Deep Tech Musings

Chirag is the Managing Partner of 8X Ventures and has 15+ years of experience in venture capital, startup mentoring, strategy design, strategy execution, organisation design, investment banking and business analytics. Through 8X Ventures he is investing and supporting DeepTech startups that will fundamentally change how industries and economies operate while striving to build a profitable, sustain...

Dhinesh is the founder of Fabheads, which manufacturers Asia's first & only continuous fiber 3D printers, and in their journey have won multiple awards from the Government of India, DRDO, CII & others. In this episode, Dhinesh gives us an overview of Fabheads, the problem its solving, its features, and other details. He then highlights what he thinks are the top 3 things that technology ha...

Himanshu is the co-founder of Devnagri, an AI-powered human translation platform. Devnagri exists to use technology and humans to translate the data available over the internet. It helps businesses and the government to reach real people who are not part of the internet because of the language barrier.  In this episode, Himanshu gives us an overview of Devnagri, the problem its solving, its f...

Arjun is the co-founder of Courseplay, an AI-powered employee experience platform for 360-degree employee growth. Courseplay focuses on offering on-the-job, social, and formal learning to the workplace. Large enterprises and fast-growing startups are managing their entire skill and talent development lifecycle on Cousrseplay's unified talent experience platform and mobile apps.  On the show A...

Ankur Mittal has 20+ years of experience with Fortune 50 companies & is a prominent figure in the Indian startup ecosystem. He co-founded Inflection Point Ventures in 2019 with the bold mission to democratize startup investing in India. On the show, he discusses the genesis & motivation behind IPV, shares his viewpoint on the future of democratized startup investing, future industries to l...

Raghav Gupta is a co-founder at Nymble where he is on a mission to put a Private Chef in every kitchen by building countertop cooking robots. Nymble is backed by 021 Capital, Waterbridge Ventures, and was most recently part of the Accel Atoms program. In the show, Raghav touches upon his journey of building Nymble starting from the early days of problem discovery, finding the right market, develop...

Pierre is the co-founder of  ScrapingBee , a web scraping API startup. He bootstrapped it to $1mil ARR in around 3 years and by incorporating quite a few learnings from his earlier failed startups. On the show, he discusses those learnings, how to decide when to move on, how to build differentiation in a crowded market, how to go about building a SaaS product MVP, and much more.  Pierre,...

Timothy Porter is the CTO of Modtech Labs, which is on a mission to simplify visual content creation into one automated pipeline. It provides mobile+cloud-based software that makes 3D in minutes and is a revolutionary way of creating 3D content. On the show, Tim highlights his personal journey of more than a decade-spanning major brands like Gameloft, Sony, Disney, Two Bit Circus, and more. Bringi...

Hari is an angel investor focused on innovative startup teams. He practices lean startup principles and encourages founders to think global, act local and build an organizational culture suitable for innovation in startups. He is associated with Indian Angel Network (IAN), LetsVenture and IvyCap Ventures, among many others. On the show Hari talks about his entrepreneurial and angel investment jour...

Ankit is a Senior Product Manager & Fouding Member of Qure.ai, an healthcare AI startup. He lends insights into how they started on their path to finding the right problem to solve, to how they assessed the AI-problem fit and the technical feasibility of it in the early days. Ankit also shares his inputs about the technology behind the product and how they build their MVP. Finally he emphasize...

Dr. Amritendu is an AI researcher and the co-founder of NeuroPixel.ai, an Indian startup that currently aims to build the future of fashion cataloging. In this episode, Dr. Amritendu walks us through his research experiences, his fight with cancer, going through the Entrepreneur First program, his startup story, the AI enabling the solution and future ambitions. More importantly, he calls upon the...

Parikshit is leading data science & advanced analytics at HUL & Unilever South Asia. We discuss the FMCG sector in general, its opportunities & challenges, and how AI/ML is currently being used in this sector. Parikshit also sheds light on some keystone AI/ML products currently being used at Unilever and given its scale of operations it's quite interesting to learn about them. Thi...

