Indian Silicon Valley with Jivraj Singh Sachar

In this Episode, I speak with Vishesh Khurana, Co-founder of Shiprocket.

In this Episode, I ( @Jivraj Singh Sachar ) speak with Nitish Mittersain, Founder & MD of Nazara Technologies.  Nazara Technologies is India’s first gaming company to successfully go public and trade on India’s stock exchange. A mega IPO in 2021 paved the way for India’s illustrious gaming future. Nitish started this company as a young enthusiast in 1999. Almost 22 years later, those effo...

In this Episode, I ( @Jivraj Singh Sachar ) speak with Sandeep Gupta, Co-Founder & COO of Innovaccer .  Innovaccer  is a leading healthcare data activation platform company focused on delivering more efficient and effective healthcare through the use of pioneering analytics and transparent, clean, and accurate data. Innovaccer’s aim is to simplify complex data from all points of care...

In this Episode, I ( @Jivraj Singh Sachar ) speak with Rohan Mirchandani, Co-Founder & CEO of Epigamia .  Epigamia is one of India’s most loved consumer food brands, building delicious & healthy dairy products for millions in the country. Hinged on the core belief that this decade will produce new-age brands that will dominate the Indian lifestyle for the century that awaits us, Epiga...

In this Episode, I ( @Jivraj Singh Sachar ) speak with Amit Kumar Agarwal, Co-Founder & CEO of NoBroker .  NoBroker is India’s leading Real Estate Tech Startup, disrupting the way millions of Indians discover residential properties and interact with them for multiple types of transactions in a tech lead environment as opposed to dealing with brokers, or other middleman, who would earlier...

In this Episode, I ( @Jivraj Singh Sachar ) speak with Vasanth Kamath, Co-Founder & CEO of smallcase .  smallcase is one of the most disruptive companies of India, transforming the FinTech landscape of the country, one product at a time. What started as a quest to fill a gap for retail investors who wanted to move from Mutual Funds to Equity, has now become an entire asset class in itself...

In this Episode, I ( @Jivraj Singh Sachar ) speak with Hemant Taneja, Managing Partner at General Catalyst .  Hemant is one of the most legendary venture investors of our generation. In his path-breaking career, he has invested in companies such as Stripe, Snap, Livongo, Gusto and many other phenomenal companies. His brilliant investing career fundamentally stems from his core trait of being...

In this Episode, I ( @Jivraj Singh Sachar ) speak with Rohit Chennamaneni, Co-Founder of Darwinbox. Darwinbox is a SaaS unicorn from India, which is reinventing HRTech for the World. Human Resource is one of the most crucial aspects for any organization and in turn one of the largest markets globally. For long, companies have relied on foreign solutions in a seemingly competitive market. However,...

In this Episode, I ( @Jivraj Singh Sachar ) speak with Kamesh Goyal, Founder & Chairman of Digit Insurance.  Digit Insurance is India’s largest New-Age Insurance startup, valued at almost 3.5 Billion Dollars. Digit offers a variety of insurance products across motor, travel, health, and property categories, and is the leading tech-first company in the under-penetrated Indian insurance mar...

In this Episode, I ( @Jivraj Singh Sachar ) speak with Deven Parekh, Managing Director at Insight Partners .  Insight Partners is a global software investment firm, which has one of the largest venture & private equity funds with over $90 Billion in Assets Under Management, having recently announced its new fund of $20Bn, headquartered in New York. Insight has invested in some of the...

In this Episode, I ( @Jivraj Singh Sachar ) speak with Bhavna Suresh, Co-Founder & CEO of 10club .  10club acquires, operates and grows e-commerce first businesses, championing the roll-up model in India. This Thrasio like model gained a lot of popularity in the country early last year as multiple companies emerged in the space. 10club made the headlines with a 40 Million Dollar seed roun...

In this Episode, I speak with Aadit Palicha, Co-Founder & CEO of Zepto. Zepto is  the primary champion of the 10-minute delivery revolution, which has disrupted the entire quick commerce landscape in the country. Started by two 19-year-olds from Mumbai, Aadit and Kaivalya dropped out of Stanford college to pursue their dreams. This has led to the creation of a $500Million+ company in less...

In this Episode, I speak with Jaynti Kanani, Co-Founder of Polygon Technology . Polygon is the most successful side-chain solution to Ethereum’s scalability problems, emerging as the most valuable Web 3.0 Company of Indian Origin, with a market cap of greater than 20 Billion Dollars at its peak, also having recently raised 450 Million Dollars in a funding round led by Sequoia Capital India, and pa...

