From Blockchain to AI: Building the Infrastructure for Global Credit | Skeps | BII Brunch Lab

From Blockchain to AI: Building the Infrastructure for Global Credit | Skeps | BII Brunch Lab

What does it take to build the credit infrastructure the world never got around to fixing? Pankaj and Rohit from BII sit down with Tushar Srivastava, Co-Founder of Skeps — the company building what Visa and Mastercard did for payments, but for lending. Point-of-sale financing was broken: merchants frustrated, banks hesitant, consumers stuck in the middle. Tushar saw the friction and decided to remove it. In this episode, Tushar walks through the founding of Skeps in 2017, navigating the zero-interest-rate era, and why blockchain isn't dead, it's just quietly powering everything as AI comes into power. Also featuring: BII's love of food, and why Pankaj believes that the best deals always get closed over great food and greater conversations, not in a boardroom. The rails are built. Now comes scale.

Univest Is Rewiring How Millions of Indians Invest | BII Brunch Lab Podcast| S2E4

India is changing, and nowhere is that more visible than in how people are thinking about their money. An entire generation of Indian investors is waking up to the dream of real wealth creation and intentional investing. Pranit Arora, co-founder, Univest, saw this shift before most. | Founder Truths, Unfiltered! At BII, we think in decades, not quarters. That's the only way to back founders who are chasing something truly meaningful, and our journey with Univest is a reflection of that very philosophy. When we first met Pranit, we didn't hear a fintech pitch. We heard someone who had diagnosed a behavioural problem hiding inside a product problem. Someone building the habits, the guardrails, and the conviction that Indian investors actually need. That's a rare thing. In this episode of The Brunch Lab by Bertelsmann, Pankaj and Rohit from team BII recently sat down with Pranit on The Brunch Lab, on the founding moment, the idea that started it all, and what it means to build a WealthTech platform in a country just waking up to its own potential.

Rural India's ₹399 Healthcare Subscription Has a 60% Renewal Rate. Here's Why | BII Brunch Lab. CureBay x BII.

150+ eClinics. 6M+ patients. A ₹399 membership with a 60% renewal rate. Rural India isn't just paying for quality healthcare, it's coming back for more. Priyadarshi Mohapatra didn't theorise about the problem from a boardroom. He moved to Bhubaneswar, earned the trust of communities that had been let down before, and built CureBay into what most people assumed was impossible- a full-stack, profitable rural healthcare model built on dignity. In this episode of The Brunch Lab by Bertelsmann India Investments, Pankaj Makkar and Swati Murarka go deep with Priyadarshi on the model, the mission, and what patient capital support in Rural India actually looks like.  At Bertelsmann India Investments, we don’t just write cheques, we show up, stay in, and build alongside founders who are in it for the long haul. CureBay is what that partnership looks like.

How Orange Health Became India's #1 Rated Diagnostic Lab | Ep 2 The Brunch Lab

Two months after Orange Health Labs raised its Series B in 2022, revenue fell by 60%. Most companies would have slashed prices or chased quick fixes. They did the opposite: saying no to discounts and doubling down on quality, speed, and trust. In this candid episode of BII Brunch Lab, founders Dhruv Gupta and Tarun Bhambra sit down with Pankaj Makkar and Swati Murarka to unpack the moment that tested everything: conviction, culture, and the belief that healthcare businesses can win without price wars. This is a story about rebuilding under pressure, scaling a full-stack diagnostics model across cities, and why patient capital matters when the easy path looks tempting. ️ Founder truths. Investor perspective. The hard decisions behind enduring companies. Watch how Orange Health chose discipline over discounts, and what happened next. Subscribe for more real startup journeys from BII Brunch Lab.

Precision. Reliability. | The Orange Health Story| Brunch Lab S2 Teaser

Speed. Precision. Reliability  The origin story wasn’t convenience. It was a crisis. A broken diagnostic experience during a dengue scare became the spark behind Orange Health and what followed was a pitch we’d never heard before. Not about price wars. Not about growth at any cost. But about speed, reliability, and rebuilding trust in healthcare from the ground up. When Dhruv Gupta and Tarun Bhambra set out to reimagine home diagnostics, the ambition was clear: Deliver reports fast. Show up on time. Make reliability the product. At Bertelsmann India Investments, we back founders who don’t chase vanity metrics or short-term spikes. Patient capital means standing behind conviction especially when it challenges category norms. Over brunch with Pankaj and Swati from our team, the Orange Health founders unpack: * The dengue crisis that sparked it all * The pitch that changed everything * What it really takes to build trust in healthcare * And how to scale without playing the discount game A story built on urgency, conviction, and the discipline to do it differently. Teaser out now. Full episode coming soon.