India is in its golden age of development.
This is the period when India will take a quantum leap towards growth and
development. The Viksit Bharat 2047 initiative envisions India to be a
developed nation by the centenary of India’s independence in 2047. As the
nation is advancing towards the Viksit Bharat 2047 vision, the startup economy
is growing leaps and bounds.
Crafting Bharat is a platform dedicated to
highlighting the visionary founders, the key drivers for the holistic
development of Bharat. As we move towards a globally competitive India, we
unveil Season 2 of Crafting Bharat, an initiative by NewsReach, powered
by AWS Startups, in association with VCCircle and production partner HT
Smartcast. The second season lineup of founders solving the problems of India
for tomorrow through their innovative solutions in the field of security,
finance, healthcare, pharmaceuticals, logistics, and micro-mobility through
leveraging the power of AI.
Each episode in this season will explore the
actionable insights with real conversations with the founders, inspiring the
next wave of innovators of Bharat and building solutions that pave the path to
India of Tomorrow with eminent and seasoned host Gautam Srinivasan, famed for
hosting diverse range of TV and digital programs, currently consulting editor
at CNBC (India), CNN-News18, Forbes India and The Economic Times.
Each episode will have three segments. The
first segment of the episode is named ‘Ignite’, which uncovers the early
days of the startup, the inspiration behind the idea, the challenges of
building an MVP, and the struggles of finding a product-market fit in the
Indian economy. The second segment of the episode, named ‘Launch’ which
will talk about the growth strategies, business decisions, and pivots that
helped the founders to reach millions of users. This segment also has a
mini-segment named ‘Boost’, which will explore the role of AWS Startups in the
startup’s exponential growth. The final segment of the episode, named ‘Orbit’,
talks about the long-term vision of the startup in shaping the future of
its industry and contributing towards India’s growth in line with the Viksit
Bharat 2047 initiative.
Watch the promo for the series: Crafting
Bharat Season 2 | Official Promo | Launching 9th May
“We are committed to building a community
of founders through Crafting Bharat, where we highlight their inspiring
journeys, driving innovation and economic growth,” said Darshan Shah,
Co-Founder and CEO of NewsReach. “This podcast series is another step
towards unraveling the inspirational stories of successful founders who are
shaping the future of the Indian economy and driving the Viksit Bharat 2047
initiative. I am grateful to AWS Startups for collaborating with us for another
season and supporting the vision of Crafting Bharat.”
“At AWS, we aim to empower founders around the
world by providing them access to the broadest and deepest set of cloud
technologies, along with various tools and programs such as AWS Activate, that
are designed to enable them to move fast and innovate, build, and scale their
ideas. Startups in India are using AWS's cloud and AI infrastructure to build
unique solutions across various industries, including healthcare, finance,
micro-mobility, and more. With this collaboration, we aim to bring forward
Season 2 of Crafting Bharat, a podcast series that spotlights inspiring
journeys of Indian startup founders, marked by resilience, creativity, and
real-world impact of technology on businesses and citizens.” said Kumara Raghavan, Head, Startups, AWS
India and South Asia
Guest 1: Dheeraj Pandey, Co-Founder and CTO of DevRev. DevRev bridges Dev
(teams) and Rev (customers), bringing them together through the power of AI.
Guest 2: Abhishek Kumar, Co-Founder and CEO of Mygate. Mygate has over 250
features, making it the world’s most comprehensive community management platform.
Guest 3: Naveen Dachuri, Co-Founder and CTO of Yulu. Yulu is India's largest
shared micro-mobility service provider using electric two-wheelers to reduce
traffic congestion and air pollution in urban India.
Guest 4: Prithvi Chandrasekhar, President & CEO – Consumer Finance of
InCred Finance. InCred is a new-age financial services group that leverages
technology & data science to make lending quick & easy.
Guest 5: Elwinder Singh, Co-Founder of Connect & Heal. Connect & Heal
is a healthcare startup providing holistic outcome-focused, patient-centric
care.
Guest 6: Swapnil Shah, Founder and CEO of Freight Tiger. Freight Tiger has
built an intelligent operating system that includes a technology platform, an
on-ground control tower, and a digital freight network.
Guest 7: Anand Agrawal, Co-Founder and CPTO of Credgenics. Credgenics is an
innovative FinTech company that provides advanced loan collections and debt
resolution technology solutions.
Guest 8: Chaitanya Raju, Executive Director and CPO of HealthPlix. HealthPlix
has pioneered the digitization of healthcare through its future-ready
AI-powered EMR platform for doctors in India.
Guest 9: Raunak Bhinge, Managing Director of Infinite Uptime. Infinite Uptime
is an Industrial AI pioneer, offering 99.99% equipment and process availability
and up to 2% energy reduction per unit of production to help global industrials
unlock up to $2 trillion in value.
Guest 10: Amit Kumar, Director and CTO of Easebuzz. Easebuzz is a full-stack
payment solutions platform serving more than 2,00,000 businesses in India.
Guest 11: Amit Kaul, COO of Pharmarack. Pharmarack is a commerce-to-insights
technology company uniquely anchored by 17 leading Indian Pharma companies
focused on strengthening the pharmaceutical distribution and supply chain
ecosystem.
Guest 12: Goutam Kurumella, Head of Startup Solutions Architecture at AWS.
Amazon Web Services provides a highly reliable, scalable, low-cost
infrastructure platform in the cloud that powers hundreds of thousands of businesses
in 190 countries around the world.
The first episode goes live on 9th May, 2025.
Stay tuned to the Crafting Bharat Podcast Series as we bring you inspiring
stories of founders through a candid and insightful conversation with Gautam
Srinivasan.
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