Proud beyond words! ❤️

India spent 39 years and over 2000 crore on the Kaveri engine and still cannot hit the thrust a fighter needs. problem was never funding, GTRE had no access to how Rolls Royce or GE engineers think about single crystal blade metallurgy or combustion instability during flight. That kind of knowledge sits inside people who have iterated on live programs for decades, You cannot download someone else iteration history. You have to be inside the program to absorb what it teaches Every country that builds jet engines went through the same ugly loop, Test, fail, retest, discover something that fits nowhere in a textbook. India had no high altitude test facility for the Kaveri. Had to ship the engine to Russia for every trial run. You cannot absorb the parameters that separate a working hot section from a molten one by reading papers. That knowledge gets created inside the program itself. Miss the program, miss the knowledge. No workaround exists. GE will transfer 80% of F414 manufacturing tech to HAL, The remaining 20% is where the real gap lives. Core metallurgy, turbine cooling geometries, thermal margin tables that took forty years of flight data to build. Safran meanwhile is offering India full hot section know how for the AMCA engine. Two competing offers from two different countries, both telling India the same story. You can buy the right to assemble, You cannot buy the intuition that shaped the design. I love yur thought by the way, I watch few weeks Ago reel where he talked about how hard to make just blade :)

So proud today! A bet made, rather romantically, in 2018 is now gathering consensus.. Kudos to Mudda, Navin and Sumeet for their hardwork and persistence

31 May 2020: I was on the road, staring at failure at the start of my 40s. 1 June 2020: 6 years back, on this day I started my journey of building Raise (@RaiseTheBarHQ) from zero. The day before, I held a fancy title of Founder, Managing Director and CEO of a financial services company, was an industry pioneer and a leader, built and scaled a product that redefined how India invested online, that made mutual funds popular, and introduced direct mutual funds to the masses. Built a venture that managed few billions dollars and was possibly valued as much as. Next day, I had nothing. No titles, No power. No team. No salary, No stocks. Practically made no money from the venture I gave everything to for 3 years to make it a grand success. Founders like me are emotional fools & immature beings who trust easily and take a word as a word, only to realise one day - the world doesn't work the way one thinks it works. Tried to raise money from venture capital, which I thought would be a easy thing to do but it was not. Almost every VC out there rejected me. Few influential people made raising capital a bit difficult. Many VC & partners who promised term-sheets, stopped responding to emails / chats or just backed out. All of this happened during peak COVID times. I was staring at failure at the start of my 40s. I had no idea what the future would hold for me. Job was never an option, I am too practical and also much of a straight-talker to survive in a corporate life. I had started up 3 times earlier, and was more or less a failure. Somehow gathered courage to start-up again just because giving up again was never an option. Times have changed since then! Today we are a team of ~650 builders and believers at Raise. Only thing we care about is building the best consumer experiences across all the products we are building - @DhanHQ @ask_fuzz @Upsurge_club @Stratzy_HQ @FilterCoffeeHQ and few more ventures in insurance, wealth and investing that we are building. 5 years back value of everything was Zero. Today for whatever it means, Raise is a unicorn valued at USD 1.2 Bn. At some point, I was offered good money as some sort of settlement which of course I never took. This is why I say that as founders, some of us are emotional fools who keep taking chances even after losing it all! Looking back, even after this crazy journey and tons of luck by my side, I am still more of an emotional & introvert founder fool. We are still in our early days of building and are far from where we want to be. Once again, there's no inspiration or gyan here for anyone. Tu tera dekh le bhai, yahaan mein khud bhagwan ke bharose pe hoon.. I post this just as a reminder to myself - never forget where & how we started from. More importantly to express my gratitude to all those who stood by me and supported us in my tough times - as co-founders, team members, colleagues, believers, supporters, cheerleaders, well wishers, investors, friends and most importantly as our customers. Thank you, I wouldn't have made it till here without you 🙏

Thank you Netra for being a constant in my life for last two decades, like an elder sister. 🤗 😍

Lastly, let’s raise a glass - many congratulations to you, my dear friend @arpiit and Smriti. I am so happy for you. 🤗❤️

With fabulous @BlumeVentures team, investing in their partner's @arpiit personal life partnership ❤️ @AshishFafadia @sajithpai @saritaraichu #blumevibes #TeamLove

