Featured Technopreneurs
Arnab Mitra: Making Digital Adoption in India Easy!
Arnab Mitra, Co-founder and CEO, DigiBoxx
Necessity being the mother of invention, the Covid-19 crisis has dramatically accelerated corporate digital transformation. As companies hurry to develop new digital capabilities to build resilience and retool for the post-pandemic world, keeping up with fast moving technology trends...
Harsh Pokarna: Unravelling the True Potential of Digital India
Harsh Pokarna, Co-founder and CEO, OkCredit
The ongoing digital transformation urged every business to get digitalized. Gone are the days of SMB’s avoiding digital mediums to handle and maintain the business transactions. Still, many less-savvy micro-merchants and shop owners follow traditional bookkeeping and struggle to...
Kyle Fernandes: Onward and Upward with Empathy and Humility
Kyle Fernandes, CEO & Co-founder, MemeChat
Having found his passion to code while he was suspended from school, Kyle Fernandes, CEO and Co-founder, MemeChat built his first social network platform with his friend, Taaran Chanana (Co-founder of MemeChat) at the age of 15. Kyle and...
Nikhil Joshi: Offering Customized New Media Experiences
Nikhil Joshi, Co-founder, Digital Jalebi
COVID-19 has generated unprecedented exigency responses from organizations and governments. Emergency response readiness has been stretched to limits. The Indian technology industry has mobilized exemplary BCP/DR resources to ensure continued business for critical client services worldwide. One of the...
Nikhil Mahadeshwar: Shielding you from the Dark Side of the Internet
Nikhil Mahadeshwar, Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer, Skynet Softtech Pvt. Ltd.
The pandemic has adversely affected the industries such as small-medium enterprises and big corporates. However, it has unleashed a new era of change for businesses as well. Few industries were not ready to accept Work from Home because they...
Prem Kumar: Developing A Money-Making Machine for Kirana Stores
Prem Kumar, Founder & CEO, Snapbizz
India has more than 12 million Kirana stores, forming nearly 90 per cent of its total trade. In contrast, the overall contribution of supermarkets and organised grocery stores remains a meagre 10 per cent. However, the emergence of e-commerce...
Raj N: The Odd One Out Setting Unprecedented Milestones in the FinTech Industry
Raj N, Founder and Chairman, Zaggle
Raj N was unconventional in many ways. Born to an academic-oriented family, Raj was always spotted not in classrooms and libraries, but sports grounds. While he did score good marks, his affinity to explore the unknown was quite a...
Rajat Singhania: HyLyting Constructive Information for a Productive Workforce
Rajat Singhania, Founder and CEO, SocioRAC – HyLyt
Imagine you are in a meeting where key matters are being discussed, and important decisions are being made. Your phone pings. It is an important piece of information, but your priority is the meeting at hand. You swipe and...
Sadiya Khan: The Upcoming Paragon of Neoteric Digital Marketing Solutions
Sadiya Khan, Founder, Akund Communications
Public Relations is an important facet for every organization. A team dedicated to putting out the word, informing the customer base about the company’s latest developments, and setting up avenues for the company to be visible is very important....
Sandeep Kumar: Using Tech Innovation to Make Hospitality Industry Future Ready
Sandeep Kumar, Founder, LingerTech
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic is being felt by all businesses around the world. Leaders are navigating a broad range of interrelated issues that span from keeping their employees and customers safe, shoring-up cash and liquidity, reorienting operations...
Satish Kannan: Facilitating Rural India Enjoy the Wealth of Health
Satish Kannan, Co-Founder & CEO, MediBuddy
It seems absurd how less than a year back it was normal to take your sniffling noses to a packed hospital to consult a doctor and wait near another patient, someone who may be suffering from a long-term illness...
Shivjeet Ghatge: Rewarding People to Take a Step Towards Fitness
Shivjeet Ghatge, CEO & Co-Founder, StepSetGo
The online fitness industry has seen a significant boom since the COVID-19 outbreak. For brick and mortar gyms, franchises, and boutique fitness studios, the damage has been devastating. The almost $100 billion fitness industry has quickly shifted into a...
Srinivas Chitturi: Finding Innovative Solutions in the Transport Automation & Optimization Space
Srinivas Chitturi, Co-Founder & CEO, MTAP Technologies
MTAP Technologies is a startup that began with one product, an automated app for Employee Transport Services (ETS) and is now a company that offers a wide range of transportation management products. Srinivas Chitturi, Co-Founder and CEO of MTAP...
Sudhir Kothari: Owning the Digital Transformation Chrysalis
Sudhir Kothari, CEO and Managing Director, Embee Software Pvt. Ltd
Inspiration and motivation are everywhere; only if you would just look would you see. Years back, a young 12-year-old boy found his inspiration to achieve greatness while he was in the company of an individual working for Tata Steel....
Thirukumaran Nagarajan: Removing the Obstacles between Farmers and Consumers through Technology
Thirukumaran Nagarajan, Co-founder, and CEO, Ninjacart
Consuming a significant part of 2020, the pandemic and lockdown have proven to be a testing time for various businesses across sectors. Challenges like transportation, limited working hours, labour shortage, and restricted market access disrupted daily essentials deliveries, including...
Venkatesh Rao: The Engineer Encouraging IT Companies Go Green
Venkatesh Rao, Founder and Managing Director, Xfurbish
E-waste is a threat that has been challenging the world for quite some time now. In 2020 alone, the world generated a record 53.6 million tonnes of e-waste, with India standing as the third biggest contributor. The country’s share,...
IN MY VIEW
Why Digital India is Vulnerable to New Age Cyber Attacks
Sandeep Kamble, Founder & CTO, SecureLayer7
Sandeep is a cybersecurity professional with 9+ years of experience bringing together the best security experts to simplify the complicated cybersecurity problem. As the Founder and CTO of SecureLayer7, from the beginning of 2013, Sandeep built its vision, strategy,...
LEADERS’ INSGIHTS
The Significance of Product Engineering Services in the Constantly Evolving High-End Tech Environment
Bala Mageswaran, Chief Product Officer, Goavega Software
Bala Mageswaran is an experienced software professional and product executive with twenty-five years of experience in envisioning, developing, and implementing real-time control and status solutions for the transportation industry. Bala has hands-on experience in team development, product vision, execution,...
Broadband as a Critical Resource in India: What Might the Indian Networking Industry Learn from the Pandemic
Pravin S Bhandarkar, Founder and CEO, RtBrick
Pravin S Bhandarkar is a technologist with twenty years of experience across the product life-cycle spectrum. He has hands-on experience in product architecture, product development, product management and positioning of technologies & products generating multi-million-dollar revenue. Founded by Pravin...
Expert's Opinion
Tech Trends To Watch Out For In 2021
Rahul Goyal and Rohan Shah, Founders, Realatte
Rohan Shah is the co-founder of Realatte, a pioneer in real estate digital marketing which has 100+ pan-India clients including some of the top listed developers like Godrej Properties, Mahindra Lifespaces, Shapoorji Pallonji, Sunteck, Brigade Group and many more...
Companies Need to Develop an Invisible Sense of Unknown Cyber Threats
Jaydeep Ruparelia, Co-founder, Infopercept Consulting Pvt. Ltd.
Jaydeep Ruparelia is the Co-founder and Director of Security Strategy at India/Ahmedabad-based Infopercept Consulting Pvt. Ltd., a leading Managed Security Services provider with footprints across India, Middle East, Africa, and the US. Jaydeep has an experience of more than...
RECOGNITION
21 Technopreneurs to Watch Out for in 2021
Editorial Team
The year 2020 has been an unexpected one, which brought difficulties and opportunities that weren’t imaginable. As this year ends, what we can do is HOPE — hope for a better year, one that brings in good health. New...
MANAGING EDITOR’S NOTE
Who is a Technopreneur?
Sarath Shyam
At the beginning of 20th century, an Australia economist and academician named Joseph Schumpeter coined the term ‘entrepreneurship.’ He defined it as an idea of “creative destruction” that can be a driving force of modern economic progress. For Schumpeter,...
Arnab Mitra
Founder and CEO
DigiBoxx
Charu Noheria
Co-founder & COO
Practically
Dr Vivek Bindra
Founder & CEO
Bada Business
Harsh Pokharna
Co-founder and CEO
OkCredit
Kyle Fernandes
Co-founder and CEO
Meme Chat
Mayank Tewari
Co-founder
Skeps
Nikhil Joshi
Co-founder
Digital Jalebi
Nikhil Mahadeshwar
Co-Founder and Director
Skynet Softtech Pvt. Ltd.
Piyush Pathak
Founder and CEO
CommerceUp
Prem Kumar
CEO and Founder
SnapBizz
Raj N
Founder and Chairman
Zaggle
Rajat Singhania
Founder
SocioRAC
Sadiya Khan
Founder
Akund Communications
Sandeep Kumar
Founder
LingerTech
Satish Kannan
Co-founder & CEO
MediBuddy
Shivjeet Ghatge
Co-founder and CEO
StepSetGo
Srinivas Chitturi
Co-Founder & CEO
MTAP Technologies
Sudhir Kothari
Founder and CEO
Embee Software Pvt Ltd
Suman Gandham
Founder
Finin
Thirukumaran Nagarajan
Co-Founder & CEO
Ninjacart
Venkatesh Rao
Founder
Xfurbish