Something happened yesterday that filled me with pride.
Two second-year students didn’t just build a startup, they got Jitesh Sharma (@jiteshsharma_) on board as their brand ambassador and investor. They also hosted him at our office and introduced him to us.
Raghav and Aditya from @NST_edu x @rishihoodUni built Kixar, a platform to book sports venues. Already live in 2 cities, expanding to Noida and Bangalore.
See what they're building: kixar.in
It’s very important for ambitious entrepreneurs and investors to study this company.
They will do great things from India, for the world.
Soham’s writings and the PopVax website are essential reading.
Tigerfeathers story about PopVax: tigerfeathers.in/p/popvax-an…
Four years ago, I started @PopVaxIndia with no real knowledge of biology and <$50k in personal funding, convinced that the combination of generative AI for design & RNA for delivery would unlock a new class of vaccines & therapeutics against diseases resistant to legacy methods.
Here's your Friday Indian tech white pill:
1. @rumik_ai soft launched a voice model, silk 1, and it's shockingly good
2. @pravapayments partnered with Visa to enable card-based agentic payments
3. @nst_edu has multiple team qualifying for the 2026 ICPC Asia West regionals
Hardest startup lesson I've learned:
For your product: great is the enemy of good. Ship and iterate.
For your team: good is the enemy of great. Keep the bar high.
Drop 14a/14: Over the past few days, we’ve been putting our models, products, and research out there. The positive feedback has helped more people agree with our long held belief that #IndiaCan be a builder in this space.
Today, we are rolling out Indus - a chat interface to experience Sarvam 105B. Here is what all you can do:
BharatGen unveils Param2 17B multilingual MoE model under sovereign AI push
BharatGen has introduced Param2, a 17-billion-parameter multilingual MoE model optimised for Indic languages, strengthening India's sovereign AI capabilities and digital mission
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Super happy to see this! Bharat must continue its pursuit of building frontier models even if we are always a generation behind - sovereignty here is non negotiable!
Huge respect @SarvamAI@pratykumar@vivekrag
Going to spend my weekend building something with bulbul 😄
Here is @SarvamAI's journey from founding to a full-stack AI platform in under three years.
Each milestone is shaped by Indian needs rather than parameter counts.
Thanks @mavehealth for this sweet gesture. They are launching today and are the perfect team building in the mental health space.
All the best @jsjai3009 @thatssodhawal@amankrsingh03
Saddened by the passing of S.L Bhyrappa. His writing wove layers of stories and timelines together. His stories spanned across history, philosophy, psychology, theology and much more. Aavarana and Caravan - two of his works which I read touched me deeply. Om Shanti
Your organization's culture is not what's written on the walls.
It's a direct reflection of the founders' and early team's personalities, habits, and values.
Trump calling India a "dead economy" is not just an insult. It should strike at our national pride. If it doesn't shake us, something is wrong. India must respond. Not with outrage or statements, but with performance. It’s time for the political leadership, business community, engineers, and bureaucrats to rise together and prove otherwise.
Interesting fact: Israel and Iran were for a long time(pre islamic revolution) besties and had great military and diplomatic cooperation. In fact even closer than USA was to Israel in it's initial years (USA was initially apprehensive of supporting Israel)
India has surpassed Japan to become the 4th largest economy.
From admiring Japan’s bullet trains, cars, product quality to building UPI, ISRO, the world’s cheapest mobile data, tech startups, India has come a long way.
This is a rocketship. You’re on it.
No perfect timing. Just build.