The UpstreamLife

In this episode theUpStreamLife.com's speak with Zinnov's President, Globalisation Excellence, Nilesh Thakker who talks about how India has become the place for setting global capability centres or some may even call it excellence centres or innovation centres. 00:00 - Introduction. 01:20 - Globalisation is about innovation and leveraging talent. 02:08 - A bit of history, the cost arbitr...

In this episode we speak to Gagan Agarwal, the co-founder of Planet Electric. Their speciality is to work modular but create a centralised IP for vehicle manufacturing. As an EV OEM in the commercial vehicle industry they have to take on the Mahindras and the Tatas. Check out the podcast to know their aspirations. 00:00 - Introduction. 01:35 - From space to an OEM. 03:46 - Starting up Planet Elect...

In this podcast we talk about how CIEL-HR became a large business in nine years and is preparing for an IPO. 00:00 - Introduction 01:30 - The business of CIEL-HR 10:25 - Building end to end solutions for modern organisations. 15:55 - Early customers and value propositions. 23:40 - Managing the business in the early days. 27:00 - Going after the EV & manufacturing industry. 33:20 - AI and the H...

In this episode you will discover the skill of the Minus Zero engineering team in building world class software for the automotive world. If the world of AI led driving is real, then Minus Zero is building such technologies from India to the world's best automotive companies. They have already signed a couple of large commercial vehicle companies to use their platform. Discover the thoughts o...

In this episode Anil Achyuta, Managing Director of TDK Ventures, speaks with Arun Vinayak, the founder of Exponent Energy, a company whose tech has enhanced fast charging capabilities to increase value for commercial vehicle fleets in India. Their 15-mins fast charge technology has allowed them to create an ecosystem for fleet operators exclusive to Exponent. Arun talks about the future of the cha...

In this episode of theUpStreamLife.com you will discover Indian tradition or "traditional" certified methods of treating musculoskeletal conditions and the impact of nutrition in making one return to form. It's all about the diet and lifestyle. I speak with an experienced nutritionist, Arti Balse, and an experienced medical doctor, Deepa, from the Ayurveda tradition who together at...

Think about this - Indian farmers were struggling with low yields for generations so much so that a country like Netherlands had more yield per acre. India has the technology skills to enable farmers to improve the yield, predict the yield and plan the supply. You would wonder why this change is yet to happen at scale. Fasal, a startup in agritech, has proved that Indian farmers can not just impro...

In this episode of theUpStreamLife.com you will discover the internal values that are necessary to inculcate and execute in order to build a long term business.  You will hear the story of K Pandiarajan, the founder of MaFoi who sold the business in 2008. MaFoi was one of the top HR firms in India at the time. After a decade long break and a long stint in politics Pandiarajan is now back to doing...

In this episode meet Gagana Ganesh, the founder of Grab Me, who has defied conventional wisdom. She has expanded to modern retail first even while others go for a D2C concept. Don't get us wrong she has also built a "brand".com D2C store, but has expanded to over 100-retail stores. This podcast covers her journey and her efforts to build India's first long lasting brownies and...

Incentives in the world of Web3: Ketan Jog of Absinthe Labs bets on a new age of loyalty management Support the show Thanks for Listening! Follow Us on  Facebook , Instagram , Twitter , LinkedIn or Find us on YouTube

In this episode we talk with Esha Tiwary, the founder of Furrl, a proprietary platform to discover new age brands. She has in the past worked with Entrepreneur First, Myntra, CloudNine and ITC. She is a graduate of IIT-Kanpur and Harvard Business School. Her marketing techniques along with blending technology and data has led her to scale up Furrl, which supports several new age brands to be disco...

In this episode of theUpStreamLife.com we talk to Shauraya Bhutani, the co-founder of Breathe Capital and Capital Connect Advisors. Shauraya has been the bridge in the movement of capital betweenIndia and South-East Asia. In this podcast he talks about the new age of Indian business and what they are going to do in South East Asia. 00:00 - Introduction 01:25 - Starting out as an I-banker. 05:38 -...

In this episode we talk with the President of TDK Ventures, Nicolas Sauvage, who has been at the forefront of discovering entrepreneurs making impact in the climate-tech industry with the power of hardtech and deeptech. In this episode discover what TDK Ventures intends to do for India's deeptech community.  Deeptech is combining the hard work at the atoms level with the power of algorithms a...

