Episodes

  • Relocating Using Tech!

    Relocating Using Tech!
    Nov 1 2022
    26 mins
  • Up-skilling The Gap Between College Education & Getting A Job!

    Up-skilling The Gap Between College Education & Getting A Job!
    Oct 25 2022
    Founded in 2021, ed tech startup FunctionUp operates a pay-after-placement model and trains students in backend engineering, coding, and programming subjects. In 2021, serial entrepreneurs Bharat Gupta and Pritesh Kumar founded FunctionUp to bridge the gap between college education and the skills required for a job. Y-Combinator-backed FunctionUp is a placement boot camp-focused backend engineering learning platform, which trains candidates from any background in software development courses.
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    18 mins
  • Solving India's Water Problem!

    Solving India's Water Problem!
    Oct 18 2022
    Bengaluru-based watertech startup Uravu Labs uses solar energy and non-polluting chemical desiccants like Silica to adsorb water from the air, sterilise it, and prepare for consumption. Founded in 2019 by Pardeep Garg, Swapnil Shrivastav, Venkatesh R and Govinda Balaji, Uravu Labs is dedicated to building an ‘atmospheric water generator’ that runs on 100% renewable energy. The water-from-air concept is not new, though, as many startups already operate in the space. But unlike Uravu, most of them use refrigeration as a method to condense air in the atmosphere, which is an expensive process with high energy requirements. Uravu’s method which uses a desiccant is relatively less capital-intensive and energy-intensive and also requires much less maintenance. The desiccant used in the machine has a shelf life of around ten years, and the rest of the components are mostly conventional electronic components like fans and pipes.
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    18 mins
  • Re-'packaging' Entrepreneurship!

    Re-'packaging' Entrepreneurship!
    Oct 11 2022
    An ecopreneur by passion and a professional engineer, Surabhi Shah is responsible for Carragreen's marketing, finances, and product manufacturing. She is passionate about yoga and design. The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law team are known for shattering social norms and are on a mission to offer customised, biodegradable, non-toxic, and eco-friendly products at reasonable prices. She established Carragreen in 2018, an eco-friendly startup based in Indore that specialises in biodegradable stationery and packaging options. Pens, pencils, seed paper diaries, and monthly calendars are all part of the product line. Additionally, it offers perforated biodegradable boxes that can be used to pack and transport food items and change into plates and spoons as needed. Wooden spoons called Carraspoons are a popular item. They work to make the planet Earth greener, cleaner, and healthier with their products.
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    14 mins
  • The Youngest Contestant On Shark Tank India

    The Youngest Contestant On Shark Tank India
    Oct 4 2022
    13-year-old Anoushka Jolly, the founder, and CEO of InnerArk Blocktech Private Limited, Anti Bullying Squad (ABS), and Kavach, The Mobile App, is from Gurugram. She defines herself as an 8th grader who loves writing, entrepreneurship, and psychology. When she presented her idea on Shark Tank India, she was the youngest contestant. She has gained attention for her concept for the Kavach app, a tool to assist kids her age in combat bullying in schools and colleges. The awareness-building social initiative called the Anti-Bullying Squad seeks to reduce bullying in real life. This online community serves as a hub for experts who collaborate to plan one-on-one counselling sessions against bullying in schools. The platform was created with the intention of drastically reducing instances of the problem, and according to Jolly, with the assistance of schools, NGOs, and professionals, over 2,000 students from more than 100 schools and universities have benefited from ABS.
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    13 mins
  • Making Investment In India's Start-up Ecosystem Accessible To Everyone!

    Making Investment In India's Start-up Ecosystem Accessible To Everyone!
    Sep 21 2022
    What did you do when you were 16? Goofed around, played, and joked? A child prodigy and two-time entrepreneur Krishna Maggo manages an online platform for startups to raise money. When his board exams were postponed to 2021, Krishna founded his first business and used the free time to launch "GrowwVenture," a platform for angel investing. He then concentrated on retail investors and built his second business, "Sateeq," which enables regular people to become investors by contributing as little as Rs. 5000 to startups across India. Sateeq uses an invitation-only method to enroll startups. Krishna's ten-person business goes through a three-step verification process before registering businesses. This entails a startup being scouted and verified by Sateeq investors, followed by a review of investment possibilities. The final step is to hire an outside company to perform a startup's due diligence. Sateeq has registered more than a dozen startups and added more than 5,000 investors to its network in less than a month since the platform's beta launch. Investors like Mumbai Angels, Ivy Capital, Shraddha Sharma, Vaibhav Vardhan, Kiran Mani, Deshpande Startups, and Shark Tank India have already supported these startups.
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    14 mins
  • India's 100th Unicorn & How They Did It!

    India's 100th Unicorn & How They Did It!
    Sep 13 2022
    OPEN is a neo-banking startup based in Bengaluru that is focused on small businesses, enabling them to manage cash flows, automate accounting and get easy access to credit lines. The account has all the tools that are required by a small business to send and receive payments, combined with an AI-based accounting engine that automates bookkeeping and expense management. Apart from enabling businesses to run their finances effectively, the platform also offers APIs for developers to integrate banking and payments into their business workflows. Tune in to the conversation with Anish Achuthan and Kay to get an insight into the world of neo-banking.
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    15 mins
  • How Reels are changing the way content is created on Instagram

    How Reels are changing the way content is created on Instagram
    Sep 7 2022
    Meta (formerly Facebook) organised a creator meet-up in Bangalore, to celebrate creators from Karnataka, and the way they are using Reels as a global stage to grow and be discovered. In this episode of Tech for Change, host Kay Machado is in conversation with Mr Manish Chopra, Director and Head of Partnerships, Meta to talk about how Reels are changing the way content is created on Instagram and how reels are giving regional players a global stage.
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    16 mins