Pitch Cafe Podcast

In today’s episode of Pitch Cafe, we have Arvind Rapaka with us.💛😊 He is a 3-times successful exit entrepreneur and now is on his 4th startup. 🤩 At present, Arvind is at a VP-level position in a startup called Dragonfruit AI. He has also worked for big companies like Yahoo! He is a person with Midas Touch. 🔥 In this video, he talks about his journey and shares how childhood #scienceprojects li...

In today’s episode of Pitch cafe, we are back with the second part where I talk with Madan Padaki, Founder - CEO, 1BRIDGE. Madan is the co-founder and director of Sylvan Advisors, in the field of education management; CEO and MD of Head Held High Services, a social enterprise for rural youth, and former co-founder of MeritTrac Services, a skill assessment, and testing company. Madan explains the f...

In today’s episode of Pitch Cafe, I talk with Nilesh Trivedi, Principal Investor, J-Venture. 😄💛 Nilesh describes himself as a company-maker/company-builder. He has over two decades of Operational, Technology Management, and creating new businesses experience at fortune corporations and early-stage companies and helped create and guide more than a dozen new companies from the ground up. 🤩 Early...

In today’s episode of Pitch Cafe, I talk with Sunil Cherian, CEO of Copperwire Systems, a Silicon Valley blockchain applications company, that helps easily unlock, accelerate and maximize value from Blockchain technologies. 😃💛 He is the cocreator of Tada SC, a recently-launched breakthrough supply chain suite of applications, that aims to make your supply chain safer, faster and smarter. 🤩 He i...

Welcome to another episode of Pitch Cafe. Today I talk with Puja Kapoor, Founder & CEO at Newmom.me . She’s on a mission to change the perspective about motherhood that general people possess. 💛😃 She's helping new moms to have healthy and happy motherhood, and supporting them in their ever-evolving journey. She has 15+ years of Product Management and Marketing experience in ML/AI, Mobile, Fi...

In this episode of Pitch Cafe, I talk with Madan Padaki, Founder - CEO, 1BRIDGE. He is one of the top influencers in the domain of education and entrepreneurship across many countries! 🤩 He is the co-founder and director of Sylvan Advisors, in the field of education management; CEO and MD of Head Held High Services, a social enterprise for rural youth, and former co-founder of MeritTrac Services,...

Can we promote #mental #wellbeing and meaningful human connections through creativity? ✨ In today’s episode of Pitch Cafe, we have Deepa Vivekanandan with us. 💛 She is the Founder and CEO of MixLife, a startup focused on #creativity and #wellness. She was a product manager at Google for machine learning in fighting abuse - particularly focused on improving online conversations through machine le...

In this episode of Pitch Cafe, I talk with Dr. Deepak Sekar. You may know him from his role as Founder and CEO of Chowbotics, which built the world's first fresh food-making robot named “Sally.” 💛😊 He completed his B. Tech. from IIT Madras, and his Ph. D. from the Georgia Institute of Technology, all in Electrical and Computer Engineering. Recently he co-founded Prof Jim to transform e-learning...

In this episode of Pitch Cafe, I talk with BITsian Shourya Agarwal about building the nextgen social metaverse platform 😄 He is the co-founder & CEO of Flam, which is the world’s first Augmented Reality (AR) based social media network built for a global audience. Flam launched its first consumer product ‘FlamCards’, which are printed videos 👀 Internet was massively adopted because people can...

In this episode of Pitch Cafe Podcast, I talk with Marcel Linza at 3Fit Fitness Center😁It was exciting to talk to mentors in the physical and mental fitness space and see how it impacts professional success. People usually think fitness is all about weight lifting and drinking supplements. But fitness is more than that. Physical activity or exercise can improve your health and reduce the risk of...

In this episode of Pitch Cafe, I talk with Raju Reddy 😃 BITSian, and legendary silicon valley investor successfully launching founders from India. He talks about building new kinds of societies as he explains about Kakatiya Sandbox - a novel innovation ecosystem for FRESH MINDS and a lot more! He is the founder and former CEO of Sierra Atlantic, a company that grew to be a best-in-class global se...

In this episode of Pitch Cafe, I talk with Reethu George 😁 We talk about her thought process while she was making the shift, Why we feel conflict, can somebody be happy without a purpose, what’s going on with women in this digital world, her views on social media, services she offers at ClarityBrew, her niche, difference between a friend and a coach, her theories and techniques, the market for co...

