The Brunch Lab With Bertelsmann

What does it take to solve housing in India? In the upcoming episode of BII Brunch Lab, Pankaj and Rohit from BII sit down with Atul Monga, founder, Basic Home Loan, who came in without a PowerPoint and left with a term sheet. He doesn't have one or two co-founders. He has 70-80: from RM level to CEO. He's not building for an exit. He's building something his children will inherit. The mission is...

What does it take to build the credit infrastructure the world never got around to fixing? Pankaj and Rohit from BII sit down with Tushar Srivastava, Co-Founder of Skeps — the company building what Visa and Mastercard did for payments, but for lending. Point-of-sale financing was broken: merchants frustrated, banks hesitant, consumers stuck in the middle. Tushar saw the friction and decided to rem...

India is changing, and nowhere is that more visible than in how people are thinking about their money. An entire generation of Indian investors is waking up to the dream of real wealth creation and intentional investing. Pranit Arora, co-founder, Univest, saw this shift before most. | Founder Truths, Unfiltered! At BII, we think in decades, not quarters. That's the only way to back founders who ar...

150+ eClinics. 6M+ patients. A ₹399 membership with a 60% renewal rate. Rural India isn't just paying for quality healthcare, it's coming back for more. Priyadarshi Mohapatra didn't theorise about the problem from a boardroom. He moved to Bhubaneswar, earned the trust of communities that had been let down before, and built CureBay into what most people assumed was impossible- a full-stack, profita...

Two months after Orange Health Labs raised its Series B in 2022, revenue fell by 60%. Most companies would have slashed prices or chased quick fixes. They did the opposite: saying no to discounts and doubling down on quality, speed, and trust. In this candid episode of BII Brunch Lab, founders Dhruv Gupta and Tarun Bhambra sit down with Pankaj Makkar and Swati Murarka to unpack the moment that tes...

Speed. Precision. Reliability  The origin story wasn’t convenience. It was a crisis. A broken diagnostic experience during a dengue scare became the spark behind Orange Health and what followed was a pitch we’d never heard before. Not about price wars. Not about growth at any cost. But about speed, reliability, and rebuilding trust in healthcare from the ground up. When Dhruv Gupta and Tarun Bhamb...

"Our AI has crossed an inflection point truly matching or beating human performance in 50% of our traffic, across 50% of the overall market." That's Apurv Agrawal, Co-Founder & CEO of SquadStack.ai, in a conversation that goes far beyond the usual founder playbook. Over brunch with Pankaj and Rohit, Apurv unpacks the evolution from human+AI telecalling to building the world's first contact center...

Our AI today has crossed that inflection point, where AI is truly Beating or Matching the Human Performance, in 50% of our traffic, and 50% of the Overall Market.” That’s what Apurv Agrawal, Co-Founder and CEO, SquadStack.ai told us, when he sat down with Pankaj and Rohit for Brunch Lab, Season 2! 7,81,000+ conversations a day. 20 crore interactions and counting. One clear mission: Reimagine Sales...

Join BII's investors and Shiprocket's founders for a Brunch Labs episode as we break bread and boundaries with Shiprocket, the eCommerce logistics unicorn. In a fascinating conversation, we learn about eCommerce logistics with Shiprocket's meteoric rise and revolutionary shipping solutions. From last-mile delivery to seamless order fulfillment, Shiprocket empowers businesses of all sizes. Explore...

Join Pankaj Makkar as he engages with Abhay and Vivek, unveiling the blend of trust, shared vision, and mutual respect that has forged extraordinary relationships. In this episode, you'll see how these dynamic partnerships have sculpted industries, disrupted norms, and reimagined success. Extract invaluable insights from years of hard-earned victories and occasional stumbles. Don't miss out on thi...

Brace yourself for a sizzling episode as we serve up a hearty discussion with the founders of Licious, the trailblazers of the meat industry in India. Join these culinary disruptors and their enablers as they unravel their quest to create a unicorn startup from the vibrant Indian Startup Ecosystem, all over a stimulating brunch. This succulent conversation is marinated, cooked, and ready to be ser...