Cofounder and CEO, Trell, a visual blogging app, this search started around six years ago, with a desire to visit local pandals during the Ganesh Chaturthi festival in Mumbai, little knowi...

Tapping the Billions in B2B ECommerce | Rahul Garg @ Moglix

1 hr 5 min 27 sec

“The important thing about creating an enterprise is creating the size of the impact.”Rahul Garg, Founder, MoglixHe is a curious learner. When in college all he wanted was to be the best in his field i.e. become the best engineer. Fuelled by his curiosity to learn, he tapped great opportunities on t...

Giving a voice to Bharat | Mayank Bidawatka @ Koo & Vokal

1 hr 25 min 20 sec

We have all been lost at some point in our lives, uncertain of things and trying to figure it all out at the same time. Growing up in Mumbai and coming from a business family, today’s guest on Founder Thesis is someone who has a passion for creating stuff and building products. Someone fascinated by...

Launching into the Cosmos | Srinath Ravichandran @ Agnikul Cosmos

2 hr 2 min 35 sec

Ever since the Government of India opened the space sector to private players, it has been on a growth trajectory. Leading this pack is Agnikul Cosmos.In a candid conversation with Akshay Datt, Srinath Ravichandran, Cofounder and CEO, Agnikul Cosmos, takes us through his amazing journey. Before zoom...

Laddering up via mistakes | Rajiv Srivatsa @ Antler India and Urban Ladder

1 hr 40 min 55 sec

“Failure is not the opposite of success it’s a part of success.” – Arianna HuffingtonThis is a brief sketch of the inspirational journey of our next guest.In a candid conversation with Akshay Datt, Rajiv Srivatsa, Partner, Antler India, shares his life experiences. He is an alumnus of IIT Madras and...

Never Quit | Ankit Prasad @ Bobble.ai

1 hr 7 min 20 sec

Ever heard of the Japanese proverb, “Fall seven times, stand up eight.” That’s exactly the premise of the story of our guest on this episode of the Founder Thesis podcast.In a candid conversation with Akshay Datt, Ankit Prasad, Founder, and CEO, Bobble AI, has shared interesting anecdotes about his ...

Building The Fintech Backbone | Prabhu Rangarajan @ M2P Fintech

1 hr 43 min 16 sec

In a gold rush, the ones who sell the shovels are the ones who make the mostmoney. In the fintech gold rush that we are seeing today, its a company likeM2P Fintech that is selling the shovels connecting banks, fintechs, andbusinesses with custom APIs for financial services. This episode is a mustli...

The SaaS Biz Powering Logistics Startups | Soham Chokshi @ Shipsy

47 min 43 sec

Shipsy is like the operating system of logistics helping companies run logistics operations efficiently, with minimal paperwork and information loss. Soham is an investment banker inspired by Bloomberg to build a platform business and has had a fascinating journey of discovering productmarket fit a...

Combating The Silent Pandemic | Dr. Anand Anandkumar @ Bugworks Research Inc.

1 hr 21 min 57 sec

In this edition of Founder Thesis, Akshay Datt talks with Dr. Anand Anandkumar,CEO and MD of Bugworks Research Inc., a remarkable drug discovery companyfocused on developing novel broadspectrum antibiotics and immunotherapies thatstand to transform the healthcare ecosystem worldwide.A veteran in the...

Going Hyperlocal Through Vending Machines | Prerna Kalra @ Daalchini

1 hr 3 min 8 sec

The RetailasaService platform, Daalchini helps microentrepreneurs set up smart vending machines and begin earning revenue within months. They are also a strong distribution network for cloud kitchens and directtoconsumer food and beverage brands. Prerna shares how she found the right business strate...

Lord Of The Logistics | Abhishek Bansal @ Shadowfax

1 hr 25 min 58 sec

An IIT Delhi alumnus who, inspired by the Chinese startup scene, built Indiaslargest hyperlocal techbacked gig marketplace Abhisheks story is truly likethat of Frodo Baggins. In an insightpacked conversation, Abhishek tells Akshay about the journey ofbuilding Shadowfax.Know about: Aggregating suppl...

Revolutionizing Sustainable Mobility | Vikash Mishra @ MoEVing

1 hr 25 min 10 sec

The Indian auto industry is going through a gradual but essential change whichwill continue for the next 10 to 15 years. If the trends are to be believed, theIndian EV industry is estimated to reach USD17 billion in the next five years.In this edition of Founder Thesis, Akshay Datt speaks with Vikas...

Made In India For Global Pharma | Manish Gupta @ Indegene

1 hr 10 min 34 sec

Indegene was founded in an era when VC money was not flowing. Manish talks about Indegenes journey of sustainable scaling, starting with helping pharma companies with content and training to eventually becoming the fullstack behemoth that it is today with a few acquisitions along the way. This epis...

A Banker Walks Into A Gold Bar | Gaurav Mathur @ SafeGold

1 hr 5 min 38 sec

Gaurav has a fascinating thesis on the past and future of money, and Safegold is his expression of that thesis. In this freewheeling conversation Gaurav talks about the Wild West days of PE investing in India, his learnings as an investor, and the ambitious journey he is undertaking at SafeGold.Know...

The Tech Toy Story | Vivek Goyal @ PlayShifu

1 hr 6 min 5 sec

PlayShifu creates immersive learning experiences for children through games that merge digital technology with physical objects. Vivek talks about discovering productmarket fit and taking a modular approach to product development by building platforms instead of standalone games. He shares crucial i...

