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Great Companies: How did you get your idea or concept for the business? Chimbu Aravind: I along with my other co-founders P K Rajesh, Gagan Mittal , Koneru Kishore, Vijayaraghavan Harikumar started Alethea Communications Technologies Pvt Ltd with a small team in the year 2010. Each one of us had had a strong background in broadband communications technologies especially in the development of test and measurement tools. We had the firm belief that broadband technologies will enable society at large to have a better future. Back In 2010, new generations of wireless technologies - 4G & Wi-Fi—that we take for granted today were just coming up on the horizon. That is when we decided to start Alethea (Aletheatech.com) to provide products and services that would help the broadband ecosystem deliver solutions on these new generation technologies. Over the years, we have stayed true to our initial focus and delivered cutting-edge products and turnkey solutions to some of the best-known names in the broadband technology space. Great Companies: What are the various Services provided by Alethea Communications Technologies Pvt Ltd? Chimbu Aravind: At Alethea, we have an unique blend of products, services and expertise that helps our customers deliver the perfect broadband experience to their end-users. We combine our capabilities across Cloud & Applications to Analytics, Data Science & AI/ML, DevOps, CI/CD & Automation, and Test & Measurement and apply those to the wireless broadband space. Our Test and Measurement products help customers from diverse industries accelerate the development, validation and deployment of broadband technologies worldwide. This helps our customers develop, deploy and maintain their broadband communications technology offerings with a high level of confidence. As an example, our product SWAT WiCheck can test the scale of 2000+ devices, stability, functionality, user experience, and security of Wi-Fi access points and end-to-end networks. Our customers use WiCheck in their labs & field to replicate the real-world scenarios and resolve the issues if any, in meeting the end-user expectations. Great Companies: What makes Alethea Communications Technologies Pvt different from others similar services providers? Chimbu Aravind: I would prefer to put this in different contexts • In the Indian context, we are a physical, hardware product developer and seller in a sea of services, commerce and SaaS companies. We help in developing the underlying infrastructure rather than applications In the context of test & measurement companies, we were focused from the beginning on user experience. Whether it is our products or services, we have been able to help our customers optimize end-user experience. That is fundamentally different from a lot of our immediate competitors, which makes us unique • Being a company whose primary goal lies in the development of broadband technologies, each of our products & services has been designed to address the issue in that space. Our products- both current & future - will be in this space and this space alone. This is what sets us apart again Great Companies: What are the struggles and challenges you face? Chimbu Aravind: Each stage of growth has brought its challenges. When we started off, the biggest challenge was to get the initial customers. Being a new company, we needed to prove our value in every engagement. Customers needed to be sure that we have the wherewithal to deliver the product and keep supporting it. At that time, we did not have a big balance sheet or a big brand to back us. We had to build a product that did the talking for us. As we started growing, we faced challenges in scaling. The lack of a large market for Broadband test systems in India was a major obstacle. Most companies were not open to taking a chance with an unknown Indian company. The third and most important challenge was the lack of a large ecosystem in India for broadband technologies. Many of the key components for our hardware need to be imported. There are also very few resources available in the market with exposure in the specific set of skills we need. We have managed to work around these constraints over time. We also need to make a lot more of the broadband ecosystem aware of us. Being a relatively new company based in India, we are not exactly well known. We have to go out of our way to project our capabilities, high out our successes and take the effort to bring the spotlight to us. However, being underdogs pushes us to build even more differentiated & amazing products. Great Companies: How do you plan to grow in the future? What does 5 years down the line look like for Alethea Communications Technologies Pvt Ltd? Chimbu Aravind: Today, we work with some of the biggest companies in the wireless networking and broadband space. There are a very few organizations in India that know the wireless testing space as broadly as we do. Over the years, we have also developed, optimized, supported and maintained wireless technology stacks and applications for leading chip vendors, OEMs and operators around the world and have been innovating and conceptualizing new ideas every then and now. We expect to be one of the most significant Test & Measurement solutions providers in the world within the next 5 years. First and foremost, we expect User Experience to be central to all new product development. We are well-positioned to address this given our expertise in building test tools as well as actual networking equipment that put USERS front and center. Our belief is that this trend would grow further. AI/ML and analytics applications are growing. Pretty soon, we think customers will expect more from test and measurement systems providers in terms of identifying and or predicting issues based on test data. End-to-end testing will be critical to assessing customer experience on networks. Whether the problem is with the device or the cloud, the blame will always fall on the ISP or the network provider. So enabling these key players to predict potential