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Moderator: There are so many talented Indians in startups in Silicon Valley. Why are there not more Indian startups in India itself? India's Chief Economic Adviser: I don't think you have been to India for some time. India's startup ecosystem is second only to Silicon Valley.

@SARCGlobal Just what the Doctor ordered. Many cos are clueless about implications/impact of DPDP. CISO less. They are scrambling to decode and decide I see a huge front dooring opportunity for cyber security/assurance and cyber resilience

India’s digital economy is expanding at an unprecedented pace—but with scale comes responsibility. 🔐 The Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act, 2023 marks a decisive shift—transforming data governance from a compliance exercise into a strategic imperative. With enforcement set for May 2027, enterprises must move beyond awareness to action. From consent-led data processing and stricter accountability to penalties of up to ₹250 crore per violation, the DPDP framework demands a complete rethinking of how organizations collect, manage, and protect personal data. Curious to understand what DPDP means for your organization—and how to prepare before the 2027 deadline? Explore the complete guide👇 sarc.global/insights/the-c… #DPDPAct #DataProtection #DigitalIndia #Compliance #DataPrivacy #CyberSecurity #FutureOfData #ViksitBharat2047 #DigitalTransformation #TrustEconomy

@PIB_India @DLTevangelist x.com/i/status/20451…

@PIB_India @DLTevangelist An AI MISSION should be charter. Staffed by leaders in pvt sector with established track record in building,creating , disrupting - at a scale. Global mindset Here is a statistic worth noting Top 10 US AI Cos on avg raised $2.8 billion each. Vs $13 mn avg by AI cos in India

Government Constitutes AI Governance and Economic Group (AIGEG) to Lead India’s National AI Governance Strategy A High-Level Inter-Ministerial Body to Coordinate Policy, Promote Responsible AI Innovation and Address Labour Market Impacts Read here: pib.gov.in/PressReleasePa… @GoI_MeitY

@SandeepUnnithan @prabhuasgaonkar Time for this team to hit Bollywood with some Hollywood production quality war films n series on Wars, battles & operations by Indian Military🤔 Global fare. Make in INDIA🫠

Beautiful tribute to the Lion of Ladakh & Kargil legend the late Colonel Sonam Wangchuk, MVC by @prabhuasgaonkar, Manika Berry Asgaonkar @sparkleworkfilms. The Battle of Chorbat La stands as one of the earliest and most decisive victories of the 1999 Kargil War. At nearly 18,000 feet, Major Sonam Wangchuk of the Ladakh Scouts led just 40 soldiers to overpower 135 enemy troops, recapturing a critical infiltration route under extreme conditions—sub-zero temperatures, fierce winds, and deep snow. For his exceptional leadership and courage, he was awarded the Maha Vir Chakra. @adgpi @chakranewz @awasthi_bob

@SandeepUnnithan @manaman_chhina US war machine must go easy on ribbons. Its reaching Soviet proportions. Clearly General Patton ran out of standard issue grosgrain!

@manaman_chhina Here’s a rookie fm WW2…

It seems he has fought every war since WW2.

We set out to shake the tree. What emerged was 𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐧𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭. Building a $𝟏 𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐮𝐩 𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐦𝐲 isn’t just about capital; it’s about stakeholders moving together. 𝐅𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬, 𝐢𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐬, 𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬, and 𝐫𝐞𝐠𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐬 need to be on the same page. India has the potential — hundreds of unicorns, millions of jobs — but it will require deeper domestic capital, better exits, and patient conviction. At the core, it comes down to relationships. Founder–investor dynamics aren’t built on term sheets alone, but on 𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐬𝐭, 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐭, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐟. When that clicks, outcomes follow and partnerships last far beyond the deal. @probirpaymate @hdfcsec @HDFC_Bank @KotakBankLtd @floors4gyms @MoneycontrolH @moneycontrolcom @CNBCTV18News @ndtv @ndtvindia @ZeeBusiness @ETNOWlive @livemint @bsindia @EconomicTimes @CelebratoryNet1 @SARCGlobal #AlizeCapital #StartupEcosystem #IndiaGrowth #VentureCapital #Entrepreneurship #FounderInvestor #StartupIndia #CapitalMarkets #InnovationEconomy

