Indian startup stories with operating detail.
Shunya One is a practical Indian tech show built around long-form conversations with founders and other guests. Episodes move from product origin stories into supply chains, fintech behavior, gaming regulation, consumer brands, AI SaaS, dating apps, and dairy-tech scale.
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Shunya One is an Indian tech and startup conversation show with a builder’s sense of detail. It is less interested in surface trends than in how a company becomes real. Recent episodes spend time with businesses that sit inside complicated Indian markets: textiles, wealth management, online gaming, packaged food, AI SaaS, dating, and dairy. The format usually starts with the company story, then works outward into category shifts, operational choices, regulation, consumer behavior, and product-market fit. A natural-fibre episode follows Rishamundi across farms, yarns, weaves, lifestyle products, QR-code traceability, capital assistance, and future international plans. A fintech conversation with Subramanya S V, also called Subbu in the episode, frames wealth-tech against falling interest rates, volatile gold, demonetization, RERA, Aadhaar, and COVID-era changes. The gaming episode with Deepak treats online rummy and fantasy sports as a business shaped by entertainment, responsibility, limits, regulation, acquisitions, and cricket data. The Nutty Gritties conversation with Dhinika Bhatia connects a legacy Indian family business to modern packaged snacks, visual appeal, taste, consumer evolution, and festive product launches. The AI episode with Sanjay Kumar centers on computer vision, B2B SaaS, pivots, market fit, and an Indian company built for global customers. Able Joseph’s episode on dating looks at trust, Facebook-era signals, compatibility, waiting periods, offline meetings, and Indian competition against global dating apps. A Kirti Jangra episode signals the show’s interest in technology for dairy farmers, even when the available excerpt is sparse. Across these conversations, the register is informal but business-minded. The questions often push guests to explain the sector before selling the company. That matters. The show gives listeners a way to understand why Indian startups make the tradeoffs they do. It is useful for founders, product people, investors, and curious operators who want market texture, not just headline funding narratives. Shunya One’s strength is its range: it treats a sari supply chain, a savings platform, a rummy business, a snack brand, and a SaaS product as equally serious technology stories.
Made for: For founders, product builders, investors, and startup-curious listeners who want Indian technology companies explained through market behavior, product choices, and guest experience.
What sets it apart: Shunya One stands out by treating technology as sector work: supply chains, regulation, taste, trust, finance, and distribution all matter as much as software. The conversations stay close to Indian market realities rather than generic startup advice.
Every week Shiladitya M. brings together a couple of his techie friends to talk about whats happening in Indian tech. No Gadget reviews.
This is where your dating app, snack aisle and saree QR code become business case studies.
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A grounded look at QR traceability, retail, and capital assistance inside a natural-fibre supply chain.
Digitising the natural-fibre supply chain comes through as a business built one layer at a time. Saurabh maps the move from farms and yarns into weaves, a direct-to-consumer saree brand, lifestyle products, and a Mudra division for capital assistance.
A steady, long-view discussion of India's shift from traditional savings toward wealth technology.
Subbu frames India's turn toward wealth technology as a slow change in how households understand money. Falling interest rates, swings in gold prices, demonetization, Aadhaar, the RERA Act, and COVID all sit inside his larger point: savings have been moving into more…
A clear account of how online Rummy expanded into a wider Indian gaming and cricket-data business.
This episode maps the buildout of an Indian online gaming company as it expands from Rummy into fantasy sports, cricket data, and a wider set of brands.
A grounded look at how Nutty Gritties balances legacy, taste, presentation, and a crowded packaged-food market.
Nutty Gritties comes through as a grounded look at how an Indian family-business legacy can support a newer consumer brand built around nuts and health mixes.
Linux talk with a maintenance instinct.
Gamification beyond points, badges, and novelty.
Accessible design, priced and explained clearly.
Practical SharePoint guidance without the panic.
Rishamundi founder and CTO Saurabh Agarwal argues that a 50,000-rupee sari does not need to stay that expensive, because value can be redistributed across farmers, yarn makers, weavers, mills, and retailers.
Shunya One talks with Subramanya S V, called Subbu, about Fisdom's path from a 2016 investing app to a bank-partnered wealth platform.
Ravi Bushan, founder and CEO of Bright Champs, says he built the company after seeing friends with strong academics lack skills such as financial literacy, and after finding that top schools in New York and Dubai taught technology as "bold and italics in Microsoft Word." Bright Champs offers four K-12 courses (technology foundations, financial literacy, robotics with a hardware kit, and effective communication), launched during the pandemic and headquartered in Goa.
Deepak says a friend playing Solitaire in London helped spark the Rummy-on-computer idea that later became Head Digital Works.
Shunya One's 'The one-stop-shop for guilt-free snacking' centers on Dhinika Bhatia, founder of Nutty Gritties and DRB Foods, and her 13-year run in flavored nuts.
An interview with Sanjay about his computer vision SaaS company built in India for the global market.
Shunya One episode 156 features Abel Joseph, founder of Aisle, discussing how the Indian dating app earned its first revenue on day three and operated for more than seven years without venture capital.
A weekly podcast discussing the latest happenings in the Indian tech industry with a group of techie friends.