Τα καλύτερα TRANSFIN podcast (2024)

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S7 Ep158: How India Shops Online with Swati Bhargava of CashKaro 37:27

3M ago37:27

37:27

In this episode, we sit down with Swati Bhargava, co-founder of CashKaro, India’s largest cashback website with over 20+ million downloads and EarnKaro, India’s no. 1 deal distribution platform. Swati walks us through the innovative business models and strategies that have positioned these platforms at the forefront of India's cashback and affiliat…

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S7 Ep157: From Higher Education to Industry with Anish Srikrishna of TimesPro 48:04

4M ago48:04

48:04

Join us for an insightful conversation with Anish Srikrishna, CEO of TimesPro, an education initiative by The Times Group which aims to revolutionize professional education in India. TimesPro serves as a Higher Education Technology (H.EdTech) platform, offering a wide range of courses and training programs across various sectors, including Post Gra…

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S7 Ep156: Solving Payment Delays for MSMEs with Winny Patro of Recordent 44:52

5M ago44:52

44:52

We spoke with Winny Patro, CEO & Co-founder of Recordent, a pioneering SaaS-based platform aiming to tackle the significant issue of unpaid dues that MSMEs encounter, which is estimated to be around INR5L cr across the sector. Recordent provides a technology platform designed to help SMEs manage their credit and collections more effectively. The co…

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S7 Ep155: AI Revolutions in Recruitment with Manikanth Challa of Workruit 38:36

6M ago38:36

38:36

We spoke with Manikanth Challa, Founder & CEO of Workruit, an AI/ML assisted career and recruitment platform catering to the B2B, B2C and B2G segments. Offering a suite of solutions like an i) AI-assisted Resume, CV, and Cover Letter Builder with a ii) Job Search and Matching Play, Workruit has built an interactive dating app-like interface where e…

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S7 Ep154: Safeguarding your Digital Universe with Balaji Subramaniam of Sattrix 38:37

7M ago38:37

38:37

We spoke with Balaji Subramaniam, Head of Global Sales and Strategy at Sattrix Group, a pioneer in cyber security solutions offering AI-driven managed security services to small, mid, and large scale enterprises. Founded in 2013, Sattrix’s core focus is to protect critical assets and sensitive information from cyber threats. Sattrix stays ahead of …

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S7 Ep153: Streamlining Credit Cards with RV Ramanathan of Hyperface 48:40

7M ago48:40

48:40

We chat with RV Ramanathan ("Ram"), co-founder of Hyperface - a cutting-edge Bengaluru based company pioneering contextual banking solutions. With a particular focus on streamlining the credit card experience, Hyperface's "Credit-Cards-as-a-Service" platform simplifies end-to-end program management for credit cards, pay-later, and prepaid cards. Hy…

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S7 Ep152: Cracking Compliances with Sandesh Chitnis of Core Integra 37:26

8M ago37:26

37:26

We spoke with Sandesh Chitnis, CEO of Core Integra, a regulatory technology company offering labour law compliance, payroll processing, permanent hiring, staffing, and employee benefit solutions to its clients. Ctrl F is Core Integra's flagship ERP-based software tool whose core features include automated statutory compliance management, risk manag…

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S7 Ep151: Demystifying Fractional Ownership of Real Estate with Shiv Parekh of hBits 36:20

8M ago36:20

36:20

We spoke with Shiv Parekh - Founder of hBits - a fractional ownership platform focused on democratizing Commercial Real Estate. Grade A Commercial properties, typically leased to multinational corporations and institutions, can potentially offer stable, secure, and relatively high yielding rental incomes to investors. hBits grants retail investors …

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S6 Ep150: Digitizing Jewellery Investments With Veer Mishra of Plus 29:20

10M ago29:20

29:20

We speak with Veer Mishra, Founder of Plus, a Bengaluru-based fintech platform aggregating and digitizing "jewellery savings schemes" in India. Veer gives us a primer on this interesting asset class and describes Plus' offering which includes facilitating discovery of 270+ jewellers nationwide while allowing its customers to plan and save for their…

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S6 Ep149: Through the Crypto Looking Glass With Alankar Saxena of Mudrex 42:09

11M ago42:09

42:09

We speak with Alankar Saxena, CTO of Mudrex, a platform which has simplified the journey of crypto investors in India and abroad with innovative retail oriented product offerings like coin sets, vault, and now coins. This conversation is very timely considering the revival of crypto within mainstream narrative thanks to rising regulatory clarity (M…

