Build For Bharat

About the Episode: Marico Innovation Foundation is scaling Innovation in India by providing customized guidance for enabling organizations to achieve growth through scale-up programs and sectoral innovation programs. Join Priya Kapadia, Head of Marico Innovation Foundation in conversation with the host Sanjay Jain to know what innovation means to the foundation, the qualities contributing to a great mentor relationship, the innovation criteria considered while selecting a startup, and how the program helps in developing a scale-up plan by identifying key challenges. About the Guest: Priya Kapadia, Heads Marico Innovation Foundation (MIF), an initiative by Marico Ltd. with a mission to nurture innovation in India. Over the past 10 years, Priya has conceptualized multiple programs that support innovations in their journey towards creating real, measurable impact. Her repertoire includes sector and challenge specific programs in the form of #Innovate2Cultivate, to support innovation in agriculture and more recently the #Innovate2BeatCovid, in response to the ongoing pandemic. She plays a crucial role in transforming the foundation’s flagship programs, Innovation for India Awards, a benchmark awards platform and the flagship program - Scale-Up Program, which has helped 60+ innovators to scale, recognised 5+ potential unicorns with 100+ mentors in 15+ sectors. Priya harnesses her expertise and experience to bring together experts and thought leaders across fields to come together for the unified purpose of creating an innovation ecosystem that can empower innovators and help them to make a difference. Priya has close to 20 years of experience in Business Planning, Brand Management, Promotions and Marketing Operations. She also has extensive experience in Advertising, Media Marketing and Financial Services. She enjoys independently conceptualizing and implementing programs encompassing mass media, activation and digital outreach. Before Marico Innovation Foundation, Priya has worked with organisations like Bennette Coleman and Co. Ltd., Citicorp Finance India Ltd, Citibank N.A and Rediffusion DY&R. Priya has a strong work ethic and is continuously striving for improvement coupled with excellent administrative aptitude. She is proficient in analyzing market trends for formulating and implementing marketing strategies. She has launched award-winning marketing programs. To share feedback or engage with us, write to us at podcast@bharat.fund Subscribe to never miss an episode: Apple Podcast | Google Podcast | Spotify | Amazon Music | Gaana | JioSaavn

About the Episode: ONDC is a capability that helps create eCommerce solutions where buyers can search in terms of product, brand, or context, and find the solution they need. It is designed to streamline the future of digital commerce and provide opportunities to all sellers, no matter big or small.Join Shireesh Joshi on this episode with host Sanjay Jain as he explains how ONDC is a building block that will facilitate buyers to choose from many applications to purchase a product from the universe of sellers. About the Guest: Shireesh Joshi is Chief Business Officer for Open Network For Digital Commerce (ONDC). He is responsible for expanding the network in terms of participants and domains. Previously he held roles with Procter & Gamble, PepsiCo, Airtel and Godrej, where he managed multiple brands, geographies and market positions simultaneously and worked on businesses across India, China and South Asia, working with various cultures and languages and has over 30 years of experience delivering successful results with organisations and teams of varying capability and scale. An industry and function leader, he often speaks at industry conferences, serves on various marketing award juries. He is an alumnus of IIT Kanpur and IIM Bangalore. To share feedback or engage with us, write to us at podcast@bharat.fund Subscribe to never miss an episode: Apple Podcast | Google Podcast | Spotify | Amazon Music | Gaana | JioSaavn

About the Episode: FASTag is a device that employs Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology for making toll payments directly while the vehicle is in motion. Today, FASTag is accepted at 964+ toll plazas on National & State Highways across the country, including both national and state highways, through 14 acquiring banks.Join Denny Thomas, the product head of FASTag with host Sanjay Jain as he talks about how FASTag was developed, why RFID technology was taken into consideration, and the key Indian conditions that led to one of the most successful digital payment implementations. About the Guest: Denny V Thomas is Head - NETC & AePS at National Payments Corporation of India. He has over 15 years of diverse experience in field of Product Management, Sales & Distribution of Transit Cards, Credit Cards, Loan Against Securities & Mobiles. Experienced manager with skills in leading direct as well as cross-functional teams. Proven ability to launch new markets & products, manage key account relationships, resolving channel conflicts, training and assisting sales team & channel partners. To share feedback or engage with us, write to us at podcast@bharat.fund Subscribe to never miss an episode: Apple Podcast | Google Podcast | Spotify | Amazon Music | Gaana | JioSaavn

