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How AI is Taking Over Smart Buildings & Net Zero Cities feat. Haran, CEO of IVIVA | Ep. 30
He was the quietest guy in the room
now he's building a billion-dollar company.
Anthony Prakash sits down with Haran Shivanan, CEO of IVIVA,
in one of the most personal episodes of Startups Dilse yet. The two go back over 20 years to their time together at Cognizant in Chennai, and this conversation is as much a reunion as it is a masterclass in building deep tech products across global markets. IVA is a smart buildings software platform operating across Singapore, India, Sri Lanka, the Middle East, and Australia. Their software connects to the physical systems people interact with every day — from energy management to predictive maintenance — and they're at the forefront of Asia's push toward net-zero buildings.
Haran shares the unfiltered story of his career, from writing code and shipping to production the next day at a Singapore startup, to spinning out IVIVA and stepping into the CEO role with all the self-doubt that comes with it. He talks about how Paul Graham's essay on "founder mode" gave him language for his own leadership style, what it really means to manage a multicultural team across five countries, and why he believes IVIVA will be the first billion-dollar company in the smart buildings space. Whether you're a founder, operator, or just someone who appreciates a great career story — this episode delivers.
⏱️ What's covered:
Introduction & reunion — Anthony and Haran’s Cognizant backstory
How a Singapore smart buildings startup changed Haran’s approach to software
The spin-out story: from product feature to standalone company
Who buys smart building software (it's more complex than you think)
AI and machine learning in a hardware-first world Singapore's net-zero 2030 mandate — and IVIVA’s role in it Imposter syndrome
Paul Graham's founder mode, and leading as an introvert Growing up as a global nomad and building cross-cultural resilience
IVIVA’s 10-year vision: the first billion-dollar smart buildings company Whether you're a founder, operator, or just someone who appreciates a great career story — this episode is for you.
22 Feb 2026
Break everything but Wink 😉 - Italian Grit meets Silicon Valley ft. Isabella De Rosa | Ep.29
In this episode of Startups Dil Se, we sit down with Isabella De Rosa, the Italian founder and CEO of WinkSuite (https://winksuite.com) a bootstrapped SaaS platform helping brands run smarter promotions, loyalty programs, and employee incentivization campaigns. Isabella joined us straight from San Francisco, just one week after we met at an @innovitsf (https://innovitsf.com/) networking event, and she brought an incredible story with her.
From burning out running a remote agency in Amsterdam in her twenties, to taking a full year off to reset, to coming back and building a startup from scratch in Italy — Isabella's journey is raw, real, and packed with lessons for any founder at any stage. We get into how Wink Suite went from online sweepstakes to #b2b sales gamification, what bootstrapping a product by "faking it" actually looks like in practice, and why she keeps walking away from investors even when the conversations get close.
We also talk Silicon Valley vs. Italy, the reality of being a woman founder in rooms full of men, and why she refuses to slap an "AI-first" label on her platform just because it's 2026.
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1 Feb 2026
Why Developer Communities Are Broken (And How One Founder Is Fixing Them) ft. Arpan Garg from Commudle | Ep.28
What happens when developer communities are scattered across a dozen different platforms? In this episode, we sit down with Arpan Garg, founder of Commudle, who's on a mission to solve one of the biggest headaches in developer relations: fragmentation. From watching Extreme Machines as a kid to speaking at Google I/O, Arpan's journey is anything but typical. After facing rejection as an electronics engineer, he became the sole developer at a healthcare startup, then dove deep into the Google Developer Group community—where he discovered a massive problem.
The issue? DevRel teams are drowning in chaos. Events on Meetup. Conversations on Discord. Content scattered everywhere.
The result? Lost data, zero insights, and communities that never reach their full potential.
Arpan's solution? Commudle—a centralized platform that brings together events, content, hackathons, and developer profiles into one ecosystem. But here's what makes it different: it's not just another community management tool. It's built around the individual developer, giving them a portable identity that showcases their skills and journey across the ecosystem.
In this conversation, we explore:
Why traditional community platforms fail developer-focused companies
How ML-powered spam filtering keeps communities high-quality
The future of AI in understanding what developers actually want to build
What it takes to build in the competitive DevRel space from New Delhi
Whether you're building developer tools, managing a tech community, or just curious about the future of how developers connect and learn, this episode is packed with insights.
Listen now to discover how one founder is turning community chaos into strategic intelligence.
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