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Despite being a million-dollar market, the digitization of manufacturing companies is restricted to sales, procurement, and distribution. Manufacturing units are still largely untouched by Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. Pinak Duttaray is on a quest to change that with his category-defining deep tech venture, Ripik AI.

Data analytics is becoming increasingly vital for smooth and accurate decision-making within an organization. This is even more true after the pandemic when most professionals are making critical business decisions from their homes.

Indonesia is the world's second-largest fish producer, with a thriving fisheries industry and over 25 million people working in aquaculture and fishing. The industry is highly fragmented and constantly faces challenges, such as a lack of transparency in market pricing and distrust among stakeholders.

It's a harsh reality for D2C brands that haunts them every day. They pay a premium fee for presence on online channels, and then they must fight to make themselves visible among thousands of endorsed brands vying for customers' attention. Even if brands approach social media platforms and prominent influencers to reach the target audience, they do not guarantee great conversions for them.

Programming can often be repetitive and mundane, taking up valuable time that could be spent on more productive things. Vishal Virani and Rahul Shingala founded DhiWise in April 2021 to address this massive problem faced by programmers.

Atoms 02 comprises 10 startups in sectors such as B2B marketplaces, healthtech, SaaS, and developer tools. These 23, early-stage founders come from the United States to Singapore, and India to Australia.

These include some names that you might recognize – MuSigma, Virident, Freshworks, Chargebee, BrowserStack, Mindtickle, CleverTap, Zenoti, FalconX and several others. This has given us a bit of an inside view into these journeys and many of the thrilling times when things worked well, as well as some frustrating stretches when inevitably they sometimes didn’t.