The Startup Operator

Welcome to another episode of The Startup Operator Roundup, where Roshan Cariappa and Gunjan Saha discuss -  👉🏽 Zeta Achieves unicorn status 👉🏽 Zerodha's ESOP Buyback 👉🏽 Past week's fundraises and more Hit the like button if enjoyed this roundup, and do not forget to share among your operator friends!  Listen to our interviews and conversations with investors, operators, and founders on your...

Amit is the founder and CEO of iMocha, a skills assessment solution API platform that helps organizations with their hiring. Previously he was the founder of Radix Business Models, an IT services and outsourcing company. In this interview Amit spoke about his journey as a founder, transitioning from services to products company, the nuances of building an assessment product and more with Roshan Ca...

Rahul is the founder and CEO of Flobiz, a company that primarily builds billing and inventory management softwares for Indian SMBs and works towards digitizing the SMB space. Rahul is a serial entrepreneur whose previous startups were Zaaika and Koinex. In this interview he spoke about building for SMBs, building trust with SMBs and more! Key highlights of this conversation: 00:00 Introduction 01:...

Welcome to another episode of The Startup Operator Roundup, where Roshan Cariappa and Gunjan Saha discuss -  👉🏽 Agnikul Cosmos and Skyroot Aerospace's fundraises 👉🏽 PhonePe and Groww's acquisitions 👉🏽 Pinelabs and Ninjacart's Valuation and more Highlights:  00:00 Introduction 03:32 Mylab's self test covid test kit 07:00 Pinelabs' Valuation 08:29 Moglix achieves unicorn status 12:17 Wysa's fu...

Rishi Agrawal is the CEO of Avantis Regtech, a regulatory technology startup that offers a multi-tenant, SAAS solution on its web and mobile platforms, enabling a transparent, accountable and efficient risk and compliance management. Rishi spoke about Incentivising compliance, Making compliance data accessible through APIs and more in his interview with Roshan Cariappa. Highlights of this conversa...

Utrkarsh Roy(@utkarsh_roy) and Divyaansh Anuj(@divyaanshanuj) are the founders of Introbot(@introbotAI), a WhatsApp chabot providing instant help for verified Oxygen, Hospital Beds, Ambulance and other medical supplies to help fight the second wave of the pandemic. In this episode they spoke with Roshan Cariappa about Introbot's impact, how they verified the data of leads for supplies and the orig...

Aakriti is the Co-founder and COO at Wizikey,  a SaaS-based, data-driven communications suite for PR for startups. Prior to Co-founding Wizikey, she founded Boring Brands, a branding agency. In her early career she has held positions at Info Edge, Naukri.com and the like. In this interview Roshan and Aakriti talk about PR and branding for startups and more: Highlights Turning service into product...

Ravi is a co-founder and CEO of Qapita, a digital equity management platform. Ravi is an angel investor in several startups. He has previously worked in investment banking and corporate development in Asia Pacific region for nearly 2 decades and has expertise in capital raising, corporate finance advisory, mergers & acquisitions, principal investments and the like. In this interview Ravi and Rosha...

Welcome to another episode of The Startup Operator Roundup, where Roshan Cariappa and Gunjan Saha discuss -    👉🏽 Rapido's fundraise  👉🏽 Wayne Burgess joins Ola electric   👉🏽 DRDO & 5C networks' X-Ray Algorithm and more   Hit the like button if enjoyed this roundup, and do not forget to share among your operator friends!   Listen to our interviews and conversations with investors, operators,...

Shruti is an engineer and a data and ML enthusiast and is currently a general partner at Array VC. Previously she was an early stage venture capital investor at True Ventures, Samsung Electronics, Lightbank, HighBAR Partners, and the i2A Fund. While at IBM she worked on self learning algorithms that detected user location based on IP addresses, which she later incorporated into the Lotus Sametime...

Eshwar is the co-founder and the CEO of Mukunda foods, a cutting edge food tech company with inhouse R&D, that automates kitchens and is used in several cloud kitchens across the country. Eshwar spoke about the nuances of building a food tech company and more in this interview. Highlights: - Pivoting from a Quick Serve Restaurant to Kitchen Automation - Achieving product market fit in Automation -...

Welcome to another episode of The Startup Operator Roundup, where Roshan Cariappa and Gunjan Saha discuss -    👉🏽 Urban Company's fundraise  👉🏽 Zomato's IPO filing   👉🏽 Elasticrun's fundraise and more.  Hit the like button if enjoyed this roundup, and do not forget to share among your operator friends!    Listen to our interviews and conversations with investors, operators, and founders on y...