About the Episode: Agristack is like an aadhaar for farmers as it is a collection of technologies and digital databases proposed by the Central Government focusing on Indian farmers and the agricultural sector. Join Mr. Rajeev Chawla with host Sanjay Jain as he explains how Agristack will enable the farmer’s crop and lands to be discovered, and how the farmer's data is the backbone to provide recommendations on their crop production. About the Guest: Rajeev Chawla is Strategic Advisor and Chief Knowledge Officer to Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare, Government of India. He is an alumnus of IIT Kanpur who has won the First Prime Minister Award for excellence in Civil Service for Bhoomi project and the United Nations Public Service Award. Key projects he has worked on include Kutumba - the most comprehensive dynamic self updating registry of 1.75 crore families and about 5.5 crore citizens of Karnataka. The registry is being used for suo moto delivery of services and benefits to citizens. Govt of India is planning to create similar registries for all states. He has also worked on E-Sahamati, the consent framework based on DEPA framework of NITI Ayog. This is a digital public good which is open to use by all States. Other interventions by him have beenGIS/GPS mobile based crop survey, online crop insurance and Bhoomi , a project - under which 200 lakh records of 70 lakh farmers is now fully connected system with registration department, survey department, Banks and Land Acquisition bodies and is lifeline of Karnataka economy. To share feedback or engage with us, write to us at podcast@bharat.fund Subscribe to never miss an episode: Apple Podcast | Google Podcast | Spotify | Amazon Music | Gaana | JioSaavn

About the Episode: Trade India is a platform with over 77 lakh digitally aggregated MSMEs, who use this platform to sell and buy. Join their CEO Sandip Chhettri with host, Sanjay Jain as he talks about enablement infrastructure and helping MSMEs navigate challenges in this aspect. About the Guest: Mr. Sandip Chhettri is one of India’s prime leaders in the MSME space, with nearly two decades of sectoral expertise. He is currently managing the overall operations & direct agendas to drive profitability for India's leading B2B marketplace, TradeIndia. Under his leadership, TradeIndia team has digitally transformed 77,00,000+ SMEs with a vision to enable 63 million SMBs with technology-driven solutions in the near future. To share feedback or engage with us, write to us at podcast@bharat.fund Subscribe to never miss an episode: Apple Podcast | Google Podcast | Spotify | Amazon Music | Gaana | JioSaavn

About the Episode: 'Financial Inclusion for Bharat: Insights into People, Markets and Start-ups' is a compendium of insights from the lives of people of Bharat, extensive research studies on pressing questions about inclusion and cases that improve founders' decision-making. Featuring a variety of research forms including human stories from across the geography of India, insights and use cases based on extensive data, rigorous methods and case snapshots with focus on dilemma facing founders building financial inclusion startups, this is an incomparable source of insights and nuggets on the area of financial inclusion and what that means for Bharat.Join Supriya Sharma, Partner-Insights in a conversation with Sanjay Jain as she discusses this. Download the book from: https://www.globalfintechfest.com/theme/default/doc/GFF-financial-inclusion.pdf About the Guest: Supriya Sharma is a Partner - Insights and leads the research vertical at CIIE.CO. She has built a function that delivers a toolbox for startups including research on emerging sectors, DIY tools and decision making frameworks. Insights at CIIE.CO also provides research backed inputs to incubators, investors, academia and other stakeholders in the Indian startup ecosystem. A research-practice translator, Supriya continues to publish her research in leading journals and teach courses on entrepreneurship at IIMs. Supriya is a Fellow of IIM Ahmedabad. Prior to her doctoral work, she had worked in the insurance industry in team leading and strategic roles and dabbled with academia. Supriya enjoys hindi-urdu poetry and cooking. She is also building a resource for caregivers in India. To share feedback or engage with us, write to us at podcast@bharat.fund Subscribe to never miss an episode: Apple Podcast | Google Podcast | Spotify | Amazon Music | Gaana | JioSaavn

About the Episode: A special episode on Build for Bharat podcast featuring Akshay Saxena, founder of Avanti fellows. Avanti runs India's largest interventions integrating technology to improve maths and Science achievements in secondary school. The episode was recorded live on 8th Aug 2022 by Daily Hunts in collaboration with MASH foundation as part of celebration of Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav, 75 years of Independence. Join Akshay as he chat with Sanjay on his journey forming Avanti fellows enabling young and talented students from low income background to get equitable access to high quality education. About the Guest: Akshay Saxena is a Teacher-Entrepreneur with a passion for helping build organizations that create an equitable world. Through Avanti we are helping teachers in 11 states across India transform Math and Science learning outcomes for India's 100M middle and high-school students through the use of collaborative learning and technology. To share feedback or engage with us, write to us at podcast@bharat.fund Subscribe to never miss an episode: Apple Podcast | Google Podcast | Spotify | Amazon Music | Gaana | JioSaavn

