The Offline Network

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The Offline Network is a business podcast hosted by Unknown Host, with 111 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Unknown Host hosts The Offline Network, a business show with 111 episodes published.

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  AI Solving Healthcare, DevTools & Biomanufacturing | Stream 122

  Aug 7, 202653 min

  Some of the most interesting AI companies are being built in industries that rarely make headlines: how developer tools get sold, how healthcare handles its paperwork, and how biology is scaled from the lab to the factory. In this episode of The Offline Network, Stream 122, we sit down with three founders working at exactly these edges. One is building the revenue layer for companies that sell to developers, one is automating the administrative work that slows down healthcare, and one is building the software that helps manufacturers scale fermentation. We get into why these problems are hard, how AI changes what is possible, and what it takes to build for global markets from India. Guests for today: 1/ Achintya Gupta | Co-Founder & CEO, Reo.Dev Achintya Gupta is the co-founder and CEO of Reo.Dev, a platform that helps developer-focused companies work out which developers are actually evaluating their product and when to reach out. Reo.Dev reads signals from developer activity, things like documentation visits, package installs and open-source engagement, and turns them into a clearer picture of buying intent for sales and marketing teams. Before Reo.Dev, Achintya co-founded Phyllo and has spent over a decade on go-to-market problems across fintech, the creator economy and B2B software. 2/ Ajay Shrihari | Founder, Coral Health Ajay Shrihari is the founder and CEO of Coral Health, a company that automates the administrative work behind specialty healthcare. Coral Health combines document processing, agentic workflows and voice automation to handle tasks like patient intake, prior authorisations and insurance verification, and it integrates with the electronic health record systems, fax lines and payer portals that providers already use. He started the company after seeing how much healthcare is slowed down by paperwork rather than clinical care, drawing on a background in robotics and AI research. 3/ Shilpa Nargund | Co-Founder & CTO, Lemnisca Shilpa Nargund is the co-founder and CTO of Lemnisca, a company building AI software for biomanufacturing, the process of producing molecules through fermentation. Lemnisca combines biology, reactor physics and data modelling to help manufacturers move a process from the lab to industrial scale with fewer surprises along the way, using real-time monitoring and predictive models. A chemical engineer by training with a PhD and years in bioprocess engineering, Shilpa focuses on the modelling and lab workflows at the core of the product. —

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  Building AI Platforms for the Physical World | Stream 117

  Aug 6, 202643 min

  One guest builds intelligence systems for oceans, ports and borders. The other builds AI that searches for new materials at the molecular level. Episode 117 of The Offline Network brings together two deep-tech founders working at opposite ends of the physical world, and looks at what it takes to build hard science companies out of India. We get into the research that sits behind the product, the long road from lab to deployment, what it means to sell into institutions that move slowly, and why technically deep founders are choosing to build here. Roshan Raj | Co-founder & CEO, Blurgs AI Roshan Raj is the co-founder and CEO of Blurgs AI, a deep-tech company building AI-powered intelligence platforms for defence, national security and commercial maritime markets. Its products cover maritime domain awareness for ports, fleets, shipyards and fisheries, alongside threat detection and cross-domain situational awareness for defence customers. He is an alumnus of IIT Madras and co-founded the company with Avinash Kori. Ajaz Khan | Co-founder & CEO, Novyte Materials Ajaz Khan is the co-founder and CEO of Novyte Materials, a deep-tech startup building a chemistry-aware AI engine for materials discovery. The company pairs computational prediction with wet lab synthesis so that the materials it designs can actually be made and manufactured, with early work focused on specialty chemicals and polymers. Novyte is incubated at ICT-NICE, the innovation and entrepreneurship hub of the Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai.

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  Diamonds in Orbit, Vision AI on the Line | Stream 115

  Jul 20, 202644 min

  In Stream 115 of The Offline Network, we look at what it takes to build in each of these markets: how a consumer brand earns trust when the category itself is new, how a deep tech company sells into cautious industrial buyers, what founders learn from staying close to production, and how each of them decides what to build next. Guests for today: - Sanjana Rishikesh | Founder, Cosmos Diamonds Sanjana Rishikesh is the founder of Cosmos Diamonds, a Bengaluru-based jewellery brand built around lab-grown diamonds. She trained as a designer at the National Institute of Design and started the company after finding the diamond buying process opaque while shopping for her own wedding jewellery. Cosmos Diamonds sells fine jewellery direct to customers, with a focus on transparent pricing, heritage-inspired design and a buyback policy on its pieces. - Aniruddha Banerjee | Co-founder, SwitchOn Aniruddha Banerjee is a co-founder of SwitchOn, a Bengaluru-based company that builds AI software for visual quality inspection in manufacturing. He started the company with Avra Banerjee after engineering roles at Nvidia, Samsung and other hardware firms, where he saw how much factory inspection still relied on manual checks. SwitchOn's platform, DeepInspect, uses computer vision and edge AI to detect surface defects, verify printed codes and flag assembly errors on production lines, and is used by manufacturers across automotive, pharma and consumer goods.

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  Teen Wallets and Cancer Drugs | Stream 114

  Jul 17, 202655 min

  In this stream of The Offline Network, we sit down with two founders building in very different corners of the Indian startup world. One is changing how the next generation handles money, the other is developing new cancer treatments. Across fintech and biotech, consumer technology and deep science, this conversation in Stream 114 explores what it takes to build for the long term in India, the problems each founder chose to take on, and the ideas that translate across very different fields. About the guests:Sambhav Jain is the co-founder of Fam, a Bengaluru-based fintech built for teenagers. The app lets minors make UPI, card and P2P payments without a traditional bank account, with parents completing verification and keeping oversight of spending. He started the company in 2019 with Kush Taneja to give India's younger users a first, secure handle on their own money. Kavitha Iyer Rodrigues is the founder and CEO of Zumutor Biologics, a biotech company developing antibody-based cancer therapies. Zumutor works in immuno-oncology, using its own antibody platform to design treatments that target innate immunity and the tumour microenvironment. She is a repeat founder in the biologics field, having built and led biotech companies before Zumutor.

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  Building a Social Interaction Giant & Reinventing Enterprise Marketing | Stream 113

  Jul 16, 202653 min

  On this stream of The Offline Network, we bring together two different sides of India's tech story. One side is building consumer social products for Bharat, where voice and regional languages open up new ways for people to connect. The other is building enterprise AI that helps brands create video content at scale across many languages. In Stream 113, we get into what it takes to build for Indian users, how AI and Indian languages are changing both consumer and enterprise products, and the lessons these founders have learned while building.About the guests: Bhanu and Harshvardhan are co-founders of Interact Group, the company behind FRND, a voice-first social discovery app built for users across Bharat. FRND helps people in smaller towns and cities make friends and connect through voice chat and live interactionsDevender is the co-founder and CTO of TrueFan AI, a company building AI video technology for enterprise marketing and content creation. TrueFan AI lets brands produce personalized, multilingual video content at scale, generating videos in many languages from a single recording and plugging into existing marketing workflows.

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