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Rebalance is India's first angel community that's 51% women with 27 investments across fintech, biotech, consumer, drones, Gen AI, deeptech healthcare, climate, energy, edtech and more. 🔥 Aishwarya is hosting a limited-seating, candid chat for women who invest in startups (would like to invest with Rebalance) and for women who want to learn about startup investing. No question is too trivial or small, this is a safe space to ask anything about startup investing! When: 26 May 2024 [Sunday] Where: Somewhere in Delhi ☕ Timings: 4:30 pm - 6:30 pm 2 days to go!! RSVP here: https://shorturl.at/EoYLN If you're already an investor or not based in Delhi/Gurgaon - you can directly sign up here to be part of the investing community: https://lnkd.in/g7taCdkc

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Honored to be featured in YourStory Media’s spotlight on the 15 founders making strides in India’s entrepreneurial ecosystem! ✨ This recognition is a testament to the incredible support from our amazing team, mentors, and partners. Your encouragement and belief in our vision have been instrumental in our journey. A big thank you to everyone who has been part of this adventure—your contributions have truly made a difference. Shradha Sharma || YourStory Media || Impactful Pitch® || instapitch.io Read more about it here: https://lnkd.in/dkP9J7mR #impactful #startup #india #startups #investments #funding #fundraising #venturecapitalist #venturecapital #impact #global #pitchdeck #business #ai #generativeai #entrepreneures #entrepreneurship

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🚀 A $7 TRILLION economy by 2030 - the biggest wealth creation opportunity of our generation is unfolding in #India. But how will we get there? This week, we launched #Upstart - a groundbreaking series that decodes India's unprecedented growth story through the lens of its innovators and architects. The numbers are staggering: 👉🏼 97 million people joining the workforce in next decade 👉🏼 371 million middle-class consumers (world's largest) 👉🏼 40% of power capacity from renewables 👉🏼 Digital payments transactions highest globally, 2-10x of developed nations 👉🏼 Services exports hit record $341.1 billion in FY24 But numbers only tell half the story. In Episode 1, we sit down with Pranav Pai, Founding Partner of 3one4 Capital, one of India's most influential VCs who has backed 70+ category leaders including Licious, DarwinBox, and Open. Highlights from the episode: 💡 Why services are "India's LeBron James" for the next 30 years 💡 How PLI schemes are transforming manufacturing 💡 The critical policy shifts needed for global competitiveness 💡 Where the biggest startup opportunities lie in this transition Want to understand where the next decade of opportunity lies in the world's fastest-growing major economy? 👉 Watch Episode 1 of Upstart today! https://lnkd.in/gjqcU47W WeWork India | #WeWorkLabs | Aniket Jagtap | Mohini Kumar | Shenjit Basu | Akanksha Sarma | Tanuj Ahuja #Startups #VentureCapital #Founders #MakeInIndia #StartupIndia #IndianEconomy #Leadership #Entrepreneurship

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Celebrating One Year at Elev8 Venture Partners! What started as humble beginnings at co-working spaces like Axilor and WeWork, has finally culminated into our second home at Elev8 VP. Exactly one year ago, we inaugurated our new office on 12th Main in Indiranagar, marking a significant milestone in our journey. Initially, I was hesitant about large offices or high rentals, especially on the high street. However, thanks to Dr. Apoorva Ranjan Sharma, Anuj Golecha, and Gaurav Jain, Anil G Jain, we took the plunge. We secured an office space that was more than I initially thought we could afford. Today, I can confidently say it was one of the best decisions for Elev8 Venture Partners. In the world of venture capital, office location and décor surprisingly play a crucial role, especially for a first-time fund. It's not about extravagance or lavish spending but about creating a welcoming, professional environment. Our beautifully done office, complete with lush plants, has greatly contributed to building a positive external perception. This perception & vibe, is our reality. Home is not built by bricks but by memories. Over the past year, we've made incredible strides. Our investments in IDfy and Astrotalk have been pivotal, marking the beginning of our journey to support high-quality tech companies at the growth stage. This journey wouldn’t have been possible without my incredible team, whose dedication and hard work have turned our office into a second home. Here’s to many more years of growth, innovation, and impactful investments. Thank you to everyone who has been part of this journey with Elev8 Venture Partners. #Elev8VP #Anniversary #VentureCapital #Investment #TechStartups #GrowthStage #Teamwork #Innovation #Success Divy Chopda, Ashwini Khemka, Aman Ahmed, Abhisekh Shah, Parth Doshi, Mayank Jajoo, Komal Vichoor, Zaveria Mohammad, Mitali Rai, Eric (Jung Ho) Yoo, Donghyun Kim

