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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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Today on the show:
Shashi Kumar (Akshayakalpa Organic) — built India's first certified organic dairy company from a farm on the outskirts of Bengaluru, survived six shutdown scares, and scaled to Rs 395 Cr
News we cover
Tata & ASML sign $11B deal to build India's first commercial chip fab in Dholera
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Two founders building what's next — while India's economy hits a turning point.
Anushka Sharma (Quenzy) — bootstrapped a prebiotic soda brand that sold out in 2 hours, ex-Google and Amazon
Nakul Kelkar (Affogato AI) — built an AI video agent with 1.5M users, backed by YC
News:
India's rupee under pressure as gold imports widen the trade deficit
Zepto gets SEBI nod for $1.2B IPO — quick commerce goes public
Rapido raised $240M in fresh primary funding led by Prosus, valuing at $3B post‑money
Google's Android Show: Gemini Intelligence, Googlebooks & Android 17
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This episode dives into an infrastructure bet — autonomous industrial robotics.
Manesh Jain breaks down how Flo Mobility is deploying autonomous robots across construction sites, airports, and industrial environments — and what it takes to make robotics work reliably in chaotic real-world settings.
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This episode explores three very different frontiers — longevity, industrial intelligence, and AI infrastructure in orbit.
1/ Abhishek Sahu (Founder & CEO, Dreamspan) breaks down adaptive health technology, longevity trends, and what building health hardware in India actually demands
2/ Naman Shah (Founder & CEO, NowPurchase) explains digitising India’s metal manufacturing ecosystem through procurement infra, factory operating systems, and AI-driven intelligence
3/ Awais Ahmed (Founder & CEO, Pixxel) discusses Pixxel’s orbital AI infrastructure ambitions: India’s first orbital data centre satellite
News:
1/ Anthropic gets access to xAI’s 220,000-GPU Colossus supercluster
2/ Skyroot becomes India’s first space-tech unicorn
3/ Pronto hits $200M valuation after raising $20M
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India’s AI transition is colliding with a much deeper question: who are we actually building for?
1/ Dharmesh Ba breaks down the empathy gap between Indian founders and users, why “Bharat” behaves differently from “India,” and how UPI, WhatsApp, and digital products are reshaping consumer psychology.
2/ Bharat Pinnam explains how AI-native software creation is changing who gets to build, what real AI builders look like, and why the future developer may not look anything like today’s engineer.
Also covering: • Anthropic’s $1.5B AI consulting venture • Dream11’s pivot into AI-powered investing • Krutrim shifting from frontier AI to cloud infrastructure
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Live with us today:
1/ Saurabh Pandey, Founder & CEO of Eloelo Group, building India's go-to platform for entertainment with StoryTV App (By Eloelo group) for microdramas, Master for microlearning and Eloelo for live social entertainment, redefining how people entertain, learn and connect with each other online.
2/ Kiran Gopinath, Founder & Head of Sahamati Labs, the innovation arm of Sahamati, working at the forefront of weaving AI into India's open finance infrastructure.
Watch live Mon/Wed/Fri at 4 PM IST
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