Building India's 911 | Prabhdeep Singh @ StanPlus

1 hr 2 min 33 sec

Thousands of lives are lost every day due to delays in accessing ambulances on time. India can save over 20 of patients suffering cardiac arrest every year if ambulances/ first aid care facilities reach them in a timely manner. StanPlus is a medical emergency response platform that is solving the pr...

Building The Full Stack For Higher Education | Ruchir Arora @ CollegeDekho

1 hr 5 min 50 sec

Higher education represents more than half of the Indian education industry, which has been estimated at the US 135 billion in FY20. India has more than 50,000 colleges and students often find themselves in utter confusion while choosing the right course and college. Ruchir Arora was working in the ...

Disrupting The Trillion Dollar Business Travel Market | Mayank Kukreja @ Itilite

54 min 56 sec

As a McKinsey consultant, Mayank saw firsthand the inefficiencies in corporate travel. This led him to build Itilite, a Tiger Globalbacked SaaS enterprise that offers travel and expense management solutions to companies to ensure seamless travel. Mayank speaks about bringing the ease of personal tra...

Building The Amazon For Lending | Gaurav Chopra @ IndiaLends

52 min 30 sec

IndiaLends brings efficiencies in the lending process by aggregating multiple lenders on one platform so that every customer can find a lender that meets their needs. Gaurav is a lending industry veteran, having worked with global lending companies. He talks about the 7 yearlong journey of building ...

Making Mobility Accessible | Srinivas Kantheti @ Bike Bazaar

1 hr 26 min 38 sec

In tier 2, 3, and 4 cities, buying a used bike is a hassle. The problem of financing exists. Bike Bazaar is chasing this opportunity by building a full stack solution that not just focuses on financing but builds solutions around retail and quality. This conversation is a mustlisten for anyone wanti...

Pioneering Hyperlocal Logistics | Vatsal Singhal and Mohit Kumar @ Runnr

47 min 14 sec

Cockpit of innovation, scale, and form, Vatsal and Mohit built one of the mostwellknown hyperlocal logistics startups that helped food tech giant Zomatosuccessfully pivot from a food discovery app to a food delivery app. With aprinciple of Click, Pick and Delivered, Runnr has grown the revenue ofcom...

Disintermediating Banks | Nikhil Aggarwal @ Grip Invest

40 min 9 sec

Nikhils second venture is Grip Invest its making structured debt available to end consumers directly, removing the middlemen from the process like banks and NBFCs. Grip Invest allows consumers to directly lend to corporates and earn a much higher rate of interest than saving via fixed deposits and ...

Enabling Inclusive Innovation | Gireendra Kasmalkar @ Ideas To Impacts

46 min 6 sec

In the past two decades, India has grown to be one of the top countries contributing to the global IT industry. The youth who migrated to these large IT hubs have been a vital driver of this growth.But this, for the longest time, has been the most uneven form of growth.In this edition of Founder The...

The Story Of Resilience And Recovery | Sumit Suneja @ Merlin Brands

57 min 29 sec

Ever heard of the Japanese proverb, “Fall seven times, stand up eight.” That is exactly the premise of the story of our guest on this episode of the Founder Thesis podcast.In this episode, Akshay Datt speaks with Sumit Suneja, CEO, Merlin Brands, a company that houses Rabitat a parenting brand and H...

Eko-ing Mass Financial Inclusion | Abhinav Sinha @ Eko India

44 min 35 sec

Is first mover really an advantageIn this episode of Founder Thesis, Akshay Datt speaks with Abhinav Sinha, Cofounder, Eko India Financial Services, a company that envisioned the innovations FinTech brought in recent years, more than a decade ago.Eko started operations in 2007 with an aim to bring b...

Building The Next-Gen POS Financing | Tushar Srivastava @ Skeps

1 hr 23 min 27 sec

One of the biggest impediments of the Fintech industry has been the way consumer loans are handled by large institutions. In the process of getting a consumer loan approved, an application flows from one lender to another and faces rejections. This hugely affects the credit score, and the consumer m...

The Crypto Masterclass | Arjun Vijay and Vikram Subburaj @ Giottus

1 hr 36 min 28 sec

India has a pretty strange relationship with cryptocurrency. Amidst bans, pandemics and whatnot, crypto companies continue to be bullish on the Indian market.In this episode of Founder Thesis, Akshay Datt speaks with Arjun Vijay and Vikram Subburaj, Founders, Giottus, the country’s leading crypto as...

The Community Monetization Playbook | Tamanna Dhamija @ Convosight

48 min 10 sec

As joyful as it sounds, motherhood can also be a painful journey. The extent of decisions taken by new mothers is bound to make them nervous and apprehensive.In this episode of the Founder Thesis, Akshay Datt speaks with Tamanna Dhamija, Cofounder, Convosight. She is an alumnus of MDI, Gurgaon and h...

Ayurveda's Modern Makeover | Ameve Sharma @ Kapiva

45 min 50 sec

As busy as it can get, health, in these times, has taken a back seat. We often fail to consume a proper diet which leads to numerous deficiencies.Founder Thesis brings you the journey of one such founder who has made it his mission to make Ayurveda an integral part of the daytoday life of the modern...