How to generate leads and sell like a pro? Whether you are a founder or an employee, selling will take you far in scaling and succeeding your brand. In this episode of Pitch Cafe, I talk with Sandeep Chandrasekhar. 😊 We talk about how to generate leads using email marketing, cold calling, contextualizing, and customizing your efforts to connect with your lead. Also, how to pursue sales even if yo...

In Episode#3 of Pitch Cafe, I talk with Dharam Singh, CEO, PgMP, PfMP, PMP, RMP, ACP, PBA, DASM, DASSM, PMI-ATP 😃 If you are to manage your life effectively, don't you think you need to plan it well? Where do you begin planning whether it is your company's next big deal or your child's school project? https://lnkd.in/gYYUNhgT Planning your startup and life with project management 🔖 Effective pla...

In this episode of Pitch Cafe, I talk with Vineet Johnson and Samir Sahoo 😊 IRegained, is a digital neurotherapeutics company that has developed a clinically validated, therapist-directed, smart, in-clinic, and in-home digital rehabilitation system that empowers chronic stroke and traumatic brain injury survivors to reclaim unassisted use of their upper extremities, including hand usage. IRegaine...

In this episode of Pitch Cafe, I talk with Vishal Gupta 😃 His journey from IIT Bombay Labs to FalconX B2B Accelerator in Silicon Valley was worth a capture on my podcast, I learned every minute I interacted with him. He's the CEO at Seclore. He's an entrepreneur and business development executive with a special focus on the financial service industry. 😁 This podcast is extremely informative for...

In this episode of Pitch Cafe, I talk with Vishal Gupta 😃 His journey from IIT Bombay Labs to FalconX B2B Accelerator in Silicon Valley was worth a capture on my podcast, I learned every minute I interacted with him. He's the CEO at Seclore. He's an entrepreneur and business development executive with a special focus on the financial service industry. 😁 This podcast is extremely informative for...

In this episode of Pitch Cafe ☕️, I talk with good friend Deepthi Rao 😃, product leader and angel investor. Some of her investments include Aisle, Just Egg, and Gatsby. It was fun exploring her journey into investing and just how adventurous and open-minded she is! She leads the Product Technical PM role at Facebook Pay. She is also an Angel investor and startup mentor for high-growth, mission-o...

NEW PODCAST! BING! with Russ Bevans : Have you ever wondered what it takes to win an Olympic medal? What is the SWEAT and SLOG involved? Well, I can certainly share a taste of it with my podcast with Russ Bevans and this is just to give you a peek into an athlete's oops, a triathlete's life hacks.. Russ Bevans is an industrial designer at Nike who cross-applies his 5-point formula 1) preparation-...

Russ Bevans is VP of industrial design and innovation at Nike for 32 plus years. He is not only a design enthusiast but also a fitness coach. He is actually a sportsperson who has won accolades at the national level and has qualified for a lot of international events as well. He has many lessons to share: about his life, about persistence, about training. And today's podcast is focused on how one...

A fascinating conversation with Akshatha Shetty who talks about her journey in finance in starting a fund, women empowerment, social impact investing, Maker's Bar, and in effect what it takes to survive and thrive as a woman entrepreneur. Some great hacks on maintaining mind-body balance and staying grounded amidst challenging high growth phases in life. Listen on...

An ex-Wipro, Intel, Teradata-ite, and alumnus of BITS, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Leave Business School, most importantly a doting mother of two daughters, Singh is not only bringing about positive change in the agricultural domain but also in the workspace for women. This is probably why she has been rightly honored as an exceptional woman leader with a feature in the Top 100 Women in T...

It was a pleasure doing a podcast with the next-gen leader, and visionary in the education space, Founder-Director, Keystone Education Group, Srilakshmi Reddy. She has built her institution with 4 cornerstone principles, 1- Be prepared for change every day 2- Be realistic 3- Keep learning every day 4- Everything you build should be empathy-centric, at the end of the day in the education business w...

#WomensHistoryMonth inspired me to bring in Nandini Shenoy, CEO-PinkVilla. Listen to her inspiring story of creating the top Bollywood platform by beginning her journey as a geek from Microsoft who pursued her passion as the top content creator and platform for Bollywood sitting in the US, and her market being in Mumbai, India. Brick by brick she built her villa, PinkVilla, a resounding story of s...

Talking about creating a predictive/warning system to understand and identify action items for a better healthcare system; Think about technologists like Thiel or Musk running for office. Speeding up governance for better social outcomes, also conversations on corporates helping healthcare sectors in speeding up data governance and on the other hand talk about how to improve adoption of startup pr...