Varun VummidiinStars and StartupsEP20: Coffee, Cafes and the Third Wave {Matt Chitharanjan, Co-founder of Blue Tokai Coffee}With Episode 20, we’re ending week 10 on the podcast with the story of a popular coffee shop and coffee company that has seen demand for…Jul 9, 2020Jul 9, 2020
Varun VummidiinStars and StartupsEP19: ItzCash journey, Mindfulness & GetVantage {Bhavik Vasa, Co-founder & CEO of GetVantage}On EP19 episode I chat with Bhavik Vasa , he’s the Ex — Chief Growth officer at ItzCash and managed the business after the acquisition by…Jul 6, 2020Jul 6, 2020
Varun VummidiinStars and StartupsEP18: Building a sports league in India, first with Futsal & now in racing {Abhinandan…Abhinandan (Abhi) is a Vellore Inst of Tech & Warwick grad who has built 3 businesses, Altflo, Chefhost & Liquity right from the moment he…Jul 3, 2020Jul 3, 2020
Varun VummidiinStars and StartupsEP17: 170 million users and a 14 year journey building the Google for travel {Aloke Bajpai…On the episode I chat with Aloke Bajpai, CEO of IXIGO, a business that can be called a Travel industry veteran. Aloke & Rajnish have been…Jun 30, 2020Jun 30, 2020
Varun VummidiinStars and StartupsEP16: Power of teachers in a coaching centre, raising US$ 9M to support online Ed {Mukul Rastogi…We have a deep conversation with Mukul Rustagi of Classplus, and IIT Roorkee grad who had the intent to solve problems right through…Jun 24, 2020Jun 24, 2020
Varun VummidiinStars and StartupsEP15: Social commerce, an award winning digital agency, and launching 4 businesses {Vikas Chawla…I speak with Vikas Chawla a friend of mine from my time at Loyola College Chennai , who founded digital agency called Social Beat. He…Jun 22, 2020Jun 22, 2020
Varun VummidiinStars and StartupsEP14: Cricketer to Yogi and taking yoga to the world — 130k downloads in 75 days {Sarvesh Sashi…Sarvesh Sashi was a cricketer from Chennai who was picked in 2 IPL squads. Yep, he put IPL fame aside to pursue his love for Yoga.Jun 18, 2020Jun 18, 2020
Varun VummidiinStars and StartupsEP13: Building a bar on the cloud to enabling payments & deliveries for wine-shops {Prasanna…Prasanna is a first generation alcohol beverage industry entrepreneur. Trust me, there are a very few of these in India.Jun 15, 2020Jun 15, 2020
Varun VummidiinStars and StartupsEP12 : Exiting to PayU for a cool US$ 130M cash deal, Angel Investing and on raising US$ 26M to…On this special episode of Stars & Startups I chat with my ex-boss and mentor Jiten Gupta, Founder of Jupiter Money.Jun 10, 2020Jun 10, 2020
Varun VummidiinStars and StartupsEP11: Coffee, Wines, Beers, Tonics..I catch up with award winning photographer Aneesh Bhasin of Svami drinks. Svami is a beverages brand that’s part of the latest wave of…Jun 8, 2020Jun 8, 2020
