Dr. Geetha Manjunath is the Founder, CEO, and CTO of NIRAMAI Health Analytix, and has led the company to develop a breakthrough AI solution for detecting early-stage breast cancer in a non-invasive radiation-free manner. Geetha holds a Ph.D. from IISc and management education from Kellogg’s Chicago. She comes with over 25 years of experience in IT innovation. She has proposed and led multiple AI projects at Xerox Research and Hewlett Packard India. Before starting NIRAMAI, Geetha was a Lab Director for Data Analytics Research at Xerox India. Geetha has received many international and national recognition for her innovations and entrepreneurial work, including CSI Gold Medal, BIRAC WinER Award 2018, and is also on the Forbes List of Top 20 Self-Made Women 2020. She was recently awarded the Accenture Vahini Innovator of the Year Award from the Economic Times and Women Entrepreneur of the Year 2020 by BioSpectrum India. Geetha is also an inventor of 16 US patents and more pending grants.

Timestamps

• Geetha’s journey from IT research to Deep Tech founder - 1:50
• Being the CEO and founder - 9:38
• Challenges scaling a start-up - 14:46
• Power of 3 - 21:09
• Awareness towards Breast Cancer & NIRAMAI - 26:17
• Taboos being a women entrepreneur - 35:46
• Making it Stick - 43:20

Quotes

• If you want to solve the problem the world around you gather to support you, have the belief!
• Mantra for start-ups - Thing Big, Fail Fast
• Cancer Awareness - Know It to Fight It

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