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When you find a practical use of AI in an area that has strong tailwinds in the India growth story, you know this is a venture that has a high potential not just for value creation but for job creation in the country. Delighted to back TraqCheck founders Jaibir Nihal Singh, Armaan Mehta and @rishabh jain as they make it easier for over 200 corporations to embrace the new way of work. Traqcheck's Ai-enabled background checks of employees is way, way faster and far more reliable than traditional methods of background verification. Pankaj Bansal (पंकज बंसल)Karann Mittal Danish Dogra Aman Khan Yukta Kelkar Atreyi Dass

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"AI will take over almost everything" Someone said this to me the other day, convinced that the main jobs we know today will be taken over by AI not too long from now. While another told me that AI will help scale the efforts of those already doing a good job on their own. So where does AI fit in marketing, and how do AI-driven ecosystems shift the way we create, communicate, deliver, and exchange offerings that have value for our customers and partners? Thank you SP Jain School of Global Management - Dubai, Mumbai, Singapore & Sydney for inviting me to deliver a keynote on the power of AI-driven ecosystems for marketing. I will be sharing my observations on how some startups have quickly leverage Generative AI capabilities in this ecosystem, what has worked, where are the areas of friction that impede rapid adoption and what possibilities we can look forward to. I invite my friends to join me and the esteem panelists in this Business Conclave on 6th December (next friday). Check out the registration link below before seats run out. I look forward to seeing you and having a vibrant discussion! #AI #AIformarketing #strategy #marketing

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BrainSightAI is transforming brain health with its pioneering approach to neuroinformatics. With US$5 million raised in a pre-series A funding round led by IAN Alpha Fund, the startup is poised to scale its impact across India and global markets. By integrating artificial intelligence and neuroscience, BrainSightAI’s solutions like Voxelbox and Snowdrop are enhancing precision in the diagnosis and treatment of complex neuro-oncological and neuropsychiatric disorders. The company has partnered with over 40 hospitals and is paving the way for accessible, advanced brain care. At IAN Group (formerly Indian Angel Network), we are committed to supporting innovative ventures like BrainSightAI that are bridging technology and healthcare to deliver meaningful outcomes. Read more: https://lnkd.in/gKxSivM4 #IANAlphaFund #BrainCareInnovation #DeepTech #Neuroscience #StartupGrowth #HealthcareTransformation

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Only TWO days left to apply for the RippleX Fellowship program! If you are a student/dropout/recent grad building a b2b software company in Canada/US, this is the program for you. In our last batch we had some amazing mentors like: - Braden Ream (CEO, Voiceflow): Mastering storytelling and navigating selling into enterprises - Rahul Parmar (Prev. Senior Director of Sales, Drata): Sales 101 – Converting pilots to real revenue, creating urgency among buyers, and best practices to manage a sales process - Nicholas Chepesiuk (CEO, OnCall Virtual Care, now part of Qualifacts): Striving towards product-market fit, utilizing creative outbound strategies, and the importance of building trust with customers in the early days - Justin Sky (CEO, Rose Rocket): Identifying venture-scale markets, learning when to pivot, and building strong organizational culture - Josh Gray (CEO, Artemis): Conducting customer validation, segmenting your ICP, and advice for young founders Apply here: https://lnkd.in/e2iAu6vi

