[00:01:09] Introduction to NeoMotion: Personal Mobility Vehicle

[00:04:12] The Journey: School exhibitions to IIT Madras

[00:08:40] Shark Tank Spotlight: Why customize wheelchairs and what’s missing in the wheelchair market?

[00:14:48] Approach to NeoMotion: Social impact or profitability and profit as a misnomer

[00:19:50] NeoMotion Products: Disability products as a segment

[00:24:55] Problem Statement: Mobility and economic Independence

[00:27:51] CFI at IIT Madras: An upgraded science project experience, Junkyard Wars and being CFI Student Head

[00:34:08] Progression to R2D2 Lab: Prof. Sujatha and interest in mobility and biomechanics

[00:36:50] Natural Progression: IIT Madras labs to enterprises

[00:41:50] Career Path after Graduation: High paying job or building a startup?

[00:45:40] Path ahead for NeoMotion: We are in the best test market

[00:50:04] Mindset Change: The journey from engineering to business

[00:51:30] The IIT Madras Support: Unique advantage to build from IIT Madras 

[00:54:55] Venture Capital Funding: Choosing to not take the VC funding route for NeoMotion

[00:58:04] That’s a Wrap: Amrut wraps up the NeoMotion journey

[00:04:12] IIT Madras - The Indian Institute of Technology, Madras where Swostik joined the CFI lab and the R2D2 lab and pursued his passion to build rather than code.

[00:35:05] R2D2 Lab - Rehabilitation Research and Device Development lab at IIT Madras started by Prof. Sujatha Srinivasan.

[00:13:50] Steve Jobs, Former CEO of Apple

[00:20:17] [00:34:38] Swostik mentions Prof. Sujatha Srinivasan, Head R2D2 Lab at IIT Madras who was his project guide and is now the Co-Founder at NeoMotion

[00:23:25] Kedar Kulkarni, CEO and Co-Founder of HyperVerge, Inc whom Swostik met as part of meeting seniors who had started building their own business.

[00:33:48] Swapnil Jain, Co-Founder of Ather Energy who was also CFI Student Head at IIT Madras

[00:33:58] Siddharth Dialani, Co-Founder of BharatAgri who was one of the CFI Student Heads at IIT Madras

[00:34:04] Ravikant Andhavarapu, Swostik’s senior at IIT Madras who was responsible for recruiting Swostik into CFI 

[00:40:00] Ashish Mohan Sharma and Siddarth Daga are Swostik’s Co-Founders at NeoMotion

[00:01:09] NeoMotion In, Swostik’s venture which is dedicated to building mobility devices to help disabled people go out and be physically mobile and economically independent

[00:13:40]  Amrut talks about how Apple launched the iPhone in 2007 - 2008 and it was an example of category creation

[00:22:34] Ather Energy began from the IIT Madras Innovation Lab

[00:22:36] Solinas Integrity, a tech startup focused on robotics and software solutions for urban and asset management, particularly in water and wastewater.

[00:36:07] Swostik worked at ITC for a brief stint before returning to build the mobility devices

[00:39:28] Do you know where Google originated from?

[00:40:19] Swostik’s co-founder, Ashish had a placement at Philips that he gave up to join NeoMotion

[00:40:28] Swostik’s Co-Founder Siddarth worked at Schlumberger before coming to join NeoMotion

[00:57:26] There are Zomato drivers who use NeoMotion

[00:24:05] Swostik talks about the Mega Factories series on Discovery as his favourite shows to watch

[00:30:28] Junkyard Wars, a show on Discovery which was later added to the Shastra fest

[00:03:54] Neo Motion Pitch at Shark Tank India