Indian Silicon Valley with Jivraj Singh Sachar

In this Episode, I ( @Jivraj Singh Sachar ) speak with Amit Lakhotia, Founder of Park+ Park+ is disrupting the way we interact with the auto industry and lead day to day lives. When owning a 4 wheeler of any kind, there are multiple nuances on an everyday basis like parking, washing, identification, etc. Park+ is building the entire suite that solves for these problems and has soon emerged as a le...

In this Episode, I ( @Jivraj Singh Sachar ) speak with Aniket Jindal, Co-Founder of Biconomy. Biconomy is building the infrastructure that shall enable Web3 to reach the masses. It is a cross-chain relayer infrastructure and transaction network that aims to help DApp users avoid complexities of the crypto ecosystem. Aniket started Biconomy with the vision of making crypto accessible by all in a si...

In this Episode, I ( @Jivraj Singh Sachar ) speak with Gaurav Mangla, Co-Founder & CEO of Pickrr. Pickrr is one of the largest logistics software companies in the country, having recently been acquired by Shiprocket for a whooping 200 Million Dollars. The Pickrr journey has been filled with a lot of twists and turns. Starting off as a core logistics player owning the fleet, then surviving with...

In this Episode, I ( @Jivraj Singh Sachar ) speak with Ruchi Kalra, CEO of Oxyzo and Co-Founder of OfBusiness. Oxyzo is the FinTech lending business built on top of OfBusiness. It is now a unicorn, raising a large Series A and having been self-funded by OfBusiness Cash-Flow for the longest time. Ruchi was a partner at McKinsey before starting OfBusiness. She comes from a core financial services ba...

In this Episode, I ( @Jivraj Singh Sachar ) speak with Rishi Vasudev, Co-Founder of G.O.A.T Brand Labs. GOAT Brand Labs is a unique model to scale consumer brands under one umbrella via the roll-up model popularized largely last year. There was a surge of companies in this space but GOAT has managed to build its individuality and emerge as a leader. Rishi Vasudev, the founder of GOAT has been an i...

In this Episode, I ( @Jivraj Singh Sachar ) speak with Pawan Gupta, Co-Founder & CEO of Fashinza. Fashinza is a managed B2B marketplace in the fashion vertical, aggregating Indian SMEs on the supply side and selling to large international retailers on the demand side. It is disrupting the global fashion supply chain landscape and has soon emerged as the leader in the space. The company is valu...

In this Episode, I ( @Jivraj Singh Sachar ) speak with Vishal Virani, Co-Founder & CEO of DhiWise. DhiWise is building the smartest programming platform in the world. It was started by Vishal and Team from Surat in 2021 after multiple years of building a consulting business. While still early in the journey, DhiWise is already disrupting the global dev landscape and won Dev Tool of the Year by...

In this Episode, I ( @Jivraj Singh Sachar ) speak with Shashank Mehta, Founder & CEO of The Whole Truth Foods. The Whole Truth Foods is one of the most fascinating consumer startups of our ecosystem. With the mission to build on top of the truth, the Whole Truth is building a truly category creating and leading brand, with fundamentals that are beyond disruptive. TWT is founded by Shashank Meh...

In this Episode, I ( @Jivraj Singh Sachar ) speak with Khadim Batti, Co-Founder of Whatfix. Whatfix is one of the leading SaaS Companies from India, solving for digital software adoption across platforms, personas and teams for thousands of enterprises across the globe. It helps companies create interactive walkthroughs that appear within applications! What stands out through the Whatfix journey i...

In this Episode, I speak ( @Jivraj Singh Sachar ) with the Co-Founders of axio (previously known as Capital Float), Gaurav Hinduja & Sashank Rishyasringa. axio is unlocking credit for millions of Indians, via the pay later model. axio was started back in 2013 by two Stanford GSB graduates who met in the heart of Silicon Valley. They started off with the vision of unlocking credit for SMEs and...

In this Episode, I ( @Jivraj Singh Sachar ) speak with Mridul Arora, Partner at Elevation Capital. Mridul has been a venture investor for the better part of the last 12 years, since joining Elevation in 2011 when it was called SAIF Partners. Over the years, Mridul has developed expertise in Financial Services and FinTech, investing deeply across the sector. Some of his phenomenal investments inclu...

In this Episode, I ( @Jivraj Singh Sachar ) speak with Ankit Nagori, Founder & CEO of Curefoods (Ex-CBO of Flipkart & Co-Founder of Cure.fit). Curefoods is Pioneering Food Tech Innovation in India, building a multi-brand cloud kitchen organization by acquiring & growing a variety of labels. Ankit Nagori, the previous Chief Business Officer at Flipkart and Co-Founder of Cult.fit has tra...

