The Svagat Show

In this conversation, Rishabh Kaul interviews Gokul Nath Sridhar, the Head of Product at Wolt, about his experience moving from India to Berlin and the tech ecosystem in Germany.

In Today’s Episode with Gokul Nath Sridhar We Discuss:

Sandeep Sakharkar is a seasoned CIO and IT Leader having worked at GXO Logistics, XPO, Footlocker, J&J. As part of his job, Sandeep has been responsible for allocating hundreds of millions in software budgets. In this discussion we discuss how startups can sell to the CIO org as they navigate the enterprise selling process. Sandeep is based in London.

Kartik Varma is a 2x- exited founder who built Proptiger, India's largest online real estate marketplace working and moved to the UK over a decade back. He's a graduate of London School of Economics and Harvard Business School.

Nikhil Sonti is the Co-founder of Felafax (YC S24), where they are building an open-source AI platform for non-NVIDIA GPUs. Prior to Felafax Nikhil was an engineer at Meta, Microsoft & Akamai working on distributed systems. He's building Felafax with his twin brother Nitin Sonti - who's done ML at Google/Youtube.

Sameer Singh and Rishabh discuss network effects, and consumer tech startups in Europe. Sameer is a Venture Partner at SpeedInvest, and an angel who's part of the Atomico Angel Program. He is a thought leader in the network effects space and writes about it at Breadcrumb.vc as well as runs a course on it on Reforge.

This episode features Rishabh Mehrotra - a leading machine learning scientist who is currently the Head of AI at Sourcegraph, prior to which he was leading ML teams at Sharechat and Spotify. Rishabh has specialized in ML techniques for recommendations, personalization and experimentation. He did his PhD from UCL, has 10 patents and over 50 papers published.

This episode features Anmol Manohar - who is the CEO and co-founder of Greenjets - a UK-based developer of advanced aerospace and aviation electric propulsion engine. Coming from a military family, Anmol has a double masters in Aerospace engineering from IIT Kharagpur and Imperial College who has spent 8 years in aviation R&D at Rolls Royce and Blue Bear Systems (Aviation Autonomy startup acquired by SaaS).

This episode features Bala Kamallakharan - who is the founder of Startup Iceland as well as the Chairman of Iceland Cricket Association. Post the GFC 2008 (and Iceland's ensuing economic crisis) - Bala create the first startup platform in Iceland called Startup Iceland and started actively investing and championing tech entrepreneurship in Iceland. He now is the founder of Iceland Venture Studio. Born in Chennai, Bala has lived in Iceland now for more than 20 years and it's the foremost voice on entrepreneurship. Bala joins us for a candid conversation where we cover a bunch of topics like:

This episode features Prateek Srivastava - an agri tech entrepreneur and operator who founded Terraview - a vineyard management platform (backed by Flipkart founders and founding team) and now leads EMEA at CropIn, one of the world's largest agritech companies. Born into an agricultural family in India, Prateek has spent several years in agritech businesses in Europe and joins us for a candid conversation where we cover a bunch of topics like:

In this week's episode we have a discussion with Suryansh Chandra - whose journey took him from being an architect at the world famous architecture house: Zaha Hadid, to co-founding a robotics startup Automata that has raised ~$100M to starting Mind Distillery - that helps organizations better feedback processes and performance improvement. Suryansh migrated to London from India in 2007.