किसी के सपनों के सोलह सिंगार की शादी है... आज मेरे यार @arpiit कि शादी है लगता है जैसे सारे संसार की शादी है आज मेरे यार कि शादी है ...😍 @KesavaReddy @saritaraichu

phoolo wali haldi, @arpiit ki dastaan-e-ishq ka rang 🤩 @SparklinGuy @KesavaReddy. @AbeOye @annkur @adityamishra @SakshiChowdhry_

Exhibition at the “North Tech Symposium 2026” #Prayagraj depicts contributions by around 280 industry partners and #StartUps from all over India, with 284 stalls showcasing cutting-edge defence technologies. A strong assertion of India’s indigenous capabilities, sending across the world a message of not only India’s self-reliant prowess, but also the credibility of India’s defence equipment including Brahmos missiles and radar systems which have, in recent years, attracted buyers from over 100 countries including USA, France, Indonesia,Italy, Armenia, Philippines etc.

Engineers looking to break into the VC world 👋🏼 @arpiit is hiring a DeepTech Associate! Link below 👇🏼

Introducing Maverick #1 Max "Pain" Griffin, UFC fighter - started using Mave headset 100 days ago - for stress regulation and performance Brain score: 71 (day 0) -> 83.4 (day 30) Grab your headset: mavehealth.com

ASSOCHAM was at the GENESIS Next Gen Startup Summit 2026 | Mandi Edition Manveen Chadha, Additional Director (Startups & Innovation) spoke at the panel “Industry–Startup Synergy: Driving Innovation & Impact”, emphasizing the need to strengthen early-stage funding at lower TRLs, as industry engagement often begins only post-validation, leaving a critical gap in the innovation lifecycle. Addressing this gap can significantly accelerate the journey from idea to scalable impact. We extend our sincere appreciation to MeitY Startup Hub and IIT Mandi Catalyst for curating a high-impact platform that brought together key stakeholders across the innovation ecosystem. ASSOCHAM is committed to supporting the startup ecosystem by fostering industry & investor connect, enabling access to capital, and driving policy advocacy, empowering startups to grow, scale, and create meaningful impact. #GENESISSummit2026 #NextGenStartups #StartupIndia #IndustryStartupSynergy #Innovation #StartupEcosystem @meitystartuphub @iitmndicatalyst @arpiit @ambishhh @ManveenCh

20 years inside India’s startup ecosystem. From @Headstarters to @BlumeVentures One thing is clear: Founders don’t just build companies - they reshape how India lives, works, and grows. Today, I’m taking on a new role as Chair of @ASSOCHAM4India's National Startup Council. Focus: • Stronger startup - industry linkages • A sharper, more credible investor mentor network • Helping founders go 0 to 1 and scale with fewer blind spots If we get this right, we accelerate India’s path to Viksit Bharat 2047. Founders and early-stage investors: What’s one gap in the ecosystem that’s still holding you back?

ASSOCHAM successfully concluded the Investor Connect - Online Edition, a curated platform designed to enable 1:1 engagement between high-potential startups and leading investors across India. 🚀 140 startup applications received from across the country 🚀 60 startups shortlisted to pitch across deeptech and high-growth sectors 🚀 18 investors participated in 160 1:1 sessions We extend our sincere gratitude to the Chief Guest, Dr. Pallavi Jain Govil (IAS), Secretary, Department of Youth Affairs, Ministry of Youth Affairs & Sports, Government of India. The Guest of Honour, Dr. Priyanka Shukla (IAS), CEO, MY Bharat, Ministry of Youth Affairs & Sports, Government of India for their inspiring address and continued support towards strengthening India’s youth-driven innovation ecosystem. ASSOCHAM remains committed to building stronger industry-startup linkages and enabling pathways for the next generation of entrepreneurs to scale and succeed. #ASSOCHAM #InvestorConnect #StartupIndia #Innovation #VentureCapital #Entrepreneurship #StartupEcosystem #YouthInnovation #DeepTech #MYBharat @DoC_GoI @IndiaSports @mybharatgov @pallavigovil @PriyankaJShukla @arpiit @BlumeVentures @PiperSerica @ianetwork @ankurcapital @SpecialeInvest @INaccelerator @piventures @SeafundVenture @chd_angels @8xventures @pontaq_vc @ipventures_in @ambishhh @Manveench

