Futurepreneurs: 10 Deeptech & AI Startups

Nistha Tripathi is on a mission to make business books interesting to read. A bestselling start-up author, her last book No Shortcuts featured stories of 15 successful Indian entrepreneurs because she was tired of turning to Silicon Valley books for advice on building start-ups in India.After completing a degree in Engineering from University of Illinois, she joined New York University to pursue an MBA but dropped out. Thereafter, she worked on Wall Street and with a few fast-growing start-ups in Manhattan, where she developed a keen understanding of business strategy. She organized NYU Stern's first Entrepreneurship Summit that featured the likes of Seth Godin and Chris Dixon. After returning to India, Nistha founded India's leading career consulting community-Scholar Strategy. It has helped hundreds of applicants get into top MS and MBA programmes in the US including MIT, Harvard and Stanford. She is an active career coach (certified with NeuroLeadership Institute, USA), acclaimed author and a prolific speaker. She has given talks at leading start-up events and college start-up fests.
With 100,000 plus followers and more than 12 million views on her content across Quora, LinkedIn and Instagram, Nistha actively writes on entrepreneurship, career advice and pursuing one's passion. Her articles have appeared on Entrepreneur, Time, DailyO, DNA, The Tribune and other leading media outlets.
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A constellation of imaging satellites detecting gas leaks, voice bots mirroring your accent, portable breathing devices to save infants-this is not Silicon Valley-these are Made-in-India startups.
MIT trained scientist, Varun Aggarwal, and a bestselling startup author, Nistha Tripathi, come together to investigate a world of startups beyond e-commerce, payment gateways, hotel and cab aggregation. They interview 10 deeptech and AI founders in India who are not only creating space technology, genomics tools, robots, self-driving vehicles but also building successful business models around them. Many of them already have global clients and are getting closer to the unicorn valuations.
The book demystifies complex-sounding technologies that power deeptech and AI startups. A must-read for anyone passionate about startups and technology.