In this Episode, I ( @Jivraj Singh Sachar ) speak with Akshay Kothari, Chief Operating Officer of Notion.  Through this phenomenal conversation we discuss: (Time Stamps Coming Soon) Hope you liked the 86th Episode on the Indian Silicon Valley Podcast! That was it from this Episode, thanks again for tuning in! :) If you liked the episode, do share with your friends or drop us a quick review! A...

In this Episode, I ( @Jivraj Singh Sachar ) speak with Vikram Vaidyanathan, Managing Director - Matrix Partners India.  Vikram is one of the finest venture investors in the Indian Ecosystem, leading the institutional practice at Matrix along with his partners. Matrix India itself has contributed largely to the development and maturity of the ecosystem by backing some of the most incredible co...

In this Episode, I ( @Jivraj Singh Sachar ) speak with Archit Gupta, Founder & CEO of Clear (previously known as ClearTax). Clear is one of India’s largest FinTech - SaaS Companies, ambitiously simplifying millions of financial lives. Started by Archit Gupta a decade before, Clear had the sole mission of simplifying tax filings for the masses when it ventured out. Turn to present day, and they...

In this Episode, I ( @Jivraj Singh Sachar ) speak with Kaushik Subramanian, Product Leader at Stripe UK, previously at Meta (Facebook).  Through this masterclass, Kaushik helps us decode the journey of navigating a career in Tech companies. His personal evolution of coming from a non-tech background, working in consumer and in consultancy before breaking into Product leadership roles in tech...

In this Episode, I speak ( @Jivraj Singh Sachar ) with Vamsi Krishna, Co-founder & CEO of Vedantu. Democratizing high quality education for 35 Million Indian Students per month, Vedantu is a phenomenal long-term organization solving one of the most fundamental problems in the country. Started in 2014 by a group of friends who had previously established a chain of offline engineering tuition ce...

In this Episode, I ( @Jivraj Singh Sachar ) speak with Sai Srinivas, Co-Founder & CEO of Mobile Premier League (MPL).  MPL is the largest eSports & gaming platform in the country, as it offers over 60+ competitive real-money games to a user base of over 90 Million people! Through the conversation we discuss: 1. (2:18) : The clarity of Vision when starting up MPL 2. (08:09) : The perso...

In this Episode, I speak with Deepak Diwakar & Krishna Depura, Co-founders of MindTickle, the Sales Readiness platform of the World!

In this Episode, I ( @Jivraj Singh Sachar ) speak with Soham Mazumdar, Co-founder of Rubrik . Rubrik is a cloud data management company, started by 4 amazing individuals in 2014, taking only a couple 18 months to go from 0 to 100 Million in ARR. With over 1600 Team Members across 18+ Countries, Serving over 200 Customers paying more than $1Mn and a cumulative of 3200 Enterprise Consumers, Rubriks’...

In this Episode, I ( @Jivraj Singh Sachar ) speak with Jaydeep Barman, Co-Founder & CEO of Rebel Foods . Jaydeep Barman and team have built perhaps the most unique, first-principles startup of the country. Rebel Foods has established and pioneered the concept of cloud kitchens not just in India, but globally! What started as Faasos in 2011 as a single-store fast-food outlet, has become a techn...

In this Episode, I ( @Jivraj Singh Sachar ) speak with Sumit Maniyar, Founder & CEO of Rupeek . Rupeek is India’s Fastest Growing FinTech Company, disrupting the category of asset backed lending having started with gold and already gaining a large market share in the industry. Sumit questioned the way we look at Gold as an asset class in the country and started building with first-principles i...

In this Episode, I ( @Jivraj Singh Sachar ) speak with Amrit Acharya, Co-Founder & CEO of Zetwerk .  Zetwerk is phenomenally disrupting the manufacturing industry across the globe as we know it. It is a B2B marketplace focused on make-to-order custom manufacturing and is one of India’s leading startups, redefining benchmarks of speed, growth, profitability and value creation. Founded less...

In this Episode, I ( @Jivraj Singh Sachar ) speak with Aman Gupta, Co-Founder & CMO of boAt Lifestyle .  boAt is one of India’s largest consumer brands, which has completely disrupted and transformed the global audio & wearables industry. Founded by Aman Gupta and Sameer Mehta in 2016, boAt was originally ruled out by a lot of critics citing reasons such as crowded market, competitive...