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TRANSFIN. LongShorts with Nikhil Arora and Sharath Toopran

TRANSFIN. Podcasts

Welcome to LongShorts! A TRANSFIN. Podcast where Nikhil Arora and Sharath Toopran converse with entrepreneurs and business operators running successful startups, profitable SMEs and family promoted firms on one end, and top investment professionals representing VC/PE/credit funds on the other. The objective is to bring out an "actionable" perspective converging the world of business and investing.

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40:42

S6 Ep138: Invest in Commercial Real Estate With Rahul...

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2023/09/16

We spoke with Rahul Khetawat, Head of Offline (Sales) at Property Share, India’s first and largest tech-enabled investment platform for commercial real estate. Property Share allows users to access investments in pre-leased institutional-grade commercial real estate in India and the UK - allowing them to diversify their portfolios and benefit from rental income and property appreciation. The company also provides property management services and resale support to ensure ongoing

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52:39

S6 Ep137: Unlock High Yield Debt With Saurav Ghosh of...

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2023/08/23

We speak with Saurav Ghosh, Co-Founder of Jiraaf, a digital platform unlocking and democratizing high yield fixed income investment opportunities for retail investors. Jiraaf offers individual investors access to a wide array of alternate investment products beyond the usual suspects like listed stocks, mutual funds, real estate or gold, all via an easy-to-use convenient digital platform. The investment opportunities are spread across a great mix of asset classes, risk profiles, yields, and tenors,

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50:10

S6 Ep136: Freedom From Debt With Ritesh Srivastava of...

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2023/08/22

We spoke with Ritesh Srivastava, Founder & CEO of FREED, India’s 1st Comprehensive Debt Relief Platform. FREED was founded with the goal to provide an affordable and comprehensive debt relief solution to India's retail borrowers. Ritesh has been a serial entrepreneur for over 20 years and thanks to his background in Debt Relief in the US, he was naturally attracted to this segment in India. He understood the pain points of debtors in India and set out to solve the big problem. So far under

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34:47

S6 Ep135: Grabbing Consumer Mind-space With Nishith...

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2023/07/31

We spoke with Nishith Gupta, Director Sapana Carpet-Mats - a leading brand with a market share of 50-55% among branded plastic mats in India. Considering the lower propensity to spend on home décor among Indians vs. the west, Sapana decided to explore the world of plastic mats as they were much more affordable than conventional carpets. The company operates through an omnichannel distribution model with over 30,000 retail stores across India and a robust online presence. The 100% family-owned

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35:53

S6 Ep134: Creating an EV Ecosystem With Sameer...

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2023/07/28

We spoke with Sameer Aggarwal, Founder and CEO at Revfin, a specialist lending company focused on underwriting electric vehicle (EV) loans. Last we chatted with Sameer was in December 2019 (link to the episode) when Revfin was taking initial steps in its journey. The world has changed a fair bit since then, with the company having financed over 25,000 vehicles across 19 states, disbursed INR300cr in loans, and raised capital from a bunch of marquee investors including the likes of Green Frontier

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46:48

S6 Ep133: Inspect Your Home With Saurabh Tyagi of...

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2023/07/13

Saurabh Tyagi is the Co-Founder and CEO of PropChk, India's fastest growing tech-enabled home inspection company. An Electrical Engineer from IIT Roorkee, Saurabh started PropChk to help homebuyers and homeowners gain visibility around potential construction defects within a home before they purchase/invest in the asset. The company operates on a B2C business model that covers home inspection, dampness detection, area measurement, and multi-stage inspection for ready to move in properties. They

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37:36

S6 Ep132: Supplying Fashion With Abhishek Sharma of...

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2023/06/02

Abhishek Sharma is the Co-Founder & COO of Fashinza, a tech-enabled platform that solves manufacturing for fashion brands. Started initially to improve experience while dealing with suppliers, Fashinza takes a value chain approach to support brands, acting as a one stop shop for their sourcing requirements, from the placement of orders all the way to fulfilment, including design, pattern making, sales forecasting and even colour on latest trends and styles. Fashinza is able to do this by

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37:33

S6 Ep131: Unpacking Metaverse With Piyush Gupta of...

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2023/05/23

Piyush Gupta is the CEO of VOSMOS, connecting brands to customers through immersive, engaging and easily accessible virtual experiences. VOSMOS is helping companies create virtual and hybrid events, immersive DIY virtual stores, and transforming online customer interactions through creation of tailormade and realistic digital environments. Piyush takes a pragmatic take towards the evolution of digital commerce, blending arguments in favour of metaverse/related immersive technologies with

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46:20

S6 Ep130: Insure Your Team With Anuj Parekh of...

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2023/05/23

Anuj Parekh is the Co-Founder and CEO of Healthysure, an employee benefits insurtech company enabling comprehensive group health coverage for employees of SMEs, startups, and enterprises. Healthysure offers digitized policy and claims experience with curated health and wellness offerings, including an industry-first flexi top-up insurance product which allows employees to personalize & upgrade their corporate health covers and enjoy continuity benefits post-employment. Riding the post

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39:49

S6 Ep129: Customer Nudges With Narinder Mahajan of ODN

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2023/05/01

We chat with Narinder Mahajan CEO of ODN Digital Services (short for ‘Open Doors Now’), a market leader in ‘Shop Now’ strategies, enabling brands and e-commerce platforms to sell successfully online. Narinder is a consumer-retail and e-commerce specialist, and has over 20 years of industry experience. During his corporate journey, he worked with various game-changing organizations across diverse industries and formats of consumer retail. In 2015, he turned entrepreneur and co-founded ODN. At ODN

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48:14

S6 Ep128: The India Investing Story With Shivam Bajaj...

