The Neon Show

Today most companies around us follow two approaches to presenting their user data via Ads -  # Company A - We have 60% of our users coming from Tier-I cities with greater than Rs.50,000 monthly income.  # Companies like Uber - Rahul & Rashmi, a couple from Gurgaon take an Uber to their office everyday and get a background verified driver, with a well-sanitized car, at an affordable price.  #...

During the pandemic & lockdown since last year: # Initially people weren’t able to visit a doctor personally; # And, currently both the patient & the doctor try to avoid meeting physically unless it's absolutely necessary During this period, Telemedicine has grown silently and rapidly, revolutionizing Indian healthcare. Recent report by EY , has predicted robust growth in the country’...

How often do you see an entrepreneur’s last employer putting equity in their idea?  Well, this is exactly what happened with the guest of our today’s episode, Shantanu Deshpande, Founder - Bombay Shaving Company. In 2015, when Shantanu decided to dominate the men's grooming space and he was quitting his job at McKinsey, then his peer’s and seniors didn’t just allow him to leave but decided to...

# Saffola - Cooking Oil # Parachute Advansed - Hair Oil # Nihar Naturals - Hair Oil # Set Wet - Hair Gel # Livon Hair Serum and many more...  You must have seen or used at least one of these names in your house, on TV, or in Newspaper Ad right?  Do you know what connects all these names? Its Marico Ltd, one of India’s leading consumer products companies operating in the global beauty and wellness...

In a recent report as per KPMG, “Online gaming industry in India is going to be worth Rs.29,000 crore by FY25.” Have you heard about Nazara Technologies? Probably Yes, when its IPO came in March 2021, as it was very well highlighted in the News, being one of the portfolio companies of Rakesh Jhunjhunwala. Nazara’s founder and the guest of our today’s episode, Nitish Mittersain probably saw this co...

Would you dare to create a TEDx version from scratch for the Indian audience -Right out of college?  -Without any good-paying job? -And living on a shoestring budget? Well, that's the story of Supriya Paul, Co-founder, Josh Talks, and the guest of this week’s episode of 100x Entrepreneur.  She along with her Co-Founder, Shobhit Banga started Josh Talks in 2015, with a vision to bring access t...

Have you ever heard about Infotel Broadband Services Limited (IBSL)?  Even if you haven’t, I’m very much sure that you can’t deny that you don’t know its current rebranded form.  I’ll give you a hint; this company currently has the largest market share in terms of wireless subscribers (i.e. telecom) in India, even greater than Airtel.  Yes, you’ve got it right, it's Jio.  Before getting rebra...

Venture debt was introduced in India 15 years ago. However, it has gained traction in the last decade. In the last 6 years itself, approximately $4 bn of debt has been deployed across 150+ deals in India.  But, not very often you come across an investor talking proactively about both debt & equity investments in the startup ecosystem!  That’s why in this episode we’ve brought Ashvin Chadha fro...

“We don’t think of ourselves as fund managers. The fund manager is someone managing 100s of millions of dollars, your job is largely doing money management.  Our job is not to do money management, our job is to look at the new trends, try to meet the smartest of the smartest guys, and somehow try to convince them to take out money, and be a good part of the ecosystem and make other good people wit...

“Financial independence is nothing but freedom of thought, freedom of action, and I think that’s invaluable. If you have to constantly work in your life to live, then you’ll have all sorts of restrictions.” - quoted by Paras during the podcast. The term “Financial independence” has gained more popularity in Google searches (i.e. Google Trends) post-2020, and we all know why that is. When Covid-19...

In this episode, we chat with Amit Kumar Agarwal, NoBroker.  NoBroker, as the name suggests eliminates the middle-man/broker most of us have to go through when we look out for our buy/rent a property.  NoBroker handles $2 billion worth of transactions on its platform every year and claims to have helped save brokerage worth Rs 1,100 crore last year. During the podcast, Amit shares how he built NoB...

In this episode, we chat with Sanjeev Kapoor, the famous Indian celebrity chef, Padma Shri-awardee, entrepreneur and television personality. He rose to fame after hosting Khana Khazana (an Indian cookery show) in the early 90s. It was the longest-running show of its kind in Asia with over 649 episodes over 19 years. He also holds a Guinness World Record for cooking 918 kg khichdi live at World Foo...

In this episode, we chat with Karan Bajaj, Founder, WhiteHat Jr. From being the CEO at Discovery, to being an author with Penguin Random House & HarperCollins Publishers, to curating his Edtech venture Karan has donned many hats. Founded in November 2018, WhiteHat Jr is focused on helping children between 6 to 14 years in developing commercial-ready games, animations, and apps online using the...