World's First #OptoSAR Satellite & India's largest Privately Built Satellite is on its way to the launchpad 🚀 For 4.5 years, we lived in the gap between a "world’s first" vision and a thousand "it’s not possible" warnings. Building deep-tech IP led startup with limited funds isn't just a challenge; it’s a daily war against gravity and doubt. We were questioned at every turn. Every milestone was met with a "why?" or a "how?" or a or a "someone would have done it already if it were possible." There were days when the weight of being first felt like it might break us. But we stayed. We fought. And we built it. Today, as I look at our satellite—tested, finished, and ready to ship—the emotion is hard to put into words. It’s more than hardware; it’s 1,642 days of pure grit and unshakable belief. To the team @GalaxEye that bled for this: we did the impossible. To the skeptics: thank you for the fuel. To the investors, users and our supporters: cant be more thankful The satellite is ready. And we are just getting started. 🚀

🚨 We're hiring at Blume Ventures — read on. For the longest time, content in venture capital was an afterthought. A press release when a round happened. A generic LinkedIn post. Maybe a blog. @BlumeVentures was one of the first out of the gate to see it differently. Over the past few years, we've built one of the most ambitious content operations in Indian VC — India's most-watched VC podcast, newsletters with 60k subscribers, books that thousands of people read, video IPs, playbooks, and a website that founders actually come back to. Not because we had to. Because we believe that in a world where relationships and reputation are the only things that matter, content is how you earn trust at scale. And here's the thing we've learned: volume doesn't win alone. Depth does. Every piece we put out — whether it's a 60-minute podcast episode or a single tweet — has to carry weight. It has to say something worth saying. It has to be nuanced. And now we need someone to help us raise that bar even higher. We're hiring a Marketing & Content Manager to join the team. I'll be upfront: this role isn't for someone who wants to "manage social media." It's for someone who wants to understand how content compounds, how distribution actually works, and how a small, super-intense team can consistently punch above its weight. (Please read this carefully 🙂 ) You'll work across every format: social, newsletters, video, events, and website, with a front-row seat to how India's startup ecosystem actually operates. You'll sit in rooms with some of the sharpest investors and founders in the country. And you'll ship. A lot! What we're looking for: → 3 years in content/digital marketing → Someone who's genuinely curious about startups and technology → Strong instincts for what makes people stop scrolling → Comfort with ambiguity and a highly intense pace of work → Willingness to unlearn what "marketing" means in most places Based out of Delhi NCR. If you think you're ready to do the best work of your career so far — or know someone who is — share your details here: forms.gle/dcgmbELpfrTeP6Qa6 @BKartRed @sajithpai @riashroff

Honored to be ranked #1 in India’s fastest-growing companies 2026 by @TIME & @StatistaCharts ✨ Just in time as we celebrate 10 years with #TheMaster campaign. We’ve focused on making car buying & selling simple and delightful, built on trust, transparency & integrity. Grateful to our customers, partners & #squadspinny 🚗 #10years #spinny #gofar time.com/7379137/indias-fast…

Enough of this nonsense! Presenting PARAM: India's most powerful indigenous robot dog. Not assembled, not bought, BUILT IN INDIA, built by INDIANS. For our nation, for our century, for our world! Jai Hind! 🇮🇳 @narendramodi @adgpi @AshwiniVaishnaw @GoI_MeitY @startupindia

15 years of Blume ! Grateful to our LPs, co investors, ecosystem friends and most importantly, our Founders who choose to partner with Blume. Five funds, five locations, a team of more than 50, more than a 100 portfolio companies (Blumiers) who we've proudly backed... yet, that early stage dna always makes us feel like we're just getting started ! Its been an incredible journey with @BKartRed and @AshishFafadia @sajithpai @arpiit and our stellar Blume crew This year's theme - 'Orbit Shifting' is apt, as we see our best & brighest Founders transforming themselves from building category leaders to go beyond and build aspirational IPO-able, generational companies. The fireside with @PhonePe ‘s @_sameernigam and our own @dhirendranm @helloturtlemint showcased the scale of vision and ambition of today’s founders More power to them and their Orbit Shifts! 🚀 @BlumeVentures #BlumeDay15