The Startup Operator

On this episode of the Startup Operator Roshan Cariappa and Gunjan Saha discussed Startup fundraises in the past week, SEBI's new listing norms and how they impact the startup ecosystem and SPAC opportunities for Indian Startups and more. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/startup-operator/message

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Anshu heads the SRE and engineering infrastructure (systems) operations for Grab Financial Group across SE Asia on AWS, Azure, GCP, AzureStack, and bare metal servers. Being the first member of the team and the first few engineering hires in Bangalore, he worked on greenfield project to establish engineering best practices using containers, cloud agnostics stack, IAAC, and CI/CD and grew the SRE t...

Welcome to another episode of The Startup Operator Roundup, where Roshan Cariappa and Gunjan Saha discuss -   👉🏽 Stripe's valuation  👉🏽 Policybazaar & Delhivery's IPOs  👉🏽Google Playstore's new policy and more... Some Highlights: Recent startup fundraises  PolicyBazaar & Delhivery Pre IPOs  Stripe's Valuation  Google Play Store Policy  Private pension funds and Startups  ZOHO turns 25   Hit...

Deepti Agrawal has been the Director of Engineering at Flipkart for over 9 years and has held multiple roles in the company. She is not only witness to the workings underneath the hood of India's largest e-commerce company but also adding to it's growth and scale.  Prior to Flipkart she held the position of Software development lead at Clickable. In this episode Roshan and Augustus talk to Deepti...

Pooja Goyal joined Avishkaar as the Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer in September 2020. She brings with her over 20 years of global leadership experience in EdTech and product development with the likes of Adobe, KLAY, and PalmSource Inc. Avishkaar robotics kits are already used by more than 100,000 students in over 1100 schools across India. As the co-founder at Avishkaar, Pooja is looking...

Nexus Venture Partners (www.nexusvp.com) is India’s leading venture capital fund, with offices in India and Silicon Valley. It has over $1.5B under management across 5 funds and an active portfolio of over 70 companies across technology, internet, media, consumer and business services sectors.   In this episode, Roshan Cariappa hosts Pratik Poddar, who is Principal at Nexus Venture Partners. As an...

Solving big data engineering problems, scaling an engineering team, and building core technology products - that's Pankaj's forte.   With 19+ years of experience, Pankaj co-founded Zendrive with Jonathan Matus and established the R&D centre in Bangalore in 2014. He leads the data science, engineering, and product teams at the centre which has 85 employees at present.   With a knack for solving har...

Welcome to another episode of The Startup Operator Roundup, where Roshan Cariappa and Gunjan Saha discuss -    👉🏽 Startup fundraise over the past week  👉🏽 Hot takes and news from the week that was in the Startup world    👉🏽 Razorpay's ESOP buyback and more...   Key points discussed in this roundup are: Roshan's take on Recent episode  GROWW in talks to raise $100Mn with Tiger Global  Pristyn...

Sujay Koduri heads engineering at Vymo which is one of the fastest growing enterprise tech startups in the world. Prior to working at Vymo he was the senior engineering manager at [24]7.AI. In this episode Augustus and Roshan talk to Sujay to find out how he manages engineering in a fast growing startup and more. Some Key points discussed in this Episode are  What Makes a great engineer?  Importan...

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Welcome to another episode of The Startup Operator Roundup, where Roshan Cariappa and Gunjan Saha discuss -  👉🏽 Startup fundraise over the past week 👉🏽 Hot takes and news from the week that was in the Startup world 👉🏽 India's Tech Unicorns   👉🏽 Twitter's new features and more... Enjoy the week's summary with a cuppa as Roshan & Gunjan talk about, -  Top Fundraise of the week: Zomato, Zetwe...

To learn more about the nuances of early-stage startup investing, we have with us today Prayank Swaroop, a Partner at Accel, who invests in B2B, Consumer Brands, and Fintech. He has invested in multiple startups solving problems specifically for Indian Businesses across sectors.  He focuses on cybersecurity, developer tools, marketplaces, and SaaS investments. Some of the investments led by him ar...

