The Offline Network

The Offline Network brings together two founders solving very different problems across India's technology landscape. Livestream 111 puts elder care and factory automation in the same conversation, exploring how one founder builds support systems that help older adults live well in their own homes, while the other builds AI that lets factory robots learn new tasks by watching rather than being...

In livestream 110 of The Offline Network, we bring together two founders building in very different parts of India’s operating system: circular economy and private wealth. Pranshu Singhal of Karo Sambhav is working on responsible collection, recycling, and material recovery across complex waste streams, while Ishit Lakhani of SELEQT is building a private wealth firm for families that need one acco...

Two founders building very different pieces of India's future join livestream 109 of The Offline Network. One is turning basalt dust and tea gardens into carbon removal infrastructure, working at the intersection of climate science and agriculture. The other is building India's AI-powered virtual humans, creating digital influencers that live entirely on screen. This livestream traces two...

In this livestream of The Offline Network, we sit down with the two co-founders behind Shram, a work management tool built around how people actually do their work. Ojasvika Sahu and Jay Gadekar both trained as architects before moving into software, and they bring that design-first thinking to a category usually run by spreadsheets and status meetings. Stream 108 explores what it takes to build a...

In this episode of The Offline Network, we bring together two founders working at very different frontiers of Indian deep tech. One is building voice AI so people can use technology by speaking in their own language, the other is building the community and support that helps climate and materials startups move from the lab to the market. Episode 107 explores how each of them thinks about access, a...

In Episode 106 of The Offline Network, we bring together two very different builders from India's startup ecosystem: a designer and educator shaping how the next generation of product designers learn and work, and a consumer brand founder turned early-stage investor who now backs founders at the very start of their journey. The conversation moves across design and craft, building and selling a...

From connecting satellites with laser communication to bringing farm-fresh dairy directly to urban homes, Episode #105 explores two founders solving very different infrastructure challenges from India. We dive into deep tech, entrepreneurship, consumer brands, building from first principles, and what it takes to create category-defining companies. Joining us LIVE on the show: Shreyaans Jain | Foun...

Today on The Offline Network: → Anshul Khandelwal, Co-founder of Cent — the startup detecting disease before symptoms appear, and why preventive health is India's biggest missing infrastructure layer → Sarthak Dubey, Co-founder & COO of Mitigata — India's first full-stack cyber resilience platform, on why cyber risk is still the most underpriced business threat in the country → Info Ed...

Pocket FM has 250M+ listeners, and a creator economy that pays out ₹300 crore. Today, Co-founder of Pocket FM, Prateek Dixit joins us for a conversation on stream 103 of The Offline Network.

Friday edition: AR glasses you can actually buy, trust layer for a post AGI world and Deep tech in India On today's episode: Vishnu (EigenLabs) on EigenLab and the trust layer for a post-AGI world Chetan Mehta (AUM Ventures) on his Rs 750 crore Fund II and why deeptech India is the bet of the decade Live investor × portfolio conversation: Chetan and Chiran on what it actually looks like to bac...

Friday edition: AR glasses you can actually buy, trust layer for a post AGI world and Deep tech in India On today's episode: Vishnu (EigenLabs) on EigenLab and the trust layer for a post-AGI world Chetan Mehta (AUM Ventures) on his Rs 750 crore Fund II and why deeptech India is the bet of the decade Live investor × portfolio conversation: Chetan and Chiran on what it actually looks like to bac...

Today on The Offline Network: Elon Musk becomes a trillionaire — SpaceX IPO, Cursor $60B, what the AI wealth concentration means US govt pauses Fable 5 and Mythos — what happens when the builders say stop India at Nice, France — is India's global innovation pitch finally landing? Telegram banned in India — 100M users, encrypted platforms, and state power Guests today: 1. Vishal Chopra — Co-fou...

For our 100th episode, we're bringing six founders onto a single stage: - Sreevathsa Prabhakar, Founder & CEO of Servify - Kanika Gupta Shori, Co-Founder & COO of Square Yards - Ronnie Screwvala, Entrepreneur, investor, and Chairperson & Co-Founder of upGrad - Vaibhav Khandelwal, Co-Founder & CTO of Shadowfax - Abhay Singhal & Mohit Saxena, Co-Founders of InMobi They've...