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S6 Ep148: Using AI to Unlock Meetings With Krish Ramineni of Fireflies.ai 39:37

11M ago39:37

39:37

We speak with Krish Ramineni, Co-founder & CEO of Fireflies.ai – a Canaan and Khosla Ventures backed startup whose flagship AI meeting assistant takes notes, transcribes, and analyses Meetings. Used across 200,000+ organizations, Fireflies is on a mission to transform work conversations into actions with its voice assistant, transcription tools des…

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S6 Ep147: Understanding Life Insurance With Peuli Das of Future Generali India Life Insurance 47:02

11M ago47:02

47:02

We spoke with Peuli Das, Chief Insurance Officer at Future Generali India Life Insurance Company, a leading life insurance company headquartered in Mumbai offering total life insurance solutions across individual and group front. Peuli earlier served as MD, Actuarial, Insurance Analytics, and Artificial Intelligence at Accenture and as the Chief an…

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S6 Ep146: Disrupting Student Loans with Prashant Bhonsle of Kuhoo 1:01:03

1y ago1:01:03

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We spoke with Prashant A. Bhonsle, founder & CEO of Kuhoo, a Mumbai based fintech unlocking finance for Indian students. Kuhoo aims to become the first port of call for all Indian middle class students thinking about higher education, whether in India or abroad, premium college or not. Kuhoo leverages advanced technologies, data science and analyti…

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S6 Ep145: Rethinking Gold Loans with Rajesh Shet of SahiBandhu 44:41

1y ago44:41

44:41

We spoke with Rajesh Shet, Co-Founder & CEO of SahiBandhu, a trailblazing gold loan aggregation platform leveraging existing infrastructure, reach, and cost competitiveness of scheduled commercial banks to disrupt the traditionally NBFC-led gold loan sector. SahiBandhu aims to offer very convenient assisted customer journeys giving borrowers multip…

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S6 Ep144: Democratizing Education Finance with Bibhu Prasad Das of Propelld 58:38

1y ago58:38

58:38

We spoke with Bibhu Prasad Das, CEO & Co-founder of Propelld, a Series B funded Bengaluru based fintech specializing in providing personalised education loans to students and families in Tier 2/3 cities. Propelld bases their lending decisions on selected course’s end-use, deep borrower underwriting, and by taking a partner-led model. Backed by marq…

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S6 Ep143: Digitizing India's Manufacturing with Sonam Motwani of Karkhana.io 49:19

1y ago49:19

49:19

We spoke with Sonam Motwani, CEO of Karkhana.io, a custom manufacturing platform helping OEMs source the right MSME manufacturing suppliers and high-quality components for their projects. Karkhana.io has emerged as a new age tech-enabled managed marketplace, providing a wide range of manufacturing services catering to the needs of businesses for sm…

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S6 Ep142: Transforming Security for Businesses with Anuj Rajain of Soteria 47:27

1y ago47:27

47:27

We spoke with Anuj Rajain CEO of Soteria, India's largest home grown integrated security, facilities management, remote monitoring, and video surveillance company offering its solutions to multiple industries like BFSI, retail, healthcare, construction, logistics, F&B, corporate offices etc. Anuj explains - through examples - how surveillance and r…

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S6 Ep141: Enabling Smarter Safer Transactions with Subhrangshu K Neogi of Escrowpay 49:24

1y ago49:24

49:24

We spoke with Subhrangshu Kumar Neogi Co-founder of Escrowpay, a pioneer in digital escrow solutions enabling smarter, faster and safer transactions for businesses. Escrowpay is a trailblazer in the world of B2B escrow solutions, by digitizing a predominantly non-linear escrow mechanism involving multiple stakeholders including legacy regulated fin…

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S6 Ep140: Revolutionizing Battery Recycling With Vikrant Singh of BATX Energies 43:26

1+ y ago43:26

43:26

We spoke with Vikrant Singh, Co-Founder of BATX Energies, who recycles used Lithium-ion batteries to extract critical metals chiefly Lithium, Nickel, Cobalt, and Manganese. BATX subsequently supplies these extracted raw materials as inputs to battery cell manufacturers to create a closed-loop Circular Economy for Lithium-ion Battery Manufacturing a…

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S6 Ep139: Deconstructing the Internet With Sudhir Kunder of DE-CIX 36:58

1+ y ago36:58

36:58

We spoke with Sudhir Kunder, Chief Business Officer at DE-CIX India, a leading carrier and data center neutral interconnection platform with organizational roots in Frankfurt. By offering a reliable and low-latency interconnection platform, DE-CIX India enhances internet performance and optimizes network traffic flow between internet service provid…

