Imran Kizilbash & Abhinav Jain from Titanium Innovation Investments

About this episode

Imran Kizilbash and Abhinav Jain discuss the challenges and strategies of selling technology in the slow-moving industrial sector.

The industrial world is still running on manual processes and siloed data while our phones got smarter ten times over, and that gap is exactly where Titanium Innovation Investments is placing its bets. Abhinav Jain and Imran Kizilbash, co-founders and managing partners at Titanium Innovation Investments, break down what it actually takes to sell tech into enterprises that move slow by design, why product market fit is something you can lose just as fast as you find it, and how they evaluate founding teams when the revenue is basically zero. Plus some real talk on Houston's startup ecosystem and whether the city has the deal flow to back up the ambition. Click here to watch a video of this episode. Join the conversation shaping the future of energy. Collide is the community where oil & gas professionals connect, share insights, and solve real-world problems together. No noise. No fluff. Just the discussions that move our industry forward. Apply today at collide.io Click here to view the episode transcript. 0:00 Introduction 1:00 Titanium Innovation Investments thesis and origin story 4:17 Why industrial tech adoption lags behind consumer tech 7:01 Data as an asset in M&A…

People in this episode

Guests: Imran Kizilbash, Abhinav Jain

Topics covered

• industrial tech
• startup ecosystem
• product market fit
• data ownership
• AI in industrial applications

Keywords

• industrial processes
• siloed data
• enterprise tech
• M&A
• unit economics
• hard tech
• AI hype

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Titanium Innovation Investments

Places: Houston

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