The UpstreamLife

In this episode we talk with Ajay Nair, General Manager - Platforms, Elastic, about enterprises building their business with AI. 00:00 - Introduction. 01:00 - Generative AI as a data problem. 05:18 - Driving value with AI. 09:00 - The problem of fragmentation. 11:07 - Regions and AI adoption. 14:10 - Thoughts on the developer community in India. Support the show Thanks for Listening! Follow Us on ...

In this episode of theUpStreamLife we talk with Baha Azarmi, the global VP, Customer Engineering, Elastic about new developments at the company. We unlock the power of Elastic's technology for corporations and how it plays a major role in the era of AI. 00:00 - Introduction 01:09 - Roadmap to innovation at Elastic 03:00 - Being relevant in the era of LLMs. 04:40 - Being cost effective for bus...

In this episode I meet with ace seed stage and Series-A investor Shashank Randev, the founder of 247VC. He talks about about how India is changing its outlook towards deep tech and consumer businesses. He talks about all things that will continue to make India rise over the next decade. 00:00 - Introduction to the episode in BHive. 02:53 - 247VC and how it views the Indian startup ecosystem. 05:53...

In this episode Ideaspring Capital's founder Naganand talks with Bharath Bakkaraju, the founder of Phyx44, a company manufacturing recombinant protein. They are a deep tech company that is figuring out the alternative to milk and the emission caused by dairy cattle. The numbers are stark and you have to listen to this conversation to understand why companies like Phyx44 are the future in mank...

In this episode I talk with Bhavdeep Reddy, angel investor in several companies and founder of Access Developers. In this four decade career he has seen it all - from the rise of #ITservices  to #cloudcomputing  to #ai. What has remained constant in this rise is the growth of cities and development. Bhavdeep, also known as Bobby, talks about growth that is inclusive in this podcast. Note: Bobby is...

In this episode we talk to Arun, the founder of Articul8, an LLM company that focuses on building models specifically trained for enterprise scale and security. Learn a lot more about the AI wars in this episode, which is similar to the cloud wars that began more than a decade ago between AWS, Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure. This time around startups like Articul8 have the ability to scale in a...

In this episode we talk to Vinay Singh, the co-founder and Partner at Fireside Ventures. Vinay's Venture Capital firm has bet on Indian brands even before the world believed that India can be capable of building long term brands. They got their thesis right by betting on companies that defined India's aspiring consumers. India is ripe for growth, it also needs to think of sustainability....

In this episode we talk with Manoj Kumar, the founder of deep tech venture building foundation Social Alpha. This venture development platform started as a passion project but overtime it has helped over 350 startups. The model of Social Alphas unique as in it works with foundations to achieve their deep tech goals. Enjoy the interview. 00:00 - Introduction 01:48 - Social Alpha's early days....

In this episode Naganand Doraswamy of Ideaspring Capital talks to Litemed founders about pain management devices and their efficacy. 00:00 - Introduction to Litemed  00:33 - What does Litemed do? 02:58 - Building a device for pain management and the science of it. 08:14 - Litemed's go-to-market strategy. 12:39 - Innovative marketing of Litemed. 15:50 - Marketing spends and getting people to b...

In this episode of theUpStreamLife we talk with Jay Modh, serial entrepreneur and startup investor. 00:00 - Introduction 01:35 - Transformation with Intuitive 04:44 - Companies that need to innovate fast. 09:40 - Acceleration versus stagnation. 14:47 - Buying habits from clients and what is changing. 23:00 - Why India is changing fast 25:00 - Kids should start learning the value of money. 28:24 -...

In this episode we talk to Bruce Keith, the co-founder of InvestorAi, a systematic investing platform.  00:00 - Introduction to the episode. 01:00 - Bruce Keith and India. 02:00 - India's demographic dividend and its advantage. 03:00 - Fund management globally and in India. 05:00 - Indian mindset and the U.S mindset in equities investment. 07:00 - Indians experimenting with F&O and its yo...

In this episode we catch up with Manas Ranjan, the co-founder of DrinkPrime, who tells us about how India is subscribing to his company's services. The access to clean drinking water and its narrative is something that he explains to us eloquently. Lets us find out India's working class and water narratives mean for us. 00:00 - Introduction. 01:54 - Consumer's perception of water. 0...

