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📢 We’re honoured to be part of the India AI Impact Summit 2026, joining fellow leaders to shape the next chapter of AI. Guided by the spirit of 'Sarvajana Hitaya, Sarvajana Sukhaya', a call for welfare and happiness for all, we remain committed to building contextually aware AI that creates real impact by solving meaningful problems. We’re showing up beyond the booth as partners building home-grown AI to advance digital sovereignty. 📍 Visit us at Booth No. 5.8, Hall 5, Bharat Mandapam, Pragati Maidan, New Delhi, to learn what we’re building and how Zoho LLM, AgentStudio, and AskZia can support your work. On 18th February, hear our co-founder and chief scientist, @svembu, as he takes the stage. If you’re attending, drop by and say hi. 👋 #IndiaAIImpactSummit2026

We launched our Zoho ERP platform, built for India, from Kumbakonam today and also announced plans for expansion in the rural region around Kumbakonam. Rural Development through Research and Development!

Canary Wharf, London ad. Part of our brand marketing push globally.

As we close the curtains on 2025, we’re revisiting the stories, milestones, and shared moments that brought us here, before welcoming a new year full of possibilities. 💚 Take a look! ✨

@WhatsApp Nandri, WhatsApp! It's nice to know we're on your mind! 😇

Even as our Arattai team is scaling up and fine tuning the product, our other product teams are hard at work. Last year Zoho became an RBI authorized payment aggregator in India and launched our online payment solutions. We are now deepening our fintech footprint by unveiling our all-new Zoho Payments Point-of-Sale (POS) Devices. With our new devices, businesses can accept in-person payments while staying seamlessly connected to their broader ecosystem. As part of our broader push in global fintech and payments, we have partnered with NPCI’s NBBL to address real business challenges and strengthen India’s digital payments infrastructure. (Yes, on the consumer front, Arattai will integrate Zoho Pay, please give us some time!)

In other news, we have launched Vani, which does fresh thinking on team collaboration. We call Vani the all-in-one, visual-first intelligent platform. Vani sparks creativity! It represents many years of R&D and we already have customers using it and loving it. Please try it with your team (Vani is desktop/browser only right now, mobile will come in due course). You can check it out at vanihq.com Here is a video:

15% of Zoho’s workforce comes from Zoho Schools. Zoho focuses on creating talent, rather than competing for it. As CEO Mani Vembu says, 'Skills can’t be judged in a one-hour interview.' Watch the full #ZohoSchools story on #YoungTurksReloaded. @Zoho, @svembu @ShereenBhan

Exciting meeting with the Zoho team! They're scaling up infrastructure to support Arattai’s growth. Happy to see our swadeshi products thriving & contributing to PM @narendramodi Ji’s vision of Aatmanirbhar Bharat!

My brother Kumar wrote a post titled: "How patient execution beats aggressive capital" which is a must read for entrepreneurs: zoho.com/the-long-game/… Kumar started the company in Chennai that eventually became the Zoho today. Practically every senior manager at Zoho was personally recruited fresh from college and trained by Kumar back in the 1990s. Zoho would not exist without Kumar. I want to quote this gem from his post: "முயலும் வெல்லும் (the hare can win) ஆமையும் வெல்லும் (the tortoise can also win) முயலாமை என்றுமே வெல்லாது (but not trying never wins)" The word "Muyalaamai" in Tamil combines "muyal" (rabbit or hare) and "aamai" (tortoise) and it also means "not trying" and Muyalaamai comes from the word "muyarchi" which means "effort" or "trying". So it means "Go fast like a rabbit or go slow like a tortoise but keep trying" but the Tamil version is much more poetic.

20 years after building @Zoho Work Suite, to be recognised as the go-to by the IT Minister is a validation of the work we have put in says Mani Vembu! Tells me why R&D for Zoho is not just about product innovation but also “Rural Development”. 9 months after taking over as Ceo, he lays out his growth plan for the future, a listing is not part of it! Catch him on #YoungTurksReloaded on @CNBCTV18News @CNBCTV18Live #Zoho #Tech @svembu

Striking visual of the growth in product range of Zoho and ManageEngine from 2002 to today. We are the only company in the world that can take on Microsoft in the breadth and depth of the product suite. Our products offer a vastly superior experience to Microsoft, please take a good look! We are doubling down on R&D in cloud infrastructure, platforms, AI and applications, so you will see even faster innovation from us.

