What does it take to build a startup from the ground up?

Francis Bautista is the co-founder and CEO of Indigo Research, an applied AI research company. He graduated from the Ateneo de Manila University and is currently taking up his Master of Science in Computer Science at the University of the Philippines Diliman. He is also an instructor at the Ateneo, teaching Theory of Algorithms and Machine Learning. Francis co-developed and built the Metro Manila traffic analysis and prediction platform alongside his co-founders that worked to pull traffic authority data, clean, normalize, and aggregate them, and create predictive models based on the patterns they detected.

He joins us on DevCast to talk about the humble beginnings of Indigo Research and how it has scaled into the startup company it is today. He shares the reality of the startup environment in the country and how Indigo Research managed to establish its niche in the market. He also shares how he manages risks and decision-making as the CEO in order to lead his startup to success.