fault points will be critical and we are already doing this from our test & network management solutions. The explosion in connected devices will continue. Developers and end customers need to be sure that all these devices function as expected and more importantly interop well. We see validation and certification of IoT and other connected devices and systems to become a major requirement shortly. We want to be there in the center of all this action. Great Companies: If you had one piece of advice to someone just starting out, what would it be? Chimbu Aravind: It will be a long journey ahead, so do it in a group of people who you are comfortable with so that you can enjoy the journey and learn in this process. Always follow your passion and give all your efforts and never hesitate to learn something new. Website- https://aletheatech.com/ LinkedIn- https://www.linkedin.com/company/alethea-communications-technologies-pvt-ltd/mycompany/ Twitter- https://twitter.com/AletheaComm

Great Companies: How did you get your idea or concept for the business? Yashu Sharma: I started my career by joining the organization where I had to build up the HR Department from basics, The inception process was much after the organization was there in the market, the idea of incorporating the HR Culture right from the beginning of the business is the key that helped me to bring up the concept out. Of course this pandemic made me think and sail through this entire aspect & importance - of bringing out this concept and making it to life. I could see the gaps between the organizations and the employees along with the unemployed groups in the Job Market which showed out the importance of Strategic HR Management right from the beginning and Yes, I got my very first assignment by my ex-colleague also a friend, to set up the HR systems much before his company thought of setting up in Goa location which stood as a motivation for me to start in the same direction. Basically The need for Human Resources in any organization is the key, Especially the startups, many people have this thought that, HR is needed when we have people already, but it's the other way round, wherein I am here to let the organizations make their way to start their firm in the best way by making sure their HR Systems is well in place before you start employing resources/employees. The need is indeed there but much before you plan to set up processes in the company. As the HR is set up, then you are good to go and maintain it throughout, and that's how I started NeoWise keeping in mind all the startups to bring up the best of the systems, and we provide exactly that! Our speciality is building up entire HR Systems to run your startup and add value to even the first employee of the company. I have another Venture too, that's my Passion as well, CraftersYard, which again focuses on bringing the best of the talents across all genders and give everyone the platform to enhance their skills, talents and confidence through CraftersYard in a unique way. and still there's a long way to go in that journey as well and lots more to achieve Great Companies: What are the various Services provided by NeoWise Business Solutions Yashu Sharma: Our Speciality/USP is building up entire HR Systems to run your startup and add value to even the first employee of the company, we call is as Virtual HR Services- we have a team of HR's and specialist who specifically set up the entire HR system and run it for the organizations who wouldn't want to invest in having a full time HR. we fulfill each aspect of HR Systems virtually & successfully. other services include, Training & Development, Recruitment Services, HR Social Media Handling, Employee Engagements. Payroll & Compliance's, Strategic HR Management Services and Career & Personal Counselling Services. Great Companies: What makes NeoWise Business Solutions different from hundreds of other Business Consulting firms ? Yashu Sharma: NeoWise not only provides a single service alone unlike other consulting firms, but an entire "HR Package" at the most affordable cost which includes best of the strategic advisory and Resource planning as an addon to Virtual HR Systems specially for startups. Great Companies: What are the struggles and challenges you face? Yashu Sharma: The belief that, HR is required for starting your business, the belief of making HR an important aspect of an organization and focusing on the company to become best place to work in. The idea still needs to be inculcated. apart from that is that to explain the management the importance of Human Resource in an organization right from the time of inception, Most of the organizations start without HR and later realize the importance wherein it gets difficult to later on convince the employees that management is interested and is focused/looking after the Human aspect of an organization.and yes, Major challenge is - Hiring Right candidate for the right job at the right time, and we are determined to accomplish and overcome this challenge in the best of the strategic ways Great Companies: How do you plan to grow in the future? What does 5 years down the line look like for NeoWise Business Solutions? Yashu Sharma: We look to be one of the largest player in the field and grow bigger with this concept of creating values, engaging the employees right from knowing the organization and getting into it successfully, Enhance HR Employment along with other employment opportunities for unemployed group and - to work with every startups of India and go international to connect and start their Human Resource journey with NeoWise. Great Companies: If you had one piece of advice to someone just starting out, what would it be? Yashu Sharma: Bring your ideas to life before it fades away from your mind. Do not hesitate to take one step forward/move even when your in doubt, dont give up and keep moving with Positive mind, Trust the process & flow with the energy, keep envisioning your dream life & bring it into reality! Website : www.neowisebusiness.com Twitter : https://twitter.com/NeoWiseSolutio1 Linkedin : https://www.linkedin.com/company/neowisebusinesssolutions/ Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/Neowisesolutions/services/ Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/neowisebusinesssolutions/