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2023/04/26

We chat with Shivam Bajaj CEO of Avener Capital, an investment bank offering bespoke PE Advisory, M&A Advisory, structured finance advisory and debt syndication services. Being on the same side of the fence we reflect upon: State of Venture Capital investments in India View on unsecured credit as a new and emerging source of capital for SMEs Next in line for REITS and InVITS in light of recent taxation norms Dynamics of deal making in India Hope you enjoy this TRANSFIN. Podcast with

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52:14

S6 Ep127: Unlock Loans Through Digital Assets With...

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2023/03/09

We chat with Shreyans Nahar CEO of Chennai based Finsire who is building infrastructure to aggregate and secure digital assets so that Banks, NBFCs, and Fintechs can lend against them. Their solution allows creditors and asset-holding brokers to maximise their lending capabilities and create an additional source of revenues by lending against earned income (for salaried employees) or digital assets (such as life insurance). This is done by permitting the lenders to leverage Finsire’s

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51:27

S6 Ep126: Power of Micro Investing and Savings With...

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2023/02/25

We chat with Satyajeet Kunjeer, Founder of Deciml, who is working towards building and automating a micro investing and savings culture in India. Deciml is a micro-investing and micro-savings app that enables young Indians to auto-invest their spare change (as low as Re 1/-) from online transactions into Mutual Funds or Fixed Return Funds. The company recently raised launched its product and raised capital. Within three months of its introduction on the Android PlayStore, Deciml received 25,000+

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49:28

S6 Ep125: Onboarding Credit Risk With Nageen Kommu of...

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2023/02/20

We chat with Nageen Kommu, Founder and CEO of Digitap.AI, whose work has largely revolved around solving the problem of information asymmetry for lenders. Majority of BFSI players in the country are dependent on bureau data while c. 400mn Indians have low bureau scores, making formal credit inaccessible to them. Digitap.AI provides alternative data and scoring models to underwrite such borrowers, thereby reducing the risk of NPAs. An early stage fintech platform, the company offers AI and ML

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54:02

S6 Ep124: Building Shopify for Insurance With Adarsh...

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2023/02/01

We chat with Adarsh Chokhani of Assurekit, a Mumbai-based Insurtech startup aiming to make insurance commerce simple. Adarsh is building a technology enabled interface between manufacturers of insurance products i.e. insurance companies, and distributors who want to sell insurance, either as part of their core business or as a value added service. Think of someone who enables Make My Trip to sell travel insurance directly on its App, or an auto financer sell car insurance through its website,

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62:27

S6 Ep123: Creating India's Largest Youth Travel...

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2022/11/22

We kick off our new season with Pankaj Parwanda of goSTOPS, a hospitality startup targeting young people (sub INR1,000 average daily rate beds) via tech-enabled creation and formalization of the youth hostel inventory pan India. Leveraging benefits of sharing economies and community living, goSTOPS is run by Pallavi Agarwal & Pankaj Parwanda, a very strong founder team who operate 30+ properties comprising 2,500+ available dorm beds spread across the country. A super interesting business

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48:06

S5 Ep122: How to Make a Mark in the Phygital Commerce...

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2022/05/27

We speak to Priyank Shah, Co-Founder and Director of Renee Cosmetics, an up-and-coming player disrupting the Indian makeup and cosmetics industry. He walks us through the challenges of creating a phygital commerce company with a differentiated offering in a very competitive sector. Moreover, Priyank walks us through his experiences of building Beardo, his former venture, and how it shaped his journey at Renee. Innovation is the key to success in the beauty and personal care segment, he says, as it

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34:29

S5 Ep121: Becoming Your Israel Guy With Saket...

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2022/05/13

We speak with Saket Agarwal, Founder and CEO of Onnivation, a firm that invests in deeptech Israeli SAAS companies and drives their business for India. Onnivation's partner companies bring Israel's deeptech ecosystem to India's largest corporations. As someone who christened himself on social media as #YourIsraelGuy, Saket reflects upon the ideas and motivations which drove his journey to-date. Listen in for a thoughtful conversation.

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39:04

S5 Ep120: How Decisions Enabling Market Intelligence...

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2022/05/09

We speak with Raj Neervannan, Co-founder and CTO, of AlphaSense - a leading market intelligence and search platform focused on the financial services sector. AlphaSense helps its clients make better business decisions by collecting data, analysing information, and contextualising findings through its AI-powered products and solutions. Raj sheds light on market research's most significant challenges i.e. information overload, asymmetry, non-standardisation and the roles that technology can play in

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40:02

S5 Ep119: Lending to India's Gig Economy With Badal...

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2022/04/28

We speak with Badal Malick, Co-founder and Chief Business Officer at KarmaLife.AI, a platform building financial solutions for India's growing gig economy. Motivated by the pain points of gig workers, including cashflow volatility, exposure to shocks and limited career progression due to a low skill base, Badal talks about how KarmaLife.AI serves their financial requirements. Drawing from his own experience and interest towards financial inclusion, Badal explains how KarmaLife.AI combines work data

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