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Hard Truths By Vertex

Vertex Ventures Southeast Asia & India is a pioneer in investing in tech start-ups in this region and has helped to build a number of unicorns.

Podcast · By Vertex Ventures SEA and India · English · SG · Official site

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Sep 9, 2026
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  1. Episode · Sep 9, 2026

    Why Al Never Got Cheaper | Lemuel Low, Ren3 (opens the original)

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    I sat down with an AI founder who believes companies are spending first… and asking what it cost later. Lemuel Low is building Ren3 to help businesses understand, control and optimise the rapidly growing cost of AI. As enterprises deploy copilots, autonomous agents and increasingly complex workflows, many are discovering that traditional software budgets simply do not work when every outcome carries a different and potentially uncapped token cost.We spoke about why AI never became as cheap as pr

  2. Episode · Aug 20, 2026

    Why India's Rich Are Choosing Villas Over Hotels | Ritwik Khare & Karan Miglani, Elivaas (opens the original)

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    They went from three villas to 600 in just over two years — by betting that India’s next major travel brand would look less like a hotel and more like someone’s dream home. Ritwik Khare and Karan Miglani, co-founders of ELIVAAS, had worked together in travel before building a company at the intersection of hospitality and real estate. They saw a growing market of second-home owners who needed help maintaining, monitoring and monetising their properties — and travellers who wanted the privacy of

  3. Episode · Aug 6, 2026

    The ₹500 Cr Startup Making Ayurveda Work Like Modern Medicine | Ameve Sharma, Kapiva (opens the original)

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    He wants to build the “herbal Pfizer”... and he’s betting Kapiva’s future on proof, not blind faith. I sat down with Ameve Sharma, founder of Kapiva, to understand how his personal connection to Ayurveda became a mission to bring 5,000 years of Indian medicine into modern healthcare. We unpacked his journey of scaling Kapiva, investing heavily in clinical trials, challenging traditional thinking, and convincing manufacturers to meet standards nobody else was asking for. Ameve explains why Ayurve

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