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Detailed stories on technology startups, business and economic current affairs.
Detailed stories on technology startups, business and economic current affairs.
Omnivore Capital Management Advisors co-founder and managing partner Jinesh Shah talks about how the Indian agritech ecosystem has evolved, the potential it shows and the bets his company is making.
Editor's note: Jinesh Shah is pragmatic to a fault. He admits there are many problems in agriculture, but says most of them are related to people’s perceptions, stemming from their lack of understanding of the sector. He also knows that he can’t help solve all the issues, but believes that technology has answers to many of the questions. For him, each little step matters and even the smallest of innovations has the potential to make an impact. Which is exactly what his firm Omnivore, with a food and agriculture focus, is hoping to accomplish. Shah is fascinated by technology and started his career in the business process outsourcing unit of HCL Technologies at the turn of the century. From there, he moved to Patni Computers and eventually landed at Nexus Venture Partners as the chief financial officer. In between, there was a personal venture that failed to take off. At Nexus Venture Partners, while he was navigating the venture capital universe, trying to understand its dynamics, he saw several VCs chasing consumer-facing businesses, aiming to solve what he calls the urban rich …
Omnivore Capital Management Advisors co-founder and managing partner Jinesh Shah talks about how the Indian agritech ecosystem has evolved, the potential it shows and the bets his company is making.
Editor's note: Jinesh Shah is pragmatic to a fault. He admits there are many problems in agriculture, but says most of them are related to people’s perceptions, stemming from their lack of understanding of the sector. He also knows that he can’t help solve all the issues, but believes that technology has answers to many of the questions. For him, each little step matters and even the smallest of innovations has the potential to make an impact. Which is exactly what his firm Omnivore, with a food and agriculture focus, is hoping to accomplish. Shah is fascinated by technology and started his career in the business process outsourcing unit of HCL Technologies at the turn of the century. From there, he moved to Patni Computers and eventually landed at Nexus Venture Partners as the chief financial officer. In between, there was a personal venture that failed to take off. At Nexus Venture Partners, while he was navigating the venture capital universe, trying to understand its dynamics, he saw several VCs chasing consumer-facing businesses, aiming to solve what he calls the urban rich …
Bluesky vs X, the UAE deluge, Adar Poonawalla’s investment in Karan Johar’s Dharma Productions and more.
Alt Carbon, Varaha and a handful of local firms in the carbon dioxide removal space face multiple obstacles, chief among them being poor demand owing to the prohibitive cost of their solutions.
The four-year-old company’s rapid rise is matched only by its stunning fall, marred by allegations of fraud and mismanagement.
Bluesky vs X, the UAE deluge, Adar Poonawalla’s investment in Karan Johar’s Dharma Productions and more.
Alt Carbon, Varaha and a handful of local firms in the carbon dioxide removal space face multiple obstacles, chief among them being poor demand owing to the prohibitive cost of their solutions.
The four-year-old company’s rapid rise is matched only by its stunning fall, marred by allegations of fraud and mismanagement.
