Pitch Cafe Podcast

In today’s Pitch Cafe, we have a Women Leader, a revolutionary thinker, Dr Lopamudra Das Roy, Founder & President of Breast Cancer Hub. 💛😃 Dr Lopamudra Das Roy (Distinguished Cancer Scientist-Research Professor), a Social Entrepreneur, resigned from her career to creating BCH as a full-time Pro bono voluntary service, saving lives globally by making impactful sustainable changes working at the grassroots level, bridging the gap between the Developed & the Developing countries. ✨ She received her Post-Doctoral fellowship from Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, USA in Cancer Immunology & MBA from Northwestern University-Kellogg School of Management, Chicago. 🤩 Awarded with "100 Global Women in Leadership", "Global Achievers Award", "Honored as one of the five inspiring women around the world leading the fight against Breast Cancer", "USA President’s Lifetime Achievement Award", Bestowed with “Exemplary Social Worker Award”, “Global Role of Cancer Awareness Award"; "Truly dedicated Social Activist Award”; “Award of Excellence for Humanitarian service”. 😍🔥 She shares why breast is still a taboo in our highly sophisticated and educated society of ours. She also talks about the vision, mission, and business model of Breast Cancer Hub & BCH Wings.

In today’s episode of Pitch Cafe Podcast, we have Gitanjali Paithane, COO & Co-Founder, InternMart | Career Discovery for High School Students, with us. 😃💛 Recently I visited an International Women’s Day Event at FalconX B2B Accelerator in Silicon Valley. This was a place where I met numerous Women Leaders and our guest is one of them! 😍 She’s an Ed-tech leader and her startup is called InternMart. This is her 3rd startup after great success in her previous two. Gitanjali talks about the myths in education and skill development and shares her opinion on this matter. She shares the attributes and vision of her High School Student based startup InternMart. She also expresses her opinion on gender bias and how to fight it. 🙌

In today’s episode of Pitch Cafe, we have Rahul Tyagi, Co-Founder: SECQAI, with us! He talks about quantum computing and quantum computers and the ecosystem around them. Quantum computing is a type of computation that harnesses the collective properties of quantum states, such as superposition, interference, and entanglement, to perform calculations. The devices that perform quantum computations are known as quantum computers. He is an alumnus of London Imperial College. He’s an expert in the domains like AI, Quantum Computing, and Cyber Security. Rahul shares his experience of getting into the world of startup and how quantum computing can be used to solve small case problems. He also advises entrepreneurs on how they can access this technology efficiently.

#BreakTheBias Wishing you a happy #womensday2022! Here's to all the wonderful women in my life. “To tell a woman everything she cannot do is to tell her what she can.” YOU'VE GOT THIS GIRL! She is also a startup marketing strategist, tech enthusiast, speaker & mentor. She was also the Silicon Valley Business Journal's Woman of Influence 2021! 😍 She started her career as a Software engineer at Cisco Systems and carved her way to becoming a marketing entrepreneur helping startups. She is a mentor at leading accelerators like Founder Institute, CMU Swartz Center for Entrepreneurship, and an advisor at Loyal VC. 🔥 In this video, we will be discussing how to get customers on a digital platform and how to make your startup succeed through hard work and marketing. 🙌 She will tell us about the myths in marketing, and how her initiative Step2Growth works to overcome all this.

In today’s episode of Pitch Cafe, we have Sanjay Sawhney, Co-founder of Tala Security (3 successful STARTUP EXITS). He is an experienced engineering leader and entrepreneur with a 20+ year background in software, security, storage, and networking. 💛😃 He has a successful track record of leading top-notch teams, delivering best-in-class solutions, and competing in new market categories. He is an execution-oriented individual who combines enthusiasm for creativity with business pragmatism. 😍 In this video, he shares his experience and the operational challenges of a CISO. He also shares his insights on the domains of his expertise like Networking, Security, Storage, and Distributed Computing and advises the leaders in the technology domain. ✨