In this episode we bring you BCL India's partner Pavan Sharma who will talk about the interim #Budget2024. He will tell us about taxes, money, tech and the performance of the economy while we balance to support the poor and support the exuberance of a youthful nation. BCL India is an audit, compliance and financial transformation firm based in Bengaluru. 00:00 - Introduction to the episode 03...

In this interview we bring you a company that is well known in the Indian startup ecosystem. We are talking to Tracxn, a company whose novel way of collecting data has brought it a lot of respect. We speak to its co-founder Neha Singh.  00:00 - Introduction to Tracxn. 03:05 - The first version of Tracxn was coded by Neha. 06:47 - Early lessons in the USA when Tracxn was launched a decade ago.  13:...

In this interview we deep dive into the battery ecosystem and the bike "Mantis" which is being built by Orxa Energies. The founders Ranjitha and Prajwal have been in the industry for two decades and they know a thing or two about deep tech. They are bonafide experts who also work with the defence and aerospace industry. Discover their trials and tribulations in this interview. 00:00 - In...

In this interview we bring you a senior technocrat Narendra Bhandari who has in the past worked with the likes of Intel and Microsoft. He has been advising startups for more than a decade and is now a partner at "seafund" - a deep tech fund.  00:00 - Moving from Corporate Venturing to become part of a fund. 05:54 - Building the startup network. 07:07 - Deeptech and software - moving from...

In this episode of theUpStreamLife.com we bring you Elektrobit, an automotive software company, which has pioneered connected mobility for three decades in the industry. We have Elektrobit’s VP Strategy and Country Manager - India, Satish S, discuss mobility in India and the role of engineers globally in the automotive industry. 00:00 - Introduction. 01:17 - How Satish entered the automotive indus...

In this episode of theUpStreamLife we explore how Arjun Vaidya went from being an operator to becoming a VC. He celebrates India's new age brands, modern marketing and the future of consumption led sustainable growth. 00:00 - Introduction 02:00 - The mythical term called D2C in 2018. 08:00 - The omnichannel world or digital commerce. 16:20 - Brands & customers collaborating with digital e...

In this episode we talk with Rinka Banerjee who has built a practice around food and everything food tech. She had been with HUL for two decades before she started up Thinking Forks a decade earlier. She discusses the opportunity in food brands from India for the world. 00:00 - Introduction 01:07 - Journey of Thinking Forks 05:10 - How large food companies experiment? 09:50 - Getting the food supp...

In this interview we speak with multi-talented personality Karan Javaji who has been an RBI Officer, a rugby player and an equestrian. Karan also serves as a Colonel in the territorial army of India. He is also involved in public policy research.  00:00 - Introduction 01:40 - Karan and his multi-faceted career. 05:00 - Origin of the name Boni 10:00 - Boni for SMBs 15:00 - Focusing on solving probl...

In this episode we talk with Mustafa Al-Bassam of Celestia Labs who talks to us about a consensus based data networks and the practical uses cases of decentralised technology. This episode is brought to you by Lumos Labs and Builders Tribe. Support the show Thanks for Listening! Follow Us on  Facebook , Instagram , Twitter , LinkedIn or Find us on YouTube

In this episode of theUpStreamLife we talk about the benefits of cannabis as a medicinal plant and how it is sold in India under the aegis of the Ministry of Ayush. Richa Jaggi, the co-founder of Awshad explains why this plant is now mainstream for its ancient medicinal purpose. 00:00 - Introduction. 01:06 - Cultural relevance of cannabis in India. 04:40 - Why Richa started up? 06:06 - The Vijaya...

In this second episode of the India Deep Tech Series brought to you by TDK Ventures, theUpStreamLife brings you how Indian universities are shaping the Deep Tech ecosystem. Siddharth Mehta, Director of TDK Ventures India, talks to Prof. Krishnan Balasubramanian from IIT Madras about the journey of the Indian deep tech community. The professor himself predicts that innovations from India's dee...

In this episode of theUpStreamLife.com we speak with Balaji Renukumar, the founder of Sensfix who is a scientist building an AI company which makes maintenance of a machine faster and the work of a servicing team efficient. The company targets facility management. 00:00 - Introduction. 01:15 - Balaji's journey as a scientist and Sensfix 06:00 - Sensfix work in AI and its business 11:53 - Work...