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Commoditization of AI models Yesterday evening I had the pleasure of watching Aravind Srinivas' (founder of Perplexity) interview with Aarthi Ramamurthy and Sriram Krishnan . It's a great interview and I would recommend AI founders to watch it if possible. https://lnkd.in/gnM2NeS8 Couple of things that stuck me from the interview: 1. Aravind believes in the commoditization of AI models in the long run. His take his firms like Perplexity which focus on user problems and solve for it using relevant models will win. Perplexity does it quite well, do check them out if you haven't already. This is something that AI entrepreneurs should think about. Creating foundational models is freaking expensive! and for conservative capital allocators like us it is too risky a bet (not betting on AI is even riskier 😅, I guess we need to learn more) I am going to tag the platform Guru and distinguished IIMB alumnus Sangeet Paul Choudary for his take on this. 2. The initial employees (5-10) have to be truth seekers rather than social affirmers(?) It was great hearing him talk about the culture at Perplexity of seeking the truth through open conversations and arguments on Slack rather than provide positive affirmation. I think it's something that every founder should strive for. Truth will prevail in the longer run. This works in technology, finance, politics, society, anywhere. (Satyamev Jayate is true in itself!) But to be able to have an open conversation, the founders need to have depth themselves. This is something that I feel the Indian ecosystem lacks, as most of the founders seem to be managerial in nature. I find them shifting to jargons rather than simplicity when questioned deeper. (By the way this is a classic test to check whether someone really knows it, people who know what they are talking about will make it simpler, those who don't take the cover of jargons to increase complexity and portray intelligence) I understand my analysis could be biased due to self-selection, and I would love to be proven wrong. It's pretty cool that Aravind chose Larry Page as his favourite entrepreneur due to their common background of coming from academic research to entrepreneurship. What I definitely don't agree with Aravind on The idea that luck doesn't play a role in outcomes. Successful people generally attribute success to their hard work/smartness / enterprise without understanding their privilege. For e.g. A smarter/more hardworking/more enterprising Dalit girl from Bihar will never have the kind of opportunities that I had as a Tam Bram born in a lower-middle class but very well educated family in Chennai. One has tried to solve for it using our Sakhi Scholars programme, which supports gifted girls from underprivileged communities to achieve their dream through financial support. On a lighter note, Aravind is a 2017 IIT-M alum and has already built a $8 billion company, what the hell am I doing with my life? 🤔

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"Be the change you wish to see in the world." These powerful words by Mahatma Gandhi hold a mirror to the entrepreneurial spirit that is driving India’s transformation today. Just as he led movements that redefined the nation, India’s startup founders are reshaping industries with bold ideas, innovation, and determination. Through their vision and grit, our entrepreneurs are driving meaningful change—solving real-world problems, creating jobs, and building solutions that affect lives on a large scale. This Gandhi Jayanti, let’s celebrate the innovators who embody this ethos, turning challenges into opportunities for a better, more sustainable future. #GandhiJayanti #Entrepreneurship #StartupIndia #InnovatorsForChange #IANGroup

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"Buddha's Lesson for Consumer-Tech" Most of our lives are spent on protecting & bolstering our sense of self. While some of us will drop it & achieve Enlightenment someday, most of us are going to spend the rest of our lives consuming & engaging with stuff that raises our self-esteem. In our rapidly changing society, it makes sense for businesses to take a moment & reflect: "what are people striving for?" Link in Comments! #curious #psychology #philosophy