India's Pioneering FinTech Company | Kunal Varma @ Freo (Part 1)

34 min 4 sec

Innovation and disruption are the hallmarks of the technology world. Amidst the fintech revolution and the subsequent rise of digital banks in India, going to a bank branch is no longer in vogue.And with neobanking, this metamorphosis has reached a new level with stateoftheart technologies and provi...

Creating Paw-sitive Impact | Rashi Narang @ Heads Up For Tails

1 hr 21 min 38 sec

Passion, patience, and perseverance are the ingredients to be a successful entrepreneur.In this episode of Founder Thesis, Akshay Datt speaks with Rashi Narang, Founder and Creative Director, Heads Up For Tails HUFT, whose entrepreneurial journey is nothing but perseverance and grit.Rashi, an ardent...

Building The Tinder For Hiring | Raj Das @ Hirect

45 min 38 sec

Recruiting talent has always been a tough nut to crack. And the pandemic proved to be one such trigger that has spiked unemployment rates globally.In this edition of Founder Thesis, Akshay Datt speaks with Raj Das, Cofounder and CEO, Hirect India, the country’s first chatbased hiring app. He is an a...

Lights, Camera, FinTech | Priti Rathi Gupta @ LXME

1 hr 5 min 53 sec

Financial independence is an essential life skill, and it has been a concept dominated by men.But not anymoreIn this episode of Founder Thesis, Akshay Datt speaks with Priti Rathi Gupta, Founder, LXME, who is spearheading the mission to bridge the gap between women and finance.A selfproclaimed finan...

Making Indian Exporters Win | Sanjay Bhatia @ Freightwalla

56 min 10 sec

The international logistics industry is a critical enabler of global trade and commerce. In India, it is around 13 of GDP. However, in this era of technology and digitization, most of the activities of this industry are handled in traditional ways, which are not only time consuming but also prone to...

The Commercial Real Estate Masterclass | Aryaman Vir @ Myre Capital

53 min 56 sec

Commercial real estate means office space and investing in commercial real estate is a missed opportunity for Indians. Aryaman speaks to Akshay Datt about why its a missed opportunity, the emerging trends, and how Myre Capital, Indias first neorealty investment platform, is disrupting this space and...

Solving For Credit | Prashanth Ranganathan @ PaySense

1 hr 13 min 7 sec

A Stanford graduate who returned to India to solve the big credit need in themarket culminated in building one of Indias leading lending platforms thatsthe story of Prashanth. Tune in to this episode to hear about how his testingperiod of life paid him rich lesson dividends.Know about: Building Say...

The Indian EV Pioneer | Amitabh Saran @ Altigreen Propulsion Labs

1 hr 19 min 42 sec

Altigreen is an EV startup focused on the category of commercial threewheeler vehicles, and it has raised almost 50 million dollars to date, with the Reliance group as one of its principal backers. Amitabh has had an almost 2decade long journey as a serial entrepreneur. He shares his process of find...

Empowering India's SMBs | Rahul Raj @ FloBiz [Pt. 2]

1 hr 9 min 36 sec

India is the secondlargest internet market in the world with more than 70million small and mediumsized businesses SMBs. But only a fraction of them isutilizing the advantages of digitization.The Founder Thesis podcast presents to you a twopart series, where Akshay Dattspeaks with Rahul Raj, Founder ...

Powering A Global Renewable Energy Platform | Sanjeev Aggarwal @ Amplus Solar

58 min 39 sec

In this episode of Founder Thesis, Akshay Datt speaks with Sanjeev Aggarwal,Founder and CEO of Amplus Solar, Asias leading distributed company, supplyingclean energy solutions to Commercial Institutional customers.An alumnus of IIM Ahmedabad, Sanjeev has spent more than a decade in the powersector....

Disrupting Biology With Algorithms | Dr. Manoj Gopalkrishnan @ Algorithmic Biologics

1 hr 29 min 14 sec

This episode is a crash course in molecular biology, a 62 billion industry, andits several realworld applications.Akshay Datt speaks with Dr. Manoj Gopalkrishnan, Founder and CEO of AlgorithmicBiologics, a deeptech startup providing the highest quality molecular testingat a fraction of the market co...

Accelerating Growth For SaaS Startups | Srikrishnan Ganesan @ Rocketlane

1 hr 3 min 23 sec

One of the most impressive journeys youll ever find of a founder, this episodeis a masterclass in building and scaling up a SaaS business.Srikrishnan Ganesan is the Founder and CEO of Rocketlane, a purposebuiltcustomer onboarding platform that offers a collaborative, transparent andconsistent framew...

Weaving Technology Into Indian Fabric | Mayank Tiwari @ ReshaMandi

1 hr 17 min 45 sec

The Indian fabric industry is the second largest employment generator, with thenatural fibre market estimated to have a potential of 100 million. However, itshighly fragmented nature technology obsolescence makes it very challenging.ReshaMandi, Indias first and largest farmtoretail digital ecosyste...

Making India Wealthier | Atul Shinghal @ Scripbox

47 min 7 sec

One of the pioneering fintechs in the wealth management space, Scripbox started over a decade ago. Atul talks about his journey of building two highly impactful startups in the last decade. He built up Scripbox as the leading HNI wealth management fintech in India, and Probe Information as a leading...

Making Students Atmanirbhar | Prashant Bhonsle @ Kuhoo

1 hr 13 min 12 sec

Kuhoo is a student loan fintech NBFC platform that aims to democratize education for all. Prashant is a veteran of the lending industry, having a track record of building up HDFCs student lending business with some enviable numbers. This conversation covers the evolution of lending in India through ...

