The Indian Startup Show

Pankaj Raut CEO & Co-founder of AjnaLens on building Augmenting Human Intelligence with AI-Powered Mixed Reality Glasses

Episode Summary

Building India’s first home-grown AR headset. Today my guest is Pankaj Raut the co-founder & ceo of AjnaLens. AjnaLens designs & manufactures AI-powered mixed-reality glasses for defence , education and enterprise customers. He talks about it all got started by being inspired watching James Bond movies. He talks about how the product helps the Indian armed forces & talks about design and development process. He talks about VC funding, future trends & opportunities. He gives us his thoughts on the AR/VR startup community in india. Thoughts on Google glasses 10 years on and dealing with the competition. And finally he talks about leaving India at the age 17 to go study in London. Meeting his co-founders at Google startup weekend. Seeing his first hologram and being inside a tank!

Episode Notes

In this conversation we also talk about:

Building the first prototype
Challenges in the AR/VR market
What will VR/AR devices look like in the future.
Getting a scholarship to go London
Where the names comes from.
Common mistakes AR/VR startups make.
Meeting people with the right synergies.
How he resolves differences of opinion with his co-founders
Advice for first time founders - take 2 steps back!

and much more!

Links

https://www.ajnalens.com/

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