Switch to Swadeshi! Cabinet briefing using Zoho Show.

Educated Indian elite - I count myself in this - accepted what is known as the "Washington Consensus", with globalization driven by the World Economic Forum, Davos. That era received a mortal blow during the Global Financial Crisis in 2008-9, died during the pandemic and today we perform the last rites. Here is how I believe we should navigate this new era, treating this challenge as an opportunity. 1. Every tech we do not have is deep tech and I do not mean LLMs (alone) here and it includes advanced metallurgy, composite materials, DC motors, batteries, medical equipment, network equipment, drones, jet engines, robots, bioreactors and so on and on. 2. A 5-10 year sprint to catch up in every such "basic deep tech". In some areas, like GPUs or fighter jets, it may take 10-15 years, but we must put our heads down and do it. China has done it and it can be done. We have the raw human talent in abundance and we can train. This much I know. 3. We need a long term orientation. Venture capital with 7-8 year exit cycles cannot do it. It promotes a short termism that is at odds with what our nation needs right now. More broadly, quarterly earnings cycles are a poor match for the long term catch up investment we have to make. This essentially mandates that our big industrial houses must invest heavily in R&D, keeping in mind that catch-up R&D (in particular) is not expensive, it is time-intensive. 4. More broadly, we don't want our smartest talent going into high finance - we must realize we are borrowing what failed America. It is a colossal misallocation of resources. The mortal blow of the GFC I referred to was all due to "smartest talent going into finance" in America and ultimately that is what led to MAGA, once Occupy-Wall-Street failed with the left - it is a different matter that MAGA got coopted by Wall Street. India cannot afford to be addicted to high finance, it would lead to societal ruin. We must view making money on money with the appropriate caution that our ancients taught us. 5. I will come back to talent, the most important point of all. There is a lot of raw young talent in rural Bharat that is waiting for the opportunity. Patient capital is about nurturing this talent, bring it on stream. Once you discover what we have discovered, you will stop fighting about reservation and so on. My own R&D team reflects our society in a deep way and without any compulsion from the government. JEE, NEET, UPSC etc do not capture the essence of this talent pool. I do not care about any of those exams, I ignore all those "signals" and go with the evidence of our own eyes to discover and nurture talent. 6. Climate change. Have you noticed how quickly the silicon valley elite dumped climate change and got on board the "energy to the max" with AI? We need EI - Energy-efficient Intelligence. Climate change is also a life style issue and Bharat has to be the light to the world in showing how to live in harmony with mother nature while building a technologically advanced society. Bharat Mata is mother nature. We have faced far worse adversity before and we will face this. If we seize this moment, we will come to see it as a blessing in the long term. Bharat Mata ki Jai 🙏

Few additional thoughts on Zia LLM. youtu.be/a0AK50SMU3I

🎉 𝟮𝟬 𝗬𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗭𝗼𝗵𝗼 𝗦𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗼𝗹𝘀 🎉 What began as a bold experiment in 2005 is now an enduring journey - transforming lives, breaking norms, and redefining education - one student at a time. 20 years. 14 schools. 2000+ careers nurtured! ▶️ youtu.be/6JgDxjot9sQ

The 15 hilarious and Coolest maps you've probably never seen before: 1/ The side of planet Earth we aren't used to seeing.

ChatGPT 4o's new image gen is insane. Here's what Severance would look like in 8 famous animation styles 🧵 1/8: Rankin/Bass – That nostalgic stop-motion look like Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. Cozy and janky.

📢 The moment has come to put an end to workplace drama. Our new campaign from Zoho Workplace aims to bring office software back to its core mission: efficiency. Office productivity apps today are at odds with each other! These apps had one purpose—to streamline tasks and make your workday easier. But instead, they trap you in a maze of disconnected experiences, press you with hidden costs, shadow your every move with pointless AI features, and privacy violations that feed the big tech's greed. Isn't it time for them to stop calling the shots and start working for you? #DeleteTheDrama Watch the office drama unfold → zoho.to/delete-the-dra…

From The Indian Express: "In a study published in the journal Nature, a team from the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL), including Nobel Prize-winning economists Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee, found that children working in markets can do complex transactions as part of their job, but struggle with textbook math taught in schools, while children in schools work well with academic math problems, but don’t do as well in practical calculations." Exactly the same thing is true for programmers. Academic Computer Science achievement doesn't translate well to real world programming. That is the essential insight behind our Zoho Schools of Learning. Express link below 👇