Battery Technology For Bharat | Akshay Singhal @ Log9 Materials

1 hr 4 min 12 sec

One of the hardest problems in the electric vehicle space is the battery tech. The battery can account for as much as 50 of the cost of an EV. Dr. Singhals background in fundamental research on material sciences makes him uniquely suited to crack this problem. He talks about building and scaling Log...

The IITian who started a trucking company | Karan Shaha @ Vahak

48 min 35 sec

Vahak aggregates the 3 key stakeholders in the transportation transaction the intermediaries, the truck owners and the companies buying the service. Karan talks about discovering the opportunity and finding the productmarket fit to make Vahak a category leader.Read the text version of the episode. ...

The One Saas To Rule Them All | Ritish Reddy @ Zluri

1 hr 0 min 53 sec

With the deluge of saas tools available today, and the decentralized nature of work, managing these saas subscriptions becomes an administrative nightmare. This is where a company like Zluri comes in. And while this may sound like a trivial problem, by the end of this episode, you will be convinced ...

Content, Community and Commerce For Pet Parents | Varun Sadana @ Supertails

1 hr 0 min 19 sec

Supertails is a trailblazer in the pet care category, taking the approach of building a fullstack platform. Varun traces his journey from ideation to gotomarket and talks about the macroeconomic trends that he is betting on and the amazing metrics of a petcare ecommerce business.Know about: Insight...

Enabling better health outcomes at scale | Vishal Gondal @ GOQii

35 min 23 sec

GoQii is a leader in the healthtech space, having raised more than 100 mn dollars till date from top VCs. Vishal leveraged his understanding of gaming to make gamification the heart of Goqii. He recollects his journey of building GoQii as a secondtime founder.Insights shared: GTM and pricing of hea...

Creating a crypto ecosystem for the masses | Ramkumar Subramaniam @ GuardianLink

1 hr 5 min 49 sec

The world of cryptocurrency is currently going through the transition from being something for hardcore enthusiasts to being a mass market technology, and one of the companies aiding that transition is GuardianLink. Ramkumar has been an early participant in the cryptocurrency revolution, having ente...

The fintech funding playbook | Sandeep Patil @ QED Investors

1 hr 4 min 26 sec

Conversations with VCs are fascinating a VC is able to analyze a startup dispassionately by using his understanding of the market, and his knowledge of what kind of business models scale. This conversation is a masterclass on how to build a startup that attracts global investors.Additional links:1....

The Saas (Sports as a Service!) Pioneer | Saumil Majmudar @ Sportz Village

1 hr 6 min 20 sec

It may sound weird for a sports enthusiast to be in IIT. Right Well, Saumil Majmudar, our guest today, says that its possible, and that its an excuse kids make, there are a lot of people who balance academics and sports. They can coexistSports have always been a part of his life and its something he...

Reinventing online commerce | Sachin Bhatia @ Bulbul.tv

1 hr 20 min 39 sec

This week on Founder Thesis Akshay Datt is in conversation with serial entrepreneur and investor Sachin Bhatia. You may know him best for his stint as the CoFounder and CMO at Make My Trip. However Sachin is also the CoFounder of online dating site TrulyMadly.com and, his latest venture, Bulbul.tv ...

The Accidental Entrepreneur | Jitendra Chouksey @ Fittr

1 hr 19 min 17 sec

“Success isn’t about greatness, it’s about consistency” And those who are consistent are bound for greatness Well if we had to sum up an intro for our guest this week, that would be perfectly befittingThe hunk we know today Jitendra Chouksey Founder of Fittr, was bullied as a child for being overwei...

Empowering Retailers | Tanutejas Saraswat @ ShopKirana

1 hr 43 min 23 sec

“Designing a website doesn’t create a business, creating a business creates a business.” He went on to be an entrepreneur empowering millions of retailers. He has revolutionised the retail industry with the help of two key factors: technology and supply chain innovation. Undaunted and determined, Ta...

Making India Shop Smarter | Swati Bhargava @ CashKaro

1 hr 10 min 27 sec

From Ambala to Singapore to London and then back to India Here is the story of Swati Bhargava, the CoFounder of CashKaro.com India’s largest and fastest growing cashback and coupons site.Remember your class topper in school Well, Swati was the scholar of her batch scoring a 100/100 in maths in her 1...

Building Women's Internet | Sairee Chahal @ Sheroes

55 min 23 sec

“We will see in our lifetime a generation of products being built online only for women” Sairee Chahal. Founder of Sheroes a social networking site exclusively for women, Sairee is a pioneer in building up women at work and futureofwork conversations in India. She has several accolades under her b...

Empowering India's SMEs | Akash Gehani @ Instamojo

45 min 51 sec

‘Jo bhi karunga, usme khush rahunga, kidhar bhi mein kaam karu, I want to be happy’ – Akash GehaniHere is a story of an intelligent boy who grew up in the suburbs of Mumbai with one mantra ‘never take yourself seriously’But when it came to starting a business, Akash was very serious about helping sm...

A Marketing Masterclass with Aditya Save

57 min 19 sec

“It is possible to disproportionately colour consumers’ opinion about yourself” Aditya Save. A marketing mega mind Aditya has previously worked with big brands such as Shaadi.com, Marico and GSK where he’s held senior leadership positions. Having made his mark in the corporate world Aditya is now t...

