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The Offline Network brings together two founders solving very different problems across India's technology landscape. Livestream 111 puts elder care and factory automation in the same conversation, exploring how one founder builds support systems that help older adults live well in their own homes, while the other builds AI that lets factory robots learn new tasks by watching rather than being reprogrammed.
It is a conversation about technology meeting real human need, in the family home and on the factory floor, and what it takes to build for each.
About the guest
Saumyajit Roy has spent close to two decades in India's elder care sector and co-founded Emoha, a Gurugram-based company focused on senior care. Emoha is a technology-led service that helps older adults live independently at home, combining health support, emergency response, everyday assistance and social engagement through an app and a round-the-clock help desk. It runs on a subscription model and serves elders along with their families.
Puru Rastogi is a robotics engineer who trained at IIT Guwahati and Carnegie Mellon and co-founded Mowito. The company builds Physical AI software for industrial robot arms, letting them learn manufacturing tasks from human demonstration instead of fixed programming, so a robot can adapt when a part or process changes. Mowito works with automotive and electronics manufacturers, with a team based across Bangalore and Detroit.
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In livestream 110 of The Offline Network, we bring together two founders building in very different parts of India’s operating system: circular economy and private wealth. Pranshu Singhal of Karo Sambhav is working on responsible collection, recycling, and material recovery across complex waste streams, while Ishit Lakhani of SELEQT is building a private wealth firm for families that need one accountable view across investments, insurance, tax, and succession. This stream explores how India is rethinking systems that usually sit behind the scenes, from what happens to products at end-of-life to how wealth is structured and protected over time.About the guests:Pranshu Singhal is the Founder of Karo Sambhav, a circular economy and recycling company working across e-waste, batteries, plastics, glass, and other end-of-life material streams. Karo Sambhav designs and implements Extended Producer Responsibility programmes that help brands collect, recycle, and trace waste linked to their products. Pranshu brings deep experience in sustainability, take-back systems, product stewardship, and environmental management.Ishit Lakhani is the Founder & CIO of SELEQT, a private wealth firm for Indian and globally connected families. SELEQT brings investments, taxation, insurance, and succession planning under one roof, so families are not forced to manage wealth through disconnected advisers. Ishit leads the firm’s investment philosophy, portfolio construction, and research framework across public and alternative markets.
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Two founders building very different pieces of India's future join livestream 109 of The Offline Network. One is turning basalt dust and tea gardens into carbon removal infrastructure, working at the intersection of climate science and agriculture. The other is building India's AI-powered virtual humans, creating digital influencers that live entirely on screen. This livestream traces two very different bets on where Indian innovation goes next, one rooted in soil, the other in software.Sparsh Agarwal | Co-Founder, Alt CarbonAbout the guest: Sparsh Agarwal is Co-Founder of Alt Carbon, a climate technology company working on carbon dioxide removal through Enhanced Rock Weathering. Alt Carbon spreads basalt rock dust across agricultural land, beginning with tea estates in Darjeeling, to accelerate a natural process that locks away atmospheric carbon while improving soil health. The company works with global buyers on carbon removal credits and is building toward positioning South Asia as a hub for climate technology.Himanshu Goel | Co-Founder & COO, FUTR STUDIOSAbout the guest: Himanshu Goel is Co-Founder and COO of FUTR STUDIOS, a company building AI-powered virtual humans in India. FUTR STUDIOS created Kyra, India's first virtual influencer, using CGI and AI to build a digital character that has worked with brands across entertainment, advertising and lifestyle categories. Himanshu leads the studio's operations and brand partnerships, working at the intersection of AI, marketing and digital media.Also covering:India's First End-to-End OSAT Plant Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated CG Semi's Outsourced Semiconductor Assembly and Test (OSAT) facility in Sanand, Gujarat, marking India's first end-to-end OSAT plant and the country's third major semiconductor facility to begin commercial operations. Built at a cost of ₹7,600 crore, the facility is a joint venture between CG Power and Industrial Solutions, Japan's Renesas Electronics America, and Thailand's Stars Microelectronics, operating under the Murugappa Group. The plant handles semiconductor packaging and testing for automotive, consumer electronics, industrial automation, and 5G applications.
