Poornima Kavlekar has been associated with The Smart CEO since the time of launch and is the Consulting Editor of the magazine. She has been writing for almost 20 years on a cross section of topics including stocks and personal finance and now, on entrepreneurship and growth enterprises. She is a trained Yoga Teacher, an avid endurance Cyclist and a Veena player.
Poornima Kavlekar Featured in #Special Features
“Land acquisition is a major challenge for any real estate player”
Jul 27, 2017
Operating in the industrial warehousing space, Embassy Industrial Parks is a joint venture between the Embassy Group and Warburg Pincus. It’s CEO, Anshul Singhal, talks about the market for industrial warehousing…
Poornima Kavlekar Featured in #Starting Up
Jul 27, 2017
Nandan Nilekani and Accel Partners-backed logistics venture, 4TiGO Network, is bringing together various stakeholders of the goods transportation industry into a common technology platform. Its primary weapon: to unclog bottlenecks across…
Poornima Kavlekar Featured in #The Chro Series
How Ceat Tyres is building a culture of outperformance
Jul 27, 2017
Milind Apte, Senior Vice President, HR at Ceat Tyres and a former professional Badminton player, talks about the lessons he learnt in his professional journey of 22 years, Ceat’s HR policies…
Poornima Kavlekar Featured in #QUESTIONNAIRE
“Everyone was looking for a solution to give back to their Alma Maters.”
Jul 26, 2017
But, they didn’t know how, as it is not as organised in India as it is in the U.S. In this interview, Vikram Gupta talks about his journey at IvyCap…
Poornima Kavlekar Featured in #Live your Passion Series
“The more I pursue my passion, the more energy I get to focus on work”
Jul 26, 2017
A tete-e-tete with Prashant Mehta, a passionate cyclist and a half iron man, and partner with Lightbox Venture Capital on his personal and professional journey and how the two complement…
Poornima Kavlekar Featured in #Interview
In conversation with Manish Singhal, founding partner of pi Ventures
Jun 30, 2017
Singhal is excited about building one of India’s first AI and deep-tech focused venture capital funds. Several well-known entrepreneurs including Deep Kalra and Sanjeev Bikchandani have invested in pi…
Poornima Kavlekar Featured in #Big.Bold & Hi-Tech
Drone Technology: A View from the Top
Jun 30, 2017
Quidich’s drones captures crucial data for industrial clients, with the primary goal of enabling better decision-making for their clients Finding survivors under debris; surveying power transmission assets to calculate damage…
Poornima Kavlekar Featured in #Big.Bold & Hi-Tech
Jun 30, 2017
Pulkit Gaur had been obsessed with robots since his childhood and turned his passion into a business in 2007. Today, Gridbots has to its credit several firsts in the robotics sector including…
Poornima Kavlekar Featured in #Big.Bold & Hi-Tech
How GreyOrange deployed robots to increase efficiency in Warehouses
Jun 30, 2017
Tiger Global and Blume Ventures funded GreyOrange, a company that manufactures and deploys advanced robotics systems for automation at warehouses, distribution and fulfilment centres, is all set to serve new verticals like…
Poornima Kavlekar Featured in #Big.Bold & Hi-Tech
Jun 30, 2017
Abhinav and Raghav Aggarwal dropped out of their MBAs at ISB Hyderabad and IIM Ahmedabad to build an AI platform for banks, retailers and e-commerce customers. The two self-taught coders…
