BlitzBusiness Indian Podcast

BlitzBusiness Indian Podcast

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  • #98 Fountain India, a platform for high-volume employment

    About Fountain

    Fountain is the market leader in high volume hiring because its solutions enable customers to get ahead of their hiring goals. Fountain’s all-in-one platform enables companies to find qualified candidates and move them from application to onboarding quicker, reducing time to hire from weeks to days—or even hours. By simplifying the screening, interviewing and hiring experience, Fountain’s solutions keep applicants happy while ensuring organizations have pipelines full of hourly talent that is ready to work. Hundreds of customers use Fountain’s solutions to hire over 3.5 million workers annually in more than 78 countries.


    About Ashish Kesharwani
    With a career spanning over 30 years, He had an enriching journey from hotel, Resort, club, and restaurant operations, hospitality academics, and retail training to successfully setting up and launching Business ventures.


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    38 min
  • #97 DrinkPrime - a subscription-based service for water purifiers

    DrinkPrime is a smart customised water purifier based on input water quality. Unlike traditional water purifiers that are not connected to the internet, DrinkPrime is Internet of Things (IoT) -enabled and is in sync with a subscriber’s DrinkPrime mobile app allowing them to monitor water purifier health at all times. It was founded in 2016 by Mr Vijender Reddy Muthyala, Co-founder & CEO and Mr Manas Ranjan Hota, Co-founder & COO. 

    A data-driven model, it blends a water purifier subscription service along with sensors to track a household’s water input and consumption in real-time. The customized four-stage filtration process gives access to clean drinking water based on input water quality while being charged based on the chosen subscription plan.   


    Manas Ranjan Hota is the Co-founder and COO at DrinkPrime, India’s

    leading drinking water solution provider.

    50% of India does not have access to safe drinking water and DrinkPrime

    is focused on solving this problem. Under his leadership, DrinkPrime has
    been recognised as a part of Fast Company’s ‘The 10 most innovative
    Asia-Pacific companies of 2021’ and in Forbes Asia 100 To Watch list.

    Manas is responsible for growing DrinkPrime’s subscriber base by
    500% over the last 2 years with the current subscriber count exceeding

    30,000. He leads high-performance teams - sales, marketing, operations
    and customer experience - at DrinkPrime and oversees the company’s
    day-to-day activities. He has played a pivotal role in building the
    125+ strong DrinkPrime team from scratch.

    Before starting DrinkPrime, Manas built and led the inside sales team at

    Sonata Software. He is a Master of Business Administration (MBA)
    graduate from Pondicherry University.


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    46 min
  • #96 Columbia Pacific Communities

    Columbia Pacific Communities (CPC) is India’s largest and most experienced senior living community operator with close to 1750 residential units under management in 5 cities and 10 locations across south India (Bengaluru, Chennai, Puducherry, Coimbatore and Kanchipuram) . As the pioneers in this category it is committed to reimagining the concept of senior living in India and create world-class practices that exceed these expectations of all our stakeholders. It is part of the Columbia Pacific group, one of the foremost developers of senior living communities in the United States, Canada and South East Asia. Founded by Dan Baty, Columbia Pacific has more than 40 years of experience and expertise in designing, building and managing senior housing communities around the world. The team, with the expertise of their principals in the United States of America and our partners in India, brings together rich experience in senior housing design, development and management.


    Mr. Mohit Nirula, CEO, Columbia Pacific Communities (profile attached)

     

    The second innings:

    Columbia Pacific Communities, Nirula’s second organisation in a 30-year old career allows him to bring to the fore all the skills that he has gained over the past three decades.
    A vision that he has created, a culture that he is nurturing, a mission that is "worthy". Its an opportunity to expand his knowledge and skills working with domain experts in areas as diverse as land acquisition; design and development of the communities; construction - on quality, on time, on budget; sales & marketing of real estate but with heart and empathy, ultimately continuing the association with the buyers and residents by servicing the community and the needs of the residents. His sole objective is to provide our elders with a safe, secure and engaging lifestyle in an environment of genuine warmth and care.
    The first innings:
    He started in hospitality with The Oberoi Group in 1986. Since 1996, he has been in leadership roles, heading hotels - across brands (Novotel / Trident / Oberoi), geographies (India / Mauritius / Egypt), with a diverse range of responsibilities (Operations / Openings / Renovations / Restorations). 
    Specialties: Process analysis for enhanced efficiency and effectiveness, a passion for detail and maximizing the achievement of potential of colleagues through a mentoring approach. The ability to balance the creative tension that must exist between the means and the end. The means being the way and manner in which he conduct business and the values embodied in our brand, while the end being the hunger and passion necessary to win and out perform competition.