About the Episode: Bharat Bill Payment System is an integrated bill payment system in India offering interoperable and accessible bill payment service to customers through a network of agents of the registered members as Agent Institutions, enabling multiple payment modes, and providing instant confirmation of payment. Join Rahul Tandon as he shares how this brings one-touch billing to life with host, Sanjay Jain. About the Guest: Rahul Tandon is currently working as Head Product, Market Development and Compliance at NPCI Bharat Bill Pay Limited. He has three decades of experience. Two-decade-old development banker; worked in domains of credit, policy, IT, and inspections. Pioneer in the field of digital payments helped establish financial inclusion and merchant acquisition for a payments company. Serial entrepreneur and established businesses related to QR code, biometrics and business applications. Was part of the founding team that planned, wrote the guidelines and designed the product for BBPS. To share feedback or engage with us, write to us at podcast@bharat.fund Subscribe to never miss an episode: Apple Podcast | Google Podcast | Spotify | Amazon Music | Gaana | JioSaavn

About the Episode: Fostering innovation in the financial sector has always been interlinked with regulation. Last year, RBI set up an independent not for profit company with an independent board - the Reserve Bank Innovation Hub (RBIH) - to act in the interests of the ecosystem and working with all stakeholders, be it academia, FinTech or industry. Join RBIH's CEO Mr. Rajesh Bansal with host Sanjay Jain as they discuss RBIH's vision of frictionless finance for a billion Indians. About the Guest: Mr. Rajesh Bansal is the CEO of Reserve Bank Innovation Hub (RBIH). A highly regarded thought leader, he has nearly three decades of global experience in digital financial services and digital infrastructure across Asian and African markets. Mr. Bansal is one of the key architects of India’s journey from a cash to cash-lite economy by actively promoting policies, strengthening institutions, governance framework, and designing new products and solutions for scale and adoption. He was a member of the founding team of Aadhaar and specifically led the design of India’s Direct Benefits Transfer system which is benefiting hundreds of millions of low-income clients. He played a key role in creating India Stack, a digital ID-based infrastructure for a presence less and cashless service delivery platform, and has been a member of several committees of Government of India and the Reserve Bank of India (RBI). Prior to joining RBIH, he was a senior adviser at Carnegie India, where he led the centre’s Technology and Society programme. Mr. Bansal has previously served the RBI in various capacities, including in areas of technology, payment systems, and financial inclusion. Mr. Bansal holds a Master’s degree from Duke University in International Development Policy, USA and has authored a number of articles and opinion pieces in leading publications. Today he commands the magnanimous position of being one of the Top 30 Indian fintech influencers in 2022 and has been a recipient of the prestigious Golden Jubilee scholarship scheme of the RBI. To share feedback or engage with us, write to us at podcast@bharat.fund Subscribe to never miss an episode: Apple Podcast | Google Podcast | Spotify | Amazon Music | Gaana | JioSaavn

About the Episode: We are not able to reach out to the bottom of the pyramid because it's not economically viable to do so. However, with India Stack, technology can enable greater access. Join Hrushikesh Mehta as he chats with Sanjay Jain on one such piece of the India Stack - Open Credit Enablement Network (OCEN). About the Guest: Hrushikesh Mehta is a Fellow at iSPIRT and Chief Evangelist, CredAll. He is responsible for driving the awareness and adoption of standardized Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) that facilitate digital lending. The APIs are called the Open Credit Enablement Network or OCEN. There are many lending processes that have not been uniformly automated. OCEN's APIs standardize these so that ecosystem players like loan service providers (LSPs) and lenders can work together to create all-digital lending flows over the life cycle of the loan without needing custom integrations. All-digital loans reduce the cost of acquisition and hence enable cash flow based lending (sachet sized finance) which was previously unviable when manual processes were involved. Prior to this Hrushikesh was responsible for building all aspects of ClearScore’s online credit and insurance market place business in India. In a career spanning 20 years – a majority of which were spent at TransUnion CIBIL - Hrushikesh has held leadership positions across product development, sales, marketing, operations, credit risk and vendor management. Prior to TransUnion CIBIL, he has worked with Quantum Equity Advisors where he actively participated in the fund raising process, United Shippers Limited where he was responsible for high-profile client interactions, Citigroup Private Bank where he recommended investment strategies for high net worth individuals, and Osram Sylvania Inc, USA. He also had a previous tenure with CIBIL. Hrushikesh has a degree in Business Administration from Bryant University (USA) and a post-graduate degree in Management from Indian School of Business (Hyderabad). To share feedback or engage with us, write to us at podcast@bharat.fund Subscribe to never miss an episode: Apple Podcast | Google Podcast | Spotify | Amazon Music | Gaana | JioSaavn