Ritu is one of the co-founders at Ankur. She worked on bringing innovation from lab to the market for a decade in Unilever and Philips. She has also worked globally investing in IP led renewable technologies. She has a PhD in physics from University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from INSEAD. In this interview with Roshan Cariappa she spoke about Investing in businesses that focus on the next billion...

Meeta is the founder of The Hard Copy, a resource for building a modern-day, digital-first, design-led brand. She has helped to create some of India’s biggest consumer and financial services brands, from Airtel to Kotak Bank, Bru Coffee to Vistara Airlines. She was one of two partners at Ray+Keshavan, a consultancy that was acquired by media conglomerate WPP. Meeta then co-founded a SaaS enterpris...

Welcome to another episode of The Startup Operator Roundup, where Roshan Cariappa and Gunjan Saha discuss -   👉🏽 Chargebee's unicorn status 👉🏽 Razorpay's new valuation  👉🏽 Qapita's fundraise and ESOPs and more. Hit the like button if enjoyed this roundup, and do not forget to share among your operator friends!   Listen to our interviews and conversations with investors, operators, and founde...

Rory is the Vice Chairman of Ogilvy, he has co-founded a behavioral science practice within the agency. Prior to becoming the Vice Chairman, Rory was a copywriter and creative director at Ogilvy for over 20 years, having joined as a graduate trainee in 1988. He is a speaker at TED Global. He is the author of two book: The Wiki Man and Alchemy. One of marketing's most original thinkers and influent...

Jo Aggarwal is the co-founder and CEO of Wysa, a mental health app improvement app company. Prior to founding Wysa, she was the head of technology and innovation at Silatech and managing director at Pearson learning solutions. In the past she has worked on Employability and youth empowerment during Middle east conflict for which she won a Stevie / Global Telecom Business Innovation Awards for her...

In this episode of The Startup Operator Roundup, Roshan Cariappa and Gunjan Saha recapped last week's episodes with Satya Prabhakar and Kashyap Deorah, and spoke about  Qualcomm ventures' investment in BoAt audio  Amazon India's $250Mn Venture fund to take Indian SMBs online  Byju's Series F fundraise Swiggy's Fundraise  Cleartrip's Acquisition by Flipkart and  Tiger Global's $100Mn investment in...

Kashyap is a serial entrepreneur. He has successfully built and sold 3 companies and is currently the CEO of his fourth startup, Hypertrack. Prior to founding Hypertrack, Kashyap founded righthalf.com, Chaupaati Bazaar and Chalo. In this interview he spoke about his process of going from idea to product to company, what metrics entrepreneurs should chase and more.   Key highlights from this conver...

Satya Prabhakar is the CEO of Sulekha, an Indian firm funded by GIC, Norwest and Mitsui . He worked at Honeywell as an engineer and AT&T as a business manager before founding Sulekha with Sangeeta Kshettry. Having been a founder for over a decade in the Indian Startup Ecosystem, he brings insights about working with SMBs, the secret to a long living business, building for Bharath and more in this...

Welcome to another episode of The Startup Operator Roundup, where Roshan Cariappa and Gunjan Saha discuss -    👉🏽 India's Unicorn Frenzy: Meesho, CRED, Groww....  👉🏽  WazirX's NFT marketplace and more Hit the like button if enjoyed this roundup, and do not forget to share among your operator friends! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/startup-operator/message

Priya Mohan is a banker and founder turned investor. She was co-founder at Vidyartha, an edtech startup that was acquired by BYJU's. In this episode she Priya brings insights from both a founder and an investor's perspective, what she thinks about startups and more!   Some highlights of this episode are:  -The story of Vidyartha  -Choosing between a lifestyle startup and running a VC startup  -Ali...

Andrew Stotz is a serial entrepreneur, an active value investor and a podcaster where he talks to people about their worst investments in life. In this episode he talks about the most common mistakes that businesses often make and how to solve for them. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/startup-operator/message

Anand Agrawal founded Credgenics, a platform working with financial institutions, Banks, NBFCs to improve their collections efficiency using technology in 2018. Prior to founding Credgenics Anand held the position of Senior Data scientist at 1MG and Urban Clap before. In this episode Anand gives insights into building a product in the fintech space, how enterprise customers impact product roadmap...

Abhinav started his career in designing back in 2011. Since then, he has worked with 50+ founders and startups across USA, Europe and India. Building the design team from scratch & helping build one of the biggest live learning platforms in the world - Unacademy, Abhinav wanted to fix the state of design education. He started 10K Designers -  an invite-only masterclass on becoming a UI/UX designer...