    "The best time to plant a tree was 30 years ago. The second best time is now." Chinese proverb


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    41 min
  • #95 HOP Electric Mobility (an integrated sustainable auto-tech electric mobility start-up)

    Hop Electric Mobility Pvt Ltd. got formally established in January 2020 and Operation started in January 2021.  Mr. Vivek Tomar (Business Head), Mr. Rajneesh Singh (Head Marketing) and Mr. Avinash Choudhary (Regional Manager North) later joined the company as core team members.

    Aspiring to become one of the top global new energy automotive companies, the brand aims to cater for the growing demands of the customers looking to opt for environment-friendly electric mobility solutions. Working on B2C and B2B market. With three e’s in its name - electric, energy, environment HOP now provides lineup of electric two wheelers and energy network platform and well environment is part of our conscious in every step and action.


    Nikhil Bhatia

    Co-Founder & Chief Strategy Officer – HOP Electric Mobility

    A Qualified Mechanical Engineer from Punjab Technical University and with experience of more than a decade, Nikhil Bhatia started his career with Oil and Gas industry, the mecca of mechanical engineers. Even though learnings were amazing as an energy professional, within the first 3 years of professional exposure, he made a conscious change towards the field of new energy and clean technologies


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    52 min
  • # 94 Founders of Atmantan Wellness Centre

    Atmantan Wellness Centre is India’s most luxurious integrated wellness destination spa and transformation centre located nestled on a crystal hill, spanning 42 acres of lush green valley, Atmantan, has it abode in the Majestic Sahyadris, and overlooks the pristine Mulshi Lake. True to its name, Atma (soul) Mana (mind) and Tan (body), the resort is dedicated to providing you with a rejuvenating experience that will return you as a renewed individual, heart whole and fancy free.  Here we help you understand the relationship between sound nutrition and the functioning of the body.

    The resort offers an expanse of 6525 sq. ft. of fitness facilities in addition to world class spa and wellness therapies like traditional Ayurveda, oriental acupressure, aromatherapy massages, Chi Nei Tsang, purifying body polishes, cocooning wraps, physiotherapy, and Pranic chakra cleansing.

    Living up to true Indian hospitality, Atmantan exceeds expectations in terms of luxury, service and quality. It is a wholesome amalgamation of pampering your mind, body and soul. Our certified experts create customised packages just for you by using a happy mix of spa and fitness therapies along with the right dietary inputs and lifestyle improvements to provide you with holistic well-being.  

    Our special ‘farm to table’ cuisine is curated to satiate your taste buds as well as nutritional needs, with fresh ingredients sourced from local farms, free of preservatives and other unnatural additives. Atmantan living offers a range of evidence based wellness packages such as a master cleanse, weight balance, journey through yoga, and number of others which help you align your mind and body while gaining utmost peace.

    The Founders are health & fitness oriented visionaries who have imagined Atmantan as the ultimate wellness haven for people looking to scale new personal heights of wellness - SharmileeAgarwal Kapur as a Pranic healer brings energy, medicine and conviction to Atmantan while Nikhil Kapur as a fitness enthusiast and an ironman triathlete, brings methodical planning andthe wellness focus to the resort.

    Atmantan has received the India's Best Wellness Retreat Award at the World Spa Awards and also awarded as Conde Nast Readers Travel Favourite Destination Spa award in 2017! We have also had the privilege to host guests like Parineeti Chopra, Bhumi Pednekar,Malaika Arora, Lisa Ray, Masaba Gupta and Neena Gupta, Karisma Kapoor, Sri Devi, Nimrat Kaur, Randeep Hoodaand Sanjeev Kapoor to name a few.


    Sharmilee Agrawal Kapur 

    Co-Founder & Director of Atmantan Wellness Centre 

     

    A pranic healer and spiritual yogini, Ms. Sharmilee Agrawal Kapur is the Co-Founder and Director of Atmantan Wellness Centre - one of a kind, luxury wellness clinic committed to transforming the Body Mind and Soul through holistic practices.

     

    An MBA graduate (Bond University, Australia), Sharmileeinherits her talented entrepreneurial mindset from her father wholeads a prominent Hospitality and Real Estate company - Bramhacorp, Pune.

