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The UpstreamLife

The UpStream Life offers an editorial approach to content creation that focuses on capturing the intellectual foundations of an organization.While social media and marketing content are important, our approach prioritizes storytelling that resonates with stakeholders.Our experienced team of writers, filmmakers, and editors works closely with clients to create narratives that capture the essence of their organization.By emphasizing conversations that truly matter, we believe our approach can help

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17:25

Forging the Future with Elastic: Agentic AI and the...

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2025/10/14

In this episode of theUpStreamLife we talk with Baha Azarmi, the global VP, Customer Engineering, Elastic about new developments at the company. We unlock the power of Elastic's technology for corporations and how it plays a major role in the era of AI. 00:00 - Introduction 01:09 - Roadmap to innovation at Elastic 03:00 - Being relevant in the era of LLMs. 04:40 - Being cost effective for businesses. 07:52 - What are customers using Elastic for? 11:56 - Learning from customers. 12:49 - Oppor...

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65:21

After funding 200 plus companies, why 247VC's...

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2025/10/05

In this episode I meet with ace seed stage and Series-A investor Shashank Randev, the founder of 247VC. He talks about about how India is changing its outlook towards deep tech and consumer businesses. He talks about all things that will continue to make India rise over the next decade. 00:00 - Introduction to the episode in BHive. 02:53 - 247VC and how it views the Indian startup ecosystem. 05:53 - The growth that mattered between 2014 and 2021. 09:22 - The seeding of ideas that made impact...

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19:31

Phyx44 & the happy cow: the recombinant milk based...

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2025/09/23

In this episode Ideaspring Capital's founder Naganand talks with Bharath Bakkaraju, the founder of Phyx44, a company manufacturing recombinant protein. They are a deep tech company that is figuring out the alternative to milk and the emission caused by dairy cattle. The numbers are stark and you have to listen to this conversation to understand why companies like Phyx44 are the future in mankind's evolution to consuming protein from a lab and reducing emissions in the form of methane from cat...

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29:48

Why this tech investor wants to make farmers his...

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2025/09/19

In this episode I talk with Bhavdeep Reddy, angel investor in several companies and founder of Access Developers. In this four decade career he has seen it all - from the rise of #ITservices to #cloudcomputing to #ai. What has remained constant in this rise is the growth of cities and development. Bhavdeep, also known as Bobby, talks about growth that is inclusive in this podcast. Note: Bobby is an investor in theUpStreamLife and thanks to BHive for being a fabulous workspace.. ...

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58:42

War to deploy LLMs in enterprises is wide open,...

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2025/09/13

In this episode we talk to Arun, the founder of Articul8, an LLM company that focuses on building models specifically trained for enterprise scale and security. Learn a lot more about the AI wars in this episode, which is similar to the cloud wars that began more than a decade ago between AWS, Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure. This time around startups like Articul8 have the ability to scale in a niche market. Let us find out Arun's strategy to scale the company. 00:00 - Introduction. ...

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49:34

Story of consumption & Indian brands until 2040 -...

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2025/08/04

In this episode we talk to Vinay Singh, the co-founder and Partner at Fireside Ventures. Vinay's Venture Capital firm has bet on Indian brands even before the world believed that India can be capable of building long term brands. They got their thesis right by betting on companies that defined India's aspiring consumers. India is ripe for growth, it also needs to think of sustainability. Here are Vinay's thoughts. Don't forget to like and subscribe to the podcasts. 00:00 - A quick introducti...

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62:20

Deep tech's success is a key to a sustainable future...

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2025/07/30

In this episode we talk with Manoj Kumar, the founder of deep tech venture building foundation Social Alpha. This venture development platform started as a passion project but overtime it has helped over 350 startups. The model of Social Alphas unique as in it works with foundations to achieve their deep tech goals. Enjoy the interview. 00:00 - Introduction 01:48 - Social Alpha's early days. 09:06 - Aligning incentives with those Social Alpha works with to foster deep tech research. 19:51 - ...

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28:51

India's fastest growing chronic pain management...

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2025/07/12

In this episode Naganand Doraswamy of Ideaspring Capital talks to Litemed founders about pain management devices and their efficacy. 00:00 - Introduction to Litemed 00:33 - What does Litemed do? 02:58 - Building a device for pain management and the science of it. 08:14 - Litemed's go-to-market strategy. 12:39 - Innovative marketing of Litemed. 15:50 - Marketing spends and getting people to buy the product. 19:23 - Using Litemed. 21:00 - Key challenges of the startup. 26:13 - Figuring o...

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43:18

The journey of Jay Modh's "Intuitive" - AI led...

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2025/07/12

In this episode of theUpStreamLife we talk with Jay Modh, serial entrepreneur and startup investor. 00:00 - Introduction 01:35 - Transformation with Intuitive 04:44 - Companies that need to innovate fast. 09:40 - Acceleration versus stagnation. 14:47 - Buying habits from clients and what is changing. 23:00 - Why India is changing fast 25:00 - Kids should start learning the value of money. 28:24 - Startup investments and what they mean. 34:00 - Having the right vision, being with people who b...

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83:54

Indian equities, India's rise, Trumpeting Empire,...

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2025/06/10

In this episode we talk to Bruce Keith, the co-founder of InvestorAi, a systematic investing platform. 00:00 - Introduction to the episode. 01:00 - Bruce Keith and India. 02:00 - India's demographic dividend and its advantage. 03:00 - Fund management globally and in India. 05:00 - Indian mindset and the U.S mindset in equities investment. 07:00 - Indians experimenting with F&O and its youth doing it. 09:15 - Indianisation of investing is happening. 10:18 - Regulation is good. 11:19...

