Software, services, AI: test your business creativity with Edition 246 of our weekly quiz!
This insightful feature from YourStory tests and strengthens your business acumen! Here are 5 questions to kick off this 246th quiz. Ready?
Lateral Sparks, the weekly quiz from YourStory, tests your domain knowledge, business acumen, and lateral thinking skills (see the previous edition here). In this 246th edition of the quiz, we present issues tackled by real-life entrepreneurs in their startup journeys.
What would you do if you were in their shoes? At the end of the quiz, you will find out what the entrepreneurs and innovators themselves actually did. Would you do things differently?
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Q1: Software maintenance
As software becomes increasingly complex, maintaining code is a big challenge, beyond just creating code with AI. Where is the entrepreneurial opportunity here?
Q2: Eye care
India has one of the largest diabetic populations in the world, and detection of retinal damage is a key concern – particularly in remote areas. How can this problem be addressed?
Q3: Chip efficiency
Chips development is happening at a rapid pace, but increasing their energy efficiency continues to be an issue. How can this problem be tackled?
Q4: Home services
Many home service companies offer help with daily chores and cleaning services. What are some related adjacent markets that can also be explored?
Q5: EV fleet efficiency
Many manufacturers have entered the EV business, but EV fleet efficiency and reliability also need to be ensured. Where is the entrepreneurial opportunity here?
Answers!
Congratulations on having come this far! But there’s more to come – answers to these five questions (below), as well as links to articles with more details on the entrepreneurs’ solutions. Happy reading, happy learning – and happy creating!
A1: Software maintenance
Founded by Abhishek Saikia and Sourabh Gawande, Kusho AI is building an AI-powered platform whose agents generate, run and continuously update tests for code maintenance. It uses proprietary models layered on top of foundational LLMs.
The platform functions like an AI software engineer, testing code during development and after every release to detect and flag issues before they reach production. Read more here about its agentic orchestration layer, and its funding by Antler India and Blume Founders Fund.
A2: Eye care
Founded by Ravi Kiran Manapuram and Sweta Patnaik, Tishyas Medical Device Development Solutions has created a portable device for comprehensive eye screening. Designed for use outside a hospital setting, it is based on Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT).
It has collaborated with IIT Hyderabad, ophthalmic device maker Remidio, and US firm Lumedica for this product. Read more here about the retinal diagnostics startup’s participation at the Bharat Innovates summit in Nice, France.
A3: Chip efficiency
Founded by Advaith Sridhar and Akash Ramdas, Discovered Materials is a deeptech startup building AI agents to discover and accelerate the adoption of new materials for semiconductor chips. Such materials can have the potential to fundamentally improve chip efficiency
It leverages advanced packaging technologies such as 3D stacking while also dissipating heat more effectively. Read more here about the startup’s AI agents that work across simulation, synthesis and experimental validation, in a manner faster than traditional R&D approaches.
A4: Home services
Founded by Aayush Agarwal, quick home services startup Snabbit has also entered salon-at-home services as a category. It believes that beauty is a “high-frequency category with a large addressable market”.
“We see an opportunity to fundamentally rethink the experience through speed, reliability and hyperlocal fulfilment,” he says. Read more here about its competitors like Urban Company and Yes Madam, and potential changes of consumer preferences and trust perceptions.
A5: EV fleet efficiency
Founded by Joel and Emma Rozada along with Matthias Hultén, Nexular provides connected hardware, cloud software, and an AI-powered intelligence layer for EVs. This allows EV manufacturers to monitor, manage and monetise their vehicles better.
Such manufacturers can manage battery-swapping networks, leasing programmes, and after-sales services. Read more here about how this startup’s capabilities also enable EV financing, and its customers such as Roam, Clean Motion and EVX Mobility.
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