Startup Project: Build the future

AI Startup Cleaning Up a $1.6 Trillion Crisis, Building a Hardware + AI Startup, Scaling Edge AI, Digitize Waster & Reduce Landfill | Ambarish Mitra Co-Founder of Greyparrot AI


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Join Nataraj as he interviews Rish, the co-founder and CEO of Greyparrot, a company leveraging AI to revolutionize the recycling industry. Rish shares his journey from augmented reality to AI-powered waste management, detailing the challenges and opportunities in this space. Discover how Greyparrot's innovative technology brings transparency and efficiency to recycling, impacting the circular economy and creating a more sustainable future. Learn how AI can transform waste into a valuable resource.


What you’ll learn

  • Understand how AI-powered waste analytics are bringing transparency and efficiency to the recycling industry.
  • Discover the challenges and opportunities in building AI solutions for large-scale waste management.
  • Learn how Greyparrot is using computer vision to analyze and sort waste more effectively than traditional methods.
  • Explore the impact of AI technologies on promoting and advancing the circular economy on a global scale.
  • Gain insights into the architectural and structural issues specific to deploying AI in the waste management sector.
  • Discover how strategic partnerships can help scale a business in the waste management and recycling industry.
  • Understand the roles of manufacturers, governments, waste management, and consumers in creating a circular economy.

About the Guest and Host:

Rish: Co-founder and CEO of Greyparrot, using AI-powered waste analytics to revolutionize the recycling industry.

Connect with Rish:

→ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ambarishmitra/

→ Website: https://www.greyparrot.ai/

Nataraj: Host of the Startup Project podcast, Senior PM at Azure & Investor.

→ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/natarajsindam/

→ Substack: ⁠https://startupproject.substack.com/⁠


In this episode, we cover

(00:00) Introduction and Guest Introduction

(00:49) The Origin Story of Greyparrot and its mission

(02:23) From Visual Search to Waste Intelligence: The Pivotal Moment

(04:58) Defining Greyparrot as a Material Asset Recovery Company

(05:15) How Greyparrot's Analyzers Optimize Waste Sorting at Material Recovery Facilities (MRFs)

(07:44) Integrating AI Brains into Mechanical Waste Management Plants

(09:28) Architectural Challenges of Deploying AI in Waste Management

(12:46) Building a Scalable AI Solution for Diverse Waste Management Plants

(15:39) Deep Dive into Processing Images and Data Locally with On-Camera Computing

(20:02) Brands leveraging waste data for packaging R&D and sustainability

(21:52) Customer Acquisition strategies

(28:07) Scale of business

(30:01) Contrasting Waste Management in Developed vs. Developing Economies

(35:13) China's role in global waste management

(37:03) Diverting waste streams

(39:57) The key components responsible for circular economy


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