The Startup Operator

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 your favourite podcast platforms.   #startups​ #unicorns​ #technology​ #roundup​ #podcast​ #news --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/startup-operator/message

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 internet users and more! Some key Highlights: Story behind Ankur Capital  Taking innovations from labs to market  Seeking out innovation in the market  26:31 Current Trends in Evolution of Healthcare and Agritech Sectors  Building for Bharat  Evolution of the startup ecosystem Connect with Ritu  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ritu-verma  Twitter: https://twitter.com/rituverma01 Connect with us:  Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/startup-operator ​ Twitter: https://twitter.com/OperatorStartup If you liked this conversation, let us know by hitting the like button and share with your friends and family. Please also remember to subscribe to our channel and switch on the notifications to never miss an episode! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/startup-operator/message

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 enterprise product that was acquired by BMC Software. In this conversation Meeta talks about branding for startups and more:  Builders to Sellers mindset   Brand Building 1-0-1   Framing a brand statement  Why branding is essetial  Advice for building a category  Going about building a brand  Prioritising traget audience  Dynamics of being a challenger brand  Importance of personal branding  Evolution of the Indian Startup Ecosystem Connect with Meeta   LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/meetamalhotra/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/meetamalhotra  Connect with us:  Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/startup-operator​ Twitter: https://twitter.com/OperatorStartup​  If you liked this conversation, let us know by hitting the like button and share with your friends and family. Please also remember to subscribe to our channel and switch on the notifications to never miss an episode! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/startup-operator/message

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 founders on your favourite podcast platforms.--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/startup-operator/message

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 influential speakers, Rory is hailed as an advertising guru. Some highlights from this conversation: Change in perception about marketing Making lateral decisions Importance of Brand Alchemy's Basic premise Building a culture of Alchemy How does Alchemy work in the real world Creative utilization of fixed assets Connect with Rory: Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rorysutherland/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/rorysutherland Connect with us: Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/startupoperator Twitter: https://twitter.com/OperatorStartup If you liked this conversation, let us know by hitting the like button and share with your friends and family. Please also remember to subscribe to our channel and switch on the notifications to never miss an episode! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/startup-operator/message

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 tech for dev work.    Highlights:  Permissionless impact  What is Wysa  Studying User behaviour  Dealing with Stigma and inspiring confidence in users  Integration with the broader ecosystem  Preparing for the future   Connect with Jo:  Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joaggarwal/  Twitter: https://twitter.com/jo4dev   Connect with us:  Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/startup-operator  Twitter: https://twitter.com/OperatorStartup   If you liked this conversation, let us know by hitting the like button and share with your friends and family. Please also remember to subscribe to our channel and switch on the notifications to never miss an episode!   --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/startup-operator/message

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 Dealshare ----------------------- Episodes mentioned in this roundup Helping Indian SMEs | Satya Prabhakar Youtube: https://youtu.be/CT0LiLi1I3Y Anchor : https://anchor.fm/startup-operator/episodes/EP-93--Helping-Indian-SMEs--Satya-Prabhakar-Founder--Sulekha-euql4p Being a 4x Entrepreneur | Kashyap Deorah Youtube: https://youtu.be/OONme7zutTY Anchor: https://anchor.fm/startup-operator/episodes/EP-94--Being-a-4x-Entrepreneur--Kashyap-Deorah-Founder--Hypertrack-eutg4q Building in EdTech | Pooja Goyal Youtube: https://youtu.be/Qwrz07FS838 Anchor: https://anchor.fm/startup-operator/episodes/EP-85--Building-in-EdTech--Pooja-Goyal-Co-founder--Avishkaar-eslke9 Being a travel startup during covid | Hari G. Youtube: https://youtu.be/ez4JRUEYlZw Anchor: https://anchor.fm/startup-operator/episodes/EP-77--Being-a-travel-startup-during-covid--Hari-Ganapathy-Co-Founder--PickYourTrail-eq4m61 Let us know how you liked this episode by reaching out to us on our Social media. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/startup-operator/message

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 conversation  Idea to product to company  Being a 4x Entrepreneur   Key principles of building a startup  Pivoting from the first failure  Nuances of building a Global company  Building Businesses in India and US  -----------------------------------------------   Connect with Kashyap  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kdeorah/  Twitter: https://twitter.com/righthalf   ----------------------------------------------   If you liked this episode let us know by hitting the like and subscribe button and share this with your friends!   You can also connect with us on our social media  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/startup-operator  Twitter: https://twitter.com/OperatorStartup   --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/startup-operator/message

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 episode. Some Key highlights in this episode are: Working with SMBs Building a sustainable business with profits Evolution of the Indian Startup Ecosystem Connect with Satya  Linkedin: https://in.linkedin.com/in/satyaprabhakar ​ -----------   Found this episode informative? Let us know by clicking the like button and share with your friends.   Connect with Us:  Linkedin: https://in.linkedin.com/company/startup-operator ​Twitter: https://twitter.com/OperatorStartup   --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/startup-operator/message

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