Welcome to another episode of The Startup Operator Roundup, where Roshan Cariappa and Gunjan Saha discuss -  👉🏽 Hot takes and news from the week that was in the Startup world 👉🏽 India’s first satellite from a Startup  👉🏽 PM's message to India's Startup founders ​and more... Enjoy the week's summary with a cuppa as Roshan & Gunjan talk about, - Top funding deals of the week: Zomentum, Ally.io...

Meesho is India's largest social commerce platform, on a mission to enable anyone to start their businesses with zero investment. Our entrepreneurs largely comprise housewives (between 25-45) from middle-income households and/or tier 2+ India. Chetan leads Meesho’s engineering vertical as the Vice President. A Stanford graduate, Chetan has held multiple engineering roles at the likes of Qualcomm F...

Indus Khaitan is a serial entreprenuer, he founded one of the earliest startup accelerators in India "The Morpheus Gang", he was the head of growth at ChargeBee and is now the Founder-CEO of Quolum, a company that helps optimize software spend. In this episode Roshan and Indus talk about the founding stories, how businesses and startups in the SaaS space have evolved and more!   If you liked this...

Welcome to another episode of The Startup Operator Roundup, where Roshan Cariappa and Gunjan Saha discuss - 👉🏽 hot takes on the week that was in the startup world, 👉🏽 what they learned this week from executing hard & 👉🏽 best recommendations of articles & Twitter threads. What we covered in this week's Roundup- - Key Takeaways from the week's episodes (01:15) - Recent Fundings of India Quotie...

Hitwicket is an AI-powered gaming platform that was launched in 2015. In 2020 the startup won 1st position in the 'AatmaNirbhar Bharat Innovation Challenge' for its immense potential to be a market leader. Hitwicket is on its path to disrupt the Indian mobile gaming market and aims to disrupt the global market as well in the coming years. In this episode, Roshan talks to Keerti Singh, Co-Founder &...

Started in 2014, PickYourTrail is India’s biggest online D-I-Y holiday booking platform that empowers users to curate customized holidays. PickYourTrail is also that rare startup whose founders dived into a tech-led venture without any tech background. They even went without a head of engineering for half that time. And yet, the startup has built an enviable technology stack that has helped it sca...

Welcome to another episode of The Startup Operator Roundup, where Roshan Cariappa and Gunjan Saha discuss -  👉🏽 hot takes on the week that was in the startup world, 👉🏽 what they learned this week from executing hard & 👉🏽 best recommendations of articles & twitter threads. What we covered in this week's Roundup-  - Recent Fundings -PhonePe Employees Stock Options  -Pinelabs entering neo-banki...

ekincare is a healthcare startup that creates measured and personalized healthcare plans that reduce healthcare costs for employers. The startup also launched a "healthcare marketplace" in 2016, it was also one among 6 startups to be selected by Swiss Re's first Global Accelerator program.    In this episode, we find out how ekincare is making employees healthier.   (00:00) Introduction  (02:23) T...

Khatabook is a mobile app that facilitates bookkeeping for small businesses or "Kirana" shops. The app was launched in 2018 and has quickly gained more than 10 million businesses and 20 million registered users.   Ved is a stellar operator having worked in multiple hypergrowth startups. Prior to joining Khatabook as its VP - Growth & Marketing, he was spearheading growth initiatives at Rentomojo,...

Staring as an assistant producer with CNBC TV18, India’s largest business television network, Mihir has over a decade in business journalism focusing on startups. He joined Mint as a Staff Writer in 2012. Currently, he is the Chief of Bureau at Mint's Bangalore Office.   In 2019, he published the book 'The Untold Flipkart Story'.   Listen in as Roshan and Mihir engage in a free-flowing conversatio...

Farmers rely heavily on traditional cropping calendars and their experiences to maximize their yields. But even experienced farmers have not always been able to escape the perils of climate change, losing their crops to unpredictable weather conditions, soil degradation, and unmitigated pest attacks.   Fasal is an agri-tech platform powered by IoT and A, on the mission to keep the farmers aware of...

Are consumer tech & enterprise SaaS really that different?   In this episode of The Startup Operator, Roshan spoke with Anant Vidur Puri of Bessemer Venture Partners to know more about these different, yet similar domains.   Anant joined Bessemer in 2014 and focuses on high potential opportunities in consumer and mobile technology, along with vertical SaaS in the Bangalore office. He is currently...