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Malavika Velayanikal

ARTICLES BY MALAVIKA VELAYANIKAL

Meesho co-founder Vidit Aatrey takes a selfie with reseller Nargis Sultana at the Women’s Entrepreneurship Summit in Coimbatore last month. Meesho registers those with a large online following as resellers, and has them share products on WhatsApp groups, FB pages and Instagram (Photo: Umesh B.M.)

Army of women takes social retail to small towns

5 min read . 01 Sept 2021

Meesho co-founder Vidit Aatrey takes a selfie with reseller Nargis Sultana at the Women’s Entrepreneurship Summit in Coimbatore last month. Meesho registers those with a large online following as resellers, and has them share products on WhatsApp groups, FB pages and Instagram (Photo: Umesh B.M.)

Army of women takes social retail to small towns

5 min read . 01 Sept 2021

Nitin Vats, founder and CEO of TryNdBuy, says adoption of 3D solutions for apparel fittings might be faster outside India.

A passage to China for this Indian virtual apparel fitting room

3 min read . 01 Sept 2021

(From left) Flickstree’s Rahul Jain, Nagender Sangra and Saurabh Singh use an AI-based data analytics engine to curate videos for partners.

How a partnership model is driving short videos on phones

3 min read . 01 Sept 2021

Fintech for lower income groups has to go beyond credit, and the aim has to be true financial inclusion, says Roopa Kudva, head of Omidyar Network India (Photo: S Kumar/Mint)

New business models to take fintech beyond payments, credit

3 min read . 01 Sept 2021

Sucharita Mukherjee, CEO and co-founder of Kaleidofin, designs financial products for informal sector workers like small shopkeepers. (Photo: Sai Sen/Mint)

Thinking small to weave a safety net of savings

5 min read . 01 Sept 2021

Prasanna Krishnamoorthy (centre), founder of SaaS startup accelerator Upekkha, is helping startup founders make the shift from planning quarterly goals to adapting on the go as the crisis unfolds (Photo: Bhaskar Varma/Mint)

As revenues crash, startups learn to adapt products, services

3 min read . 27 Aug 2021

Coping with isolation can be hard for most people who are intrinsically social beings, and AI-powered chatbots can suggest support systems. (Photo: Reuters)

When chatbots help cope with pandemic stress

5 min read . 27 Aug 2021

Madhurima Agarwal, who leads the NetApp Excellerator in Bengaluru, the idea behind the programme was to collaborate with the best minds

A silver lining in the cloud for AI startups

5 min read . 27 Aug 2021

Textbooks written for any field ten years from now will have parts of machine learning in it, say experts. (iStock)

Are tech schools in India preparing students for the AI/ML age?

3 min read . 11 Apr 2021

Lumis Partners goes into specific supply chain domains such as food or pharma to develop strategies

What it takes to build a supply chain and logistics tech ecosystem

4 min read . 29 Mar 2021

This network play provided by 5C Network is what gives the kind of scale and efficiency that a small teleradiology service cannot match.

When hospitals get diagnostics as a service at ease

5 min read . 22 Mar 2021

Sunita Muthe uses a solar-powered dehydrator from S4S Technologies at her farm in Kamkheda village, Maharashtra. (Photo: s4s technologies)

A cut-and-dried model to reduce farm wastage

5 min read . 15 Mar 2021

India Hemp Organics co-founders Loveena Sirohi and Rohit Kamath with a hemp farmer in Uttarakhand.

Startups search for a pot of gold in ayurvedic cannabinoids

4 min read . 08 Mar 2021

Co-founders of Himalayan Hemp Haneesh Katnawer and Sonam Sodha with farmers in Kullu. (Photo: Himalayan Hemp)

Cannabis firms aim high despite the legal haze

5 min read . 08 Mar 2021

The ePlane Company team at IIT Madras with co-founders Satya Chakravarthy (standing fifth from left) and Pranjal Mehta (standing third from right).

It’s a plane; it’s a drone; it’s got the best of both

5 min read . 28 Feb 2021

Lush growth inside a low-cost Kheyti greenhouse in Telangana.

A greenhouse in a box for small farmers

5 min read . 22 Feb 2021

Tonbo’s command launcher unit for a man-portable anti-tank guided missile integrated with AI-enabled imaging infrared seeker for homing in on targets.

Guided missiles homing in with Indian deep tech

5 min read . 15 Feb 2021

StaTwig founder Sid Chakravarthy on the Nasdaq tower in New York in recognition of the startup’s work with vaccines.

Covid vaccines give blockchain a shot in the arm

5 min read . 08 Feb 2021

StanceBeam founder Arminder Thind (left) with opener Shikhar Dhawan holding a bat with an IoT device. Also seen are co-founder Ishwinderpal Singh (second from right) and Dinesh Prasad, who is an adviser to the firm

Any takers for a brave new world of cricket with IoT and AI?

4 min read . 01 Feb 2021