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In this livestream of The Offline Network, we sit down with the two co-founders behind Shram, a work management tool built around how people actually do their work. Ojasvika Sahu and Jay Gadekar both trained as architects before moving into software, and they bring that design-first thinking to a category usually run by spreadsheets and status meetings. Stream 108 explores what it takes to build a product company out of India, how design and engineering share the founder's seat, and why they think work management is due for a rethink.About the guests:Ojasvika Sahu and Jay Gadekar are the Co-Founders of Shram, an AI-native work-management tool that connects daily work with performance. Shram helps teams organise projects and tasks, track progress in real time, and recognise the people doing the work. Both founders trained as architects before moving into building software.
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In this episode of The Offline Network, we bring together two founders working at very different frontiers of Indian deep tech. One is building voice AI so people can use technology by speaking in their own language, the other is building the community and support that helps climate and materials startups move from the lab to the market. Episode 107 explores how each of them thinks about access, adoption and building for the long term in India.Dheemanth Reddy | CEO, Maya ResearchDheemanth Reddy is the CEO of Maya Research, a voice AI company building conversational models for people who prefer to speak rather than type. Maya develops open-source speech models designed to sound natural across Indian and other languages, so that technology reaches users who have been left outside text-first interfaces. The company's work focuses on voice as the primary way the next wave of users will interact with software.Mridu Jhangiani | Founder, TerrariumMridu Jhangiani is the founder of Terrarium, a founder-first platform supporting startups working on alternative materials and climate biotech in India. Terrarium runs curated offline gatherings and programmes that bring together founders, investors, researchers and policymakers to help science-led ventures move from lab to market. Her background spans design and sustainability, and Terrarium sits at the intersection of biotechnology, materials and climate.
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In Episode 106 of The Offline Network, we bring together two very different builders from India's startup ecosystem: a designer and educator shaping how the next generation of product designers learn and work, and a consumer brand founder turned early-stage investor who now backs founders at the very start of their journey. The conversation moves across design and craft, building and selling a consumer brand, and what it takes to bet on founders early. It is a wide-ranging look at how taste, brand and capital come together in the way companies get built today.Joining us LIVE on the show today:Abhinav Chhikara | Founder, 10kdesigners & Memetic DesignAbhinav Chhikara is the founder of 10kdesigners, a design education company that trains UI/UX and product designers through cohort-based programs, and of Memetic Design, an AI-native studio that builds brand, web, video and product work for AI startups. He was previously Head of Design at Unacademy, where he built the company's first design team. His work focuses on how designers learn, build and stay relevant as AI reshapes the craft.Mohit Sadaani | Co-Founder, The Moms Co. & Managing Director, DeVCMohit Sadaani co-founded The Moms Co., a direct-to-consumer mom and baby care brand built around natural, toxin-free products, which was later acquired by The Good Glamm Group in 2021, marking India's largest D2C acquisition at that time. He’s now an investor, backing next of entrepreneurs. Across both chapters his focus has stayed the same: working closely with founders through the hardest parts of building.
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From connecting satellites with laser communication to bringing farm-fresh dairy directly to urban homes, Episode #105 explores two founders solving very different infrastructure challenges from India. We dive into deep tech, entrepreneurship, consumer brands, building from first principles, and what it takes to create category-defining companies.Joining us LIVE on the show:
Shreyaans Jain | Founder & CEO, QOSMIC
Modern satellites generate more data than old radio links can carry back to Earth. Shreyaans Jain is building QOSMIC to fix that, an Indian space-technology startup replacing radio with laser-based optical communication to move data between satellites and the ground at far higher speeds. The bet is that optical becomes to space what fibre became to the internet, the invisible backbone the next generation of space infrastructure runs on.
Durlabh Rawat | Founder, Barosi
Somewhere between the village and the city, milk lost its meaning. Durlabh Rawat started Barosi to bring it back, a food brand delivering pure, traditionally produced milk and dairy straight from rural farms to urban homes. By tying up directly with local farmers and refusing to cut corners on authenticity, he's building a brand on trust in a category where most people have stopped asking where their food actually comes from.
