Technology will be crucial in improving public transportation networks in emerging markets. Deep tech can assist in rationalizing a large volume of data in order to build inference. However, many emerging markets lack data because it is fragmented and non-standardized. The public transit agencies in emerging markets should follow open data and open-source principles. This will help the entrepreneurs to build various applications.

Devin shared his personal experience of building a bootstrap business and how he raised funding from notable investors. He shared some valuable entrepreneurial lessons and his journey from bootstrapped startup to venture-capital-backed business. He highlighted in this part that Ideas are a dime and it takes a lot of grit and determination for founders to run with an idea, turn it into a business, and then scale it. ...