That One Idea by WaterBridge Ventures

In this episode, we have Ashish Jain, Partner at WaterBridge Ventures, in conversation with Sankalp Jain, Mohit Mittal and Nitin Agrawal, Founding team at Paavan. As young IIT Delhi graduates, the team at Paavan is leaning upon 1000 years of well-researched Indian knowledge systems to extract valuable lessons. The company's vision is to solve our day-to-day problems using these lessons and help us...

In this episode, we have Ashish Jain, Partner at WaterBridge Ventures, in conversation with Ankit Bagaria, Co-Founder, Loopworm. Loopworm specializes in extracting proteins from insects. Yes, you heard it right, protein from insects. The team wants to solve a sustainable, traceable, and scalable supply of protein alternatives. The team wants to solve a sustainable, traceable, and scalable supply o...

In this episode, we have Ashish Jain in conversation with Mukund and Vineet, co-founders of Muvin. Muvin has identified a lack of financial awareness and access to financial products amongst Indian teens and young adults as a key problem statement. The Muvin team is building a digital first neo bank to fill this white space and provide their TG a full stack financial solution. We dive deep into th...

In this episode, we have Gautam Sinha, Founder & CEO  of CBREX talking to Anjali Sosale Partner at WaterBridge Ventures. CBREX is a HR-Tech company that enables enterprises to source and deploy talent at scale anywhere in the world. CBREX is set up as a B2B platform with over 4,000 recruiting agencies using the platform to view job openings and upload CV’s.  The CBREX platform is well positioned t...

Anjali Sosale of Waterbridge Ventures chats with Tejas Jain of BimaKavach. BimaKavach is disrupting the Indian general insurance industry with an MGA-like model, which would enable them to customize and co-create policies with general insurers. BimaKavach can underwrite, price and distribute insurance exclusively to small Indian businesses.  We dive deep into Tejas’s journey and the series of expe...

Anjali Sosale of Waterbridge Ventures chats with Rahul Boggaram and Nikhil Boggaram of Yellow Metal. Yellow Metal is an asset-backed credit company that disburses gold loans in less than 30 minutes in the privacy of your home. Focused on rural India, Yellow Metal seeks to provide low-cost loans to small farmers and business owners who are otherwise not part of the formal credit eco-system.    We d...

Anjali Sosale of Waterbridge Ventures chats with Jaydip Biniwale and Abhishek Doshi of Downtown Club. Downtown Club is an e-commerce platform for discovery of D2C brands. The Downtown app enables users to browse new brands and products every day through a personalized virtual shopping experience. They dive deep into Abhishek and Jaydip's journeys and the series of experiences and events that led t...

Nilesh Balakrishnan of Waterbridge Ventures chats with Amit Shekhar, Janishar Ali and Mridul Sahu - the founders of CuriousJr. CuriousJr is a mobile-first, vernacular-based coding platform that helps kids learn the fundamentals tenets of coding. Powered by strong product innovation, the CuriousJr app democratizes coding for students who might not have access to a desktop by focusing on the mobile...

Nilesh Balakrishnan of Waterbridge Ventures chats with Manish Shara and Yash Desai - the founders of OneCode. OneCode is a hyperlocal network of direct sellers for digital-first brands. Through their unique phygital approach, OneCode is building a demand funnel for brands by acting as a bridge for end-consumers that need physical touch points and in-person interactions before buying a product or s...

Anjali Sosale of Waterbridge Ventures chats with Gunjan Kejriwal and Utsav Tiwary of BitClass. BitClass is India’s largest platform for live-learning for the passionate and curious. With over 1 million learners on the platform, they were recently crowned App of the Year by Google Play. They dive deep into Gunjan’s and Utsav's journeys; the series of experiences and events that led to them to build...

Anjali Sosale of Waterbridge Ventures chats with Saurabh Pandey, co-founder and CEO of EloElo. EloElo is an app that enables live-social experiences through games and entertainment. it is currently among the top 10 Apps on the Google Play Store in India, with over 2 million downloads in 2021.  Anjali deep dives into Saurabh's journey and explores the series of experiences and events that led to hi...

Anjali Sosale of Waterbridge Ventures chats with Karan Kalia of Legitquest. Legitquest is a data-as-a-service platform, unlocking the huge potential of litigation data in India. With a repository of 80m pages that continues to grow by 1m pages a day, LegitQuest uses deep-tech to bring on-demand insights that allow businesses to proactively take real-time, data driven decisions while engaging with...

Nilesh Balakrishnan of Waterbridge Ventures chats with Rohin Malhotra of Nymble. Nymble builds smart kitchen appliances using Robotics, artificial intelligence and IoT that automates the mundane task of daily cooking. Nymble’s innovative home cooking robot Julia has perfected an impressive repertoire of dishes catering to global audiences. They dive deep into Rohin's journey and explore the series...

Anjali Sosale of Waterbridge Ventures chats with Anand Ramachandran of BigFatPhoenix. BigFatPhoenix builds first party video games for kids to help them build their social, emotional and life skills. Through their Fairside Stories app, they've built video games that give kids an online social safe space to play games and interact with their friends and peers.  We dive deep into Anand's journey and...