In this episode we talk with Udippta Das,  the founding team member and head of product development at Skara. The startup is founded in Guwahati, Assam. Udippta talks about why this technology enables Indian creators to make more money than share it with third party distribution apps.  00:00 - Introduction 02:20 - The inspiration behind Skara 07:04 - Freedom to monetise 13:15 - What if you have a...

In this episode of theUpStreamLife we talk with the founders of Numocity. Ideaspring's founder Naganand Doraswamy talks to the Numocity founders Ravi and Siddharth about their global play. 00:00 - Introduction 00:52 - From early stage to success. 02:50 - EV is mainstream. 06:02 - EV market in five years. 10:22 - Robustness of the Numocity tech stack 15:20 - Being a globally recognised brand. ...

In this episode we speak with Joydip Gupta who is the APAC head of Scienaptic Systems. Joydip talks about the evolution of the business rule engine in banking and how algorithms today are intelligent to understand an individual's banking needs faster than in the past. Algorithms today allow a risk officer's team to look at the credit history of an individual and customise a financial pro...

00:00 - Introduction to Ambee. 00:30 - Maddy’s vision of starting Ambee. 05:00 - The early days: air quality monitoring and scaling the solution. 07:41 -  Building a data first climate intelligence platform. 09:20 - The NASA moment. 10:00 - The science of Ambee and its impact. 16:00 - The business of Ambee - sales, product market fit. 20:30 - The short term, mid term and long term plans of busines...

In this episode I talk with Sujatha S Iyer, the head of AI Security  @manageengine . ManageEngine enables enterprises to be future ready when it comes to their critical IT, where security is a critical aspect while scaling an organisation. Sujatha paints a wonderful story on how CIOs and CTOs should look at security in the era of AI and the evolution of an enterprise's defences against malwar...

In this episode we talk to Vijay Arisetty, the founder of Aurm, who went from being in the Airforce to becoming the co-founder of MyGate. Aurm is a special project with a special purpose because a majority of urban Indians are living in a gated community and these communities don't have access to safe-deposit lockers. Aurm is a new age safe deposit company and Vijay explains to us about the m...

In this episode we have Naganand Doraswamy, the founder of Ideaspring Capital who interviews Parithi Govindaraju about the future of made-in-India drones and the technology that powers them.  Parithi comes from the field of deep science and his interest in aerospace has enabled him to build Okulo Aerospace to capture the High Altitude Pseudo-Satellite space. He has thoughts on long-endurance drone...

In this episode of theUpStreamLife.com we have Sriniketh Chakravarthi, the CEO of Apexon who talks about new age IT Services and how the world of industry is changing with technology. 00:00 - Introduction 02:00 - Engineering, data and experience. 07:00 - Managing the entire cycle of technology. 10:27 - Mapping the old and new. 20:00 - Complete transformation, failures and making it work for CTOs....

In this episode of theUpStreamLife.com we talk about AI and ethics. The conversation is led by Padmashree Shagrithaya, one of the leading proponents of ethical AI from India. As EVP and MD of Insights & Data GBL at Capgemini, she is preparing organisations to understand how AI should be built around the foundation of ethical principles. Listen to this podcast as we start the year 2025 with the...

In this episode of theUpStreamLife.com we talk with Abhimanyu Saxena, the co-founder of Scaler about how corporations and nations will manage the future of productivity. This episode focuses  how organisations in India, Global Capability Centres, are focusing on building transformative talent. 02:00 - Being in a nervous planet: people and technology. 06:46 - Many technology revolutions that create...

In this episode of theUpStreamLife we talk with Ben Goodman, SVP and GM APJ, at Okta. He talks about identity management and security in the era of collaboration where corporations work with thousands of vendors or freelancers.  We also talk about cricket and sports as an enabler to being resilient to daily challenges.  00:00 - Introduction 01:33 - What is Okta? 04:50 - Identity becoming important...

In this episode we talk to Jagdish, the founder of MM-Activ, who is the OG of the Indian events and exhibitions industry. He talks about how India is changing with events. 00:00 - Introduction 01:29 - Waking up to mega events 05:32 - What does a mega-event do to a city? 11:16 - Organising the event industry. 15:50 - Every Indian who went to America wants to give back. 16:05 - TIE Global as an even...

In this episode we talk to Anup Jain, an ace early stage investor and believer in the next billion story. He is a VC investor who wants to work with 12 startups a year, and runs a startup knowledge series called the "LP Series" on LinkedIn. 00:00 - Introduction 04:10 - India's 2.0 story of VCs 09:00 - LPs are asking for returns from the startup word and here is why 14:52 - Investing...