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The Government has notified the Startup India Fund of Funds 2.0 (Startup India FoF 2.0) with a total corpus of ₹10,000 crore to mobilize venture and growth capital for the country’s startup ecosystem. #StartupIndia #Innovation Read More: pib.gov.in/PressReleasePa…

x.com/i/status/14301… 5 years after this post/exchange👆 We thought we would shake the tree once again and see what falls out. In any innovation mission principal stakeholders alignment is key - investors, funds, i- bankers & bankers, listed/unlisted entrepreneurs, lawyers,compliance, regulators & Govt. On same platform. Pointing the same way. The theme of our cul de sac event being: " Toolkit to a $ 1 Trillion start up economy by 2030" & 'The Founder-Investor-Market Fit' Foll emerged: (1)India can expect to see 300 unicorns by 2030s. Generate 50 m jobs. (2)But needs more domestic risk capital, vibrant & flourishing Exits, patient institutional pools (not just UHNIs) & new thesis (deeptech,AI infra,etc). (3)Founders & Founder- Investor relations ultimately boils down to Power Dynamics & culture. And that the Harvard Business School doesn't quite teach those! You just have to learn that on the job. Sometimes IT IS THE JOB !

@gupta_abhinav22 @dadiomov Move fast. Break hubris!

@dadiomov Done

VCs should remove the title partner and introduce "Member of Capital Allocating Staff"

Amazing work by IN Pushing the envelope in each adventure mission. Seas, sub sea, rivers, mountains and now pole. Only space is left.

Good consumer brands rarely scale on hype alone. They scale on clarity, discipline and timing. Proud to see Alize Capital portfolio company 𝐎𝐜𝐡𝐫𝐞 𝐒𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐬 getting recognition for building with measured ambition in a category that rewards both taste and execution. From the rise of “𝐚𝐟𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐮𝐦” to a sharper focus on distribution, repeat demand and non-alcoholic adjacencies, this is a story of patient brand-building in a fast-evolving market. India’s craft spirits moment is getting real, Glad to see from early investor perspective 𝐎𝐜𝐡𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐭 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐝𝐞𝐩𝐭𝐡, 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐧𝐨𝐢𝐬𝐞. @OchreSpirit @probirpaymate @FortuneIndia @CelebratoryNet1

@dugalira @DLTevangelist @Beamsvc @anandkbajaj @aphota @barandbench @RBI Merits a read and response

RBI discussion paper on curbing digital frauds is a can of worms - some will welcome it, others will see it as unnecessary friction. It will also entail a cost for the payment ecosystem. Some proposals up for discussion (this is not a draft set of rules, just a discussion paper): 🚩Introduce a lag at the payer's end. Proposed lag of 1 hour for payments more than 10,000 rupees. Payer can override the lag for critical transactions. 🚩Introduce extra checks for senior citizens above 70 years for transactions above 50,000 rupees. They identify a 'trusted person' who acts as an additional layer of authentication. Customers can opt out. 🚩RBI shall prescribe a ceiling, say Rs 25 lakh, for annual aggregate credits into a bank account, defined as low credit turnover account (don't completely understand this). They give a list of accounts covered and not. Mostly for individual accounts. 🚩Allow customers to set different limits for various transactions at account level (thought we already have this). And offer a kill switch to disable all digital transactions at one go. reuters.com/sustainability…

Smaller Fast Neutron reactors is the new trend. All largely incubated within a start up Ecosystem. India too can make a pioneering/bleeding edge contribution in new gen Fusion grade plasma. Using Z Pinch confinement - no laser, no superconductors, no cryogenics. Garage scale. Low cost. By ~2030. Ahead of ITER (2040) Good use case: future space propulsion micro engine (with Deuterium) Happy to be looking at it.🤔

@aakashgupta @kirtitejas @SandeepUnnithan @srikantkesnur @zwerubae @anil_kakodkar Hmm..not all quite true. French were pioneers with Super Phenix& Phenix sodium cooled reactors in period 1980s till last decade Dominated this space Subsequently shut down due to various reasons. Yes.ASTRID was abandoned