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S6 Ep138: Invest in Commercial Real Estate With Rahul Khetawat of Property Share 40:42

1+ y ago40:42

40:42

We spoke with Rahul Khetawat, Head of Offline (Sales) at Property Share, India’s first and largest tech-enabled investment platform for commercial real estate. Property Share allows users to access investments in pre-leased institutional-grade commercial real estate in India and the UK - allowing them to diversify their portfolios and benefit from …

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S6 Ep137: Unlock High Yield Debt With Saurav Ghosh of Jiraaf 52:39

1+ y ago52:39

52:39

We speak with Saurav Ghosh, Co-Founder of Jiraaf, a digital platform unlocking and democratizing high yield fixed income investment opportunities for retail investors. Jiraaf offers individual investors access to a wide array of alternate investment products beyond the usual suspects like listed stocks, mutual funds, real estate or gold, all via an…

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S6 Ep136: Freedom From Debt With Ritesh Srivastava of FREED 50:10

1+ y ago50:10

50:10

We spoke with Ritesh Srivastava, Founder & CEO of FREED, India’s 1st Comprehensive Debt Relief Platform. FREED was founded with the goal to provide an affordable and comprehensive debt relief solution to India's retail borrowers. Ritesh has been a serial entrepreneur for over 20 years and thanks to his background in Debt Relief in the US, he was na…

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S6 Ep135: Grabbing Consumer Mind-space With Nishith Gupta of Sapana Carpet-Mats 34:47

1+ y ago34:47

34:47

We spoke with Nishith Gupta, Director Sapana Carpet-Mats - a leading brand with a market share of 50-55% among branded plastic mats in India. Considering the lower propensity to spend on home décor among Indians vs. the west, Sapana decided to explore the world of plastic mats as they were much more affordable than conventional carpets. The company…

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S6 Ep134: Creating an EV Ecosystem With Sameer Aggarwal of Revfin 35:53

1+ y ago35:53

35:53

We spoke with Sameer Aggarwal, Founder and CEO at Revfin, a specialist lending company focused on underwriting electric vehicle (EV) loans. Last we chatted with Sameer was in December 2019 (link to the episode) when Revfin was taking initial steps in its journey. The world has changed a fair bit since then, with the company having financed over 25,…

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S6 Ep133: Inspect Your Home With Saurabh Tyagi of PropChk 46:48

1+ y ago46:48

46:48

Saurabh Tyagi is the Co-Founder and CEO of PropChk, India's fastest growing tech-enabled home inspection company. An Electrical Engineer from IIT Roorkee, Saurabh started PropChk to help homebuyers and homeowners gain visibility around potential construction defects within a home before they purchase/invest in the asset. The company operates on a B…

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S6 Ep132: Supplying Fashion With Abhishek Sharma of Fashinza 37:36

1+ y ago37:36

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Abhishek Sharma is the Co-Founder & COO of Fashinza, a tech-enabled platform that solves manufacturing for fashion brands. Started initially to improve experience while dealing with suppliers, Fashinza takes a value chain approach to support brands, acting as a one stop shop for their sourcing requirements, from the placement of orders all the way …

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S6 Ep131: Unpacking Metaverse With Piyush Gupta of VOSMOS 37:33

1+ y ago37:33

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Piyush Gupta is the CEO of VOSMOS, connecting brands to customers through immersive, engaging and easily accessible virtual experiences. VOSMOS is helping companies create virtual and hybrid events, immersive DIY virtual stores, and transforming online customer interactions through creation of tailormade and realistic digital environments. Piyush t…

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S6 Ep130: Insure Your Team With Anuj Parekh of Healthysure 46:20

1+ y ago46:20

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Anuj Parekh is the Co-Founder and CEO of Healthysure, an employee benefits insurtech company enabling comprehensive group health coverage for employees of SMEs, startups, and enterprises. Healthysure offers digitized policy and claims experience with curated health and wellness offerings, including an industry-first flexi top-up insurance product w…

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S6 Ep129: Customer Nudges With Narinder Mahajan of ODN 39:49

1+ y ago39:49

39:49

We chat with Narinder Mahajan CEO of ODN Digital Services (short for ‘Open Doors Now’), a market leader in ‘Shop Now’ strategies, enabling brands and e-commerce platforms to sell successfully online. Narinder is a consumer-retail and e-commerce specialist, and has over 20 years of industry experience. During his corporate journey, he worked with va…

