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I’m hosting 1 public company founder, 3 pre-IPO founders and 6 exited founders on stage at MTW 2026 to do live AI demos on 29th and 30th May The line-up is just incredible: 1. Sonali Jindal (Rezolv) - her prev. startup Kissht went public at a ₹3200 crore valuation this month 2. Mosaic Wellness (₹750 crore FY25 revenue) -Shouvik Ghosh Roy (CPTO) will demo their in-house agents which run their large performance marketing budget 3. FarMart (₹1970 crore FY25 revenue) - Sukhpreet Sekhon (CPO) will share how his team saved a couple of crores by building AI agents for finance workflows 4. GoKwik (₹4,000 crore valuation) - Vargab & Akshat will present Kwik Ads & Kwik which are helping thousands of D2C brands improve their ROAS 5. Pooja Jauhari (EMoMee) - WPP acquired her prev. co. The Glitch in 2018 for an estimated ₹100 crore 6. Shivam Gupta (GreyLabs) - founding team member of Cogno AI which was acquired by Exotel in 2021 7. Ashutosh Kumar (Grexa) - he sold Testbook to Classplus in 2022 8. Shobhita Agarwal (CraftAI) - she sold WordHudle (6M+ players) to Unwind Media in 2022 9. Ayush Agrawal (Kubo Care) - His prev. co Seniority was acquired by HCAH in 2022 10. Nirav Prajapati (Ignosis) - He exited Pirimid Fintech to Infibeam for ₹25 crore in 2023 The theme is clear: "Demos, not memos" Repeat founders know this best: in today's AI era, everyone is a builder.

Aman and Harshita built a $1M ARR startup, sold it to Exotel in 4 yrs and could have retired at 26. Instead they decided to start up again. Their first company Cogno AI was acquired in November 2021 - the duo made a few $ millions within 4 yrs of graduating from IIT Bombay & Kanpur respectively🤯 Cogno was a phenomenal campus success story - 4 yrs from founding to acquisition with marquee logos such as SBI, HDFC and ICICI Group. But, in 2023, they decided to start their 2nd venture - Greylabs AI. This time around, they partnered with their founding team from Cogno AI including Shivam, Shreyas, Debabrata and Raj.

RevRag AI is solving one of the painful problems in Indian BFSI: Every “digital” customer journey still requires a lot of human handholding. Motilal Oswal, PhonePe, Kissht, Mahindra Finance and many BFSI companies face a version of the same problem: India is a unique market where human intervention is required at every step of the BFSI sales funnel - onboarding, document collection, verification, query resolution, etc.

Companion Labs is here to build an AI-native entertainment company. We are thrilled to announce that we've just raised $2.5M led by @peakxvpartners @_surgeahead along with @All_IN_CAPITAL, @untitledvc_ , @DeVC_Global and many incredible angels.

We are announcing @potpiedotai $2.2M pre-seed fundraise to advance Spec-Driven Development for large enterprise codebases. The round is led by @emergent_vc , with participation from @All_IN_CAPITAL , @DeVC_Global , and @PointoneCapital , along with the support of some amazing angel investors from companies including Atlassian, OpenAI, Meta, Razorpay and Flobiz. As AI accelerates code generation, the constraint inside large enterprises has shifted from coding to maintenance and assurance. The limiting factor is no longer writing code, but understanding complex systems, aligning teams around intent, and safely evolving large, interdependent codebases. In most organizations, specifications exist as static documents, while production systems evolve independently. Context is fragmented across repositories, tickets, logs, reviews, and floating documents making reliable AI adoption difficult. We are building the foundational layer that makes Spec-Driven Development executable at scale. By unifying engineering context and operationalizing the spec as a structured source of truth, we enable AI systems to reason with architectural awareness rather than surface-level code completion. We are already working with large enterprise customers, including Fortune 500 organizations. This milestone allows us to deepen those partnerships and support more teams transitioning from experimental AI usage to structured, production-grade AI-first engineering workflows. If you are leading engineering at scale and evaluating how AI should integrate into mission-critical systems, we would love to chat with you!

@kamath_sutra Our office remains an option 😇

Try to host a Smallest AI event in BLR to kick off 2026 - please recommend

Excited to announce @riverline_ai $825k pre-seed round, led by @southpkcommons with follow ons from @DeVC_Global and @gradcapital and top angels from Google, Meta, M2P Fintech, HyperVerge. Banking in 2035 it will be driven by AI-agents - and Riverline is building that bank, 1 AI-agent at a time. Until now, all the NBFCs/banks in India have followed a top-down approach of sourcing leads, then underwriting, then disbursing and then collecting. But, @riverline_ai is solving it in reverse - we’re going to first solve the underbelly of the system, by building operational excellence in collections, using that to mitigate risk, uplift each borrower, and then, build upwards. This is a completely new “bottom-up approach” to building a bank that’s never been explored before and we’re very grateful to our investors for being supportive of this vision. And building on that vision, Riverline has already grown over the past 7 months to managing 100cr+ INR in debt-recovery, across loan-service-providers like CRED, NIRA, propelld, Freo and scaling fast now. Here's to all our team members, clients, angel-investors, friends & family who bet on us and helped us get to this stage. Thanks for kicking off this journey of being lean, to build a fast-growing banking future for India 🇮🇳. So unlike overhyped PRs, for the next chapter of this journey @_abhishek__13 , @jayanthk_ and I wanted to write a heartfelt note for inviting ambitious builders and dreamers to come build an institution, with us. (full letter in comments) 🏔️🫶

We are thrilled to share that we’ve raised $2M in Seed funding, led by @3one4Capital with @peercheque , forceventures and @DeVC_Global and respected angel investors including @agNishchay Nyayanidhi brings operative intelligence to enterprises, a legal brain that understands business context, anticipates vulnerabilities across engagements and measures risk exposure in real time. We are a full-stack services platform where our proprietary AI compresses weeks of legal work into minutes and specialist advocates deliver final outputs within hours. Today, litigation workflows are reactionary. Business teams spend days transferring context before strong arguments can even begin. With Nyayanidhi, context is mapped at stage zero so every requirement met through the platform is aligned to business interests from day one and ensuring defensible across every forums To our early customers, partners and investors - thank you for your conviction. We’re just getting started.

Logistics: 📅13th November (Thursday) ⏰ 2:30 PM to 5:00 PM - followed by a mixer 📍AngelList HQ, Gold Street, SF ➡️ Register here: luma.com/t3zvug31

The session with be hosted at Founder’s Cafe - on the ground floor of AngelList’s HQ in SF - a community initiative from AL to provide a founder friendly co-working space in the heart of the city 🙌

Hola Bay Area 👋 We’re back in town to host DugOut - this time in a salon format to address the burning question: “(how) does GTM change in the AI era? We have incredible 2 guest speakers:

@singhhcoder @OpenAI @z47_vc @wulfie_bain_ @nikunjhanda Thank you for attending this Harpinder!

Awesome time at the @OpenAI CTO Workshop in Bengaluru, hosted by @z47_vc & @DeVC_Global. Great to connect with @wulfie_bain_ , @nikunjhanda , & Thomas Jeng and dive deep into building with the latest models.

Event details: 📅 6th November 2025 (this Thursday) ⏰ 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM IST 📍DeVC BLR office (Indiranagar) ➡️ Register here: luma.com/j6dazhpc Please share this forward with any founder(s) in your network who are contemplating the shift! 🙏

However, several others have made phenomenal progress from India itself (e.g. Felicity Games, Dodo Payments etc) We look forward to having you join us for this constructive discussion:

We’re delighted to be hosting Vinit Bhansali at our BLR office to speak about “(how) should you think about moving to SF to build your company?” Moving countries is a major (personal & professional) decision with far reaching consequences (on lifestyle, family & work networks)