The West poured $50 billion into fast breeder nuclear reactors and abandoned every single one. India poured $900 million and just achieved criticality on the first commercially viable one outside Russia. The US spent $15 billion. Gave up. Japan spent $12 billion. Their Monju prototype had one sodium fire in 1995 and never recovered. The UK spent $8 billion. Germany spent $6 billion. France, Italy, all walked away. Six of the richest nations on Earth concluded this technology was too hard and too expensive to pursue. India started building in 2004 with an initial budget of $420 million. Twenty-two years, a dozen missed deadlines, and a cost doubling later, the Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor at Kalpakkam just sustained a controlled fission chain reaction. The reactor is now alive. The reason India never quit is a constraint most people have never thought about. India has only 1-2% of the world's uranium reserves. For a country of 1.4 billion people trying to build energy independence, that's a death sentence if you're running conventional nuclear. But India has 25% of the world's thorium. The single largest national reserve on Earth. The problem: you can't just burn thorium the way you burn uranium. A physicist named Homi Bhabha designed a three-stage nuclear program in the 1950s specifically to solve this. Stage 1: burn natural uranium in heavy water reactors, collect plutonium as a byproduct. Stage 2: feed that plutonium into fast breeder reactors, where it breeds MORE plutonium AND converts thorium into fissile uranium-233. Stage 3: burn thorium directly at scale. India just entered Stage 2. Seventy years after Bhabha drew it up on paper. The math on the thorium endgame is wild. At current energy consumption rates, India's thorium reserves could power the country for over 700 years. Most nuclear nations are playing a uranium game with maybe 80-100 years of runway. India is playing a completely different game with a 7x longer fuel supply. The West quit because uranium stayed cheap and sodium coolant is terrifying. It catches fire on contact with air. It explodes on contact with water. Russia's BN-600 had 27 sodium leaks and 14 sodium fires between 1980 and 1997. And Russia kept going anyway because Russia doesn't quit nuclear projects. India watched all of that and kept going too. When you have 1% of the uranium but 25% of the thorium, the engineering difficulty stops being a reason to quit. It becomes the price of admission to a 700-year energy supply that nobody else can access.

@suman7 @All 🤬 This a problem that omni channel enterprises often face. And it's as old a problem as the Internet age! Sadly, people sitting in H.O in tech/finance/sales/crm/brand delight don't see it! All still work in Silos. When Stack is the immediate past. And agentics the new future

Deal flow whether raises, M&A, IPO, FPO QIP, warrants/bonds, etc. don't all happen in a vacuum or roll of dice, or all at once! The mechanics and drill to make this happen is detailed, long & tedious, more often than not - nuanced. And like a dance of a butterfly! 🦋 Thrilling it may be. But not for the faint of mind, or weak of heart! Bankers, investors and entrepreneurs do an intricate interplay so that all these stakeholders stand to gain! 🤝 It's one of those few ecosystems where the "Ecosystem" itself is the Winner. And Winner doesn't take it all! 🚀 At the exclusive Capital Soiree meet on 10th April, 2026 in Mumbai with a curated set of invitees & agenda, we gather to discuss "Can Indian Capital create a US$ 1 trillion startup ecosystem by 2030". The event is hosted by Alize Capital. Be part of this curated dialogue → luma.com/h561s5er @probirpaymate @hdfcsec @HDFC_Bank @KotakBankLtd @floors4gyms @MoneycontrolH @moneycontrolcom @CNBCTV18News @ndtv @ndtvindia @ZeeBusiness @ETNOWlive @livemint @bsindia @EconomicTimes @CelebratoryNet1 @SARCGlobal #AlizeCapital #CapitalMarkets #StartupEcosystem #VentureCapital #PrivateEquity #MergersAndAcquisitions #IPO #Fundraising #Entrepreneurship #IndiaGrowth #InvestmentEcosystem #StartupIndia

@All I stayed on Saturday night at Novotel Aerocity Delhi. I was charged twice on my credit card. The front desk said they couldn’t reverse it since they couldn’t find the credit card machine!!! Promised it would be done in 24 hours. Now a day later nothing has happened. 1/2