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S6 Ep128: The India Investing Story With Shivam Bajaj of Avener Capital 48:14

1+ y ago48:14

48:14

We chat with Shivam Bajaj CEO of Avener Capital, an investment bank offering bespoke PE Advisory, M&A Advisory, structured finance advisory and debt syndication services. Being on the same side of the fence we reflect upon: State of Venture Capital investments in India View on unsecured credit as a new and emerging source of capital for SMEs Next i…

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S6 Ep127: Unlock Loans Through Digital Assets With Shreyans Nahar of Finsire 52:14

2y ago52:14

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We chat with Shreyans Nahar CEO of Chennai based Finsire who is building infrastructure to aggregate and secure digital assets so that Banks, NBFCs, and Fintechs can lend against them. Their solution allows creditors and asset-holding brokers to maximise their lending capabilities and create an additional source of revenues by lending against earne…

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S6 Ep126: Power of Micro Investing and Savings With Satyajeet Kunjeer of Deciml 51:27

2y ago51:27

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We chat with Satyajeet Kunjeer, Founder of Deciml, who is working towards building and automating a micro investing and savings culture in India. Deciml is a micro-investing and micro-savings app that enables young Indians to auto-invest their spare change (as low as Re 1/-) from online transactions into Mutual Funds or Fixed Return Funds. The comp…

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S6 Ep125: Onboarding Credit Risk With Nageen Kommu of Digitap.AI 49:28

2y ago49:28

49:28

We chat with Nageen Kommu, Founder and CEO of Digitap.AI, whose work has largely revolved around solving the problem of information asymmetry for lenders. Majority of BFSI players in the country are dependent on bureau data while c. 400mn Indians have low bureau scores, making formal credit inaccessible to them. Digitap.AI provides alternative data…

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S6 Ep124: Building Shopify for Insurance With Adarsh Chokhani of Assurekit 54:02

2y ago54:02

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We chat with Adarsh Chokhani of Assurekit, a Mumbai-based Insurtech startup aiming to make insurance commerce simple. Adarsh is building a technology enabled interface between manufacturers of insurance products i.e. insurance companies, and distributors who want to sell insurance, either as part of their core business or as a value added service. …

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S6 Ep123: Creating India's Largest Youth Travel Hostel Brand With Pankaj Parwanda of goSTOPS 1:02:27

2y ago1:02:27

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We kick off our new season with Pankaj Parwanda of goSTOPS, a hospitality startup targeting young people (sub INR1,000 average daily rate beds) via tech-enabled creation and formalization of the youth hostel inventory pan India. Leveraging benefits of sharing economies and community living, goSTOPS is run by Pallavi Agarwal & Pankaj Parwanda, a ver…

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S5 Ep122: How to Make a Mark in the Phygital Commerce of Makeup and Cosmetics With Priyank Shah of Renee Cosmetics 48:06

2+ y ago48:06

48:06

We speak to Priyank Shah, Co-Founder and Director of Renee Cosmetics, an up-and-coming player disrupting the Indian makeup and cosmetics industry. He walks us through the challenges of creating a phygital commerce company with a differentiated offering in a very competitive sector. Moreover, Priyank walks us through his experiences of building Bear…

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S5 Ep121: Becoming Your Israel Guy With Saket Agarwal of Onnivation 34:29

2+ y ago34:29

34:29

We speak with Saket Agarwal, Founder and CEO of Onnivation, a firm that invests in deeptech Israeli SAAS companies and drives their business for India. Onnivation's partner companies bring Israel's deeptech ecosystem to India's largest corporations. As someone who christened himself on social media as #YourIsraelGuy, Saket reflects upon the ideas a…

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S5 Ep120: How Decisions Enabling Market Intelligence Works With Raj Neervannan of AlphaSense 39:04

2+ y ago39:04

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We speak with Raj Neervannan, Co-founder and CTO, of AlphaSense - a leading market intelligence and search platform focused on the financial services sector. AlphaSense helps its clients make better business decisions by collecting data, analysing information, and contextualising findings through its AI-powered products and solutions. Raj sheds lig…

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S5 Ep119: Lending to India's Gig Economy With Badal Malick of KarmaLife.AI 40:02

2+ y ago40:02

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We speak with Badal Malick, Co-founder and Chief Business Officer at KarmaLife.AI, a platform building financial solutions for India's growing gig economy. Motivated by the pain points of gig workers, including cashflow volatility, exposure to shocks and limited career progression due to a low skill base, Badal talks about how KarmaLife.AI serves t…

