An interview with Gadhadar Reddy, Chief Executive Officer of NoPo Nanotechnologies Private Limited
John Hoffmire: Tell me about your company, NoPo Nanotechnologies. Gadhadar: I founded NoPo Nanotechnologies in 2011 along with Dr. Robert Kelley Bradley. Our objective was to produce high quality carbon nanotubes and thereby enable applications that would transform life. In particular, we are developing technologies for the space industry that will also help solve some of the biggest problems on earth. In the first phase of realizing this vision, NoPo developed technology for producing highly dispersible, high quality, repeatable single-walled carbon nanotubes using a highly modified HiPCO process. We are now executing the second phase, which is to develop products
An interview with James TJ, founder & Director at Creativiti Council, and Project Director of Innovation Science Technology Enterprise Development (i-STED Project)
John Hoffmire: Tell me about Creativiti Council, the organization you founded. James: We are a non-profit organization addressing the needs of two marginalized sections of the society. Our first mission is to address elderly/bedridden/palliative care. With gradual deterioration of abilities, the aged population faces extreme difficulties to meet their daily needs. It has been noted that with loss of autonomy and freedom of movement, life becomes miserable for the aged. The situation is even worse for palliative care patients (bed ridden patients). It has been noted that the majority of the technological needs of palliative care patients are yet to
An Interview With Dr. Mugdha Potnis-Lele Senior Manager – Social Innovations, Venture Center
John Hoffmire: What is the Venture Center? Mugdha: Venture Center is India’s award-winning, leading technology business incubator for science and technology startups. We offer entrepreneurs and startups the widest suite of incubation programs, services, resources, and facilities. With over 75 resident startups at any given time, we are one of India’s largest science business incubators. We support startups developing intellectual property intensive technologies, products, and services in the areas of biotech, healthcare, pharma, agriculture, and clean tech. John: What is the Center’s main focus? Mugdha: Venture Center’s main focus is to nucleate and nurture technology and knowledge-based enterprises for India
An interview with Jayant Sitaram Karve, Director and Chief Executive Officer of RCupe Lifesciences Private Limited
John Hoffmire: Tell me about your company, RCupe Lifesciences Pvt. Ltd. Jayant: RCupe Lifesciences is a biomedical device start-up focused on developing, manufacturing, and commercializing innovative solutions for unmet clinical needs in emerging and other markets. Currently we are focused on a much needed ‘Ozyn-D™’, an indigenously developed, novel intraosseous (IO) device for pre-hospital and in-hospital critical care management. John: Tell me more about ‘Ozyn-D™’. Jayant: ‘Ozyn-D™’ is a lifesaving intraosseous device, which gains quick access to circulation (in less than 10 seconds) in medical emergencies. The manual device gains access through long bones and infuses fluids and medications in comparable
An interview with Karon Shaiva, Chief Impact Officer – IDOBRO & Managing Trustee – RISE Infinity Foundation
John Hoffmire: You are the founder of the RISE Infinity Foundation. Tell me more about this social enterprise. Karon: I started the RISE Infinity Foundation in 2014 as an organization committed to serve those in India who are vulnerable, poor, and sick. Our vision is to create a more responsible, inclusive, sustainable, and eco-friendly society that will meet the immediate needs of those who are challenged and underserved. We work with a multi-stakeholder, multi-sectoral approach using the four values I just mentioned to ensure that we look at community development as inter-related and not in a mutually exclusive manner. John: The
Efficiently Measuring Progress Toward Poverty Alleviation
John Hoffmire: What did you have in mind that made you want to start Outline India? Prerna Mukharya - Good data leads to robust policy making. Before starting my journey with Outline India, I was a researcher working on grants with think tanks and universities. I realized that as a country we were receiving so much donor money, (philanthropic contributions and aid money), not to mention private contributions, and CSR (corporate social responsibility) money, but no one really knew whether it was being spent efficiently. We did not know who the best on ground partners were, even worse - we had