Great Companies: How did you get your idea or concept for the business? Sameer Allawadi : When I was doing my post-graduation in Entrepreneurship in 1998, we have to make a project that we want to do after completing education. Being Chemical engineer, I first choose Chemical and dyes. When I survey, I realized that 50% units in GIDC were closed due to pollution norms or dumping from China. Second choice to apply my engineering skill was Food processing industry. When I went in depth, I realized developed countries are not importing much material from India as organically grown farm produce was not available. At that time, domestic market for food processing was not developed much. So, I decided that I will play instrumental work in growing organic food. Now I need to start from somewhere. After studying organic farming, I realized that organic manure is the foundation of organic farming. So, I took the project of Manufacturing and marketing of Organic Manure. After completing education, I joined a company as sales officer. This company helped me a lot in making my project. Here my journey with farmers of South Gujarat started and within 3 months, I started my own trading of organic manure as a dealer. Later we took dealership of many companies and then started own manufacturing. Great Companies: What are the various Services provided by Utkarsh Agrochem Pvt Ltd Sameer Allawadi : We sell more than 130 non-poisonous products that are used for agriculture, horticulture, organic farming, aquarium plants, hydroponics etc. We do online and offline consultation. We make sowing till harvesting videos of all important crops in India and provide them on our YouTube channel. We conduct training workshops for farmers. We do white labelling of our products for many companies. We make customized products for companies as per their requirements. We export our products. Great Companies: What makes Utkarsh Agrochem Pvt Ltd different from hundreds of other similar manufacturing and trading firms? Sameer Allawadi : We have good range of fertilizers that are result oriented, rightly priced, available on more than 7 portals so anyone in India can easily buy them. Also, we educate our customers and provide customized solution after visiting their farms or seeing photos and videos and understanding their problem. We also provide free training of more than 20 crops through our videos, SOPs, online support etc. Great Companies: What are the struggles and challenges you face? Sameer Allawadi : I started with 0 zero capital. So first struggle was to create seed capital. Worked from home for first one and half. Started own office in 2001. Started own factory of organic manure manufacturing in 2003 but stopped it due to lack of working capital. Opened Surat’s first and 2nd organic food outlet in 2004 and 2007 but failed both times. In 2010, I was completely debt ridden. It took 2 years to bounce back. Started manufacturing on big scale in 2018 but selected wrong key persons. Here again lost majority of working capital. Great Companies: How do you plan to grow in the future? What does 5 years down the line look like for Utkarsh Agrochem Pvt Ltd? Sameer Allawadi : Exports, Dealer’s Network, Online sales, giving franchise and working with corporates. In next 5 years, Utkarsh AGROCHEM will be a leading solution provider to farmers and farming community in India and more than 30 countries of world. Great Companies: If you had one piece of advice to someone just starting out, what would it be? Sameer Allawadi : Be confident, have persistence and accept change easily. Success will be yours. Website : www.utkarshagro.com

Great Companies: How did you get your idea or concept for the business? Nutan Parag Khedekar: It's simple, Hobby converted to passion and passion converted into business. I never thought I would do business in my life but now it just happened. I heard business is all about bearing most of the risk and enjoy doing & getting achievements. And it is happening the same. Business is not destiny or success but its journey. Great Companies: What are the various Services provided by Nutan Parag Photography Nutan Parag Khedekar: Various subjects there are to capture and different ways to create the Photograph. I am specialised in Product photography, Interior photography and food photography. 75% of business and online shoppers rely on product or service imagery and it becomes easy to make decisions. I worked with many well established companies in Bangalore and Pune. I enjoy being around people so I do portraits of all ages and events photography. I love Nature so I do Bird and Wildlife photography. So I do commercial photography and event photography. Great Companies: What makes Nutan Parag Photography different from hundreds of other Photographers? Nutan Parag Khedekar: Photography is the Art, Practice with passion of taking pictures with camera. Being a Light and life academy's alumna and having a fine art background, I can create picture worth speaking more than a thousand words. I'm trained and prepared to meet challenges so business owners hire a visual solution provider. I always work with client to shoot unique and aesthetic images. I understand clients' exact needs. I just don't click the camera button, Photograph is Art of painting with light. Quality images and client's satisfaction are my priorities. Business marketing is all about communicating your value. Tapping into the use of commercial photography is an excellent opportunity to create messages for your business that makes you unique. Great Companies: What are the struggles and challenges you face? Nutan Parag Khedekar: Being a married woman and mother of two kids, it was challenging to manage business goals and daily household work. With great support from my husband, I successfully completed my graduation in Professional photography in NIlgiris for more than a