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S5 Ep118: Understanding Crypto Taxation in India With Harsh Bhuta of Bhuta Shah & Co. LLP 49:18

2+ y ago49:18

49:18

We speak with Harsh Bhuta, Partner at Bhuta Shah & Co. LLP, a Mumbai-based premier Chartered Accountant and Law firm, which deals closely in audit, taxation, advisory and corporate finance. Harsh shares his insights on the way cryptocurrency regulation - in particular, taxation - is taking shape in India. As a seasoned tax consultant, he breaks dow…

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S5 Ep117: Decoding Indian Companies' Working Capital Conundrum With Mohan Krishnan of Global PayEx 54:20

2+ y ago54:20

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We speak with Mohan Krishnan, the co-founder of Mphasis, one of India's largest listed IT and BPO company. He is also the founder of Global PayEx, a B2B fintech company focused on improving working capital efficiencies through optimisation of a company's Account Receivable and Account Payable cycles. Having over 30 years of rich experience in finan…

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S5 Ep116: How Debt Collection is Evolving in India With Anshuman Panwar of Creditas 47:36

3y ago47:36

47:36

Anshuman Panwar is the Co-Founder of Creditas, a tech startup which specialises in delinquency management. He speaks at length about his business and the ways in which one can combine the elements of gamification, personalisation and financial literacy to build a robust technology-enabled debt collection layer. While LongShorts has traditionally fo…

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S5 Ep115: Making Financial Institutions Talk With Milan Ganatra of 1SilverBullet 36:42

3y ago36:42

36:42

We speak with Milan Ganatra, CEO & Founder of 1SilverBullet. His platform's core offering includes building API-based digital interfaces to help financial institutions, consumers and developers talk with each other. Milan speaks about how 1SilverBullet acts as the bridge between manufacturers of various financial products including investments, len…

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S5 Ep114: Teaching Children How to Think With Sonia Notani of BrainGymJr 46:26

3y ago46:26

46:26

Does your child struggle with instructional learning? This week in LongShorts, we speak with Sonia Notani, the co-founder of BrainGymJr - a technology startup that aims to teach children how to think and apply their school-based knowledge from a young age. Focused specifically on Mathematics, English and real-world skills, BrainGymJr is gamifying l…

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S5 Ep113: Where Insurance and Technology Collide With Sanchit Malik of Pazcare 30:20

3y ago30:20

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Insurance is one of the world's oldest industries. It’s also an industry “waiting to get disrupted by technology” according to Sanchit Malik, our guest this week on LongShorts. Sanchit is the Co-Founder and CEO of Pazcare, a seed-funded insurtech startup that is aiming to disrupt the delivery of employee health benefits. We discuss how Pazcare aims…

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S5 Ep112: How the Sun's Shining on Crypto Kingdom in India With Edul Patel of Mudrex 39:29

3y ago39:29

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India recently created a framework to tax crypto assets in a move that is being seen as bold and progressive by one of the largest economies of the world. But does a crypto tax necessarily confer legitimacy on an asset class that is long distrusted by traditional financial systems due to its novelty, volatility and notoriety? Join us as we discuss …

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S5 Ep111: The Promise of AI Investing with Kanika Agarrwal of Upside AI 37:49

3y ago37:49

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The gap between technology and investing is growing ever so narrow. Algorithmic trading already accounts for the bulk of market activity in Western countries, and it is slowly but surely taking off in a big way in India (case in point: SEBI's recent consultation paper). Our guest this week is Kanika Agarrwal, co-founder of Upside AI, a Mumbai-based…

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S5 Ep110: How Kissht Sees BNPL and Digital Lending in India with Karan Mehta 43:55

3y ago43:55

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It’s the new year and we’re back with a brand new episode of LongShorts! Our guest is Karan Mehta, the Co-founder and CTO of Kissht, a digital lending platform that offers BNPL and merchant level credit in India. Backed by his profound technological insights, Karan walks us through Kissht's journey and at the same time, gives us an account of the d…

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S5 Ep109: The Rise of Data Centres in India with Jatinder Singh Pabla of STT GDC India 36:25

3+ y ago36:25

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If data is the new oil, then data centres are the new-age high-tech hubs of this critical fuel. India's data consumption has seen a sharp 38% uptick YoY in FY21. This has unsurprisingly piqued the interest of global and domestic data developers who are rushing to invest, establish and develop data centres across the country. ST Telemedia Global Dat…

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