Building An Ecosystem For Car Owners | Amit Lakhotia @ Park+

59 min 46 sec

Scaling startups is not new to Amit Lakhotia. So, the choice of starting his venture came naturally to him.In a candid conversation with Akshay Datt, Amit Lakhotia, Founder, Park, takes us through his amazing journey. This IIMA alumnus has worked with various startups before charting his path toward...

An out of the box HR solution | Rohit Chennamaneni @ Darwinbox

1 hr 34 min 20 sec

People are the biggest assets of any organization. While there is a core HR department in every organization, not many have been able to effectively use technology to solve the needs and requirements of their employees.This is where Darwinbox came to the rescue.In a candid chat with Akshay Datt, Roh...

The Clever Martech Pioneer | Anand Jain @ CleverTap

2 hr 5 min 59 sec

In 2013, when Anand Jain left Network18, he knew one thing for sure: Communication in the digital world needs to be timely and quick. This led to the birth of CleverTap, a SaaSbased mobile analytics and mobile marketing company.Today, Anand is the Chief Strategy Officer and CoFounder of CleverTap, w...

From by-lanes of Delhi to an IPO at Dalal Street | Dinesh Agarwal @ IndiaMART

1 hr 48 min 56 sec

In today’s episode of Founder Thesis, host Akshay Datt is in conversation with Dinesh Agarwal, the founder, and CEO of IndiaMART. IndiaMART is India’s largest B2B marketplace for small and medium enterprises SMEs, large enterprises, and individuals.Before starting IndiaMART, Dinesh worked at HCL tec...

NYC to India. Hokey-Pokey to Epigamia | Rohan Mirchandani @ Drums Food International

1 hr 9 min 37 sec

Things that you are passionate about are not random, they are your calling. This is true in the case of Rohan Mirchandani, CoFounder and CEO, Drums Food International.In the latest episode of Founder Thesis Podcast, Rohan shares his journey and how an NRI alumnus of The Wharton School ended up selli...

My Experiments with Chai | Nitin Saluja @ Chaayos

55 min 27 sec

Necessity is the mother of invention. This is exactly the premise that Chaayos was built on. In this episode of Founder Thesis, Nitin Saluja, Founder, Chaayos, recalls how a desire of having chai after breakfast led to a birth of an idea which is now a 90store operation across India.In a candid conv...

The Foodtech Pioneer who is still fresh | Rashmi Daga @ FreshMenu

1 hr 2 min 44 sec

Well, it would be unjust to say that today’s world is a maledominated one. Women of today are changing the way we see the world and are redefining the socalled “conventional”. Women who inspire with their commendable leadership and conviction. Today, we are in conversation with one such groundbreaki...

Digitally Empowering Car Buyers | Anurag Jain @ GirnarSoft

1 hr 19 min 3 sec

Ever thought of starting a venture from a tier 2 city I’m sure the majority of you haven’t. It was the love for his family that brought our guest back to his hometown Jaipur and started a venture which is soon going to be a unicorn.In a candid conversation with Akshay Datt, Anurag Jain, COO and CoFo...

The path from Pashmina to Pixels | Raj Kundra @ JLStream

38 min 58 sec

Online content creation saw a drastic boom when the pandemic struck. This made content creators spend more hours with their gadgets.In a candid conversation with Akshay Datt, Raj Kundra, Founder and CEO, JL Stream, shares his journey.Born and brought up in London, Raj started his entrepreneurial jou...

Flying in the future | Prof. Satya Chakravarthy @ The ePlane Company

1 hr 46 min 17 sec

The end of the 2000s saw the rise in radio taxi services. In the next decade, the urban mobility market in India was captured by Ola and Uber. You might wonder what’s in store for commuters in this decadeIn a candid conversation with Akshay Datt, Prof. Satya Chakravarthy, Cofounder, and CTO, The ePl...

The OG Tech Disruptor | Bhavin Turakhia @ Zeta

1 hr 13 min 26 sec

This episode traces almost a threedecade evolution of Indias startup landscape. Bhavin Turakhia is a serial entrepreneur who has been honored as a 2011 Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. He has been ranked as the 95th richest person in India in 2016, according to Forbes. His largest ve...

Building The SME Credit Platform For Bharat | Manish Kumar @ KredX

1 hr 24 min 18 sec

Cashflow is the lifeblood of business. Lack of it means one has to choose between paying salaries, stocking up on raw materials, and meeting customers demands. KredX helps businesses get paid on their invoices within a few days instead of months. This practice is called invoice discounting, and Kred...

The Asset-light Manufacturing Unicorn | Amrit Acharya @ Zetwerk

1 hr 2 min 27 sec

India never had a strong manufacturing base. But thats changing today, thanks to the improved infrastructure. Zetwerk is a managed marketplace for contract manufacturing. The company partners with industrial and consumer businesses to create their goods through a global network of small manufacturer...

Building The Lending Stack For Bharat | Anil K Pinapala @ Vivifi

56 min 39 sec

After a successful entrepreneurial stint in the US, Anil headed to India when he realized the bigger opportunity in digital lending lay here. Vivifi is built with the mission of offering formal credit to the millions of Indians outside the umbrella of institutionalized banking. He talks about his le...