year staying away from family in 2018. Photography as a career or business is a huge investment for education and high end equipment's. And all this after marriage was challenging with respect to time and finance. But it is great learning, being an independent woman and setting inspirational example for my own kids and other women. Great Companies: How do you plan to grow in the future? What does 5 years down the line look like for Nutan Parag Photography? Nutan Parag Khedekar: Learning is a constant process of discovery- a life long process. Photography is an art form which needs constant connectivity with new upcoming equipment's and doing best work creatively. I plan small tasks every 6 months. In the upcoming 5 year I have a vision of having my own creative studio for all commercial shoots. Network is net worth. So I would be having a good network in all major cities of India to grow further for the next 5 years. Great Companies: If you had one piece of advice to someone just starting out, what would it be? Nutan Parag Khedekar: Be passionate. Surround yourself with people who inspire you. Be clear about what you want and what is the purpose of your life. Follow your dreams and make them real. Just go for it... Website : https://www.nutanparagphotography.com/ Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/nutanparagphotography/ Linkedin : https://www.linkedin.com/in/nutan-khedekar-84802636

Great Companies: How did you get your idea or concept for the business? Rishi Raj: During the recruitment season at my college IIT Bombay, we had to prepare our CV that we needed to submit to companies. I really struggled writing my CV even though I felt I had good language skills. I realised that if I was struggling then definitely millions of people around the world especially from countries like China, Saudi Arabia etc would be struggling to write effectively in English. That’s when I had the eureka moment that a language correction service could have a huge demand. Great Companies: What are the various Services provided by PaperTrue Pte. Ltd Rishi Raj: PaperTrue provides online English editing and proofreading services to customers around the globe. Papertrue helps students, writers, job applicants and businesses get the best out of their written English content Great Companies: What makes PaperTrue Pte. Ltd Services different from hundreds of other similar service providers? Rishi Raj: PaperTrue has two editors look at content which means every document is reviewed. We also have an end-to-end publishing service. So let’s say you have written a draft of a novel and want to get published as an author, we help you with that too. Great Companies: What are the struggles and challenges you face? Rishi Raj: Our biggest challenge has been our over reliance on paid ads which has shrunk our margins. To offset this we are focusing on growing organically without spending too much on advertising. Great Companies: How do you plan to grow in the future? What does 5 years down the line look like for PaperTrue Pte. Ltd? Rishi Raj: We plan to grow our current core business which is human based editing service through two means i) Organically via SEO, SMO and referrals ii) Outbound sales through cold calls, mails and a more traditional way of selling. We intend to ultimately evolve into an automated English language correction app which would use AI and ML to analyse content and provide corrections. Great Companies: If you had one piece of advice to someone just starting out, what would it be? Rishi Raj: The journey is bound to be a roller coaster ride so you may as well try and enjoy the ups and downs and not get too distracted by failures. You can always turn the tide if you work hard enough and have a little bit of luck go your way! Webiste : https://www.papertrue.com/ Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/PaperTrue Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/papertrue/ YoutTube : https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-zHBtXoE1RgNixjSWls7jg Twitter : https://twitter.com/Paper_True

Great Companies: How did you get your idea or concept for the business? Mayur Lunawat: The journey of HTS started in 2015 with us taking a Video aggregator project attempting to solve real-world difficulties with the help of technology while working full-time at a prominent organization. The journey was entirely driven by my passion for technology. In 2016 January I decided to quit my job and work towards my passion with a full-time commitment, our very first project was for a distinguished University that wanted us to develop an education platform for their faculty and students, we were able to suffice their expectations and deliver the product in a striking time since then we haven't looked back and have kept thriving for better Great Companies: What are the various Services provided by HTS Mayur Lunawat: We pride ourselves in being up to date with all the digital and technological trends, specializing in aiding clients to resolve the most complex of business challenges through cost-effective software applications and methods. Our company has international experience in delivering cost-effective, insightful, and creative Global solutions. We mainly identify ourselves as a SaaS and enterprise-level software company we create, develop, host, update and manage the complete product lifecycle of the software. We also hold expertise in contributing innovative plugins and APIs to pre-made websites and software to make their functioning smoother. We believe in growing together have additionally put our gained experience to its optimal use and have been providing consultation to various other software companies. We at HTS do not believe in restricting ourselves to any particular jurisdiction hence we also work in the regions of complex video editing and animating. We also have a team working dedicatedly on data entry furthermore we always look forward to solving unsolved challenging projects. We have recently made some major developments in our in-house marketing team and going forward we'll be providing various