This week, on Startup Dugout by Dell Technologies, Sairee talks to Arjun Mohan, the CEO of upGrad – India's largest online higher education company. He tells us how he stepped into the world of ed-tech, what it was like to join upGrad during the COVID-19 pandemic, and about their objective of using technology to democratise education by making university-quality education accessible through mobile phones.

If you haven’t already, do check out the other episodes of Startup Dugout by Dell Technologies, a four-part podcast series, bringing you stories of entrepreneurs from India’s biggest tech startups, “That time when…” they overcame challenges and, of course, never gave up. If you’re an entrepreneur that’s forging your path with your dreams, Dell for Startups can help you in your digital journey and transformation. For more details visit https://www.dell.com/en-in/work/lp/dell-for-startups.

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Executive Producer: Dell Technologies

Conceptualised & Created by LBB

Host: Sairee Chahal, Founder & CEO of SHEROES & Mahila Money

Guest: Arjun Mohan

This is a Maed in India production.

This episode of Startup Dugout by Dell Technologies features Karthik Jayaraman, the Co-founder & Managing Director of WayCool Foods – an agri-tech start-up that drives social impact to transform India’s food economy. WayCool’s soil-to-sale model uses a tech-enabled supply chain approach that engages with a base of more than 1,50,000 farmers in over 50 regions across India. Karthik opens up about the logistical solutions they employed while scaling up to this point, new learnings about the agriculture sector from on-ground experience, resistance from various stakeholders, and managing a highly technology-dependent business.

If you haven’t already, do check out the other episodes of Startup Dugout by Dell Technologies, a four-part podcast series, bringing you stories of entrepreneurs from India’s biggest tech startups, “That time when…” they overcame challenges and, of course, never gave up. If you’re an entrepreneur that’s forging your path with your dreams, Dell for Startups can help you in your digital journey and transformation. For more details visit https://www.dell.com/en-in/work/lp/dell-for-startups.

This is a Dell Technologies podcast

CREDITS:

Executive Producer: Dell Technologies

Conceptualised & Created by LBB

Host: Sairee Chahal,  Founder & CEO of SHEROES & Mahila Money

Guest: Karthik Jayaraman

This is a Maed in India production.

On the first episode of Startup Dugout by Dell Technologies, Sairee is joined by V. R. Govindarajan, the Co-founder & Chairman of Perfios – a Bangalore-based fintech startup that offers a software technology platform to financial institutions, to help them improve credit assessment by extracting, aggregating and analysing financial data. Mr. Govindarajan and Sairee talk about the genesis of Perfios, the move from B2C to B2B, the challenges of selling a newly created product category, and adapting to external changes like regulation.

If you haven’t already, do check out the other episodes of Startup Dugout by Dell Technologies, a four-part podcast series, bringing you stories of entrepreneurs from India’s biggest tech startups, “That time when…” they overcame challenges and, of course, never gave up. If you’re an entrepreneur that’s forging your path with your dreams, Dell for Startups can help you in your digital journey and transformation. For more details visit https://www.dell.com/en-in/work/lp/dell-for-startups.

This is a Dell Technologies podcast

CREDITS:

Executive Producer: Dell Technologies

Conceptualised & Created by LBB

Host: Sairee Chahal, Founder & CEO of SHEROES & Mahila Money

Guest: V. R. Govindarajan, Co-founder & Chairman of Perfios

This is a Maed in India production.

We’re almost ready to kick off our chats with entrepreneurs from India’s biggest tech startups, here on Startup Dugout by Dell Technologies. Watch this space!