On this episode of Shunya one, we are finally in the studios, and joined by Pravin Dhake & Shruti Kamath, Founder & Co - Founder at Athlos Activewear. They talk about their journey, Shiladitya and Pravin studying in the same Engineering college and how Pravin met Shruti and how was shruti was impressed by the idea of building an activewear brand, how they cope up with the tech startup scene coming up in 2015, while starting how they decided to make a physical real world product in the...

On this episode of Shunya One, we have an announcement. Amit Doshi is leaving Shunya One. But, this is not the end of the show. Shiladitya will continue to host. Tune in to hear what Amit has to say about his departure, and what made him take this decision. Tune in to Shunya One every Friday for more episodes. You can get in touch with our hosts: Shiladitya Mukhopadhyaya - Linkedin: ( https://www.linkedin.com/in/shiladityamukhopadhyaya/ ) Twitter: ( https://twitter.com/shiladitya ) Amit Doshi...

Fill out our brand recall survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/6HP2RVB On this episode of Shunya One, the D2C segment continues with Meghna and Pritesh, CEO and COO of brand Juicy Chemistry. They join us all the way from Coimbatore and tell us how the two of them came to know each other, how did the journey of 'Juicy Chemistry' start, and what thought process went into creating their products. They talk about the challenges of production, understanding and maintaining the quality of the...

Fill out our brand recall survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/6HP2RVB On the new series of D2C brand on Shunya One, Shiladitya and Amit, Founder of Neeman's. Taran talks to us about the origins of Neeman's, why he switched from a data background to building a shoe company and making sustainable shoes which can be worn without socks. Amit asks Taran about how difficult was it to convince people about his idea, how he brought in innovations in to the brands with different ideas and why...

Fill out our brand recall survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/6HP2RVB On Shunya One this week, Shiladitya and Amit are joined by Aditya Sharma, Co-founder of The Souled Store. They talk everything about the company, why did he get into the apparel business, how his journey began and what lead to the idea of 'The Souled Store'. Aditya talks to us about how they converted their passion into business back in 2013, why it took them years to learn and perfect how things work. Shiladitya...

On this episode of Shunya One, Shiladitya and Amit talk to Matt Chitharanjan, Co-Founder at Blue Tokai Coffee Roasters. They talk about the product 'Blue Tokai', how they are building some great stuff and starting the D2C wave for coffee in India. Matt talks to us about his Journey, the idea behind starting a business in a tea loving nation and how did he get investors to invest in them. How did he get from a roaster in his parents' bedroom to cafes and raising their first capital in 2015 and...

In the first episode of Our D2C segment on Shunya One, Shiladitya and Amit are joined by Shashank Mehta, Founder & CEO at The Whole Truth Foods. They talk about how the brand was born digitally and what was it named initially. Shashank tells us about his journey, when did the startup bug hit him first, the motivation behind building 'The Whole Truth Foods' and what hardships he had to face in terms of getting the product into the market. Shashank talks about how they can expand the shelf...

On Shunya One, Shiladitya and Amit are joined by Vijay Prateik, Founder & CEO at deMITasse Energies. Vijay talks to us about coming from a naval background, his family having huge respect for Science and Technology, and wanting to be an Aero engineer but ending up being an electronic engineer. He tells us about his journey and experience at starting deMITasse Energies back in 2011, from making electric wheelchairs in the earlier days to now building powerplants. Vijay explains what kind...

On Shunya One this week Shilditya and Amit are joined by Divya Jain & Arihant Jain, Co - Founders at Seekho. They talk about the journey of building Seekho, what were the reason behind it and how they plan to solve India's employability. Divya tells us about identifying high demand sector which have massive demand for skilled talent, why they are targeting the age group of 20 - 30 years of age and how they are formatting their content in respective of the targeted age group. Divya and...

This week on #ShunyaOne, Host Shiladitya Mukhopadhyaya and Amit Doshi are joined by Suumit Shah, Founder & CEO - Dukaan where they discuss how Dukaan makes the digital experience seamless for small scale businesses and much more! They talk about the origin story of Dukaan and the motivation behind it, the current trends in the eCommerce industry in India. Further, they even chat about the consumer behaviour in physical and online shopping post-pandemic, how Dukaan is unique from its...

This week on #ShunyaOne, Host Shiladitya Mukhopadhyaya and Amit Doshi are joined by Sanjeev Barnwal - Founder and CTO - Meesho where they discuss the business as well as the tech side of Meesho and much more! They begin the conversation on the origin story and vision behind Meesho, the current trends in the P2P market, inventory perspective, and the experience of various sellers on the platform. Further, they even chat about why Meesho is unique from other competitors in the market, the...

This week on #ShunyaOne, Host Shiladitya Mukhopadhyaya and Amit Doshi are joined by Viraj Tyagi, CEO at eGov Foundation where they discuss digital governance in India. They initiate the conversation on Viraj's entrepreneurial journey, followed by various trends in the sector and how the eGov foundation has changed the Indian landscape in structuring digital governance. Further, they even chat about the origin story of Government OS and its application in India. All this and much more! You can...