Chaos. Code. Clear. | Srivatsan Chari @ Clear

1 hr 11 min 41 sec

A trailblazer in the Fintech SaaS space, Srivatsan started Clear in an era whenno one seriously considered giving up stable jobs to become founders. It wasamong the first Indiafocused startups to get into the Y Combinator program,Silicon Valleys foremost startup accelerator in 2014.Srivatsan narrate...

Building The SaaS layer On Payments | Byas Nambisan @ Ezetap

52 min 17 sec

Ezetap was created by some of the biggest names in the startup industry today, including Sanjay Swamy, who manages Prime Venture Partners, and Abhijit Bose, who was formerly the India Head of Whatsapp. Byas shares his experience of steering the company through turbulent times and his own learnings f...

Account Aggregation: the next UPI | Kumar Srivatsan @ Fego

1 hr 9 min 1 sec

Account aggregation is a process that enables one to gather all their financial data from multiple sources into a single location. This technology is set to change our relationship with finance fundamentally. Fego is an OpenFinance platform that is building products on the account aggregator framewo...

Enterprising Bots For Enterprises | Bhavin Shah @ Moveworks

43 min 22 sec

Bhavin has had an amazing journey growing up in the Bay area, living and breathing the startup culture of Silicon Valley. His first venture was in the Edtech space, his second venture was acquired by LinkedIn. His present venture, Moveworks is worth 2.1 billion dollars and is operating in the massiv...

Making Hemp A Household Product | Avnish Pandya @ Bombay Hemp Company

1 hr 33 min 43 sec

Cannabis is a controversial ingredient to base your buisness on, given the manystereotypes around it. However, that didnt deter Avnish from going the extramile to build an ethically and scientifically driven company that has beenawarded The Social Innovation Leadership Award. Listen on to this maste...

Powering The Data Stacks Of Fintechs | Nageen Kommu @ Digitap

42 min 17 sec

Digitap helps startups in gathering data on customers across many variables, allowing them to make better risk management and customer engagement decisions. Nageen recounts the experience of his first business, which failed, and finally discovering product market fit in his second venture. He discus...

Fantasy Gaming for Trading & Investing | Raghu Kumar @ Rain Platforms

44 min 33 sec

Did you know that only 4 of Indians have a Demat account Compared to that, 40 of Americans have a Demat account. This is the massive opportunity that Raghu Kumar is chasing with his second venture Rain Platforms. The goal is to make the intimidating world of trading more comfortable. Raghu talks ab...

Building A Global EdTech For Kids | Ravi Bhushan @ BrightChamps

55 min 43 sec

Indias EdTech industry is expected to grow to 30 billion in the next decade. Ravi built BrightChamps with a very first principle view of solving educational outcomes for children and equipping them with 21stcentury skills. He is an IITian who spent a decade and a half in various startups building th...

The Mom Who Built A New-Age Brand | Malika Sadani & Mohit Sadani @ The Moms Co.

1 hr 3 min 56 sec

The Moms Company was born out of a Moms desire to equip the Indian community ofmothers with safe, natural, toxinfree products for their babies. A personalcrisis led Malika Sadani to build the D2C brand that is today a leader in theMom and Baby Care segment.A passionate mother at heart, Malika Sadani...

Democratizing Concierge Wealth Management | Ujjwal Jain @ WealthDesk

1 hr 5 min 59 sec

Most headlines celebrate unicorn valuations of startups, but what we really need to celebrate is when a startup generates a healthy return on investment for its investors and founders. This episode is a celebration of a founder who raised less than 5 mn dollars while building his startup which event...

The Taboo-Busting D2C Brand | Deep Bajaj @ Sirona Hygiene

1 hr 5 min 44 sec

In this episode of Founder Thesis, Akshay Datt speaks with Deep Bajaj, Founderof Sirona Hygiene. Sirona Hygiene is Indias leading feminine hygiene brandwhose flagship product PeeBuddy is the countrys first female urination device,finding a mention in the Limca Book of Records.Unafraid of taking risk...

Bridging Strategy And Execution | Abhinav Chugh @ Peoplebox

1 hr 30 min 21 sec

Tech giant Google uses an approach called OKR to manage its employees which hastaken the startup world by storm. Abhinavs venture is a platform that helpsfastgrowing companies adopt the OKR methodology. This episode is a masterclassin both OKRs and building a vertical SaaS business.Know about: Firs...

The Startup That Started With An IPO | Shachindra Nath @ U GRO Capital

1 hr 20 min 10 sec

Unlike most founders who first have an idea, then build a prototype and thenraise funds, Shachindra started big by directly acquiring a publicly listedfinancial institution that he transformed into U GRO Capital.In this episode, youll hear about some unique innovations of this fintechplatform that ...

Using Bits and Bytes To Move People | Kapil Raizada @ IntrCity

1 hr 10 min 52 sec

This episode is a fascinating story of the classic startup journey you start with an idea, which works to an extent, and then you pivot and discover the much bigger idea. Disruptive mobility startup founder, Kapil shares insights about finding product market fit, building with a datadriven mindset,...

Fixing the employability gap | Santanu Paul @ TalentSprint

1 hr 8 min 9 sec

TalentSprint is the market leader in highend deeptech boot camps for young working professionals, helping them acquire newage tech skills. Santanu talks about the journey of building up TalentSprint with very little external capital, pivoting from an offline business to an online business, being acq...