About the Episode: BG Mahesh is passionate about building products to Bharat. He did this for two decades with Indian languages in digital media and is now co-founder at Sahamati, a collective of the Account Aggregator ecosystem. AAs give individuals greater control over their data and is a step towards financial inclusion in India. Join him with host Sanjay Jain on this episode of the build for bharat podcast to take a peek into Account Aggregators and the India Stack. About the Guest: BG Mahesh is the Cofounder and CEO of Sahamati. He did BE (Computer Science) from SJCE Mysore and MS (CS) from Univ of Alabama, Birmingham (US). Mahesh is the first one who built an internet portal for the Indian diaspora in the US (mahesh.com). As early as 2000, Mahesh focussed on Indian languages on the internet to reduce the digital divide. To share feedback or engage with us, write to us at podcast@bharat.fund Subscribe to never miss an episode: Apple Podcast | Google Podcast | Spotify | Amazon Music | Gaana | JioSaavn

About the Episode: Eko gives an opportunity to shop owners to turn into Banking & Financial institutions. Customers who do not have bank accounts and still want to transfer money using cash , pay their utility bills, have insurance and avail services you give. Join Abhishek Sinha with Sanjay jain on this episode of the Build for Bharat podcast as they discuss service networks that have arisen due to the collaborative efforts put in by Eko About the Guest: Abhishek is one of the Co founders of Eko and started Eko in 2007. Prior to Eko, Abhishek had cofounded 6d Technologies - a telecom software product company. Abhishek graduated as Bachelor of Engineering Electronics and Communication Engineering from Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra, Ranchi. At Eko, he is a big proponent of open source and open platform which allows of collaboration with developers and product managers beyond Eko. He further champions video, voice and vernacular at Eko as he believes that this is key to acquire and democratically serve the next billion customers. To share feedback or engage with us, write to us at podcast@bharat.fund Subscribe to never miss an episode: Apple Podcast | Google Podcast | Spotify | Amazon Music | Gaana | JioSaavn

About the Episode: Beckn is the base protocol layer that powers ONDC - which is in the news today. While many have not heard of it, Sanjay spoke with Ravi Prakash, the Head of Architecture & Technology Ecosystem, and asked him to explain it in a simple way - as if the listener was 5 years old. Listen in at Build for Bharat podcast and join the conversation. About the Guest: Ravi Prakash is currently working as the Head of Architecture and Technology Ecosystem at Beckn Foundation. Ravi is the genesis author of beckn protocol specification, current administrator of the core working group that maintains beckn protocol, and volunteer at Beckn Open Collective. He also work as a protocol advisor to projects like Open Network for Digital Commerce, the Kochi Open Mobility Network, and the Unified Health Interface. Ravi comes from a very hardware oriented background. He graduated with a Masters Degree in Embedded Systems from BITS Pilani, Pilani Campus after obtaining his Bachelor's Degree Engineering from Anna University, Chennai. To share feedback or engage with us, write to us at podcast@bharat.fund Subscribe to never miss an episode: Apple Podcast | Google Podcast | Spotify | Amazon Music | Gaana | JioSaavn

About the Episode: This episode of Build for Bharat talks about enabling GIG workers to execute their technical last-mile services. Dheeraj Khatter, co-founder of MyMobiForce, addresses how there was no digital identity created for them, building a platform that connects businesses to the technicians. Join Sanjay Jain to learn how they are removing middle men and bringing more opportunities. About the Guest: Dheeraj Khatter is the Founder and CEO@MyMobiForce, an organized full-stack service marketplace that has helped over 100 enterprises & OEMs connect with a skilled technical workforce across India. He used to work with big multinational names like HCL, AT&T, T-MO, NEC, etc., in countries such as the USA, UK, & JAPAN, where he built his expertise in SALES, ACCOUNT MANAGEMENT, and GROWTH STRATEGY, before starting on his serial entrepreneurship journey. When he is not busy building his ventures, he can be spotted strumming his guitar or taking long strolls at beaches. To share feedback or engage with us, write to us at podcast@bharat.fund Subscribe to never miss an episode: Apple Podcast | Google Podcast | Spotify | Amazon Music | Gaana | JioSaavn

