Umesh Sachdev, co-founder and CEO of Uniphore Software Systems along with John Chambers, executive chairman of Cisco and chairman of the recently-formed US-India Strategic Partnership Forum in Delhi. Photo: Priyanka Parashar/MintNew Delhi: John Chambers, executive chairman of Cisco Inc. and chairman of the recently-formed US-India Strategic Partnership Forum (USISPF), has picked up a 10% stake in speech recognition solutions company Uniphore Software Systems Pvt. During his keynote at EmTech India 2016, Chambers had insisted that India’s “startup ecosystem” is “an important growth engine”. “If you want to do a startup, this is the right time, the inflection point has just happened in India,” Chambers had said. In March 2016, Sachdev was selected an “Innovator under 35” by Mint and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Technology Review, published by MIT.

Source: Mint November 30, 2017 07:41 UTC