Forbes India - Tech Conversations

In this episode, Anant R Adya, executive vice president and Head Cloud, Infrastructure and Security Services (CIS) for Americas and APac at Infosys, talks about the evolution of the IT services company’s cloud services. In this conversation, Anant also talks about the shift towards extracting business outcomes by moving various operations to the cloud, how generative AI is influencing the shift to the cloud, and how the combination of cloud computing, edge, IoT, 5G, data and AI will influence the future of tech services.

In this episode, Anurag Begwani, a vice president in India at Bessemer Venture Partners, talks about the areas within India’s fintech landscape that the firm is optimistic about – ranging from niche software to retail wealth management to cyber insurance. In this conversation, which was recorded on Aug. 21, Begwani also talks about how the fintech opportunity is spreading well beyond the tier-1 cities into the next 30 cities and the 30 after that.

In this episode, Rahul Munjal, chairman and managing

In this episode, Simmi Sareen and Shravan Shankar, founders of Climake, a climate finance platform provider and ecosystem builder, discuss the top takeaways from their latest annual report on the state of climate finance in India. They highlight the importance of climate adaptation, and not just mitigation. They talk about ways to bridge the pipeline gap between early-stage ventures and larger companies and discuss five climate adaptation areas they’ve identified that offer the best opportunities from the point of view of VCs.

In this episode, Prateek Tripathi, a research assistant at the Centre For Security Strategy and Technology at the Observer Research Foundation in New Delhi, unpacks the significance of the nuclear energy proposals in the government’s latest budget, including support for a Bharat Small Modular Reactor. Tripathi gives us an outline of India’s civilian nuclear energy capabilities and explains the global interest in small modular reactors. He also talks about why the private sector should play a bigger role in India’s nuclear energy sector.

In this episode, Anant Vidur Puri, a partner in India at the VC firm Bessemer Venture Partners, gives us a quick overview of the firm’s latest annual report on India’s software-as-a-service sector. Bessemer projects the sector at $50 billion in annual recurring revenue by 2030. Puri also discusses his view that artificial intelligence software and solutions will likely provide an upside to that number. And he expects that the number of Indian cloud software startups touching $100 million in annual recurring revenue will see a jump in the coming years.

In this episode, Kaushik Mudda talks about how he and his friend Navin Jain turned a problem an opportunity with their award-winning five-axis CNC machine, to build a manufacturing services venture from Bengaluru – Ethereal Machines. Today, backed by Blume Ventures, Peak XV Partners and Steadview Capital, the 10-year-old startup is pioneering what the entrepreneur duo calls machining-as-a-service in India, and Ethereal is emerging as a promising deep tech company as Kaushik and Navin work on making their CNC machines ever more sophisticated.

In this episode, Vijayant Rai, managing director – India, at Snowflake, gives us a quick update on the cloud-based data warehousing and analytics platform company’s plans in India. Rai took over as Snowflake India’s boss in January. He was previously at Microsoft where he was an executive director responsible for the banking and financial services business. In this conversation, Rai talks about the Snowflake’s centre of excellence in Pune, and its drive to add more customers, who range from India’s startup unicorns to the largest conglomerates.

In this episode, Anirudh Sharma, co-founder and CEO of Digantara Research and Technologies, gives us a quick update on progress at his space situational awareness venture in Bengaluru. The aim now is for Digantara to become a more holistic platform providing broader space domain awareness, for both commercial and strategic purposes. In this conversation, Sharma also talks about the challenges of building a deep tech company from India that can sell its products to global customers.

In this episode, Rajan Anandan, a managing director at the venture capital firm Peak XV Partners, talks about how India’s deep tech ecosystem is today where the software-as-a-service (SaaS) sector was 10 years ago. In this conversation, Anandan, who also leads Peak XV’s Surge accelerator program for early-stage startups, talks about why there’s never been a better time to startup in deep tech in India.