Indian Silicon Valley with Jivraj Singh Sachar

In this Episode, I ( @Jivraj Singh Sachar ) speak with Prashanth Prakash , Partner at Accel India .  Accel Partners India is one of the most accomplished institutional venture investors of our ecosystem. Accel has funded ground-breaking Indian ventures including the likes of BookMyShow, MuSigma, Flipkart, Freshworks, Swiggy, BrowserStack, Moglix, Urban Company! Through the episode we discuss...

In this Episode, I ( @Jivraj Singh Sachar ) speak with Ashwini Asokan, Co-Founder & CEO of Mad Street Den !!  Mad Street Den is a Computer Vision & Artificial Intelligence Company building the AI architecture of the future. Founded by a Neuroscientist - Designer duo, the company's mission is to build and deliver AI on scale through meaningful applications to billions of people across...

In this Episode, I ( @Jivraj Singh Sachar ) speak with Vikram Chopra, Co-Founder & CEO of Cars24 .  Cars24 is India's largest used-car selling marketplace, marching towards becoming becoming the largest Auto Company of India . Valued at ~1.85 Bn Dollars, Cars24 has expanded its mission internationally making forays into Australia, UAE and other countries and has further started exploring...

In this Episode, I ( @Jivraj Singh Sachar ) speak with Vineet Rao & Sourjyendu Medda , Co-Founders of DealShare .  Dealshare is India's fastest growing social e-commerce startup, an online buying platform for multi-category consumer products. It is defining how the next billion Internet shoppers of India transact online! This movement is being enabled by a unique model that leverages some...

In this Episode, I ( @Jivraj Singh Sachar ) speak with Umang Bedi, Co-Founder of VerSe Innovation (Dailyhunt + Josh) .  VerSe Innovation is the parent brand that houses Dailyhunt, India’s largest content aggregator platform and Josh, India’s leading short video entertainment application. With more than 350 Million Monthly Active Users across both Dailyhunt and Josh, VerSe is valued at around...

In this Episode, I ( @Jivraj Singh Sachar ) speak with Ishpreet Singh Gandhi, Founder & Managing Partner of Stride Ventures .  Stride Ventures is a leading Indian venture capital firm that provides alternative financing options for startups beyond equity financing ! The audacious goal for Stride is to become the Startup Bank of India and in less than 3 years of its inception it has amazed...

In this Episode, I ( @Jivraj Singh Sachar ) speak with Ashish Singhal, Founder & CEO of CoinSwitch Kuber .  CoinSwitch Kuber is India's leading cryptocurrency startup. Valued at $1.9Bn, it is backed by some of the largest venture investors across the globe, including the likes of Sequoia India, Ribbit Capital, Tiger Global Management, Coinbase Ventures, Paradigm and it's latest round mark...

In this Episode, I ( @Jivraj Singh Sachar ) speak with Tushar Vashisht, Co-Founder & CEO of HealthifyMe .  HealthifyMe is on the mission of healthifying a billion people from across the globe. What started as a way to track calories and nutrients for consumers is now a multi-million dollar HealthTech startup building one of the largest consumer companies from India for the World! Healthif...

In this Episode, I ( @Jivraj Singh Sachar ) speak with Ambareesh Murty, Founder & CEO of Pepperfry .  Pepperfry is India’s largest marketplace for furniture and all things home decor. It was started back in 2011, and it has since then completely disrupted the large unorganised furniture market and created a category defining organisation that is on the brink of a public offering (IPO). Th...

In this Episode, I ( @Jivraj Singh Sachar ) speak with Monish Darda, Co-founder & CTO of Icertis . Icertis is a global SaaS Company from India leading the Contract Lifecycle Management Ecosystem . It is valued at $3Bn, making it one of the most valuable SaaS companies from India, leading the market in its vertical.  Through the Episode we discuss the following: 1. (2:25) : Understanding M...

In this Episode, I ( @Jivraj Singh Sachar ) speak with Matt Abrahams , Co-founder of Bold Echo Communications, Professor of Strategic Communications at Stanford GSB , Author of Speaking Out without Freaking Out and Host of the world-renowned Podcast - Think Fast, Talk Smart . Through the Episode we discuss the following: 1. (02:50) : Why is Good Communication Important for Founders? 2. (03:53) : W...

In this Episode, I ( @Jivraj Singh Sachar ) speak with Prasad Kompalli, Co-founder & CEO of mfine . mfine is an on-demand healthcare service that provides its users access to virtual consultations and connected care programmes from the different hospitals, in the country. To make this possible, the company has partnered with leading and trusted hospitals instead of aggregating individual docto...

In this Episode, I ( @Jivraj Singh Sachar ) speak with Shashank Kumar, Co-Founder of Razorpay . Razorpay is one of India’s most successful FinTech Startups, providing a full-stack solution to businesses to accept, process and disburse payments. Founded in 2014 by Shashank Kumar & Harshil Mathur, Razorpay has come a long way in leading the financial services market in India and is backed by som...