About the Episode: This Build for Bharat podcast episode gives an insight into what led Ruchit Garg, Founder and CEO of Harvesting Farmer Network, build this platform that provides farmers with many fold larger market access and better price realization by online bidding. Join the host Sanjay Jain as he finds out how HFN leverages technology and utilises remote sensing data to help the farmers. About the Guest: Ruchit G Garg is the founder and CEO of Harvesting Farmer Network, an initiative focused on providing market linkages to smallholder farmers in India. Ruchit worked in the USA for over 11-years in companies like Microsoft and moved to India to work with smallholder farmers in India. HFN has connected farmers from 30 Indian states on the digital platform mobilizing over $500 million USD worth of crops in less than two years. Ruchit holds Masters in Computer Application and has received a “President Award” from the President of India late Shri S. D. Sharma for his services as ‘scout’. Ruchit is an advisor to technology startups and has spoken at several national & international conferences. To share feedback or engage with us, write to us at podcast@bharat.fund Subscribe to never miss an episode: Apple Podcast | Google Podcast | Spotify | Amazon Music | Gaana | JioSaavn

About the Episode: In this episode of Build for Bharat podcast, co-founder of NowFloats Jasminder Singh Gulati in a conversation with Host Sanjay Jain, talks about how they are building a platform which simplifies the digital journey of every business in Bharat. Tune in to discover the challenges faced by NowFloats as they Build for Bharat. About the Guest: Jasminder has over 25 years of experience in the technology industry spanning multiple responsibilities and geographies. Before incubating NowFloats, Jasminder was VP & Head of Global Delivery at CA Technologies, responsible for establishing and growing revenue from services and products. He joined CA Technologies from Microsoft Corporation, where in his 12 year tenure he held a number of roles spanning sales and marketing of products to professional services. In his last role at Microsoft, he was the Director - International Markets at Microsoft Global Services with responsibility of global delivery business across EMEA and Asia regions. Just before this, he helped incubate Microsoft Global Services as Director of Operations & Strategy. He has held other leadership positions at Microsoft India and Asia including Head of Enterprise Marketing for India and Business Manager for Asia Services. While at Microsoft, Jas has been the recipient of multiple global recognitions including from the Chairman/CEO of the company. Jasminder started his career at Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) where he spent over 3 years on building India’s first global software product for the financial services industry. Jasminder holds a Bachelor’s Degree (Honors) in Computer Science from University of Bombay with majors in Artificial Intelligence. Jasminder is an active investor and mentor to startups, and works very closely with the Govt of India. He is passionate about simplifying technology and is loves books, heritage and all things vintage. To share feedback or engage with us, write to us at podcast@bharat.fund Subscribe to never miss an episode: Apple Podcast | Google Podcast | Spotify | Amazon Music | Gaana | JioSaavn

About the Episode: Signzy facilitates 10 million+ end-user and corporate onboardings each month, with a 99% success rate, while reducing time to market from 6 months to 3-4 weeks. In this episode of the Build for Bharat podcast, co-founder Ankit Ratan discusses Signzy, a worldwide digital trust platform, with host Sanjay Jain. About the Guest: Ankit Ratan graduated from IIT Delhi in 2011 with a silver medal. Having worked in data analytics firms at New York and Shanghai for a few years, he realised that his heart lay in India and he decided to settle and build a global company out of India. Today, he is building Signzy, a market-leading digital banking infrastructure provider that is redefining the speed, accuracy, and experience of how financial institutions are onboarding customers and businesses - using the digital medium. Signzy in its short Journey has won awards from RBI, Monetary Authority of Singapore, IBM, Thomson Reuters and was also judged as Forbes 30 under 30. To share feedback or engage with us, write to us at podcast@bharat.fund Subscribe to never miss an episode: Apple Podcast | Google Podcast | Spotify | Amazon Music | Gaana | JioSaavn