digital marketing services as well. Other than this we have proven expertise in Artificial Intelligence, Visual Recognition, Cognitive Intelligence, and so on Great Companies: What makes HTS different from hundreds of other IT Products & Services Firms? Mayur Lunawat: HTS over the years has gained a prominent amount of experience resulting in expertise in various industries ranging from Health care to Food and Beverages. We at HTS constantly thrive to work for a cause and be part of the change. We understand the critical importance of the conventional implementation of ideas and having said that ultimate Customer Satisfaction & Experience is our main objective, we believe in Seller's Perspective Development which helps us in understanding the customer's POV better leading us in delivering the perfect solutions. We hold years of experience and expertise in providing enterprise-level products ranging from the healthcare industry to hospitality to cosmetics, real estate, currently, we've started working in the Gaming industry with this we aim to deliver global market products that aid businesses and their growth to its highest Great Companies: What are the struggles and challenges you face? Mayur Lunawat: As an Indian startup, we face various stereotypes in the foreign market. People tend to presume that being an Indian IT firm we'd be ready to work at insanely low costs this being said they also already have a mindset that the quality of work being provided won't be up to the mark, we'd be lacking professionalism. Sometimes they would even hire a local manager just to ensure the proper functioning which indicated their distrust in us, for the initial few sessions, we had to first work towards changing the mindset of the clients and gaining their trust. The starting trouble was significant but once we had their trust and they saw the outcome the relationship kept growing and now for some international firms we act as their technical arm rendering them the exact products and solutions they look for. Great Companies: How do you plan to grow in the future? What do 5 years down the line look like for HTS? Mayur Lunawat: Currently, we have clients mainly in India, Singapore, and The United States. In the next 5 years, we will be focusing to expand & establish ourselves in all the continents across the globe by creating a robust network of channel partners. We aim to provide global market products that will provide significant technological advancements in the market. We are also looking forward to expanding our services on the marketing side as well. We are working on building an in-house digital marketing team. Great Companies: If you had one piece of advice to someone just starting out, what would it be? Mayur Lunawat: I am a strong believer in persistence as the key to success at the same time it is also very important to identify when to stick and when to twist. Also, if you are just starting, your laser focus must be on satisfying a little number of customers. First, sustain completely then scale and ALWAYS believe in yourself. Webiste: https://htstechsolutions.com Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/htstechsolution Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/htstechsolution/ Linkedin : https://www.linkedin.com/company/hts-tech-solutions Twitter : https://twitter.com/htstechsolution

Great Companies: How did you get your idea or concept for the business? Vikram Trivedi : I have close to 25 years of hospitality experience; my first assignment being with Lufthansa German Airline, post which I had a decade-long management roles’ journey with Luxury Hotel Companies like ‘The Imperial’, ‘Starwood’, ‘Hyatt’ and ‘Taj Hotels’. The past decade and a half has been with Multi National Travel Companies, the likes of ‘Kuoni’ and ‘Cox & Kings’ in senior leadership roles. So with the concept of customized & personalized service to the discerning clientele being engrained in me, the future path of creating a Fully Customized Tour Company was quite easy. Great Companies: What are the various Services provided by MyTourBox Vikram Trivedi : Inbound & International Travel services in the Upscale to Luxury end of business remain core to us and we intend to make it as customized for our discerning guests as possible. Great Companies: What makes MyTourBox different from hundreds of other Tours & Travel Agencies? Vikram Trivedi : Besides being extremely customized, we plan & offer tour services to destinations where someone in the extended team has actually been to! This makes it easy for us to make personalized recommendations based on the likes & dislikes of our guests. Great Companies: What are the struggles and challenges you face? Vikram Trivedi : Indian market is spoilt by the cookie cutter approach of several of the larger tour companies, essentially due to intense competition. This is the biggest challenge to we face! Many of our potential clients are just looking at putting a tick against a destination rather than actually seeing & feeling it. If one slows down a bit, there is a plethora of experiences which cost nothing, just time. For example listening to the Azan between Haja Sofia & The Blue Mosque in Istanbul; one verse is sung by one mosque & the next is sung by the other, quite mesmerizing & easily one of my best memories of Istanbul but costed me nothing, only time to sit and listen to it. Great Companies: How do you plan to grow in the future? What does 5 years down the line look like for MyTourBox? Vikram Trivedi : The future of outbound travel in India looks promising, with disposable income increasing, economy getting back on track & the ever growing middle class getting ever more interested in exploring the world. We intend to stick to our mission statement of highly customized tours, as this segment will increase with the overall increase in travel. We have started with tours to 50 countries & intend to scale it up to a 100 (or more) by the 5 year horizon. Great Companies: If you had one piece of advice to someone just starting out, what would it be? Vikram Trivedi : Spend resources carefully.

