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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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In this episode we talk to Bruce Keith, the co-founder of InvestorAi, a systematic investing platform. 

00:00 - Introduction to the episode.
01:00 - Bruce Keith and India.
02:00 - India's demographic dividend and its advantage.
03:00 - Fund management globally and in India.
05:00 - Indian mindset and the U.S mindset in equities investment.
07:00 - Indians experimenting with F&O and its youth doing it.
09:15 - Indianisation of investing is happening.
10:18 - Regulation is good.
11:19 - Different types of investing AI, machine learning, quant, stats.
14:22 - The machine's perception of the market today.
19:46 - You cannot just input data, you need to train the machine.
23:25 - "Everybody tells you when to buy, they do not tell you when to sell."
26:30 - Global money and the why Empires trumpet before the fall.
29:10 - Changing India, the energy of youth.
30:23 - India's power and its global diaspora. 
32:00 - India's talent and India a couple of decades ago.
36:49 - India in comparison with the geo-politics today.
38:38 - InvestorAi and the AI talent.
42:10 - Agentic AI and LLMs.
47:00 - Selling InvestorAi to stakeholders
51:00 - AI metrics and standards.
53:32 - Engineers are using AI to build base code already.
55:01 - Giving brokers the power research.
57:08 - New products coming out of InvestorAi.
59:38 - AI is a tool to improve your chances.
01:00:00 - A brave new world.
01:05:58 - Bruce and the news.
01:11:11 - Influences from Bruce's father.

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In this episode we catch up with Manas Ranjan, the co-founder of DrinkPrime, who tells us about how India is subscribing to his company's services. The access to clean drinking water and its narrative is something that he explains to us eloquently. Lets us find out India's working class and water narratives mean for us.

00:00 - Introduction.
01:54 - Consumer's perception of water.
08:34 - The idea of DrinkPrime.
15:45 - Finding people or an OEM to build the device.
21:37 - Many disorganised players in the ecosystem.
26:23 - Pricing for the device.
32:23 - Solving the customer problem rather than sell the device.
43:30 - Access to clean drinking water, an Indian's journey.
49:22 - What is sustainability and relevance to the consumer.
54:51 - What is Manas reading?

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In this episode we talk with Udippta Das,  the founding team member and head of product development at Skara. The startup is founded in Guwahati, Assam. Udippta talks about why this technology enables Indian creators to make more money than share it with third party distribution apps. 

00:00 - Introduction
02:20 - The inspiration behind Skara
07:04 - Freedom to monetise
13:15 - What if you have a million followers?
17:40 - Building a tech business in Assam.
23:45 - Skara is bot free.

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In this episode of theUpStreamLife we talk with the founders of Numocity.

Ideaspring's founder Naganand Doraswamy talks to the Numocity founders Ravi and Siddharth about their global play.

00:00 - Introduction
00:52 - From early stage to success.
02:50 - EV is mainstream.
06:02 - EV market in five years.
10:22 - Robustness of the Numocity tech stack
15:20 - Being a globally recognised brand. 
20:08 - Deep research in the EV market
25:08 - Markets that will be big in EV

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In this episode we speak with Joydip Gupta who is the APAC head of Scienaptic Systems. Joydip talks about the evolution of the business rule engine in banking and how algorithms today are intelligent to understand an individual's banking needs faster than in the past. Algorithms today allow a risk officer's team to look at the credit history of an individual and customise a financial product.

00:00 - Introduction
02:12 - Scienaptic - what is it?
03:43 - Enabling a bank's revenues.
07:55 - Using data to build intelligence.
14:40 - The journey with technology in banks.
18:00 - Understanding the end customer.
22:22 - The business of co-op banks
26:21 - Deploying the BRE and its components
32:40 - Understanding the needs of a business owner.
44:44 - How CROs work with AI

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00:00 - Introduction to Ambee.
00:30 - Maddy’s vision of starting Ambee.
05:00 - The early days: air quality monitoring and scaling the solution.
07:41 -  Building a data first climate intelligence platform.
09:20 - The NASA moment.
10:00 - The science of Ambee and its impact.
16:00 - The business of Ambee - sales, product market fit.
20:30 - The short term, mid term and long term plans of business.
22:50 - The business of trust in monitoring air quality.
25:02 - The core is the data in this business.
26:38 - Being married as “founders” for eight years.
32:00 - Why hedge funds want Ambee’s data.

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In this episode I talk with Sujatha S Iyer, the head of AI Security  @manageengine . ManageEngine enables enterprises to be future ready when it comes to their critical IT, where security is a critical aspect while scaling an organisation. Sujatha paints a wonderful story on how CIOs and CTOs should look at security in the era of AI and the evolution of an enterprise's defences against malware.

00:00 - Introduction to Sujatha
03:00 - Early security, which were rule based.
05:10 - Proactiveness of malware these days.
07:32 - Ensuring digital maturity
09:20 - After being digitally mature, security has several use cases.
12:35 - Combating AI attacks with AI defences.
15:00 - Being a proactive security manager today.
19:09 - LLMs in the large Enterprise world - traditional and new methods.
20:30 - LLMs, agentic AI - beyond the hype.
23:20 - Reactive to productive security and how AI helps.
29:20 - The future of the security stack - the ManageEngine advantage.
32:49 - Training LLMs within your network.
35:30 - It is all about compliance when it comes to security.
37:00 - Research and rapid learning at ManageEngine.
39:14 - Developer productivity with AI is going to shoot up.
40:58 - Your understanding of math should be good even while using AI. 
41:41 - Sujatha's love for Maths and her love for continuous learning.

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In this episode we talk to Vijay Arisetty, the founder of Aurm, who went from being in the Airforce to becoming the co-founder of MyGate. Aurm is a special project with a special purpose because a majority of urban Indians are living in a gated community and these communities don't have access to safe-deposit lockers. Aurm is a new age safe deposit company and Vijay explains to us about the market size for this business. There is also a lot of technology behind it. Enjoy this episode.

00:00 - Introduction to Aurm
04:20 - Gated communities need lockers.
09:58 - Bank's cannot scale lockers.
14:55 - Why Aurm works for the customer?
19:30 - Aurm's security protocols to protect customer assets.
26:00 - Behaviour of people in gated-communities in storing gold/jewellery.
33:31 - Aurm's pricing and its users.
38:42 - Insuring lockers - a different way to look at the service.
43:00 - The market opportunity and the team.
43:40 - Transforming oneself to becoming a better entrepreneur.

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In this episode we have Naganand Doraswamy, the founder of Ideaspring Capital who interviews Parithi Govindaraju about the future of made-in-India drones and the technology that powers them. 

Parithi comes from the field of deep science and his interest in aerospace has enabled him to build Okulo Aerospace to capture the High Altitude Pseudo-Satellite space. He has thoughts on long-endurance drones and you will love this podcast because the government of India has launched a deep tech fund and has increased the size of funding for startups through the fund-of-funds program.

00:30 - Introduction to Parithi of Okulo.
04:20 - Okulo Aerospace - its genesis.
06:15 - Building Okulo to the future.
09:20 - The market that Okulo is after - the opportunities, the challenges.
14:10 - Okulo's focus in the market.
19:10 - Listening to customers - solar electric hybrids & HAPS.
22:49 - Talent management in this industry.

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