Two founders joining us today: Vivek Ravisankar (HackerRank) on whether tech hiring is actually fixed, what AI does to the job of being an engineer, and where the human sits when machines write most of the code. Kanav Hasija (MeltPlan) on why construction productivity has been falling for 50 years, what pre-construction planning has to do with everything that goes wrong on a build, and why Besseme...

One founder built India's largest PM community from a single meetup. The other sold his startup to Pine Labs for Rs 88 Cr and immediately started a new company in New York with the same co-founders. Suhas Motwani (The Product Folks) on building a 30,000-member community entirely on patience, why product managers make great community builders, and what internal product work teaches you that no...

Three founders. One who's kept a tech company alive for 40 years and just took it to Europe. One who built a wearable that stimulates your brain to fix focus and mood. And two who turned RC cars into a Rs 30 Cr brand in 16 months. Sahil Shah (TM Systems) about cybersecurity, intelligence and Entrepreneurship. Dhawal Jain (Mave Health) on what tDCS actually does to the brain, and whether India...

On today’s episode of The Offline Network, we have: 1/ Vedant Gupte (Trackk) is reimagining how Gen Z invests — AI-powered stock discovery, one of India's youngest registered brokers, backed by Lightspeed and Info Edge. 2/ Vinay Agastya (Ctruh) is building the infrastructure layer of the spatial internet — browser-native 3D experiences for any brand, no app downloads needed. Shark Tank India S...

This week on The Offline Network, Utsav and Dhruv sit down with three founders building very different parts of the India opportunity — one who built a generational education brand, one who is fixing how Indian families pay for education, and one who bootstrapped three global SaaS products without raising a rupee of VC. 1/ Ankit Dudhwewala built CallHippo without a technical background and without...

This week’s news:  Reliance just posted India’s highest-ever annual profit at ₹95,754 crore - and the Jio IPO is on the horizon.  India opened its 5th-gen AMCA fighter programme to private industry for the first time - Tata, L&T, and Bharat Forge in the race.  The government approved ₹33,660 crore to build 100 industrial parks to go after India’s 1.8% global export share.  Lane Brown’s Vulture...

A platform making grassroots sport visible. An AI companion speaking India's languages. Plus — SpaceX's S-1, India's electricity milestone, and Karpathy joining Anthropic. 1/ Sidhhant Agarwal Founder of SportVot — the platform digitising grassroots sport in India and globally. 3.5 lakh matches digitised, 30 sports, 20,000+ kabaddi athlete profiles. Raised Rs 32.7 Cr. Now in APAC, MENA,...

Today on the show: Shashi Kumar (Akshayakalpa Organic) — built India's first certified organic dairy company from a farm on the outskirts of Bengaluru, survived six shutdown scares, and scaled to Rs 395 Cr News we cover Tata & ASML sign $11B deal to build India's first commercial chip fab in Dholera

Two founders building what's next — while India's economy hits a turning point. Anushka Sharma (Quenzy) — bootstrapped a prebiotic soda brand that sold out in 2 hours, ex-Google and Amazon  Nakul Kelkar (Affogato AI) — built an AI video agent with 1.5M users, backed by YC News: India's rupee under pressure as gold imports widen the trade deficit Zepto gets SEBI nod for $1.2B IPO — quic...

This episode dives into an infrastructure bet — autonomous industrial robotics. Manesh Jain breaks down how Flo Mobility is deploying autonomous robots across construction sites, airports, and industrial environments — and what it takes to make robotics work reliably in chaotic real-world settings.

This episode explores three very different frontiers — longevity, industrial intelligence, and AI infrastructure in orbit. 1/ Abhishek Sahu (Founder & CEO, Dreamspan) breaks down adaptive health technology, longevity trends, and what building health hardware in India actually demands 2/ Naman Shah (Founder & CEO, NowPurchase) explains digitising India’s metal manufacturing ecosystem throug...

India’s AI transition is colliding with a much deeper question: who are we actually building for? 1/ Dharmesh Ba breaks down the empathy gap between Indian founders and users, why “Bharat” behaves differently from “India,” and how UPI, WhatsApp, and digital products are reshaping consumer psychology. 2/ Bharat Pinnam explains how AI-native software creation is changing who gets to build, what real...