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56:34

The way we drink water, subscription & access to...

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2025/06/02

In this episode we catch up with Manas Ranjan, the co-founder of DrinkPrime, who tells us about how India is subscribing to his company's services. The access to clean drinking water and its narrative is something that he explains to us eloquently. Lets us find out India's working class and water narratives mean for us. 00:00 - Introduction. 01:54 - Consumer's perception of water. 08:34 - The idea of DrinkPrime. 15:45 - Finding people or an OEM to build the device. 21:37 - Many disorganised ...

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35:40

A platform for creators to own their data & monetise...

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2025/05/29

In this episode we talk with Udippta Das, the founding team member and head of product development at Skara. The startup is founded in Guwahati, Assam. Udippta talks about why this technology enables Indian creators to make more money than share it with third party distribution apps. 00:00 - Introduction 02:20 - The inspiration behind Skara 07:04 - Freedom to monetise 13:15 - What if you have a million followers? 17:40 - Building a tech business in Assam. 23:45 - Skara is bot fre...

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30:09

Numocity - India's leading EV network management...

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2025/05/19

In this episode of theUpStreamLife we talk with the founders of Numocity. Ideaspring's founder Naganand Doraswamy talks to the Numocity founders Ravi and Siddharth about their global play. 00:00 - Introduction 00:52 - From early stage to success. 02:50 - EV is mainstream. 06:02 - EV market in five years. 10:22 - Robustness of the Numocity tech stack 15:20 - Being a globally recognised brand. 20:08 - Deep research in the EV market 25:08 - Markets that will be big in EV Thanks for Liste...

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58:44

Algorithms, AI & technology buying in Indian banks:...

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2025/04/10

In this episode we speak with Joydip Gupta who is the APAC head of Scienaptic Systems. Joydip talks about the evolution of the business rule engine in banking and how algorithms today are intelligent to understand an individual's banking needs faster than in the past. Algorithms today allow a risk officer's team to look at the credit history of an individual and customise a financial product. 00:00 - Introduction 02:12 - Scienaptic - what is it? 03:43 - Enabling a bank's revenues. 07:55 - Us...

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36:12

NASA to hedge funds want Ambee's climate data to...

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2025/03/11

00:00 - Introduction to Ambee. 00:30 - Maddy’s vision of starting Ambee. 05:00 - The early days: air quality monitoring and scaling the solution. 07:41 - Building a data first climate intelligence platform. 09:20 - The NASA moment. 10:00 - The science of Ambee and its impact. 16:00 - The business of Ambee - sales, product market fit. 20:30 - The short term, mid term and long term plans of business. 22:50 - The business of trust in monitoring air quality. 25:02 - The core is the data in ...

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46:26

Decoding AI security for enterprises with...

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2025/02/27

In this episode I talk with Sujatha S Iyer, the head of AI Security @manageengine . ManageEngine enables enterprises to be future ready when it comes to their critical IT, where security is a critical aspect while scaling an organisation. Sujatha paints a wonderful story on how CIOs and CTOs should look at security in the era of AI and the evolution of an enterprise's defences against malware. 00:00 - Introduction to Sujatha 03:00 - Early security, which were rule based. 05:10 - Proac...

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50:15

Store your gold with zero worries with Aurm's new age...

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2025/02/11

In this episode we talk to Vijay Arisetty, the founder of Aurm, who went from being in the Airforce to becoming the co-founder of MyGate. Aurm is a special project with a special purpose because a majority of urban Indians are living in a gated community and these communities don't have access to safe-deposit lockers. Aurm is a new age safe deposit company and Vijay explains to us about the market size for this business. There is also a lot of technology behind it. Enjoy this episode. 00:00 ...

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27:52

Okulo Aerospace, a use case for made-in-India HAPS...

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2025/02/07

In this episode we have Naganand Doraswamy, the founder of Ideaspring Capital who interviews Parithi Govindaraju about the future of made-in-India drones and the technology that powers them. Parithi comes from the field of deep science and his interest in aerospace has enabled him to build Okulo Aerospace to capture the High Altitude Pseudo-Satellite space. He has thoughts on long-endurance drones and you will love this podcast because the government of India has launched a deep tech f...

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60:30

Transformation of the C-Suite's IT buying habits,...

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2025/01/23

In this episode of theUpStreamLife.com we have Sriniketh Chakravarthi, the CEO of Apexon who talks about new age IT Services and how the world of industry is changing with technology.00:00 - Introduction02:00 - Engineering, data and experience.07:00 - Managing the entire cycle of technology.10:27 - Mapping the old and new.20:00 - Complete transformation, failures and making it work for CTOs.25:00 - AI agents and Saas transformation.35:44 - Working with startups and the Apexon journey.41:35 - ...

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54:47

Into the future in 2025: Padmashree of Capgemini...

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2025/01/07

In this episode of theUpStreamLife.com we talk about AI and ethics. The conversation is led by Padmashree Shagrithaya, one of the leading proponents of ethical AI from India. As EVP and MD of Insights & Data GBL at Capgemini, she is preparing organisations to understand how AI should be built around the foundation of ethical principles. Listen to this podcast as we start the year 2025 with these difficult questions of AI, accountability and ethics.00:00 - Introduction to the subject.01:30...

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