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Multiple people nowadays come and ask me where media is headed and how we at Collective are interpreting the landscape. The truth is, "digital" is now a vast term. AI is another vast term. It’s like saying, "I stay in India," when someone asks, "Where do you live?" These buzzwords have evolved into large, independent domains that require sectoral specificity, especially in media. Breaking down digital, tech, and content into their zeroes and ones and building up from there is the key. At Collective, we are building the creator journey from discovery to stardom and, in the process, empowering businesses—brands and content producers—with a vast set of opportunities to forge the right connections between content and creators. This is backed by deep technology, which is being constructed and architected for the creator (Big Bang Social and Under 25 Universe) on one side and commerce/advertising (Galleri5 (now, part of Collective Artists Network) on the other. Hence, we’re breaking everything down to its absolute skeleton and building on top of that. Communities, creators, and talent are the new distribution channels. Newer formats will emerge. I believe short fiction and non-fiction (2–10 minutes) will become increasingly prevalent. Affiliate commerce—social and live—backed by AI for discoverability will enable sellers and brands to reduce CAC. ROAS will improve in these channels, and top-funnel metrics will benefit from higher engagement and consideration. AI will disrupt content creation. We are already seeing its impact with the work Galleri5 is doing by creating content at scale and significantly reducing marketing costs for companies. It makes the process more efficient for both creators and advertisers. OTT platforms will adopt newer formats of content. I think sex, guns, and thrillers have had their time. I foresee more engaging YA (young adult) formats gaining prominence. TV-style long episodic formats will also get greenlit more often compared to short seasons of 8–10 episodes. This shift would mean costs get optimized, allowing for greater scale. All-in-all, it’s a great time to be in this business. We are on the cusp of entering a new world order in media and entertainment, and I firmly believe that we at Collective Artists Network are at the forefront, with a commitment to adapt and innovate as we usher in this new era. #innovation #creatoreconomy #technology #media

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It took Shazam almost 5 years to find product-market fit 🤯 I was joined by the legendary Dhiraj Mukherjee on Now We Build by Forward Pursuit this week. Amongst many insights he shared, Dhiraj spoke about the importance of resiliency as a start-up founder and highlighted how resilient the Shazam founding team had to be throughout their journey. Now sitting on the investor side, Dhiraj stressed the importance of founder resiliency when he assess founders he wants to invest in. A shoutout to the amazing Riham Satti, founder of MeVitae , for hustling and being resilient to Dhriaj's slow email responses 😉 You can listen to the full episode on the link below 👇 #founder #startup #business #investment

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In today’s competitive landscape, securing financing for a Hindi film is more challenging than ever. With rapidly shifting audience preferences and the unpredictable performance of films, investors are understandably cautious. However, this challenge is also an opportunity for financers who recognize the unique value of Hindi cinema and the deep connection it has with audiences both in India and abroad. Hindi films, especially those with fresh narratives and authentic characters, continue to attract global viewership and unlock new revenue streams through diverse distribution models like OTT, satellite, and international markets. A smart, data-driven investment strategy can tap into these emerging opportunities, as innovative storytelling paired with strategic marketing can create both critical acclaim and commercial success. Today, as the demand for impactful and relatable content surges, the right partnerships can redefine Hindi cinema’s reach and returns, making it a lucrative prospect for visionary financers and producers ready to back the next big success.

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In my latest article for The Pioneer, I explore the significant strides made by South India in recent years. Are these developments a paradigm shift or just a passing trend? I dive into the factors behind the South's rise, including governance, education, and infrastructure. I invite you to read my insights and share your thoughts on this evolving dynamic. #Economy #Governance #India #Leadership #SouthIndia #NorthIndia #Innovation #MountainRiverFilms #MRF #Films #IndianFilms #MovieBusiness https://lnkd.in/dm_Dd7Rd

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[In #Urdu / #Hindi] Here is a new episode of Kainaati Gup Shup about the confirmation of an intermediate mass blackhole: Kainaat Studios https://lnkd.in/eUU9FmYY

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India is an emerging market for everything, also focusing on the Music industry in a larger scheme of game. On the grounds of a turbulent time for #Wynk and #Gaana, what are your thoughts on this? Another question: Is Radio is still going be an opportunity for artists to reach in the niche areas or will it be generating revenue streams for artists? (example: advertising revenue, subscription etc.) #riseofradio #music #fmmusic #generationrestoration #licenseliyakya

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