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I wonder when Bombay will become a major startup hub. While we have great companies, we don’t have the density of BLR. It seems like the lack of density itself (of talent especially) is one circular reason for this, along with high rent costs. But we have some tailwinds here:

Making a list of consumer AI companies being built in India. Share your favourite and please spread the word!

Excited as a citizen, proud as a stakeholder. Congratulations to Pratyush Kumar Vivek Raghavan & the entire Sarvam AI team for being awarded the project to build India's foundation model. I bet no funding milestone felt as sweet as this does! :) Respect & admiration for everyone at

👋 Hello SFO - we're super excited to share that we are hosting our 1st DugOut in the Bay Area in partnership with Z47 & Aarthi Ramamurthy Although we're a Bangalore based team - we have had the privilege of being early investors for many teams building in & from the US as a

3 weeks of May at OpenAI: - Acquired Windsurf for $3B - Launched OpenAI for Countries - Released Codex - Hired Fidji Somo as CEO of apps - Bloomberg Stargate reveal - Acquired Jony Ive's io for $6.5B Along with changing technology as we know it, they are also redefining the

I like Deedy's work but but this take misses context Sarvam-M isn’t a vanity fine-tune; it’s India’s first open-weights 24 B Indic-centric LLM built under brutal GPU & data scarcity. Judging it by few hours of HuggingFace stats badly misses the point. Most people outside

I disagree. Indian VC & tech has faced a perennial problem of trying to replicate what's worked in Silicon Valley here. And the true outliers have been ones that looked at India-first problems with first principals to create massive outcomes (Quick Comm, Fintech, Consumer

The default mode for startup-investor pitches should now be demos and not decks.

Building AI in India

Huggingface can see what most others can't. Soon, everyone will know. I am meeting 1 new AI startup a week now. Top technical teams thinking global first.

To everyone in India - AI is NOT the next evolution of SaaS. Every AI business is not a better SaaS business. AI is horizontal tech like the internet was, B2B is only the starting point. What's even more exciting is the explosion of Consumer AI use cases. And this time it's

I am excited to share the launch of TEAM Angels, a collective of Mumbai's leading founders to back the next wave of unicorns from the city. For Mumbai HQ'd startups at the earliest stages, Tech Entrepreneurs Association of Mumbai (TEAM) founders will invest collectively up to Rs. 1.5 Cr (~$175k) and provide

Is a US-China AI race necessary? How is it impacting other countries and the way the tech is governed? Rest of World spoke to the experts: @timnitGebru (@dair-community.social/bsky.social) Ramesh Srinivasan Sayash Kapoor Aakrit Vaish Jeffrey Ding Alvin Wang Graylin Paul Triolo Irene Solaiman Sameer Patil, PhD Kashifu Inuwa Abdullahi restofworld.org/2025/us-china-…

The AI firehose is deafening 🗓️ Starting a new weekly series: decoding the week’s AI moves - and what they really mean for AI in India 🇮🇳 Will try to do this every Friday This week crystallized 3 meta-themes: (1) Compute pluralism - OpenAI signed for Google TPUs while

Interesting dynamics at play in India startup land. On one end, all YC unicorns flipping back to IPO locally. Meesho, Zepto, Razorpay, etc. paying a $300M+ tax bill. On the other hand, majority of new AI-native startups incorporating in Delaware, while their center of gravity

Aakrit Vaish Multiple considerations and multiple view points. YMMV. Sharing my personal framework. Also caveat: investor lens, biased for returns. Though my answer as a founder would follow same principles and framework. Scenario 1: Depth of market for your biz in India meaningful in

🗓️ 2nd edition of⚡️AI Pulse: The past week reset the pieces on the global AI chessboard & had some interesting implications for AI in India🇮🇳 Executive Summary: Meta's ~$14.5B non-voting, 49% bet on Scale AI telegraphs that curated data + annotation talent are now the hard

Incredible meeting Balaji and seeing what he's doing with Network School. The world needs a reimagination of cities & communities, and today we got to experience one such beginning. More power to you! 🚀

Incredible meeting Balaji and seeing what he's doing with Network School. The world needs a reimagination of cities & communities, and today we got to experience one such beginning. More power to you! 🚀

What's India's potential? Well, Singapore previewed what China could look like. And Dubai may preview what India could look like. Because Indians are 38% of Dubai's population. While South Asians are >50%. And by working with Emiratis... They built a city that looks like this: