Indian Silicon Valley with Jivraj Singh Sachar

₹22,000 Crore revenue. ₹603 Crore profit. Profitable from day one. And most people have never heard of them. This is India's biggest secret startup.

Vasant Sridhar is the Co-Founder & CSO of OfBusiness, India's largest B2B commerce and SME financing platform. While every startup in India was chasing D2C brands, consumer apps and quick commerce, OfBusiness quietly built the invisible operating layer that powers India's entire man...

Your spices were ground 3 months ago. Your milk lasts 15 days. And nobody told you. Anant Goel found out — and built an entire company to fix it.

Anant Goel co-founded Milkbasket in 2015 — pioneered overnight, contactless grocery delivery in India, scaled it to hundreds of thousands of households across Delhi-NCR, Hyderabad and Bengaluru, and sold it to Reliance Retail for $40 million in 2021. Most founders would have st...

₹5 lakh membership fee. And you can still get rejected. This is India's most exclusive club — and this is the story of the man who built it.

Vivek Narain spent decades in the hospitality industry — working across some of the world's finest luxury hotels and understanding what truly premium experiences feel like. Then he asked a question nobody in India was asking — why doesn't India have a world-class private membe...

His father was in the hospital for 10 days. When it was time to go home, the insurance company said — sorry, this isn't covered. That moment changed everything.

Ankit Agarwal grew up across Bihar, Assam, Calcutta and Darjeeling — a true Indian, as he calls himself. Before InsuranceDekho, he was selling goods from Thailand in Calcutta, doing event management, and figuring out life one hustle at a time. Then in 2012, his f...

Philips has billions. Syska has decades. He had neither and still built a brand they can't ignore.

Himanshu Adlakha grew up in Faridabad, surrounded by his family's electronics distribution business serving giants like LG and Philips. He understood the industry from the inside and saw something nobody else did. India's beauty electronics market was dominated entirely by international brands building products for Western women. Nobod...

He ran out of money 3 times. Almost shut down. Then built one of India's biggest logistics empires. This is the story nobody told you.

Gaurav Mangla grew up in Faridabad, cracked IIT, and chose the path nobody expected: a cushy corporate job, but a startup with zero backing, zero industry knowledge, and zero guarantee of success. What followed was years of failed pivots, early acquisitions that didn't work, and running out of money ...

Your bank tells you there's zero FX charge. That's a lie. And this founder left Stripe to prove it.

Anand Balaji spent years at Microsoft, Amazon India, and then Stripe — where he saw firsthand how broken cross-border B2B payments really are. While everyone was talking about UPI and fintech innovation, $500 billion worth of Indian export payments were still stuck in the 90s, slow, opaque, and quietly eating 50% of exporters' m...

7 out of 10 grocery products you buy are lying to you. The label says one thing. The product is something else. Ayyappan Rajagopal found out and built a $250M business to fix it.

Ayyappan Rajagopal is the Co-Founder & CEO of FirstClub — India's first quality commerce platform delivering premium, lab-tested groceries in 30 minutes across Bangalore and Hyderabad. While Blinkit, Zepto and Swiggy Instamart raced to 10-minute d...

₹200 Crore ARR. 2 Lakh Customers. EBITDA Positive. All in just 8 months. This is not a fundraising story; this is an execution story.

Vimarsh Razdan is the Co-Founder of UnderNeat, India's fastest growing D2C shapewear and innerwear brand, built specifically for Indian women. Co-founded with content creator Kusha Kapila and backed by Ghazal Alagh of Mamaearth, UnderNeat crossed ₹200Crore ARR in just 8 months while staying profitable...

India is about to have its biggest tech moment ever. And these investors are putting $150M behind that bet.

Anandamoy Roychowdhary spent over a decade at Sequoia Capital India & Peak XV backing some of India's most iconic startups. Now, as Managing Director at Crane Venture Partners, he's leading a $150M APAC fund- focused entirely on AI, Deep Tech, and Semiconductors coming out of India. Joining him is Sidhant Goyal, an investo...

Every time an Indian applies for a foreign visa, there's a good chance BLS International is handling it. This is the story of a ₹16,000 Crore empire built by quietly running the world's governments.
Shikhar Aggarwal is the Joint Managing Director of BLS International, an Indian company that processes visas, passports, and citizen services across 70 countries with 50,000+ employees. With ₹7,000 Crore in revenue and a 52% revenue ...

She was a McKinsey consultant. She left it all to fix a problem nobody was solving. Today, Moxie Beauty is a ₹100 Crore brandm built in just 2 years.
Nikita Khanna is the Co-Founder of Moxie Beauty, India's fastest growing haircare brand built specifically for Indian hair textures and climate. While global giants ignored India's unique hair needs, Nikita spotted the gap, left a high-paying consulting career, and built a brand th...

Most brands chase virality. Bharat Kalia chased trust. The result? A ₹1,000 Crore empire.
Bharat Kalia is the Co-Founder of Lifelong Online, one of India's fastest-growing consumer appliance brands, now valued at over ₹1,000 Crore. From kitchen appliances to fitness equipment, Lifelong cracked the code on what India's price-conscious consumer actually wants, and built a supply chain moat that nobody can copy.

In this episode, Bha...

How do top VCs actually think about investing, risk, and building companies?

In this episode, we sit down with Pankaj Makkar (Managing Director, Bertelsmann India Investments) to break down the real frameworks behind venture capital, from how investors pick winners to how capital shapes entire industries.

From starting his journey in investments at 21 to leading one of India’s most respected early-growth funds, Pankaj shares th...

Travel in India is changing fast. More young Indians are travelling than ever before, exploring new countries, booking unique stays, and prioritising experiences over possessions.

But behind this shift lies a much bigger story: a new generation of travel companies rethinking how people discover, pay for, and experience travel.

In this conversation, Anil Goteti (Founder & CEO, Scapia) breaks down how they’re building a new k...

Hospitals where 99.5% of patients have zero wait time, surgery prices never change after admission, and an AI operating system quietly runs everything in the background — that’s what Superhealth is trying to build in India.

In this conversation, Varun Dubey (Founder & CEO, Superhealth) breaks down how they’ve re-designed the entire hospital model — from capex and incentives to software and care — in...

India is in the middle of a once-in-a-generation wealth shift — but how are the people at the top actually managing their money?

In this episode of Indian Silicon Valley Podcast, Jivraj sits down with Manu Awasthy, founder & CEO of Centricity, to unpack the real playbook behind India’s HNIs and ultra-rich — from ₹1 crore portfolios all the way to ₹5,000+ crore family offices.

Across 60 minutes, they break down:

W...

In this episode of the Indian Silicon Valley Podcast, we sit down with Geetansh Bamania, Founder & CEO of RentoMojo, to unpack the social, financial, and operational reality behind India’s shift from owning to renting.

RentoMojo isn’t just “furniture on rent.” It’s a full-stack, asset-heavy subscription business combining:

Consumer tech (subscriptions, collections, churn, NPA),

Capex & leverage (b...

In this episode of the Indian Silicon Valley Podcast, we sit down with Manas Gupta – Co-founder & CEO of GobbleCube (ex-Grofers/Blinkit) – to break down how brands actually win on Blinkit, Zepto and Instamart.

Quick commerce isn’t just “10-minute delivery”. It’s a new distribution rail + a hyperlocal data engine:
5,000+ dark stores, thousands of micro-markets, insane spikes during festivals...