Uday Sodhi

@BeingPractical @RaiseTheBarHQ OMG ... amazing

Team at @RaiseTheBarHQ - keeps pushing us to do more, one step at a time! Photo-frame may be small, but our hearts are large 🫠🥰 And I still can’t believe we are 600+, we wouldn’t have been here without each other 🙏

@BeingPractical And more podcast-ers

Startup ecosystem in India suddenly feels like - more funders, less builders.

Bandra is unlivable. Smog. Dust. Roads an absolute mess. Can barely breathe if one steps outside. Meanwhile construction work continues with zero safety protocol. Contractors dont even spray the roads to control the dust emmision. When will this end? 🙏

thank you to the team at AI Forge for sparking a genuinely thoughtful discussion on how 2025 changed the conversation around AI to execution and real-world performance. 2026 will be about reliability: not just bigger models or more intelligence, but systems that actually work. we debated what to build for: -the application layer (AI-native products) -in hardware and compute (chips, power, and physical infrastructure) and how india can play a unique role across all three- from building physical AI and sovereign infrastructure to scaling consumer AI built for real-world constraints. thanks to the other panelists for their sharp perspective and fun banter. @natashamalpani, @ShashankRandev , @Uday, @MohitMGulati, @adityagadge, @mody_kaushal_

A remarkable milestone! Congratulations @BeingPractical and the entire @RaiseTheBarHQ team on @DhanHQ’s unicorn achievement! To build a full-stack financial ecosystem that blends trading, analytics, learning, and AI in under five years — and do it with discipline, growth, and profitability — is extraordinary. Dhan’s success is a signal of the new Indian product wave: high-trust, high-performance, and globally competitive from day one. Proud to have been part of this journey! The next chapter of India’s fintech story will be written by teams like yours 🚀 @3one4Capital @anuragwho

Here we go with Fuzz 🚀🚀 From building platforms for power traders and long-term investors with @DhanHQ to building AI tools that enable deep-research for Indian Markets with @ask_fuzz - we are giving access to folks on waitlist starting today 😊🙌 Some early participants are public market researchers who loved Fuzz for its deep-research, fact-checks and comprehensiveness of responses. Still early, and we are excited to build more. Sign-up today on: askfuzz.ai

Hi, I'm on the @ask_fuzz waitlist. It is my research sidekick for everything related to Finance, India and AI. Join me here: askfuzz.ai @BeingPractical

We will soon complete 13 months of the Nifty being below its all time high hit in end Sep 2024. The high capital gains taxes on all asset classes and a very poorly thought out tax on share buy backs is constraining Indian markets. The golden goose is being butchered in the quest to extract the maximum from the 5-6 crore investors/traders/affluent. Korea offers a good model...proposed high capital gains taxes were shelved in the light of the global policy chaos. Korean markets are hitting daily record highs. Not a one on one correlation, there is a lot else going right for South Korea for now. But this has been a huge sentiment booster. The Indian govt will collect over Rs 60,000 crores as STT. STT was introduced while the then FM said on the floor of the Parliament that zero capital gains tax is being enshrined with this STT being levied. Overtime STT has been increased and huge short term and long term capital gains taxes, as well as tax on dividends, as well as taxes on tendering shares for share buy backs, have been brought in. This is in addition to SEBI charges, stamp duty , IGST , exchange charges and brokerage. Investors are the proverbial Golden Goose. And even if they dont make money, they have to pay all these fixed charges from STT to a long list of charges. Over the last 12 months, most Mutual Funds and the Indian stock indices have yielded negative returns. However. investors are in the dock for all these fixed charges. And the few who made money have to pay huge capital gains taxes. Laffers Curve works Lower taxes lead to higher government revenues, higher compliance and less suppression. We see thousands of UHNI investors relocating their base to tax advantaged locations to avoid these high taxes. The revenue loss increases with every hike in taxes and hike in other levies. Need some action to unleash positive sentiments in the Indian investment landscape.

@chandrarsrikant Super

Nearly 25 to 30 prominent startup founders from the Tech Entrepreneurs Association of Mumbai (TEAM) have come together to launch an investment collective, TEAM Angels, an early-stage startup-focused initiative aimed at building a mature startup ecosystem in the financial capital. TEAM Angels will be looking to back promising startups in the ideation to seed stages, as a collective investing between Rs 40 lakhs to Rs 1.5 crores in their personal capacity, and will be managed by AngelList India. These investments will be made over the next 12 months. In turn, the selected startups will have access to not just capital but mentorship and networks of these founders. The vision is to incentivize leading startups to be based in Mumbai, thereby building a stronger local community, and competing with cities such as Bengaluru to attract tech startups and talent. Some of the top TEAM Angels members include Harsh Jain (Dream11), Anupam Mittal (Shaadi.com), Nitish Mittersain (Nazara), Mayank Kumar (Upgrad), Manish Taneja (Purplle), Aakrit Vaish (Haptik, India AI Mission), Naiyya Saggi (Edition, BabyChakra/Good Glamm Group), Anand Jain (Clevertap), Revant Bhate (Mosaic Wellness), among others. @_harshjain26 @aakrit moneycontrol.com/news/business/…

What started with a tweet turned into a streak of great ads. Jasprit and Sanjana nailed it! The chemistry, clean bowled moments and the final twist. (Waah!) Going to show my support to @Jaspritbumrah93 and @SanjanaGanesan by buying @myuppercase bags #uppercaseWithBumrah

Had a masterplan with @SudipGhose to get @sanjanaganesan on board but turns out @myuppercase had already won her over! You’ll want to watch this one till the end! 🎬✨ #BasBatanaBhoolGaya #uppercaseWithBumrah #MadeInIndia #SustainableChoices #InvestedInuppercase

Bowling, batting, acting - Bumrah is doing it all. We're just lucky to be living in Bumrah's world! #BasBatanaBhoolGaya #uppercasewithbumrah

From bowling yorkers to backing brands, @Jaspritbumrah93 joins the wave of cricketers-turned-VCs with an investment in @myuppercase! Tells @_ritusingh cricket or investing- he trusts his gut on & off the pitch. Founder @SudipGhose also talks about the upcoming premium line.

#collab Made a bold move, bas batana bhul gaya. #BasBatanaBhoolGaya #InvestedInuppercase #AsStylishAsYou #uppercaseWithBumrah

@SanjanaGanesan Hi, what's for dinner?

@geometricmagic Scale is a MOAT, till it's not....old jungle saying :)

I say this with 90% conviction: Swiggy and Zomato’s food business model has no moat and any cracked full stack team can disrupt them easily if they charge fixed fee of ~Rs 20 per order from key restaurants they onboard. If you can get to initial benchmark of just 50,000 orders/day in Bangalore, you make Rs 10,00,000 daily at Rs 20/order.

Congratulations @vinaykrsinghal

@vaibhavbetter So true...have to nudge founders all the time to go esign.

I would urge all founders to use eSign solutions for fundraising and ongoing document signatures -- 100x easier experience for all and most of all for the founders who otherwise have to collate PDFs spread across email threads. I am constantly surprised why this is not a standard practice.

Agree with @LuckyInvest_ARK There are enough and more talented youngsters across India who are building amazing companies and fantastic products. We need to find ways to provide adequate early stage funding and hand holding to them.

@Intellinsider There are enough first gen entrepreneurs in India who are really hungry