Deep Tech Musings

Raghav Gupta is a co-founder at Nymble where he is on a mission to put a Private Chef in every kitchen by building countertop cooking robots. Nymble is backed by 021 Capital, Waterbridge Ventures, and was most recently part of the Accel Atoms program. In the show, Raghav touches upon his journey of building Nymble starting from the early days of problem discovery, finding the right market, developing a prototype, assessing the technical feasibility, and many other such aspects of building a deep tech product.

Nymble is currently running private alphas in the San Francisco Bay Area where their users are using their robot almost twice a day with plans of launching a private beta in July 2022. Listeners can learn more at www.eatwithnymble.com.

Raghav, Nymble - ragsgups (LinkedIn), ragsgups (Twitter)

Pronojit, DTM Podcast - pronojitsaha (LinkedIn), pronojit (Clubhouse), pronojits (Twitter)

Pierre is the co-founder of ScrapingBee, a web scraping API startup. He bootstrapped it to $1mil ARR in around 3 years and by incorporating quite a few learnings from his earlier failed startups. On the show, he discusses those learnings, how to decide when to move on, how to build differentiation in a crowded market, how to go about building a SaaS product MVP, and much more. 

Pierre, ScrapingBee - PierreDeWulf (Twitter)

Pronojit, DTM Podcast - pronojitsaha (LinkedIn), pronojit (Clubhouse), pronojits (Twitter)

Timothy Porter is the CTO of Modtech Labs, which is on a mission to simplify visual content creation into one automated pipeline. It provides mobile+cloud-based software that makes 3D in minutes and is a revolutionary way of creating 3D content. On the show, Tim highlights his personal journey of more than a decade-spanning major brands like Gameloft, Sony, Disney, Two Bit Circus, and more. Bringing his expertise to a forward-thinking market on the edge of technology has expanded his ability to pioneer uncharted territory in AR, VR, MR, XR, IoT, AI, Networking, Volumetric Video, and more. Modtech Labs is his entrepreneurial endeavor toward that vision. He discusses major products of Modtech labs along with their unique features and highlights the entire journey from conception to fruition. His fun and energizing conversation style makes this an enjoyable listen as well.

1 Timothy Porter: https://www.linkedin.com/in/timothymporter/

2 Mod Tech Lab: https://modtechlabs.com/

3 Product demo: https://modtechlabs.com/demos/

4 Wefunder campaign: https://wefunder.com/mod.tech.labs

Pronojit, DTM Podcast - pronojitsaha (LinkedIn), pronojit (Clubhouse), pronojits (Twitter)

Hari is an angel investor focused on innovative startup teams. He practices lean startup principles and encourages founders to think global, act local and build an organizational culture suitable for innovation in startups. He is associated with Indian Angel Network (IAN), LetsVenture and IvyCap Ventures, among many others. On the show Hari talks about his entrepreneurial and angel investment journey till now. He shares insightful stories behind his major investments like Mukunda Foods (DosaMatic), Spinny, Wow Momo, Styledotme, Codeninja.ai, Zostel, Mpokket, Box8, Biggies Burger, Auntie Fung's, etc. He highlights what he looks for in startup founders and how he evaluates startups utilizing his custom-built "Investment Readiness Score" calculator.

Finally, he lets us know what his future industry bets are and he leaves us with his wisdom on the art of angel investing which for him is to "enjoy what you are doing & multiply money".  This is an insightful one for all entrepreneurs, not to be missed.

Hari Balasubramanian - LinkedIn, www.bhari.com

Pronojit, DTM Podcast - pronojitsaha (LinkedIn), pronojit (Clubhouse), pronojits (Twitter)

Ankit is a Senior Product Manager & Fouding Member of Qure.ai, an healthcare AI startup. He lends insights into how they started on their path to finding the right problem to solve, to how they assessed the AI-problem fit and the technical feasibility of it in the early days. Ankit also shares his inputs about the technology behind the product and how they build their MVP. Finally he emphasizes on the important point on how to go about building AI teams and also gives some advise for aspiring AI product managers. 