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Today on The Offline Network:
→ Anshul Khandelwal, Co-founder of Cent — the startup detecting disease before symptoms appear, and why preventive health is India's biggest missing infrastructure layer
→ Sarthak Dubey, Co-founder & COO of Mitigata — India's first full-stack cyber resilience platform, on why cyber risk is still the most underpriced business threat in the country
→ Info Edge's June 2026 shareholder letter — what one of India's most respected internet companies is saying about the state of AI and deep tech investing right now
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Pocket FM has 250M+ listeners, and a creator economy that pays out ₹300 crore. Today, Co-founder of Pocket FM, Prateek Dixit joins us for a conversation on stream 103 of The Offline Network.
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Friday edition: AR glasses you can actually buy, trust layer for a post AGI world and Deep tech in India
On today's episode:
Vishnu (EigenLabs) on EigenLab and the trust layer for a post-AGI world
Chetan Mehta (AUM Ventures) on his Rs 750 crore Fund II and why deeptech India is the bet of the decade
Live investor × portfolio conversation: Chetan and Chiran on what it actually looks like to back a deep-tech space founder
Chiran Phanindra (Cosmoserve Space) — ex-ISRO Gaganyaan scientist building robots to clean up orbital debris
Snap just launched $2,195 AR glasses — no phone, no puck, ships this fall. The post-smartphone era just started.
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Friday edition: AR glasses you can actually buy, trust layer for a post AGI world and Deep tech in India
On today's episode:
Vishnu (EigenLabs) on EigenLab and the trust layer for a post-AGI world
Chetan Mehta (AUM Ventures) on his Rs 750 crore Fund II and why deeptech India is the bet of the decade
Live investor × portfolio conversation: Chetan and Chiran on what it actually looks like to back a deep-tech space founder
Chiran Phanindra (Cosmoserve Space) — ex-ISRO Gaganyaan scientist building robots to clean up orbital debris
Snap just launched $2,195 AR glasses — no phone, no puck, ships this fall. The post-smartphone era just started.
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Today on The Offline Network:
Elon Musk becomes a trillionaire — SpaceX IPO, Cursor $60B, what the AI wealth concentration means
US govt pauses Fable 5 and Mythos — what happens when the builders say stop
India at Nice, France — is India's global innovation pitch finally landing?
Telegram banned in India — 100M users, encrypted platforms, and state power
Guests today:
1. Vishal Chopra — Co-founder & CEO, WeRize
AI-powered fintech for 300M small-city Indians
2. Niharika Goenka — Founder, Boombay
Seed-to-sauce, 100% natural condiments
3. Shreya Mishra -- Co-founder & CEO, SolarSquare
Building India’s no. 1 home solar brand
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For our 100th episode, we're bringing six founders onto a single stage:
- Sreevathsa Prabhakar, Founder & CEO of Servify
- Kanika Gupta Shori, Co-Founder & COO of Square Yards
- Ronnie Screwvala, Entrepreneur, investor, and Chairperson & Co-Founder of upGrad
- Vaibhav Khandelwal, Co-Founder & CTO of Shadowfax
- Abhay Singhal & Mohit Saxena, Co-Founders of InMobi
They've built some of the most consequential companies to come out of India, and they're sitting down with us live today.
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Two founders joining us today:
Vivek Ravisankar (HackerRank) on whether tech hiring is actually fixed, what AI does to the job of being an engineer, and where the human sits when machines write most of the code.
Kanav Hasija (MeltPlan) on why construction productivity has been falling for 50 years, what pre-construction planning has to do with everything that goes wrong on a build, and why Bessemer backed him at less than a year old.
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One founder built India's largest PM community from a single meetup. The other sold his startup to Pine Labs for Rs 88 Cr and immediately started a new company in New York with the same co-founders.
Suhas Motwani (The Product Folks) on building a 30,000-member community entirely on patience, why product managers make great community builders, and what internal product work teaches you that no startup ever will.