In this Episode, I ( @Jivraj Singh Sachar ) speak with  Akash Gupta, Co-Founder & CTO of GreyOrange. GreyOrange is the leading warehouse automation company in the World, and has single handedly put India on the global map of robotics technology excellence. Samay & Akash were fascinated by robotics since their college days and decided to turn their passion into a business. Years later,...

In this Episode, I ( @Jivraj Singh Sachar ) speak with Gaurav Sharma, Founder & CEO of SaaS Labs. SaaS Labs is one of the most fascinating SaaS companies from India, building and scaling multiple innovative products serving the entire suite of requirements for sales agents and support professionals. Gaurav founded SaaS Labs with the vision to build multiple innovative products, and scale them...

In this Episode, I ( @Jivraj Singh Sachar ) speak with Mohit Kumar, Founder & CEO of Ultrahuman.  Ultrahuman is the world’s most advanced metabolism fitness platform, developing cutting edge technology and transforming the way we look at fitness & healthcare in India, and soon across the globe. Started by serial entrepreneurs Mohit & Vatsal, Ultrahuman equips consumers to track th...

In this Episode, I ( @Jivraj Singh Sachar ) speak with Nilesh Patel, Co-Founder & CEO of LeadSquared. LeadSquared is championing Sales Efficiency across the globe built from India. It recently became a unicorn having announced a large funding round of over 150 Million dollars led by WestBridge Capital. Started in 2013, LeadSquared found its way with Sales Efficiency when a leading EdTech busin...

In this Episode, I ( @Jivraj Singh Sachar ) speak with Anurakt Jain, Co-Founder & CEO of Klub .  Klub is India’s leading revenue based financing company, championing the cause for RBF in the ecosystem. Started in 2020 by two experienced operators, Klub identified the whitespace which was the lack of a revenue-based-financing market in India, especially with regards to growth capital for c...

In this Episode, I ( @Jivraj Singh Sachar ) speak with Chirag Taneja, Co-Founder & CEO of GoKwik . GoKwik is India’s leading E-Commerce Enablement Company, building with the mission of providing an Amazon like experience for non-Amazon merchants in the country. One of the fastest growing companies in the ecosystem, GoKwik is truly disrupting the market. What started off as a solution for the R...

In this Episode, I speak with Ankush Sachdeva, Co-Founder & CEO of Sharechat. Sharechat is India’s leading social media platform, building for the next billion Internet users of India. Started in 2015 by a group of IIT Kanpur graduates, Sharechat is dominating the consumer social landscape of India, having a total of 300 Million Monthly Active Users across both Sharechat and Moj, their short f...

In this Episode, I ( @Jivraj Singh Sachar ) speak with Krish Subramanian, Co-Founder & CEO of Chargebee.  Chargebee is a subscription billing and revenue management platform, valued at 3.5 Billion Dollars as of its latest funding round. It is leading the charge of Indian SaaS and building a global giant in the market from India. Started in 2011, Chargebee has come a long way, personifying...

In this Episode, I ( @Jivraj Singh Sachar ) speak with Prasanna Sankar, Co-Founder & Board Member of Rippling.  Rippling is one of the leading Enterprise Software companies in the US, becoming the foremost platform for Employee Management, valued at over 10 Billion Dollars as of its recent round of funding. Prasanna is a genius coder, a serial entrepreneur, an angel investor and much more...

In this Episode, I ( @Jivraj Singh Sachar ) speak with Awais Ahmed, Founder & CEO of Pixxel.  Pixxel is a space data company, building a constellation of hyperspectral earth imaging satellites and the analytical tools to mine insights from that data. Simply stated, Pixxel solves for high quality satellite data, leading the Indian Space Tech Innovation from the front. Started by Awais &amp...

In this Episode, I ( @Jivraj Singh Sachar ) speak with Gaurav Kumar, Founder & CEO of CredAvenue.  CredAvenue is building the Operating System for Indian Debt Markets and has soon become the leading infrastructure platform in India’s fintech ecosystem. It became a Unicorn in a record 18 months, which is the fastest for any fintech company in the country. Gaurav is a 4th time founder with...

In this Episode, I ( @Jivraj Singh Sachar ) speak with Sri Viswanath, Chief Technology Officer at Atlassian .  Sri is one of the most distinguished tech leaders of our time and I could not imagine anybody more suited to help us understand tech leadership, culture and org design. Through his illustrious years of professional experience, Sri has worn multiple hats as a tech contributor in both...

In this Episode, I ( @Jivraj Singh Sachar ) speak with Yashish Dahiya, Founder of Policybazaar.  Policybazaar is India’s largest distributor of Insurance policies. Started in 2008, Policybazaar is one of the few new-age Indian companies to successfully list and go public on India’s stock exchange. Going public is a coveted feat, dreamt by each founder when starting up and Policybazaar’s journ...