Jibu Elias is one of the chief architects of INDAIai.gov.in, the national AI portal of India. Full of information, this episode is a treasure trove for anyone looking to gain insights into India's AI scene, especially from the industry & government's perspective. The portal itself is a "one-stop information shop" for everything AI in India and highly encourage interested participants to look a...

Rishabh is a Forbes 30 under 30 award winner and founder of Redwing Labs, a drone logistics startup which has garnered many awards from industry stalwarts like NASA, Lockheed Martin, Boeing and Airbus. Rishabh gives us an overview of the drone logistics industry, its challenges & promises and the role that Redwings Labs is playing in this space. This episode was hosted on the clubhouse app on...

This episode is a recording of the first ever session of DTM podcast on clubhouse. We had a discussion around the earth observation industry with all the three founders of Skyserve.ai, an Indian deep tech startup which is on a mission to democratize earth observation by providing easily accessible real-time insights at a cost that's more affordable for customers. Also joining us was Michael Mealli...

Vishesh is the co-founder of SkyServe.ai which is on a mission to democratize earth observation by providing easily accessible real-time insights at a cost that's more affordable for customers. In this episode Vishesh walks us through his startup story, the major use cases & insights that it delivers on, its technology behind those insights, the business model and future ambitions.  If yo...

Vishesh is the co-founder of SkyServe.ai which is on a mission to democratize earth observation by providing easily accessible real-time insights at a cost that's more affordable for customers. In this episode he will give us an overview of the earth observation industry, its current state at world level and in India specifically. He highlights what challenges exist in the industry and also what o...

Gagandeep is an AI researcher and the co-founder of Minus Zero, an Indian startup that aims to build the world's first level 5 autonomous passenger vehicle. In this episode, Gagandeep walks us through his startup story, its patent-pending technology, business model, and future ambitions. LinkedIn : gagandeepreehal

Gagandeep is an AI researcher and the co-founder of Minus Zero, a startup that aims to build worlds first level 5 autonomous passenger vehicle. In this episode Gagandeep will gives us an overview of the autonomous vehicle industry, its current state at world level and in India specifically. He highlights what challenges exist in the industry and also what opportunities lie ahead.  LinkedIn :...

Mark is an industry veteran of more than 2 decades and is currently working at ServiceNow, one of the largest digital workflow management organizations. Mark has developed a training course recommender which establishes a direct association with the topline of the business. On the show he will help us to deconstruct the problem and his methodology and in doing so provide a primer to data science p...

Vikram has had an illustrious analytics career till now, will roles ranging from being the Analytics Lead at Fractal to being the Head of Analytics of two of the most well-known Indian startups - Delhivery (which is one of India’s largest e-commerce supply chain player) and Gaana (which is India's largest commercial music streaming service with over 200 million monthly users). Not surprisingly the...

Vikram has had an illustrious analytics career till now, will roles ranging from being the Analytics Lead at Fractal to being the Head of Analytics of two of the most well-known Indian startups - Delhivery (which is one of India’s largest e-commerce supply chain player) and Gaana (which is India's largest commercial music streaming service with over 200 million monthly users). Not surprisingly the...

Alex is a machine learning engineer and a serial entrepreneur. His latest startup Nansen.ai aims to combine two of the most hottest deep tech - Blockchain & Analytics. In this second part of a 2 part series, Alex outlays how Nansen.ai helps in the end-to-end crypto investor lifecycle and his future roadmap. He also shares his views on the current & future state of crypto markets and some p...

Alex is a machine learning engineer and a serial entrepreneur. His latest startup Nansen.ai aims to combine two of the most hottest deep tech - Blockchain & Analytics. In this first part of a 2 part series, Alex discussed what motivated him to start Nansen, how does Nansen help crypto-investors make better decisions and protects them and many other aspects of the blockchain ecosystem. Links to...

Patents protect the inverter by granting them exclusive rights of an invention for a designated period in exchange for disclosure of the invention. However their applicability to AI lends some consideration. I am excited to have Santhosh with us today to shed more light on this. Santosh is an industry professional with experiences across caterpillar, Lennox Industries and now Philips. Recently he...