Pioneering The Asset-light Broadband Network | Vivek Raina @ Excitel

40 min 27 sec

Excitel is the David facing Goliaths like Reliance Jio and Airtel in the battle for getting internet to our homes. And despite such large competitors, Excitel has continued to scale up rapidly. Vivek talks about the nuts and bolts of bringing the internet to our homes, and how he found a niche in a ...

The Intimate Brand For Millennials | Neha Kant and Pankaj Vermani @ Clovia

1 hr 16 min 9 sec

Innerwear is no longer andar ki baat, its comfort ki baat. Helping modern women feel confident and complete in their skin is Clovia, one of Indias premier D2C lifestyle and personal care brands. Pankaj and Neha started Clovia more than a decade back, in an era when none of the enabling ecosystems ar...

Making India Healthier | Madan Somasundaram @ Sugar.Fit

1 hr 3 min 22 sec

In this episode of Founder Thesis, Akshay Datt speaks with Madan Somasundaram,Founder of Sugar.Fit. Sugar.Fit is a healthtech startup that aims to reversediabetes through a consumercentric datadriven digital health experience.An alumnus of The Wharton School and Harvard Business School, Madan has ac...

Building The Pipes For Fintech | Prabhtej Singh Bhatia @ Falcon

52 min 9 sec

Every company is going to be a Fintech company Prabhtej talks about the Fintech revolution that India is experiencing and how Falcon is selling shovels in the gold rush. Falcon facilitates fintechs, startups, and BFSI firms in introducing new financial solutions. Tune in to know how this embedded fi...

Managing $3 Billion Of Wealth | Mukesh Kalra @ ET Money

1 hr 16 min 14 sec

Mukesh Kalra speaks about how to scale up using a productled growth approachand how his venture is challenging the status quo of the entire financialservice industry.Know about: Stint at InMobi, Indias first tech unicorn Factors for running a successful Fintech business Mutual fund as customer ac...

A Healthtech's Journey Of Finding Product-Market Fit | Kiran Kalakuntla @ Ekincare

1 hr 10 min 8 sec

Imagine a world where a standard health checkup was more sophisticated than what your doctor can do for you today. Kirans venture, Ekincare is doing just that. Kiran talks about the challenges of finding the right business model, of raising funds, and the insights he got along the way about how to s...

Disrupting The B2B Manufacturing Market | Sachin Agarwal @ Bizongo

1 hr 9 min 20 sec

Traditionally businesses that would need to buy custommade products would need to go through a lengthy process of finding vendors, sharing an RFP, finalizing a vendor, sharing a purchase order, etc. This is the market that Bizongo is disrupting. Bizongo helps companies buy custommanufactured product...

Gamifying Edtech For Kids | Prerna Jhunjhunwala @ Creative Galileo

43 min 37 sec

Prerna was just in her twenties when she decided to start a playschool. Over the next five years, that playschool dominated its category in Singapore, and was eventually acquired for almost 35 mn dollars Prerna did all of this with almost no external funding. She is now running her second startup t...

Dreaming With Resilience | Ankit Garg @ Wakefit

1 hr 26 min 32 sec

In this episode of Founder Thesis, Akshay Datt speaks with Ankit Garg, Founderof Wakefit, one of the largest home solutions companies in India today.From failing miserably in his first venture to building a healthy, sustainablebusiness that is set to clock in a revenue of 1000 crores, this is a stor...

Streamlining Trade Finance | Ramaswamy Iyer @ Vayana Network

1 hr 33 min 29 sec

Digital Lending is having a substantial growth in India, with several startupsavailing loans to small and microenterprises that often get denied by banks andNBFCs.In this episode of Founder Thesis, Akshay Datt speaks with Ramaswamy Iyer,Founder and CEO, Vayana Network – an electronic network that pr...

Building The Used 2 Wheeler Stack | Sasidhar Nandigam @ CredR

1 hr 0 min 15 sec

‘Karna hai, toh karna hai’ – This is one mantra that our guest today lives byIn this edition of Founder Thesis, Akshay Datt speaks with Sasidhar Nandigam, Cofounder and CEO, CredR, an omnichannel platform for buying and selling used twowheelers.With more than a decade of experience with various vent...

Building a $100 billion EdTech Company | Anshuman Singh @ Scaler Academy

1 hr 52 min 17 sec

When we speak about digital, content is indeed the king. But without engagement, the content remains futile.In this edition of Founder Thesis, Akshay Datt speaks with Anshuman Singh, Cofounder, Scaler Academy, who is on the mission to create the Online Stanford.Anshuman, after his graduation, starte...

Healthcare Meets FinTech | Chris George @ Qube Health

1 hr 15 min 32 sec

It’s 2022 By now, everyone knows that FinTech has taken India by storm and fascinating things will happen when such disruptive technology finds its applications in other sectors.In this edition of Founder Thesis, Akshay Datt speaks with Chris George, Cofounder and CEO, Qube Health.A serial entrepren...

Heralding The Evolution Of Banking-Tech | Mandar Agashe @ Sarvatra Technologies

1 hr 19 min 1 sec

Unified Payments Interface or UPI enables instant and hasslefree fund transfer between accounts and has been one of the biggest disruptors of the Indian FinTech industry.In this edition of Founder Thesis, Akshay Datt speaks with Mandar Agashe, Founder and Vicechairman, Sarvatra Technologies, a Puneb...