About the Episode: The co-founder and CTO of PhonePe, Rahul Chari, discusses the value of emphasizing User engagement and customer experience on this episode of the BuildForBharat podcast. Listen in at... About the Guest: Rahul is the co-founder and CTO at PhonePe. He is a serial entrepreneur in the consumer internet space and has built PhonePe into one of India’s fastest growing and largest fintech companies. He comes with over two decades of experience in consumer internet and enterprise software space. He has strong experience in building world-class tech platforms for web-scale, continuously scaling systems to deal with hyper-growth and evolving the processes and practices to meet the demands of a fast-growing organization. His areas of expertise include digital payments & commerce platforms (Mobile payments, Fintech, Digital Media platforms, Websites/Mobile Apps, ECommerce Supply Chain Systems) and Embedded Systems (SAN Switching, Storage Virtualization, SAN-based RAID), Enterprise S/W Development (SAN-based Data Migration, Remote Replication, iSCSI, IP over FC, FC2-4 stack). Prior to PhonePe, Rahul was at Flipkart as Vice President of Engineering. He joined Flipkart in 2011 through the acquisition of Mallers Inc. He spearheaded the Supply Chain technology division at Flipkart. In his role, he was responsible for building the best-in-class supply chain management system for e-commerce covering order management, warehousing & transport management and eCommerce fulfilment innovation to create value for customers at Flipkart. Prior to Flipkart, Rahul co-founded Mallers, Inc. in 2009 and served as its Chief Technology Officer. He built MIME360, the flagship product of Mallers Inc, which was a platform for the management and distribution of digital content to various legal online streaming sites and apps. Prior to Mallers Inc, Rahul was with the Data Center Business Unit at Cisco Systems. At Cisco Systems, he was part of the team that developed the market changing MDS 9000 family of SAN switches. He was leading a team working on advanced storage solutions for the SAN. He architected and executed the development of solutions such as SAN Based Data Migration and Extended SCSI Copy for the SAN. Rahul came into Cisco through the acquisition of Andiamo Systems, a Storage Area Network (SAN) switching and SAN based storage services company. He is named on multiple Storage Virtualization related patents and has been actively involved in storage technologies and standards such as SCSI, Fibre Channel, iSCSI and RAID. Rahul holds a Master’s degree in Computer Science from Purdue University, USA and a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering from Bombay (Mumbai) University, India (Gold Medallist). To share feedback or engage with us, write to us at podcast@bharat.fund Subscribe to never miss an episode: Apple Podcast | Google Podcast | Spotify | Amazon Music | Gaana | JioSaavn

About the Episode: In this episode, co-founder of pinBox solutions Gautam Bhardwaj talks with host Sanjay Jain about their use of technology to expand digital micro-pension inclusion across numerous nations for an assured affluent old age. About the Guest: Gautam is co-founder of pinBox - a global pensionTech and expert advisory firm committed exclusively to expanding digital micro-pension coverage to self-employed women and youth across Asia and Africa. Over the last 25 years, Gautam has worked with several governments, regulators and financial inclusion stakeholders to design and build inclusive mechanisms for comprehensive pension and social security inclusion. He was one of the architects of India's National Pension System. To share feedback or engage with us, write to us at podcast@bharat.fund Subscribe to never miss an episode: Apple Podcast | Google Podcast | Spotify | Amazon Music | Gaana | JioSaavn

About the Episode: Join Amit Ranjan, in this episode with Sanjay Jain, as he shares the journey of DigiLocker. With over 200 types of documents, over 5 Billion documents, it is making the lives of Indians better by allowing them easier ways to manage various critical documents, and improving trust. Truly a #BuildForBharat initiative! About the Guest: Amit Ranjan is Cofounder of SlideShare, the world's largest professional content sharing community. SlideShare was acquired by LinkedIn in 2012. After exiting SlideShare, Amit joined the Digital India Program run by the National eGovernance Division, Ministry of Electronics & IT, Government of India. He was the Architect for the DigiLocker Project. A key initiative under Digital India, this project is part of IndiaStack and aims to build a nationwide ecosystem for paperless governance by digitizing citizen data records & enabling their digital usage. Amit is deeply involved in the Indian startup community as an advisor, mentor, investor and speaker. Prior to his entrepreneurial venture, Amit had a career in product marketing, sales and consumer research, having worked for PepsiCo, Asian Paints & Godrej. He holds an MBA from FMS, Delhi University & a Mechanical Engineering degree from NIT Jaipur. To share feedback or engage with us, write to us at podcast@bharat.fund Subscribe to never miss an episode: Apple Podcast | Google Podcast | Spotify | Amazon Music | Gaana | JioSaavn