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10 pct challenge: Vinod Shankar at Java Capital on how India can put $1 trillion in deep tech
In today’s episode of Conversations, I’m joined by Vinod Shankar, co-founder of Java Capital, a venture capital firm that has carved a unique niche by focusing on deep...
Coming up: Vinod Shankar at Java Capital challenges India's ultra rich to back deep innovation
Coming up in the next episode of Conversations at India Tech Report, Vinod Shankar, founding managing partner at Java Capital, discusses a note he wrote recently, call...
Custom silicon: Ramamurthy Sivakumar at HrdWyr on the opportunity to build from India for the world
In today’s episode, Ramamurthy Sivakumar, co-founder and CEO at HrdWyr, a semiconductor design startup in Bengaluru, talks about the company’s plans after recently rai...
Coming up: Ramamurthy Sivakumar at HrdWyr on the implications of building chips from India
In August last year, a little known semiconductor startup (at the time) founded by two industry veterans from India, announced a small, but historic milestone. Not jus...
Coming up: Intel veteran Ramamurthy Sivakumar on HrdWyr’s roadmap for AI-native chips from India
HrdWyr, a Bengaluru-based semiconductor startup, recently secured $13 million in Series A funding led by Ideaspring Capital to advance its AI-native chip technology. T...
Deep tech: Ideaspring Capital's founders on the circle of life and other investing lessons (Part 2)
In today’s episode, I bring you Part 2 of an interview with Naganand Doraswamy, managing partner, and Suryaprakash Konanuru, CTO, at Ideaspring Capital in Bengaluru.In...
Ideaspring Capital's founders on their entrepreneurs turned VCs life | Preview
Naganand Doraswamy, managing partner, and Suryaprakash Konanuru, CTO at Ideaspring Capital, a well known deep tech VC firm in Bengaluru, sat down with me recently for ...
Decarbonising rice: Mitti Labs founders on their plan for future of sustainable farming
In today’s episode, on the occasion of World Environment Day, I bring you a conversation with Devdut Dalal (Dev), Xavier Laguarta Soler (Xavi) and Nathan Torbick (Nate...
Coming up: Mitti Labs founders on vision for sustainable rice farming
Rice is one of our biggest staples, here in India, but the way our farmers grow it is becoming increasingly unsustainable, as it contributes to depleting our water tab...
Deep tech: Ideaspring Capital's founders on investing with conviction, eyes wide open (Part 1)
Today is the first day of the second year of this podcast. And in today’s episode of Conversations, I’m really happy to bring you part 1 of an interview with Naganand ...
Mitti Labs founders on helping rice farmers cut methane, make money (Preview)
One could think of ‘Mitti’ — the Hindi word for soil — as representing the grounded foundation of a cooler future. And for us in India while rice that grows in our soi...
Founder journeys: Ravi Kulkarni at Moonrider on the importance of the right partner — bonus episode
Welcome to this bonus episode in which I’m following up with a quick interview with Ravi Kulkarni, founder and COO of Moonrider, an electric tractor venture in Bengalu...
High voltage harvest: Anoop Srikantaswamy’s electric vision for the future of Indian agriculture
In this episode, I bring you a conversation with Anoop Srikantaswamy, founder and CEO of Moonrider, an electric tractor startup in Bengaluru. Anoop and his fellow foun...
Autonomous tractors: Anoop Srikantaswamy at Moonrider on the bigger picture — full interview coming soon
Coming up, a conversation with Anoop Srikantaswamy, founder and CEO of Moonrider, an electric tractor maker in Bengaluru. Catch the full interview on Tuesday, May 19th...
Polsky Center selects 20 Indian deep tech startups, new funding rounds at Flo Mobility, HrdWyr
The first cohort of the India deep tech accelerator at University of Chicago’s Polsky Center. Image courtesy Polsky Center.(00:00) Just the headlines, if you only have...
Coming up: Anoop Srikantaswamy on e-tractor innovations at Moonrider
Coming up on Tuesday, 19th May, Anoop Srikantaswamy, founder and CEO of Moonrider, a electric tractor startup on Bengaluru, talks about a range of topics — from produc...
Eka Robotics bets on force, not language, to teach robots dexterity
Pulkit Agrawal, Co-Founder of Eka Robotics. Image souce: Agrawal’s website.Eka Robotics has emerged from stealth with a Vision-Force-Action model that it says can push...
Battery sovereignty: Stuti Kakkar, Co-Founder of MEINE Electric, on India’s ALBM plan
In this episode, Stuti Kakkar, co-founder of MEINE Electric, a battery energy storage tech startup, unpacks the government’s proposed Approved List of Battery Manufact...
Ati Motors becomes Ati Robotics, AI-led material orchestration specialist
Founder and CEO Saurabh Chandra with Ati Robotics’ humanoid research prototype Mecha at the company’s products day last year. Image credit: Hari Arakali.Ati Motors has...
StepChange, Nilekani-backed Beckn unveil CSDX vision to bridge global climate data gap
Generated image for illustration: Globe showing interconnected climate data centers and data flow lines across continentsThe transition to a low-carbon economy is ofte...
