In this episode we talk with Ajay Nair, General Manager - Platforms, Elastic, about enterprises building their business with AI.

00:00 - Introduction.
01:00 - Generative AI as a data problem.
05:18 - Driving value with AI.
09:00 - The problem of fragmentation.
11:07 - Regions and AI adoption.
14:10 - Thoughts on the developer community in India.

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In this episode of theUpStreamLife we talk with Baha Azarmi, the global VP, Customer Engineering, Elastic about new developments at the company. We unlock the power of Elastic's technology for corporations and how it plays a major role in the era of AI.

00:00 - Introduction
01:09 - Roadmap to innovation at Elastic
03:00 - Being relevant in the era of LLMs.
04:40 - Being cost effective for businesses.
07:52 - What are customers using Elastic for?
11:56 - Learning from customers.
12:49 - Opportunity with Indian startups.

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In this episode I meet with ace seed stage and Series-A investor Shashank Randev, the founder of 247VC. He talks about about how India is changing its outlook towards deep tech and consumer businesses. He talks about all things that will continue to make India rise over the next decade.

00:00 - Introduction to the episode in BHive.
02:53 - 247VC and how it views the Indian startup ecosystem.
05:53 - The growth that mattered between 2014 and 2021.
09:22 - The seeding of ideas that made impact.
16:00 - Enterprise tech, deep tech and more.
19:30 - The concept of LLMs for Indian business clusters.
26:32 - LLMs in manufacturing to consumer brands.
31:35 - The zero plastic industry and India needs this.
34:00 - Growth of brands and sustainability in the true sense 
41:09 - India is rapidly changing.
47:57 - Comparing to China is not correct
48:29 - SaaS versus Agent AI - the vantage points.
54:10 - What do the Enterprises need from startups.
58:15 - Books that Shashank loves.

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In this episode Ideaspring Capital's founder Naganand talks with Bharath Bakkaraju, the founder of Phyx44, a company manufacturing recombinant protein. They are a deep tech company that is figuring out the alternative to milk and the emission caused by dairy cattle. The numbers are stark and you have to listen to this conversation to understand why companies like Phyx44 are the future in mankind's evolution to consuming protein from a lab and reducing emissions in the form of methane from cattle.

00:00 - Introduction to Phyx44.
01:00 - Bharath's background, recombinant protein and Phyx44.
03:55 - Cattle, emissions and the problem statement 
08:00 - Whey protein and sugar, making the replacement a reality.
10:00 - Folding molecules that can ensure a sweet taste.
11:29 - India has to manage its sugar obsession carefully.
13:00 - Getting Phyx44 growing and making its prototype work.
15:20 - What is the way to beat sugar based protein?

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In this episode I talk with Bhavdeep Reddy, angel investor in several companies and founder of Access Developers. In this four decade career he has seen it all - from the rise of #ITservices  to #cloudcomputing  to #ai. What has remained constant in this rise is the growth of cities and development. Bhavdeep, also known as Bobby, talks about growth that is inclusive in this podcast.

Note: Bobby is an investor in theUpStreamLife and thanks to BHive for being a fabulous workspace..

00:00 - Introduction
03:31 - Why make farmers partners.
06:06 - Institutional land banking.
09:43 - The returns in this model of partnership.
13:43 - Farmers sell land and don't use the money wisely.
18:28 - Land always appreciates and sustainable buildings in urban regions.
25:37 - Making this model work.
29:00 - BHive's transformation.

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In this episode we talk to Arun, the founder of Articul8, an LLM company that focuses on building models specifically trained for enterprise scale and security. Learn a lot more about the AI wars in this episode, which is similar to the cloud wars that began more than a decade ago between AWS, Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure. This time around startups like Articul8 have the ability to scale in a niche market. Let us find out Arun's strategy to scale the company. 

00:00 - Introduction.
04:26 - Training the AI models.
11:40 - AI stack and how will it look like in organisations.
17:08 - Infrastructure and how it is changing.
24:19 - Buying habits of the customer (CTO) in the era of GPTs.
32:05 - Handling the noise in the business of LLMs.
39:33 - India cannot escape from the LLM race, we need boldness in ideas.
45:14 - The current LLMs are still very Western led, not inclusive as yet.
50:27 - Hiring for a startup is tough.
55:13 - Reading advice on AI (Sebastian Raschka and Jay Alammar).

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In this episode we talk to Vinay Singh, the co-founder and Partner at Fireside Ventures. Vinay's Venture Capital firm has bet on Indian brands even before the world believed that India can be capable of building long term brands. They got their thesis right by betting on companies that defined India's aspiring consumers. India is ripe for growth, it also needs to think of sustainability. Here are Vinay's thoughts. Don't forget to like and subscribe to the podcasts.

00:00 - A quick introduction to the conversation.
00:45 - Statistical references to India's growth.
03:38 - The growth happened and so has its per capita income.
07:38 - India's story beyond cities.
11:15 - Fireside's thoughts on AI and brands.
19:30 - Demand planning has changed to micro demand in manufacturing.
24:35 - The future of customer experience.
31:00 - Being climate first.
36:00 - New channels of consumption.
40:00 - Journey towards falling in love with the environment.
43:48 - Fireside's bet on creating iconic Indian brands.

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In this episode we talk with Manoj Kumar, the founder of deep tech venture building foundation Social Alpha. This venture development platform started as a passion project but overtime it has helped over 350 startups. The model of Social Alphas unique as in it works with foundations to achieve their deep tech goals. Enjoy the interview.

00:00 - Introduction
01:48 - Social Alpha's early days.
09:06 - Aligning incentives with those Social Alpha works with to foster deep tech research.
19:51 - Difference in Indian deep tech versus India
30:30 - Deep tech cannot solve problems in India as a cookie cutter model.
40:44 - Working on the foundation/CSR model.
46:45 - Deep tech from smaller towns.
47:50 - Deep tech innovations are needed in India.

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In this episode Naganand Doraswamy of Ideaspring Capital talks to Litemed founders about pain management devices and their efficacy.

00:00 - Introduction to Litemed 
00:33 - What does Litemed do?
02:58 - Building a device for pain management and the science of it.
08:14 - Litemed's go-to-market strategy.
12:39 - Innovative marketing of Litemed.
15:50 - Marketing spends and getting people to buy the product.
19:23 - Using Litemed.
21:00 - Key challenges of the startup.
26:13 - Figuring out the market as you scale.

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In this episode of theUpStreamLife we talk with Jay Modh, serial entrepreneur and startup investor.

00:00 - Introduction
01:35 - Transformation with Intuitive
04:44 - Companies that need to innovate fast.
09:40 - Acceleration versus stagnation.
14:47 - Buying habits from clients and what is changing.
23:00 - Why India is changing fast
25:00 - Kids should start learning the value of money.
28:24 - Startup investments and what they mean.
34:00 - Having the right vision, being with people who believe in you.
37:50 - Don't be handicapped by changing technology.

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