In this Episode, I ( @Jivraj Singh Sachar ) speak with Beerud Sheth, Co-founder and CEO of Gupshup . Gupshup is defining the way businesses leverage conversational messaging to interact with their consumers. It is by far the market leader in its category and it recently turned a profitable unicorn with back-to-back funding rounds. This is Beerud’s 2nd startup and he earlier founded Elance, now kno...

In this Episode, I ( @Jivraj Singh Sachar ) speak with Nirmit Parikh, Founder & CEO of Apna . Founded in 2019, Apna is India's largest professional networking and job opportunities platform for India's rising workforce . Over 10 million users and over 1 lakh employers across 28+ cities trust Apna, and it is only just getting started! Through this Episode we discuss the following : 1. (2:41) :...

In this Episode, I ( @Jivraj Singh Sachar ) speak with Asish Mohapatra, Co-Founder & CEO - OfBusiness . Through the episode we discuss the following: 1. (02:16) : Choosing to be an Entrepreneur after living the Consulting & VC Life! 2. (04:08) : When do you know you're ready to take the leap of faith & become a Founder? 3. (06:51) : The Founding Story of OfBusiness ~ the approach of te...

In this Episode, I ( @Jivraj Singh Sachar ) speak with Kanwaljit Singh, Founder & Managing Partner - Fireside Ventures .  Through the Episode we discuss the following -  1. (02:10) : Uncovering the progression of the VC Ecosystem through the last two decades & understanding the Vertical Approach being leveraged by Fireside  2. (08:25) : Diving deep into what Venture Partners...

In this Episode, I ( @Jivraj Singh Sachar ) speak with Abhay Hanjura, Co-Founder of Licious . Through the Episode we discuss the following -  1. (02:26) : How did Abhay gain the early conviction into solving the problem with Licious? 2. (12:24) : Personifying Customer Centricity & making it a part of the Co. DNA! 3. (17:31) : Licious has a staggering 5000+  Headcount, this is include...

In this Episode, I ( @Jivraj Singh Sachar ) speak with Harsh Singh, Co-Founder of Pristyn Care . Pristyn Care is one of India’s leading healthcare startups, which is transforming the way patients undergo surgeries. Pristyn is slowly becoming the gold standard for patient experience, having reached this point by handcrafting the experience from end to end by doing things that do not scale and bring...

In this Episode, I ( @Jivraj Singh Sachar ) speak with Abhijit Kane, Co-Founder of Postman . Postman is a collaboration platform for API development, enhancing the productivity of over 15 million developers from across the globe. From what started as an open source solution, Postman is now a multi-billion dollar company with over 90% of the Fortune 500 companies as clients and consumers in every c...

In this Episode, I ( @Jivraj Singh Sachar ) speak with Abhishek Poddar, Co-Founder & CEO of Plum . Plum is reimagining corporate healthcare in India by providing high quality health insurance at affordable prices to thousands of startups and corporates in the country. Abhishek, the Co-Founder & CEO of Plum, has had a diverse range of experiences from Consulting to Product at large institut...

In this Episode, I ( @Jivraj Singh Sachar ) speak with Anand Chandrasekaran, Executive President at Five9 , as he helps us decode the black box of "Product" on the 4th Masterclass on the Indian Silicon Valley Podcast . The Masterclass Series of the Podcast is a way to dive deeper into specific domains from the tech ecosystem and uncover them fundamentally. Anand is a maverick when it comes to Prod...

In this Episode, I ( @Jivraj Singh Sachar ) speak with Sandeep Kher, Director & Head of Portfolio Finance - Sequoia India . Through the Episode we discuss the following: 1. (02:25) : What is the importance of Finance in Startups? 2. (08:44) : Finance is NOT a Cost! ~ Optimising for time  3. (10:45) : How has Sandeep navigated his journey in Finance? --> Embracing Challenges --> Thri...

In this Episode, I ( @Jivraj Singh Sachar ) speak with Revant Bhate , Co-Founder of Mosaic Wellness, a family of health & wellness brands .  Through the Episode we discuss the following: 1. (02:17) : Where does Revant's love for the Startup Ecosystem come from? ~ Misfits trying to create value! 2. (08:21) : How has Mosaic thought of building Full Stack in terms of a complete platform for...

In this Episode, I ( @Jivraj Singh Sachar ) speak with Akhil Aryan , Co-Founder of ION Energy, a lithium-ion battery management and intelligence platform . Through the Episode we discuss the following: 1. (02:19) : How Akhil figured out his Life's mission? 2. (10:06) : Diving deeper and Solving for the Real Problems which shall have the greatest impact on our generation! 3. (18:21) : Disrupting th...