Gayatri Kalyanaraman is in conversation with Deeksha Senguttuvan, Founder and CEO of BabyMD and executive trustee for a pediatric cancer foundation . Deeksha brings her authentic self to share powerful stories of personal transformation, entrepreneurial grit, and unwavering compassion for children’s health.

Some highlights from the conversation

• Deeksha describes herself as someone who never had a fixed plan but followed what made sense in the moment.
• After a chemical engineering degree from NIT Trichy and an MBA from IIM Kozhikode, she joined the Tata Administrative Services and worked in marketing and product management.
• Despite no tech background, she led cloud product management, learning tech concepts from scratch and bridging the gap between sales and engineering teams.
• A personal life event led her to seek more meaningful work, Inspired by her pediatrician father, she co-founded a trust supporting pediatric cancer treatment in Trichy, where specialty care was lacking.
• Deeksha led digital transformation at Kaveri Hospital during COVID, building a patient-focused digital strategy that included basics like WhatsApp-based communication — revolutionary at that time.
• Motivated to align business success with patient well-being, she pursued a second MBA at Wharton to understand global healthcare and startup ecosystems.
• During her MBA, she pivoted her focus back to India after realizing her strengths and market understanding were more aligned with the Indian healthcare context
• She founded BabyMD during her time at Wharton and graduated early to work full-time on it from January 2024.
• Deeksha emphasizes the importance of credentials and networks (like Wharton) in breaking barriers and gaining investor trust.
• She met her investor through the Wharton alumni network, which led to a partnership based on mutual interest in pediatric healthcare.
• She advises entrepreneurs to articulate three things: a real problem, market size, and why they’re uniquely positioned to solve it.
• Advocates for volunteering as a personal and professional growth tool, linking social work with stronger leadership and empathy.

• Range by David Epstein – on the value of generalists in today’s world.
• Entrepreneurship doesn’t always stem from a “Eureka” moment — it can be a structured, analytical process.
• Encourages small experiments to validate ideas before going all in.
• Believes generalists (with wide-ranging experience) bring unique value to entrepreneurship, as explained in the book Range.

Deeksha can be reached at https://www.linkedin.com/in/deekshasenguttuvan/

Deeksha is Building BabyMD to be a partner in parenting and give parents easy round-the-clock access to qualified medical professionals across channels. The company’s goal is to create a future where parents don’t have to navigate through multiple avenues for their child's healthcare needs and instead find everything they require under one roof.

Executive leader with 7+ years of experience building and transforming businesses. I am passionate about utilising technology in the healthcare ecosystem to improve accessibility, affordability and quality of care.

As a part of the leadership development program of The Tata Group of companies in India I have worked across various industries and functions; utilised my diverse exposure to orchestrate the digital transformation of hospitals across patient engagement, clinical quality of care, and operational activities to make them future-ready.

Outside of work I am an avid Indian classical dancer and a public speaker passionate about motivating and mentoring!

Shiv is in conversation with Allen Cooper, President and CEO of Ancilla Ventures. Their focus

is in providing tools to healthcare support staff to improve patient outcomes.

In this conversation, Allen talks about:

• Allen’s Origin Story: Transitioning from accounting to computer science, and entering the consulting world at Anderson Consulting (now Accenture).
• Consulting to Startups: The transition from corporate consulting to entrepreneurship.
• Building Ancilla: How Allen became a partner and eventually the sole proprietor.
• Choosing Healthcare Tech: The path to focusing on healthcare IT solutions.
• Finding Industry Problems: How products like WriteList and VR-90 were born.
• User Adoption Challenges: Strategies for getting hospital staff to engage with software solutions.
• Managing Development Team Motivation: Keeping engineers engaged despite stable enterprise tech.
• Scrum & Agile Benefits: How these methodologies helped balance planned work and incoming client requests.
• AI & Coding: How AI might change development roles, but won't replace programmers entirely.
• Advice for IT Careers: Guidance for both new entrants and mid-career professionals wondering about their next steps.
• Personal Productivity & Balance: Allen’s tips for staying organized, healthy, and grounded while running a company.

Allen Cooper is the Co-Founder and CEO of ReadyList, Inc., a mobile-friendly software that transforms how hospital ancillary and support service teams operate. Allen co-founded ReadyList with a deep passion for helping the behind-the-scenes workers who keep hospitals running smoothly. ReadyList’s software modules guide them through best-practice cleaning and room prep protocols, resulting in cleaner, safer facilities for both patients and staff. Allen believes the right kind of software can save hospital systems money, time, and even lives.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/allen-cooper-4a07598

Shiv is in conversation with Mathias Buus Madsen, CEO of Holepunch, Copenhagen. In this episode, Mathias shares

• his journey into software development,
• beginning as a math student and evolving into a passionate advocate for peer-to-peer technology.
• He explains the foundational concepts behind peer-to-peer systems, their advantages over centralized models, and their applications in both personal and enterprise use.
• Mathias discusses how these decentralized systems enhance security, minimize infrastructure costs, and improve accessibility—especially for remote or underserved communities.
• He also compares peer-to-peer networking with blockchain, clarifying the distinct roles each technology plays.
• He touched on real-world applications of peer-to-peer tech, including its potential for rural connectivity and resilience in low-bandwidth environments.
• Mathias also reflects on his transition from hacker to entrepreneur, sharing insights into leadership, scaling a business, and the evolving landscape of decentralized internet solutions.

As CEO of Holepunch, Mathias brings his passion and extensive expertise in open-source development to the fore, having published more than 1000 modules to npm, the Node.js package manager, totalling billions of downloads every month.

Mathias Buus is a self taught JavaScript hacker from Copenhagen. He works full time on open source projects and has been working with Node.js since the 0.2 days. Mathias likes to work with P2P and distributed systems and is the author of more than 550 modules on npm, including some of the most popular ones for working with streams. In addition he has spoken about “mad science” projects at various conferences around the world.

You can also see his Github here:https://github.com/mafintosh and more info on Pear Runtime here: https://docs.pears.com/.

Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@Pears_p2p

Social -

Mathias X: @mafintosh

Pears X: @Pears_p2p

Keet X: @keet_io