Great Companies: How did you get your idea or concept for the business? Arun Sharma: We work in the space of helping students, career seekers and young professionals take the critical leap from one level of success achievement/ to the next. We run various training and self-development programs to help students do the same. The I started my venture immediately after I passed out of IIM Bangalore and first started out as a CAT coaching company, where we were helping people prepare for this exam. The initial thought came from the realisation that there is a large vacuum in the provision of high quality content and training for various competitive exams & we felt that that was a space, where we could significantly contribute by our work. While that was the initial vision, over time the vision has evolved into a full educational service and product company. The vision at Mindworkzz is to get into wrold class products in three broad spaces- Test Prep Training and products; Professional development training and products; After School learning training and products. Great Companies: What are the various Services provided by Mindworkzz Arun Sharma: Currently we offer products for i) Preparation of Aptitude exams like - CAT, GMAT, GRE, CLAT, IPMAT and all other aptitude exams. These are all in the online space & we offer them both as products &/or services - meaning that a learner can choose to do an intensive immersive program with us where he is handheld and mentored through the course or do it as a take away product, where he can consume the course on his own with minimal intervention from our side. ii) Professional development and Self-development programs - This is a fresh initiative from our side, where we are building products that will help people develop their professional skills and their personality and prime them up for success. We run courses for Cracking Interviews, Self development, Personality development, Succeeding in life, Improving learning skills, Public Speaking, English speaking, English Language improvement etc. iii) Mathematics: We have a deep passion to help people understand Mathematics better & offer courses for math skill upgradation. Great Companies: What makes Mindworkzz from hundreds of other Education Technology firms? Arun Sharma: The research and the quality that goes into the creation of a product. We do not believe in making me too products and for us, a product/service we offer has to be world class, before it enters our offerings. Our long years spent in the industry that has helped us understand the learning process with a clarity we see lacking in most training systems around the world, is what differentiates us. Since our offerings are built based on this clarity of understanding the learning process, our products are never me-too products as they have dollops of originality in them. Great Companies: What are the struggles and challenges you face? Arun Sharma: Being Boot Strapped and having decided multiple times against getting funding, we have to sequence our product launches - as we need to devote full focus and budgets to every new product launch. It does slow down our pace, but we have learnt to live with it - because we know that the educational market is a long term market, and as far as your products are stronger than your competition, you can always enter the markets at your own speed. Great Companies: How do you plan to grow in the future? What does 5 years down the line look like for Mindworkzz? Arun Sharma: We expect to grow our revenues by 40-60% every year, for the next 5 years. This we expect to do through getting deeper footholds in the markets where we are major players and also through new product launches in the categories mentioned above. From a 5000 paid users company, we expect to reach 25000 paid users a year in the next 5 years. Great Companies: If you had one piece of advice to someone just starting out, what would it be? Arun Sharma: Find a product/service that you enjoy creating, become the best in the world in creating it and then create a business around it. That's the template for long-term entrepreneurial success.