Going Vegan and Beyond | Abhishek Sinha @ GoodDot

41 min 47 sec

Most of us love animals. But is it easy to live in balance with other living beings without harming themFounder Thesis brings you the journey of a bureaucrat who has taken his love for animals to the next level.In a candid conversation with Akshay Datt, Abhishek Sinha, Cofounder and CEO, Good Dot, t...

FinTech for Gen-Z | Sambhav Jain @ FamPay

1 hr 8 min 46 sec

Catch them young, watch them growGreat thought But when it comes to managing money, it’s always the elders who have taken decisions. And that is the sole reason that as adults, people still struggle with savings, taxes and investments and why financial literacy in India is a tough nut to crack.In th...

Empowering Community Entrepreneurs | Nipun Goyal @ LikeMinds

59 min 17 sec

Thanks to COVID, Creators’ economy has boomed in the past two years. Worldwide, there are more than fifty million creators. But most of them do not get paid.In this edition of Founder Thesis, Akshay Datt speaks with Nipun Goyal, Founder and CEO, LikeMinds. He is a serial entrepreneur who has worked ...

Building The Blue-Collar Hiring Ecosystem | Nimish Sharma @ WorkEx

50 min 49 sec

‘Innovation happens when you work on a problem, but adoption happens only during a crisis.’ – Nimish Sharma WorkExThe pandemic tested us in unimaginable ways. Many around us lost jobs, and as the economy slowed down, unemployment became a serious issue.In a candid conversation with Akshay Datt, Nimi...

Storytelling for Bharat | Ranjeet Pratap Singh @ Pratilipi

1 hr 16 min 10 sec

The universe is made up of stories, where everyone is a storyteller.In this edition of Founder Thesis, Akshay Datt speaks with Ranjeet Pratap Singh, Cofounder and CEO, Pratilipi. He is an alumnus of FMS, Delhi and has worked with Vodafone before starting off with his entrepreneurial journey.Belongin...

Coining the Switch to Crypto | Ashish Singhal @ CoinSwitch Kuber

1 hr 7 min 17 sec

‘To crypto or not to crypto’ remains a burning topic for the regulators in the country, but for startups and investors, it is definitely a hot currency.Founder Thesis brings you the journey of one such founder, who is riding high on this crypto wave. In this edition, Akshay Datt speaks with Ashish S...

The Ten Year Itch | Amit Gupta @ Yulu

1 hr 2 min 32 sec

‘Grind in your 20s… Hustle in your 30s… Retire in your 40s.’ Sounds like a perfect plan, rightFounder Thesis brings you the journey of Amit Gupta, the mind behind India’s first unicorn InMobi, who in his current avatar is heading Yulu, the country’s leading shared micromobility service provider.In a...

The Prop-tech Pioneer | Dhruv Agarwala @ Housing.com and PropTiger

1 hr 1 min 21 sec

From being embroiled in controversies to becoming one of the leading companies in the real estate sector, this is the story of a remarkable turnaroundIn this edition of Founder Thesis, Akshay Datt speaks with Dhruv Agarwala, CEO, REA India Pte. Ltd., a company that has Housing.com, Proptiger.com and...

Building Modern Tools For Sales | Abhijeet Vijayvergiya @ Nektar.ai

37 min 25 sec

Any technology aims to make it easier for its users and bring the best out of them. But in the case of sales professionals, it’s the other way round.In this edition of Founder Thesis, Akshay Datt talks with Abhijeet Vijayvergiya, Cofounder and CEO, Nektar.ai. He is an alumnus of IIT Kharagpur and a ...

Scaling Last-Mile Banking | Ajeet Kumar Singh @ Save Solutions

1 hr 7 min

Financial inclusivity is the only way to improve economic growth and reduce poverty. While with the evolution of FinTech and newer technologies, things have certainly improved, still a lot needs to be done at the rural level.In this edition of Founder Thesis, Akshay Datt speaks with Ajeet Kumar Sing...

Rising from the ashes | Rahul Pagidipati @ Zebpay

1 hr 17 min 34 sec

In India, Cryptocurrency is one of those tech innovations that has hit more headlines than any other From influencers promoting it on social media to companies sponsoring major sporting events, the popularity of these virtual digital currencies has risen in India.In this episode of the Founder Thesi...

Making Robots Human | Nikhil Ramaswamy and Gokul NA @ CynLR

59 min 31 sec

In this era of startups in India, invention, innovation, and disruption have become a reality.Founder Thesis presents you the journey of one such duo of techies who are on a mission to enable robots with humanlike vision, which could unlock endless possibilities.In a candid conversation with Akshay ...

Ushering In White Revolution 2.0 | Ranjith Mukundan @ Stellapps Technologies

1 hr 38 min 48 sec

‘Milk is the largest crop on this planet and there is a strong need for technological interventions.’ Convinced by this, a group of exWipro employees perceived digitizing the AgriDairy supply chain as an opportunity.In this episode of Founder Thesis, Akshay Datt speaks with Ranjith Mukundan, Cofound...

Taking BNPL To The Masses | Vikas Garg @ Paytail

1 hr 21 min 31 sec

BNPL is a wideopen market with rooted players and startups securing the pole position. But a large chunk of retailers is still not covered by any of them.In this edition of Founder Thesis, Akshay Datt talks with Vikas Garg, Cofounder, Paytail. He is an alumnus of Lal Bahadur Shastri Institute of Man...