Tech For Change

Suneeth Tatineni and Chaitanya Ayinapudi from Hyderabad quit their IT jobs to start Caro Water, a one-of-a-kind startup delivering drinking water in paper boxes.

Caro water is pure water that needs no description but the priority is the sustainable packaging that won’t harm nature, animals, and seashores. They believe in the customer base who are influenced by a green lifestyle, consciousness of health and the planet.

India, a country home to over 1.3 billion people, equivalent to 17.7% of the world’s population has been struggling to reduce plastic usage for several years. The growing population and the plastic problem are getting worse day by day. However, the majority of it is emerging from plastic water bottles that people consume daily. This brought about a realization that a change needed to be made in the usage of water bottles, that’s when Caro Water began.

In this episode of Tech For Change, our host @offairwithkay speaks with Mansoor Rahimat Khan and Siddharth Bhardwaj, co-founders of Bengaluru-based Beatoven.ai uses artificial intelligence (AI) to take the hassle out of composing and licensing music. Launched in 2021, Beatoven.ai is an AI-powered music tech startup that helps YouTubers, advertising agencies, and wedding film production houses create original soundtracks. The platform also solves music acquisition and licensing problems faced by creators.

Researchers at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISERB), Bhopal, have developed organic polymers, which they claim can remove toxic micropollutants from water, thus making it safer for human consumption. The research team led by Dr. Abhijit Patra, Associate Professor at the Department of Chemistry, IISER Bhopal, has tested these polymers in powder form for the removal of polar organic micropollutants removal at a laboratory scale. He believes large-scale fabrication of these materials in collaboration with industrial partners will open up avenues for real-time scavenging of toxic polar organic micropollutants from water. Called hypercrosslinked porous organic polymers’ (HPOPs), researchers claim that a teaspoon of the powder of these polymers will cover a significantly large area

Prasanth is the co-founder of Upepo, a playful, project-based learning platform for kids 5-12. He leads the product, focused on creating delightful learning experiences for families that add true value to their lives. Nithish is an experienced entrepreneur with a history of working in the education management & healthcare industry. He is passionate about Innovation, Problem-Solving & Strategy. Just like a game, children can experiment with new projects, try, fail, improve and learn. Upepo encourages fun, creative spirals that set children up for life-long success. Their curriculum is designed by educators from Harvard & MIT to ensure students pick up critical learning, innovation, life, career, and global skills, aligned to the world-class p21 framework.

Every project at Upepo is carefully designed to encourage children to get up from their seats and create, build and invent something incredible!

Mingout is built around the idea that the business will make money when you are happy. Because even though you may match just once, you go on dates more often. And that’s the revenue – your happiness is the business’s incentive, not your loneliness.

Because with Mingout, you are not just finding ‘matches’. You are experiencing ‘dates’. And with added layers for safety and self-discovery, Mingout wants to make sure that you go on nice, happy dates. Doing things you love, with a hint of romance.

And that’s the value proposition – no complications, no over-the-top promises of finding your soulmate or forever after. Mingout offers something simple but the most important ingredient of any romantic journey- A better first date.

Making the planet a better place begins with making your surroundings clean. Much has been said in campaigns across the world about single use plastic and its's ill effects. The little conscious choices we make in the products we use and the packaging we choose adds to the change we all need to bring in eliminating plastic waste. This episode Ashutosh Manohar, Chairman of Action Alliance for Recycling Beverage Cartons (AARC), carton industry veteran, and currently the Managing Director of Tetra Pak South Asia, speaks about what big and small steps the packaging industry is taking in the materials they choose, so that we as consumers can make the right decisions about the products we buy.

While studying engineering around 2011 at BITS Pilani, which is located in a small city in North-eastern part of Rajasthan, Vaibhav Singh lived through the problem of limited healthcare access in rural towns.

Vaibhav and his friends decided to start working on a database, which would list students’ parents who were doctors. The students could contact a toll-free number, which would connect them to the doctors in the database, who could help them out by understanding their symptoms.

This formed the basis of Visit Health, a healthcare startup based in Delhi.

Awarded as the "Youth of the Year" in the field of Healthcare Services and recognised as Forbes 30 under 30, Asia in the field of Healthcare & Science, Vaibhav Singh and his team at Visit Health are striving passionately towards their goal of making healthcare simpler and accessible.

In this episode of tech for change listen to our host @offairwithkay speak with Uzair Merchant who explains- “Stardust is a tussle between two worlds where the character is desperate for an escape to find answers, only to learn life has a flow of its own. It is to be observed, not fought with - the idea that we all come from Stardust and to Stardust we shall return.”