Great Companies: How did you get your idea or concept for the business? Kuldeep Sharma: While growing up in a lower middle class family, I knew that I will not be having too many options to live a life of choices if I go with a Job Mindset throughout my life. I have also seen the struggle a person goes through in his life while working 9-5 in his career. So I had decided in my college days that no matter what I will not spend my life like most of the people do. I was always meant to be working for myself rather than making others rich. Great Companies: What are the various Services provided by INDUSTRIAL REFRIGERATION SOLUTIONS Kuldeep Sharma: We at Industrial Refrigeration Solutions, provide services like Annual Maintenance, After Sales Services, Equipment, Design, Project Execution, Spares for the refrigeration Systems across the Country & abroad as well. Great Companies: What makes INDUSTRIAL REFRIGERATION SOLUTIONS different from hundreds of other similar service providers? Kuldeep Sharma: We truly believe that the real business starts after the sale. One needs to have a good after sales support in order to survive in today’s throat cut competition. Many big players have failed to keep track on their after sales support. That’s the main area we have focussed a lot to be in the race. We are known for our quick response along with quality products at better prices. That’s our USP. Great Companies: What are the struggles and challenges you face? Kuldeep Sharma: We believe that the Struggle & Challenges are a part of life. It makes us feel that we are still alive. There won’t be any struggle or challenge if we’re dead. So it’s a part of the process. We have also faced a lot of challenges like being new in the market, Big Clients don’t trust new companies easily, Quality concern of the clients, Direct competition with the OEM’s & many more. Some other & new challenges might also be waiting for us in the future. So Challenges will always be there. It’s up to us, how we respond to them. We believe that we can learn from them & grow simultaneously. Great Companies: How do you plan to grow in the future? What does 5 years down the line look like for INDUSTRIAL REFRIGERATION SOLUTIONS? Kuldeep Sharma: Currently more than 70% business is coming from North & Western Part of the country. We are planning to expand in the Southern & Eastern Market as it has got a huge scope & potential for us. As far as long term goal is concerned , we will be focusing on Africa & South American Market in upcoming years. Great Companies: If you had one piece of advice to someone just starting out, what would it be? Kuldeep Sharma: Keep going, don’t stop just coz you faced a failure. Failures are the biggest parts of a success story.

Great Companies: How did you get your idea or concept for the business? Ketan Parekh: After being involved directly or indirectly in the food industry, I came to realize that everything in this world can be avoided by a human being, but not food. People used to manage their functions in orthodox manners where they neither execute the functions properly nor enjoy the occasion. Here comes the Aatithya Events, which caters an extraordinary service to its clients so clients can fully enjoy their functions. Great Companies: What are the various Services provided by Aatithya Events Ketan Parekh: Being an Event Management Company, Aatithya Events provide anything and everything associated with different functions ranging from baby showers, birthday party, school functions, college functions, engagement ceremony, weddings, receptions, anniversary party, last, corporate functions, and many other functions. Great Companies: What makes Aatithya Events different from hundreds of other event management firms? Ketan Parekh: Unlike other money-oriented event management companies, Quality of Service is an elemental element of the Aatithya Events. Of course money matters, but the initial and important aspect is to serve clients with the top-notch caliber. Great Companies: What are the struggles and challenges you face? Ketan Parekh: As I learned very early, the initial stage of business would always be difficult, but with your great determination towards your work, gradually improves the situation. However, you cannot forfeit all challenges in business as new problems will arise simultaneously. The quick you understand to fight with problems, as quick you will grow. Great Companies: How do you plan to grow in the future? What does 5 years down the line look like for Aatithya Events? Ketan Parekh: I am a great fan of Test Cricket, it’s important to execute session by session, unlike in T20 cricket you go, hit, or get out. Similarly, I don’t believe in long-term plans, I would better look at small goals try to achieve those, and then move to another goal. The accomplishment of every tiny goal helps to inch towards a bigger goal. Great Companies: If you had one piece of advice to someone just starting out, what would it be? Ketan Parekh: Have patience. Just stick to the quality service, sooner or later but you will definitely find success.

Great Companies: How did you get your idea or concept for the business? Anuj Rakheja : To give you a brief about The Momentum Investing Co., we are an edtech firm providing stock market education to retail investors. I have been trading and investing since 2010 when I got out of school. My journey was very similar to what an average stock market trader experiences. I started off buying stocks on tips, news and intuition while I was still pursuing my CA. And to be honest, I lost quite a lot of money in the initial 5 years of my journey. After I qualified CA in 2015, I was working with a big 4 firm and travelling on an assignment. My flight was delayed and to kill time, I thought of surfing the book store at the airport. There, I found a book by Nicolas Darvas (a dancer who made $2,000,000 in the stock market in 2 years). That book completely changed my perspective towards stocks and introduced me to the concept of trend following/momentum investing. I started practising momentum investing techniques in 2015 and by 2020, I had made pretty sizeable returns from stocks, beating the markets comfortably and I had also gained a lot of knowledge about how to buy and sell stocks like the pros. In 2020, after I had completed my MBA from the Indian