On this episode of Shunya One, Amit and Shiladitya are joined by Alok Goyal, Partner at Stellaris Venture Partners. Shiladitya tells Alok how there haven't featured many Venture Capitalists on Shunya One till date and how it would be interesting to get to know his perspective on the entrepreneurship scene in India. Alok tells us about his journey, his learnings, how he came up with the idea for starting a Venture Capital company, and why he calls himself a SAAS investor. They discuss whether...

On this episode of Shunya One, Shiladitya and Amit talk to Rhythm Gupta, Co-Founder & CPO of Easy Eat. They talk about why South-East Asia has a higher participation of women in the hospitality business, why 90% of business comes from Dine-In, and why they wanted to build something in that category. We ask him why Easy Eat is based outside India, and what was the idea behind building a product like this. Rhythm talks about what technology they work with in enabling orders, how food tech...

On this episode of Shunya One, Shiladitya and Amit are joined by Rohit Manglik, Founder and CEO, EduGorilla. He talks to them about how his journey started, the origin story of the company, and what it offers to users. Rohit explains why the impact matrix was missing even when they had successfully started getting a million people to join them. He highlights the problems they faced and how they made sure that the content reaches the students before their exams, why are the other larger Edu...

On this episode of Shunya One, Shiladitya and Amit are joined by Able Joseph, Founder & CEO of Aisle. They talk about having their office close to some of the biggest start-ups in Bengaluru, how they are the only B2C company that's been around for 7 years, his take on what the market needed at the time, why he started 'Aisle', how it was built, its success story and the tech they use on the platform. They further talk about why venture capitalists were not ready to fuel their investments,...

Did you know? 85% of content in gaming is streaming. On this episode of Shunya One, Shiladitya and Amit are joined by Piyush Kumar, Founder and CEO of Rooter. Piyush talks about why gaming will never stop being popular and why gamers produce a lot of content around it. He also shares what Rooter is and how the idea for it came about. They further discuss why the number of people playing games is high in India and if it will grow in the coming years, why the gaming community angle is very...

On this episode of Shunya One, Shiladitya and Amit talk to Rajat Shikhar, Co-Founder of DealShare. They talk about their journey, how e-commerce audiences have evolved over time. They discuss what the earlier product was like, the audience they were targeting at first and what difference they had identified between customers. Rajat talks about harnessing the local delivery system instead of building things on top of their product and having programs like 'Dealshare Dost Program'. Further they...

On this episode of Shunya One, Shiladitya and Amit are talking to Srivatsan Chari, Co Founder of 'Cleartax', now known as 'Clear'. They talk about what has changed this year in terms of filing income tax, the reason behind calling themselves Clear instead of Clear Tax and doing invoicing for businesses. Srivatsan tells us his entrepreneurial journey of how he met his other co-founders, what the idea was behind building a product like this, simplifying taxes for the market when the GST portal...

On this episode of Shunya One, Shiladitya and Amit are joined by Nitin Gupta, Founder and CEO of Uni Cards. Nitin talks about starting his entrepreneurial journey in 2008, starting with PayUMoney and then coming up with Uni. Nitin also talks about why having an IPO is necessary for business, why India has the best financial service businesses and how he decided on building a financial distribution business. Shiladitya and Amit ask Nitin about what excited him about credit cards in the first...

On this episode of Shunya One, Shiladitya and Amit are joined by Giridhar Yasa, Chief Technology Officer of Lendingkart. Giridhar talks to us about why access to financial products for MSMEs is a challenge, what Lendingkart does, who they finance and how it was started. They further talk about how is the loan given to small businesses, what is the process like and how is data being collected. Shiladitya and Amit ask Giridhar about the advancement of API and GST and how they aid his model, and...

On this special 150th episode of Shunya One, Shiladitya and Amit are joined by Amrish Rau, CEO of Pine Labs. They talk about the early days of Amrish, what was the next big thing he saw was going to blow up and how he came up with the idea of Pine Labs. Amrish explains what the company is, what it does, having massive ambitions, why digital QR code is a thing of the future; and what is BNPL and why it is the coolest thing. Shiladitya and Amit ask Amrish about the biggest underlying reasons...

On this episode of Shunya One, Shiladitya and Amit are joined by Nikhil Kumar, Co-Founder & Chief Evangelist of Setu. Shiladitya talk about meeting Nikhil some years back, How he and his other co founder jumped into building a product like Setu. Nikhil talks about how UPI coming into the market was an inspiration for all the Creators, why he thinks that we are still in our early days of the internet in India for financial services. Further, they talk about how different is it to work with...

On this episode of Shunya One, Shiladitya and Amit talk to the Co-Founder and CEO of Kutumb - Abhishek Kejriwal. They talk about meeting each other some years ago, how Abhishek met his other Co-founders and how he made the transition from Pratilipi to Kutumb. Abhishek also gives us a complete brief on what the custom is, what the product utility is like and what target audience they cater to. Further, they talk about the forum structure of Kutumb, how it functions, and whether it is similar...

On this episode of Shunya One, Shiladitya and Amit talk to Rohit Garg, Co-Founder & CEO of SmartCoin. They talk about the early life of Rohit, how did he go about building something like Smartcoin. Shiladitya ask Rohit about what is the product like, what was the initial version of smartcoin, what issues did he see in fintech that he could solve through tech, what are the kind of factors they use before deciding whether the loan goes out and for a blank slate guy, what do they get from...