Rishabh Katiyar
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Rishabh Katiyar
@katrishabh
Partner at Info Edge Growth (Investing in Series B+ tech cos) | @InfoEdgeVC | IITK, IIMA Alum. Opinions are personal.
New Delhi, India Katılım Eylül 2011
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@katrishabh @InfoEdgeVC Thanks! I tried DMing you, but looks like I can't.
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silk api's (by @rumik_ai) have reached 100K requests in the first few days of launch
it's a different feeling because now i want others who are building on top of us to WIN!
just to reiterate silk mulberry 1.5 is the equivalent to the best models in the world, at only ₹0.4/min - 95% cheaper.
we now have the biggest consumer companies building on our voice models
try yourself, link in the thread
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IPOs are back. This is great news for the start up ecosystem. And for VCs it means exits.
It has been known for sometime that India is the best IPO market in the world for companies below a market cap of USD 4 billion or thereabouts.
It is also validation of what some of us have been saying for several years.
It doesn’t make sense for Indian Startup’s and founders to flip to an overseas domicile or to incorporate overseas - you run a serious risk of not getting an exit for your investor through an IPO for a long long time. Sure you can do a strategic sale but that would most likely mean your own exit too. So if your ambition is to stay in the company for the long run and go public India is the best place for a start up to domicile @InfoEdgeVC @DPIITGoI
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Key question that I ask as an early stage investor is not how will this startup fail but what if this idea works, and how big it could get if it does?
Paras Chopra@paraschopra
The VC bet is really about the potential for scale, not the likelihood of it. This is why you see immense failures, laughable-in-retrospect bets by VCs. The logic is simple: to attract power laws, you have to be ok with high variance bets.
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@patidarji_saheb @InfoEdgeVC @sbikh Hi Nitesh - please reach out to me at rishabh@infoedgeventures.com
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@InfoEdgeVC Dear @InfoEdgeVC, may I know how can I apply to you for funding for my startup? @sbikh Sir, huge fan of yours. I have tried the email route but didn't get a response. Thank you
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Info Edge’s letter to shareholders capturing our investment strategy and an update on our investments in startups in AI, Deeptech and Consumer Tech got published today. Link attached. Feedback is welcome.
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@katrishabh True, likely a part of their cost control move. But shutting down ops completely does have shock value.
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Opendoor will probably be the first company to completely shut down its India outsourcing operations in favor of "small, AI-native, customer-facing teams" back in US.
Most of the AI related layoffs have seen partial downsizing.
It was expanding ops till two years ago
Kaz Nejatian@nejatian
I shared this note earlier today with the entire team at Opendoor. Today we began to say goodbye to our colleagues in India as we wind down our India operations. Our customers are in America, and that's where our operational work belongs.
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What’s fantastic to see is the rapid adoption of agents within Shipsy’s enteprise customers to drive outcomes!
Shipsy@Shipsy_AI
Shipsy has crossed $25M in ARR, more than doubling in twelve months. A milestone earned by our teams and the customers who trusted us with their operations. The number that tells the fuller story is 158% net revenue retention across enterprise accounts. Existing customers expanding, not just new logos. That happens when production outcomes hold and logistics teams find more problems worth solving on the same platform. These are some of the world's most complex supply chains. In production deployments across Europe, the UK, the Middle East, Australia, the Americas, and India, the pattern is consistent: systems that close exceptions outperform systems that only surface them. The ops teams that have made the shift are not going back. What this milestone signals is where enterprise logistics investment is heading next — away from visibility platforms and toward systems that act. @EconomicTimes and @YourStoryCo explore the bigger story behind the number. Check it out below : economictimes.indiatimes.com/magazines/pana… yourstory.com/2026/05/logist… @SohamChokshi @dhr00v #Logistics #AINative #SupplyChain
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Q: How are job postings for software engineers rising rapidly despite AI agents automating coding?
A: Because there’s far more code to manage than ever before. We’re already seeing a 14x YoY increase in GitHub commits, and it’s accelerating.
AI has dramatically lowered the cost of writing code, so it’s now being used across far more businesses, applications, and use cases.
We’re at the beginning of a massive productivity boom driven by the proliferation of bespoke software throughout the entire economy.
Coding has been AI’s breakout use case this year. The fact that it’s increased demand for software engineers — rather than decreased it — should call into question the entire “AI will cause mass job loss” narrative.
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I put a prompt into ChatGPT
“Can you write an ode to the bootstrapping Indian Startup Founder”
Here is the response
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Not for him the glittering cheque
Signed in haste in Sand Hill rooms,
Nor armies fed on venture dreams
And loss-making perfumed blooms.
He builds where ceiling fans complain,
Where diesel fumes and summer press
Their thumb upon the fragile will
Of every would-be business messiah.
His office first: a borrowed desk,
A cousin’s flat in Patel Nagar,
Three plastic chairs, one second-hand Dell,
A modem blinking like a distant star.
His mother asks when he’ll “settle down.”
His father coughs behind The Hindu.
The neighbours say with pitying smiles,
“Beta, MBA nahin kiya tu?”
Yet every dawn he rises still,
Ironing hope into a shirt,
Riding autos through traffic jams
Like some small soldier into hurt.
He learns the tyranny of cash:
That revenue is oxygen.
That profit is not bourgeois vice
But freedom’s oldest discipline.
He courts no headlines breathlessly,
No jargon forged on Twitter Space;
He knows that Bharat does not care
For valuation without grace.
His users call him late at night.
His vendors ask for dues delayed.
His coders leave for funded firms.
Still payroll somehow must be made.
He worships not disruption’s cult
But quieter gods: retention, trust,
The miracle that customers
Return because they feel they must.
He knows the taste of postponed wants:
The cancelled trip, the ageing car,
The wedding gold not yet redeemed,
The dream deferred but not too far.
And when at last success arrives —
Not trumpets, merely steadier breath —
He wears it like the Indian sun:
Without announcement, without myth.
For he has built the hardest thing
In this loud age of borrowed flame:
A company that earns its keep,
A livelihood, a trusted name.
O bootstrap founder, lean and bruised,
Historically underpraised,
The nation’s commerce rests far more
On hands like yours than PowerPoints glazed.
For every unicorn that flies
On capital’s abundant breeze,
A thousand stubborn enterprises
Are built on grit, receivables, and pleas.
And India, ancient, hungry, vast,
Will not be shaped by hype alone,
But by the ones who quietly build
With customer cash and backbone.
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An investor risks money. An entrepreneur risks his or her life. An investor has a portfolio of investments. If a few succeed the investor succeeds. An entrepreneur has only one life. If the company goes down the entrepreneur goes down with it.
The risk that an entrepreneur takes and the risk that an investor takes are asymmetric.
Which is why we as investors have huge respect for founders
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we surpassed chesscom in top free games in India!
onto the global stage now
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