One of the more interesting start-ups to receive VC funding this year has been Dhama Apparel Innovations which provides apparel with variable heating / cooling to people living and working in difficult climatic environments. N. Sriram of Venture Intelligence recently spoke with Kranthi Kiran Vistakula , Dhama’s Founder & CEO who is an alumnus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Venture Intelligence: You have a biotech and engineering background from MIT. Why did you switch to doing an apparel start-up? Kranthi Vistakula: While living in Boston (USA), the weather was either cold or hot…I never felt comfortable. Since I could not find any functional apparel in the market, I started developing one for my use. That is how the whole idea started. VI: Dhama is now targeting to sell temperature-controlled apparel to defense forces. Don’t soldiers have these kinds of apparels already? KV: They do have. But they are very heavy. Our apparel weighs around 1 kg. The apparel soldi...