Ankit, Qure.ai - LinkedIn

Pronojit, DTM Podcast - pronojitsaha (LinkedIn), pronojit (Clubhouse), pronojits (Twitter)

This episode was hosted on Clubhouse on the Indian Startup Club - Link

Dr. Amritendu is an AI researcher and the co-founder of NeuroPixel.ai, an Indian startup that currently aims to build the future of fashion cataloging. In this episode, Dr. Amritendu walks us through his research experiences, his fight with cancer, going through the Entrepreneur First program, his startup story, the AI enabling the solution and future ambitions. More importantly, he calls upon the need to bridge the gap between research & industry and solve hard problems. 

Dr. Armitendu Mukherjee, NeuroPixel.ai - amritendu-mukherjee (LinkedIn)

Pronojit, DTM Podcast - pronojitsaha (LinkedIn), pronojit (Clubhouse), pronojits (Twitter)

Parikshit is leading data science & advanced analytics at HUL & Unilever South Asia. We discuss the FMCG sector in general, its opportunities & challenges, and how AI/ML is currently being used in this sector. Parikshit also sheds light on some keystone AI/ML products currently being used at Unilever and given its scale of operations it's quite interesting to learn about them. This episode was hosted at the clubhouse app on the Data & AI club. Be sure to check out the club and follow them along with the show guests to get to know about their latest work.

Parikshit, Unilever - parikshit-nag7 (LinkedIn), prithu7 (Clubhouse)

Pronojit, DTM Podcast - pronojitsaha (LinkedIn), pronojit (Clubhouse)

Data & AI Club - dataandai (Clubhouse) 

Jibu Elias is one of the chief architects of INDAIai.gov.in, the national AI portal of India. Full of information, this episode is a treasure trove for anyone looking to gain insights into India's AI scene, especially from the industry & government's perspective. The portal itself is a "one-stop information shop" for everything AI in India and highly encourage interested participants to look and provide feedback. This episode was hosted at the clubhouse app on the Indian Startup Club. We were also joined by Praveen Mokkapati, Deputy Director NASSCOM and a principal driver of the Telangana AI mission along with the Govt. of Telangana. Be sure to check out the club and follow them along with the show guests (links below) to get to know about their latest work.

Jibu Elias, IndiaAI - jibuelias (LinkedIn), @jibuelias (Clubhouse)

Pankaj Jain, Indian Startup Club - pankajjain (LinkedIn), pjain (Clubhouse)

Indian Startup Club - clubhouse.com/club/indianstartupclub

Praveen Mokkapati, NASSCOM - mspraveen (LinkedIn), @desiaggie (Clubhouse)

Pronojit Saha, DTM Podcast - pronojitsaha (LinkedIn), @pronojit (Clubhouse)

Note: There is a signal drop in the recording between 56 - 62 min, regret the inconvenience.

Rishabh is a Forbes 30 under 30 award winner and founder of Redwing Labs, a drone logistics startup which has garnered many awards from industry stalwarts like NASA, Lockheed Martin, Boeing and Airbus. Rishabh gives us an overview of the drone logistics industry, its challenges & promises and the role that Redwings Labs is playing in this space. This episode was hosted on the clubhouse app on the small steps & giant leaps (SSGL) club. Also joining the session was Michael Mealling who is a VC at Starbridge, a prominent outfit in the SpaceTech investment arena. Be sure to check out the SSGL club and follow them along with the show guests Rishabh & Michael to get to know about their latest work. 

Rishabh, Redwing Labs - @roborishabh

Michael Mealling, Starbridge VC - @mmealling

Pronojit Saha, DTM - @pronojit

This episode is a recording of the first ever session of DTM podcast on clubhouse. We had a discussion around the earth observation industry with all the three founders of Skyserve.ai, an Indian deep tech startup which is on a mission to democratize earth observation by providing easily accessible real-time insights at a cost that's more affordable for customers. Also joining us was Michael Mealling who is a VC at Starbridge, a prominent outfit in the SpaceTech arena. Be sure to follow them at below-mentioned clubhouse handles and get to know about their latest work.

Vishesh Vatsal, SkyServe.ai - @vishesh2021

Michael Mealling, Starbridge VC - @mmealling

Pronojit Saha, DTM - @pronojit