Launching on 19th April- The 2022 edition of the Chiratae-Zinnov India SaaS report. We look at the growing potential of the Indian SaaS industry & how the country is becoming central to defining the future of the global tech landscape. Sign up here – saas.chiratae.com

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Basic tech adoption and digitization in single/multi location SMBs in the US is still very low. The resilience shown by Anmol & the team at Emitrr to crack the right product & GTM to go after this market is commendable. Congrats! Chiratae Ventures Venkatesh Peddi techcrunch.com/2022/08/02/emi…

These guys are a force of nature. More power to the @SquadStackTeam!

Launching tomorrow at Indiranagar! 1st coco clinic :) hello.dezy Hitesh Kakrani Jatin Kakrani Ashish Agrawal Tushar Behl (tbehl.eth) Ranjith Menon

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Presenting the "INDIA SaaSONOMICS: Navigating Growth and Efficiency" by Chiratae and Zinnov. The 3rd edition of the India SaaS Report reveals that Indian SaaS companies are doubling down on growth (revenue generation) while ensuring operational and capital efficiency.

The Indian SaaS industry has shown incredible resilience triumphing over challenges & outshining global markets. We’re excited to unveil Chiratae's SaaS report, celebrating the industry's remarkable journey from humble beginnings to what it is today shorturl.at/tX468

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TIL: GPT’s original training had only 5-10% empathic texts. But during RLHF, emotional support became an explicit training goal, increasing emphasis by 20-30%. Now ~30% use GPT for emotional validation - highest among GenZ ~45% It wasn’t AI’s IQ that outpaced us. It was its EQ.

Dark patterns or defense? In India, gaming the system is a consumer sport: used items returned on Amazon, “wrong order” claims on Swiggy, COD abuse on Blinkit. So while Zepto’s UX isn’t perfect, maybe it’s just survival. Consumer trust cuts both ways.

This is for all my young Indian AI founder friends incorporating in Delaware: A SaaS company at ~$100M ARR with 40% of revenues from the US is flipping back to India, raising money from Tier 1 Indian PEs to eventually IPO here.

voice ai has a long way to go

For most multistage funds, a seed check solves for optionality. Unless you’re a meaningful % of their NAV, a bridge is unlikely or at best extremely painful. The math for seed funds is different: you are a large part of their portfolio, and capital constraints aside, they’re

Near-monopolies behave like markets will orbit them forever. It starts subtly: response times get slower, products get heavier, teams get more inward-facing than customer-obsessed. The belief that “no one else can catch us” calcifies into culture. And culture determines how

Hopefully all check-in gates of indigo look like this in the future