Healthcare is up for disruption and decentralized technologies are In today’s episode of Pitch Cafe, I have one of my old friends, Akshay Sharma, CEO of hotg.ai with me! 😃💛 He is an entrepreneur and investor who builds edge computing, privacy, AI, and decentralized tech. 🤩 He shares how he implements the idea of AI and Deep Learning in medical science. He explains what Federated Learning is and why AI is the future of health care. He tells the audience that tokenizing everything is possible and will happen soon. 🙌 He’s among the founding engineers of Doc.ai and Human API, was the CTO of doc.ai where he built the research and technology to bring AI into healthcare. ✨ He also runs the novel digital biomarkers workgroup for the decentralized clinical trials under the IEEE standards association.

In today’s episode of Pitch Cafe, we have Arvind Rapaka with us.💛😊 He is a 3-times successful exit entrepreneur and now is on his 4th startup. 🤩 At present, Arvind is at a VP-level position in a startup called Dragonfruit AI. He has also worked for big companies like Yahoo! He is a person with Midas Touch. 🔥 In this video, he talks about his journey and shares how childhood #scienceprojects like generating electricity invoked curiosity in him. He shares the 3 pillars to build a successful product/service for customers. 😃 Arvind advises founders not to be intimidated by the ever-evolving complexity in technology as technology is just a vehicle, it’s not the driver 🚗, however, the founder is! He discusses the problems he faced while building AI-based startups and how to overcome these challenges.

In today’s episode of Pitch cafe, we are back with the second part where I talk with Madan Padaki, Founder - CEO, 1BRIDGE. Madan is the co-founder and director of Sylvan Advisors, in the field of education management; CEO and MD of Head Held High Services, a social enterprise for rural youth, and former co-founder of MeritTrac Services, a skill assessment, and testing company. Madan explains the fact that the biggest problem our country faces is job creation and also brings light to the fact that the startup can be the way to provide more jobs to the youth! In this video, he shares his experience of visiting a college on the outskirts of Bangalore. He shares his idea of changing the narrative of being a startup. He discusses the myths of scaling and traction by sharing an example of the Brahmins Coffee Bar. He also advises the young entrepreneurs and the changes they can make. He also talks about his dream!

In today’s episode of Pitch Cafe, I talk with Sunil Cherian, CEO of Copperwire Systems, a Silicon Valley blockchain applications company, that helps easily unlock, accelerate and maximize value from Blockchain technologies. 😃💛 He is the cocreator of Tada SC, a recently-launched breakthrough supply chain suite of applications, that aims to make your supply chain safer, faster and smarter. 🤩 He is not only an expert in the supply chain, crypto, blockchain but also a person with an interest in philanthropist initiatives in education. He is also an Angel Investor! 🔥 In this video, Sunil shares his journey with the audience, he tells us how living in Silicon Valley positively impacted his life! He shares his views on failure and advises young entrepreneurs on Startups. 🙌 He explains how supply chain management can impact the stocks, a country’s economy. Decentralized systems like blockchain are crucial for Web 3.0.

In today’s episode of Pitch Cafe, I talk with Nilesh Trivedi, Principal Investor, J-Venture. 😄💛 Nilesh describes himself as a company-maker/company-builder. He has over two decades of Operational, Technology Management, and creating new businesses experience at fortune corporations and early-stage companies and helped create and guide more than a dozen new companies from the ground up. 🤩 Early in his career he designed and developed products ranging from VoIP, Security, video, data communications infrastructure, data center technologies, and telecom networks. In this video, Nilesh explains what a venture capitalist (VC) is and the job they are supposed to perform. He shares that the goal of J-Ventures is connecting people, investing in people, and building business. 🙌 He also shares some solutions to problems that the startup founders may need help with. Nilesh shares his views on Flipped Venture Model. 😇 Everything he says is refreshing, this is a fresh mind envisioning the future of the startup-venture ecosystem.