School of Business, I realized that there were crores of retail investors in India who had absolutely no idea what they were doing. They were all doing what I did from 2010-2015 - buying stocks based on hunches, news and tips. This is when I decided to create an instagram page (because that is where the millenials and the Gen Z were). The page was initially started as a hobby and eventually as it became popular, I decided to make it a full time venture along with my co-founder Jatin Mehta, who is also a Chartered Accountant. Great Companies: What are the various Services provided by The Momentum Investing Co Anuj Rakheja : Presently, we provide stock market education services to retail investors (most of whom are in the age bracket of 20-35. We have trained 1000+ students within a year and have received rave reviews from our students. One can head to our instagram page and checkout some of our reviews and content. We also provide advisory to HNIs(High Net Worth Individuals) with respect to their investments, be it direct equity, debt, mutual funds or real estate. Great Companies: What makes The Momentum Investing Co different from hundreds of other similar edutech Firms? Anuj Rakheja : Some of the things that make us different from hundreds of other edtech firms are: 1. Niche offering: Our offering is very niche, we provide stock market education which is not provided to people in schools, colleges or universities. Even the ventures that offer stock market education provide very broad based overviews instead of a niche investment philosophy that we teach. Our strategies and investing philosophy is inspired by great investors like William O'Neil, Nicolas Darvas, Mark Minervini and Stan Weinstein. These people are not known in the popular media but are the actual stock market greats who beat the markets consistently and made millions (sometimes billions) of dollars. 2. A credible founding team: Unlike some of the other unorganised stock market teachers out there, our founding team has immense credibility. I, myself, am a Chartered Accountant and an MBA from India's best B-school, while Jatin (co-founder) is a Chartered Accountant with 10+ years of experience in the capital markets. 3. Unique alumni privileges: If you ask any of our students, they have access to alumni privileges even after the course they opted for gets over. Our job isn't over once the course that the student opted for finishes. Our job is to engage with our students for lifelong learning.Our alum cohort comprises of really smart people who have successful careers. This also provides an incredible networking opportunity to our students after the course is over. Great Companies: What are the struggles and challenges you face? Anuj Rakheja : Some of the struggles and challenges that we faced initially were: 1. We were bootstrapped, so we didn't have a very large marketing budget and had to rely on word of mouth and quality content. 2. With the covid pandemic, working remotely was a challenge for some of our employees initially, but we worked it out well eventually 3. One of the challenges is scaling. As the number of our students grows, we need to scale our team, train them and make sure the quality is not compromised. Great Companies: How do you plan to grow in the future? What does 5 years down the line look like for The Momentum Investing Co? Anuj Rakheja : While we have started off as an edtech firm, but we are going to expand into other wealth management services and intend to build a super-app as far as wealth management needs are concerned over the next 5 years. Great Companies: If you had one piece of advice to someone just starting out, what would it be? Anuj Rakheja : When you start up, you need to focus on two things - product and marketing. These two things need to be absolutely perfect, of course there would be iterations, but make sure you don't slack off in these two areas. The remaining you can outsource. And read a lot of books, reading books needs to be a part of your work, this is where you will get your motivation and ideas from.

Great Companies: How did you get your idea or concept for the business? Shaila Dinkar Apte: This business actually started after my retirement as a professor in engineering college in Pune. I had lot of practical experience and had Ph.D. in domain area. While working in college, I got the offer by a Delhi based company for some project in speech. I completed that and then continued working. After 2 years of experiments, I was contacted by a person requesting me to generate products in speech for forensic analysis. I agreed and started working. Great Companies: What are the various Services provided by Anubhooti Solutions Shaila Dinkar Apte: Anubhooti solutions provides products in speech domain for forensic domain in the area of speaker verification with text dependent and text independent scenario, fake audio detection including deep fake detection, Speaker diarisation, noise cancellation etc. We also provide solution for call centres related to call audit, sentiment analysis etc. Great Companies: What makes Anubhooti Solutions different from hundreds of other similar service providers? Shaila Dinkar Apte: The uniqueness of our company lies in the fact that the products are very useful to forensic labs and this work is very useful to the society. It is not the commercial angle that is driving the work, it is motivational for social responsibilities. Great Companies: What are the struggles and challenges you face? Shaila Dinkar Apte: The main struggle is of funds. The business is self funded. No revenue generated yet. The employees are asking for increments. The challenges are related to invention of innovative techniques for generating robust solutions even in noisy environments. Great Companies: How do you plan to grow in the future? What does 5 years down the line look like for Anubhooti Solutions? Shaila Dinkar Apte: We have a tie up for sales and marketing work. We plan to reach out all forensic labs and sell our products. Five years down the line, Anubhooti Solutions will be a well known company in forensic domain and will be known to everyone in the globe. Great Companies: If you had one piece of advice to someone just starting out, what would it be? Shaila Dinkar Apte: My advice would be work hard with good ethics and morals, you can do miracles.