In this episode of theUpStreamlife we bring India's foremost retail experts Mr Devangshu Dutta, the founder of Third Eyesight, who gives you insights into brand building and consumption in India. This is made for founders who want to be building for the long run in India.

00:00 - Introduction to context setting.
01:55 - What is Third Eyesight
03:30 - Organized retailing or modern trade - what is it?
07:15 - Brands and quick commerce, have they broken mom and pop stores.
15:30 - Young brands going offline is all about scale.
18:08 - Large FMCG companies will not innovate in new products.
19:16 - Acquisitions of Indian brands will grow.
24:45 - Infinite growth on a finite planet is impossible.
25:04 - Frugal wardrobes and sustainability.
29:37 - Building a brand, starting up with Friends, Family and Fools.
37:20 - Traceability of ingredients and materials to tell a story.
39:42 - The journey of plastic in India needs to be addressed.
41:11 - Brands and market place tussles, the technology conversation.
42:40 - Market places have the consumer relationship.
45:12 - The cost of acquiring customers is high for brands now, monopoly!
48:38 - Working with startups

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In this episode of theUpStreamLife we bring to you stories from people who love a finance career and how they shaped it to learn about businesses. Shreya Ravi is a CA who is part of a sustainability fund called ZeCa Capital.

00:00 - Introduction
01:52 - Being inspired at home.
05:45 - Finding the right college.
13:36 - Teachers do influence you.
15:00 - Preparing to become a CA.
16:23 - Working with the Big-4 and what you learn while there.
21:25 - Storyboarding a project.
25:35 - Understand what you are doing first before presenting it to business.
32:26 - Being in a VC firm that promotes environment and sustainability.
36:55 - Planning a career.

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In this episode of theUpStreamLife we bring to you Ankur Capital's Deep Science Report which outlines how the deep science startup ecosystem is progressing with increased industry participation. @ankur_capital

In this episode Alysha Maria Lobo talks with Vishal Katariya and Suraj Nair of Ankur Capital.

00:00 - Introduction to why deep science is mainstream.
01:36 - Scientists and PhDs are coming back to India.
05:40 - Fragility of the deep science ecosystem.
08:52 - Benchmarking deep science startups.
13:03 - Patents are a great measure.
19:40 - Scaling deep science with CVCs.
23:14 - Is manufacturing deep tech growing.

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In this episode of theUpStreamlife covering the @ankur_capital Deep Science Forum we bring to you Professor B Gurumoorthy and Professor C V Natraj, from the IISc, who talk about the history of Indian innovation in tech and the startup world.

00:00 - Introduction to the discussion.
01:48 - Building while being capital strapped in 1947.
03:10 - Why there was a supply and demand gap in India.
04:24 - Innovations at a lage corporate.
08:01 - Long term benefits of investing in innovation.
10:23 - Industry and Science need to be on common ground to scale.
13:15 - Government's history with deep science.
14:10 - Revive polytechnic schools.
16:12 - Industry is now working with academia.
19:09 - Genome sequencing and how it helped us.
22:09 - Indian companies need to work with startups.
24:20 - Role of startups.

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In this episode Ritu Varma, the founder of @ankur_capital talks with Dr Vikram Rao about the importance of intellectual property to tell a story and create value.

00-00 - Ritu sets the context of building value in deep tech with IP
02:53 - Two buckets of intellectual property - patents and know-how.
08:25 - Do agreements hold when business of deep tech is across countries.
09:23 - Giving away patents for free.
15:29 - Protecting Scientific Discovery or Formulations.
17:00 - IP Strategy with platform technology.
23:18 - Convincing customers about IP.
30:48 - Raising money to match customer demand.
37:19 - Understand your business model.

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In this episode of @ankur_capital Ankur Capital's Deep Science Forum, Rishi Srivastava of OffGrid Energy Labs talks to Avishek Kumar, Co-founder, VFlowtech, Sri Sailaja Nori, Co-founder and CSO, Sea6 Energy, and Kedar Medhi, Innovation Advisor, ex-Director Philips Ventures about the value of deep tech in manufacturing and how to navigate regulation along with business.

00:00 - Rishi sets the context to the panel
07:30 - Kedar talks about knowing the value of the manufactured device and its use case in order to cross all regulation compliances.
12:20 - Avishek talks about how to manage scale with policy level expectations and validating the product by selling the product
15:00 - Why Avishek got into solar manufacturing .
17:20 - Need for grid level batteries.
21:23 - Sailaja talks about Sea6 and the future of feedstock.
26:00 - Sea6 Energy's growth as a deep tech firm.
30:03 - CVCs or Corporate Ventures taking bets on deep tech.
35:00 - Scaling deep tech ventures with ecosystem.
38:32 - Q&A

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In this episode we capture why Deep Science ventures need to scale and how they are going to scale. Deep science startups are responsible to several stakeholders, but they also need several stakeholders to support them inorder to scale. In this panel discussion with Dr Renuka Diwan, the founder of BioPrime, and Deepak Shapeti from Morphing Machines we learn how deep science can prosper and progress in India as the ecosystem of funds, scientists, market and government are coming together as one. @ankur_capital

00:00 - Vishal Krishna of theUpStreamLife sets the context to the journey.
02:00 - BioPrime's Dr Renuka on what her startup is doing for farmers.
06:40 - Making an impact with microbes that nurture crops.
08:52 - Agriculture fertilizer must be utilized efficiently.
10:48 - The story of Morphing Machines - flexible compute platform.
12:36 - GPU supply chain and the global context.
16:00 - The need for an Indian customer for Indian processors.
19:21 - Value of Morphing Machines for telecom.
22:14 - Scaling up to make agri ecosystems work.
27:53 - Being food secure.
29:00 - Why getting the first sale is important for Indian deep tech startups.

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In this episode we bring you Prashant Nair, one of the four astronaut's trained at ISRO #isro for the #Gaganyaan Mission. Prashant talks about why India's space mission is built on inclusivity and furthering human collaboration. Ankur Capital's Deep Science Forum captured India's moment in making scientific ideas become mainstream businesses.

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00:00 - Prasant Nair sets the context to the Deep Science Forum.
03:00 - The Mathematics, Algorithms, Romance and Poetry of space travel.
06:36 - Deep tech is for everyone, it is for humanity and all living things.
09:00 - Why an Indian should go to Space?
12:00 - Why the Gaganyaan moment matters?
14:15 - Prashant falling in love with flying.
17:16 - Shed the colonial past.
20:40 - Art and Science beyond #ai
21:28 - The story of Ganesha and Skanda: the Indian way

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