     

    Mr. Nikhil Kapur

    Co-Founder & Director, Atmantan Wellness Centre

    With over 15 years of experience as a pioneering entrepreneur Mr. Nikhil

    Kapur is the Co-Founder and Director of Atmantan Wellness Centre - one
    of a kind, luxury wellness clinic committed to transforming the Body Mind
    and Soul through holistic practices.

    An alumnus of Symbiosis Institute of Business Management (MBA -

    Marketing, 2000) and Fergusson College (BA - Eco, 1998), Nikhil is a
    seasoned professional with > six years dedicated to working with leading
    multinationals such as Wipro and Reuters, before he decided to pursue
    his dream of setting up a wellness centre.

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    48 min
  • # 93 Ashok Shastry / DriveU

    DriveU is India’s largest car driver service and a super-app for car

    owners. DriveU has revolutionised the way consumers hire drivers for
    their private cars, and how businesses maintain a strong, reliable supply
    chain of professional drivers to transport vehicles. Operating in all the
    major cities of India and trusted by over 650,000+ customers, 150+
    businesses, that are served by 65,000+ background-verified, uniformed
    professional drivers, and have completed 5+ million trips. In 2021,
    DriveU launched India’s first Car Ownership Super App that allows users
    to book any service around car ownership such as general maintenance,
    roadside assistance, car cleaning, and much much more! DriveU
    rewards car ownership. Car owners can gain reward coins that can be
    immediately redeemed for exclusive partner offers, discounts, or
    products. DriveU is committed to helping driver partners become
    micro-entrepreneurs and increase their income. DriveU also strives to
    improve the quality of life for its driver partners through training in
    etiquette, hygiene, service quality etc.


    Ashok Shastry Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer - DriveU Ashok Shastry is the Co-Founder and CEO of DriveU, India’s largest on-demand private driver service trusted by over 650,000+ customers, and 150+ businesses, that are served by 50,000+ background verified, uniformed, trained professional drivers, who have completed 5+ Million trips. DriveU is present in all of the major cities like Ahmedabad, Bengaluru, Chennai, Delhi & NCR, Hyderabad Mumbai, Kolkata, and Coimbatore for B2C & B2B services. Ashok is a young entrepreneur, who started DriveU, in May 2015, with the dual objective of making life simple for millions of car owners across India through technology, while creating reliable incomes for those who need it the most. He had an entrepreneurial inclination since childhood and graduated from California State University in Hayward with a focus on marketing, finance and psychology. Ashok has a hands-on approach to solving real-world problems and he focuses towards building strategy, marketing, and operations. Prior to DriveU, he worked in marketing and operational roles at TaxiForSure which was acquired by Ola - one of the largest cab services in India. Ashok is based out of Bengaluru, India and likes to enjoy his weekends with close friends, trekking nearby trails, and experimenting in the kitchen. He is also an avid animal lover and fitness enthusiast, who's adopted three Indie dogs from the streets who live at home, and another 3 who call DriveU’s HQ theirs.


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    41 min
  • #92 Ankit Mittal / Sheru

    Sheru, an energy storage company based out of New Delhi (India). The company provides cloud storage solutions by aggregating idle battery capacity to create a virtual energy storage platform.

    49 min
  • #91 Divij Talwar / FuelBuddy

    FuelBuddy is India's first and largest Doorstep Fuel Delivery startup

    It's 180+ cities 50000+ customers, 12 cr lts and 24 million dollars fund raised so far.

    35 min
  • #90 Amitek Sinha/ ET MediaLabs

    ET Medialabs is helping businesses integrate technology into their marketing strategies. With their expertise in areas such as data analytics, automation, and AI, ET Medialabs is enabling companies to optimize their marketing efforts and achieve better results.


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    46 min
  • #89 Amit Lakhotia / Park+

    Founded in 2019 by Amit Lakhotia, Park+ is a super app for car owners that solves the daily challenges faced by car owners - ranging from parking, FASTag management, car insurance, automated vehicle access control systems, and EV charging stations.Backed by Epiq Capital II. Matrix Partners India & Sequoia Capital India, and recently raised INR 145 Cr in series C to utilize and expand its presence to over 100+ cities, to hire 200+ employees, and expand its services verticals, to supercharge Park+’s next growth phase.Park+ today hosts India's largest community of car owners on its platform with 70 lakh+ users. Park+ is present in 2,500+ residential societies, 250+ offices, and 35+ malls across 50+ Indian cities, including Delhi NCR, Bangalore, and Mumbai.


    https://parkplus.io/


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    29 min

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