Ranjeet Pratap Singh is the Co-founder & CEO of Pratilipi. Prior to Pratilipi, he worked at Vodafone with stints in Marketing, Retail, and Channel Sales.  Pratilipi, is the largest vernacular Indian story-telling platform with over 320,000 writers in 12 languages and over 25+ million Monthly Active Readers.  There are several sub-categories and sub-products within the brand such as - Pratilipi...

In this episode, we chat with Malika Datt Sadani & Mohit Sadaani, The Moms Co. which deals with toxic-free products for newborns and mothers. The Mom’s Co’s journey started from a personal experience. Both the couple’s daughters had skin conditions which made them scourge for natural products that were free of toxins and artificial fragrances. During the podcast, they talk about how to build t...

In this episode, we chat with Pravin Agarwala, founder BetterPlace.  Blue-collar workforce management is one of the biggest industries in the Indian economy. Urbanization and deeper penetration of the internet have helped players like QuikrJobs, LinkedIn, Just Jobs, Aasaan Jobs, and Google to make inroads into this segment. BetterPlace is India's largest technology platform delivering digital...

From investing all his savings in Sahil Barua's Delhivery in 2011 to becoming an angel investor in 130 Indian startups, the story of Abhishek Goyal, Co-founder, Tracxn is worth listening for everyone in the ecosystem.  Being an Ex-Yahoo & Amazon employee, Abhishek stepped into the startup investing ecosystem with Accel Partners in 2008. Traxcn aims to become the largest platform tracking...

In this episode, we chat with Ashish Jhina & Karthik Venkateswaran, co-founders of Jumbotail, a 5-year-old online wholesale marketplace for grocery and food items.  Jumbotail serves more than 30,000 neighborhood stores (popularly known as kiranas in India) in the country with its full-stack B2B e-commerce model, which includes warehouses, a last-mile delivery supply chain network, and a fintec...

Harpreet Singh Grover founded CoCubes.com, an online platform for assessments and hiring along with his batchmate Vibhore Goyal in 2007 after completing his graduation at IIT, Delhi.  CoCubes was acquired by Aon Hewitt in an all-cash deal in 2016.  Harpreet has also authored a book titled Let’s Build a Company along with Vibhore Goyal. This book is a tale of persistence & grit and about a comp...

In this episode, we chat with Mitesh Shah, who has headed finance at startups like Ola, BookMyShow & Being Human Clothing, and currently is co-founder at Inflection Point Ventures.  IPV comprises about 4,000 investors, who are CXOs at various top of line brands across the globe. Till date it has been part of 55 deals and these include names like Milkbasket, Blusmart, Truly Madly, and Multibhas...

In this episode, we chat with Ghazal and Varun Alagh, Co-founders, Mamaearth.  Ghazal & Varun’s entrepreneurial journey began when they were expecting their first baby and were on the lookout to ensure that they could use the best childcare products to keep their baby safe. But what came up as a shock for them was that every product out there had some or the other form of harmful chemical comp...

In this episode, we chat with Dilipkumar Khandelwal, Limited Partner with Stellaris Venture Partners & Fireside Ventures, and an active Angel Investor in 25+ companies. He’s Ex-President at SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud business and came closer to the startup community in late 2016. He has keen interest in D2C, Consumer-Tech and B2B SaaS. Some of his portfolio companies include Whatfix, Signzy, Mo...

In this episode, we chat with Arun Venkatachalam, who comes from the Murugappa Group - family, and is also an active Angel Investor.  Arun has invested in 25+ companies including Posist, ZoomCar, ZestMoney, AdPushup among others. And he has also got successful exits from companies like Innov8 CoWorking (acquired by OYO Rooms), Yourbus (acquired by Naspers/Ibibo Group), Endless Robotics (acquired b...

In this episode, we chat with Nishith Rastogi, Founder of Locus.sh; a startup that uses technology and proprietary algorithms to provide smart logistics solutions to businesses such as route optimisation, real-time tracking, insights, and analytics, vehicle allocation, and utilisation. In 2015, Nishith along with his former AWS-colleague Geet Garg, built RideSafe, a real-time route deviation detec...

In this episode, we chat with Bhaskar Majumdar, Founder of Unicorn India Ventures; an early-stage fund with portfolio companies such as - Inc42, OPEN Bank, and VLCC’s VanityCube among others.  Bhaskar spent his early career in various Media companies like - Zee Network & Times Group. He also had an entrepreneurial stint with Recreate Solutions in 2001, which he later sold to US systems integra...