Ishan Rakshit (Shopflo, Sortment) on raising from Tiger Global at seed, building checkout infrastructure for 1,000 D2C brands, selling to Pine Labs, and why he started over the moment it closed.
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Three founders. One who's kept a tech company alive for 40 years and just took it to Europe. One who built a wearable that stimulates your brain to fix focus and mood. And two who turned RC cars into a Rs 30 Cr brand in 16 months.
Sahil Shah (TM Systems) about cybersecurity, intelligence and Entrepreneurship.
Dhawal Jain (Mave Health) on what tDCS actually does to the brain, and whether India will pay INR 29,500 f
Vinay Jaisingh & Afshaan Siddiqui (Legend of Toys) on going from ISB to RC cars, hitting Rs 30 Cr ARR in 16 months, and why they give every customer free repairs for life.
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On today’s episode of The Offline Network, we have:
1/ Vedant Gupte (Trackk) is reimagining how Gen Z invests — AI-powered stock discovery, one of India's youngest registered brokers, backed by Lightspeed and Info Edge.
2/ Vinay Agastya (Ctruh) is building the infrastructure layer of the spatial internet — browser-native 3D experiences for any brand, no app downloads needed. Shark Tank India S5 alum, $4.5 Mn raised.
3/ Ajay Rao (Emiza) has spent a decade building warehousing and fulfillment for Indian SMBs — 27 warehouses, 14 cities, $24 Mn raised.
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This week on The Offline Network, Utsav and Dhruv sit down with three founders building very different parts of the India opportunity — one who built a generational education brand, one who is fixing how Indian families pay for education, and one who bootstrapped three global SaaS products without raising a rupee of VC.
1/ Ankit Dudhwewala built CallHippo without a technical background and without raising VC — three SaaS products, $20 Mn+ combined revenue, all bootstrapped.
2/ Eela Dubey built EduFund — now helping 250,000+ Indian families plan and finance their children's education.
3/ Aakash Chaudhry co-built Aakash Institute into one of India's largest test prep networks — 300+ centres. Now building again with Sparkl: One-on-one live tutoring.
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This week’s news:
Reliance just posted India’s highest-ever annual profit at ₹95,754 crore - and the Jio IPO is on the horizon.
India opened its 5th-gen AMCA fighter programme to private industry for the first time - Tata, L&T, and Bharat Forge in the race.
The government approved ₹33,660 crore to build 100 industrial parks to go after India’s 1.8% global export share.
Lane Brown’s Vulture piece exposed the machine behind tech launch virality - 65,000 bots, 50,000 daily videos, all manufactured.
We get into why VCs need to build owned media now that capital is abundant.
And the Will Smith eating spaghetti video is back - this time, AI can actually do it.
Our guests are Darshil Rathod and Shreyans Sancheti, co-founders of Linkrunner — AI-powered Mobile Measurement Partner. They built the attribution tool they wished existed when they were running BlueLearn, going head-to-head with AppsFlyer and Branch with a product designed ground-up for Indian consumer apps.
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A platform making grassroots sport visible. An AI companion speaking India's languages. Plus — SpaceX's S-1, India's electricity milestone, and Karpathy joining Anthropic.
1/ Sidhhant Agarwal
Founder of SportVot — the platform digitising grassroots sport in India and globally. 3.5 lakh matches digitised, 30 sports, 20,000+ kabaddi athlete profiles. Raised Rs 32.7 Cr. Now in APAC, MENA, and Europe.
2/ Rohan Chaudhary
Founder & CEO of Rumik AI — building Ira, an emotionally intelligent AI companion for India. 35M+ messages in 4 months; 1M+ installs, 40-min average sessions, $6.5M raised.
News:
SpaceX files S-1 — $1.75T valuation, Starlink at $11.4B revenue, 10.3M subscribers
India hits 260.5 GW peak demand; 50% non-fossil power capacity achieved 5 years early
Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic's pretraining team — OpenAI co-founder, ex-Tesla AI lead
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