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Sana Gupta

@sanantics

just a chill girl @kalaari ; also chilled @ucla

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Sana Gupta
Sana Gupta@sanantics·
most women founders I meet are SO good, but they're still out here having to work 10x harder just to get a meeting, let alone a cheque. I've spent the last year scouting for exactly these founders. Our latest investment was in @SuperBryn_AI, an all-women founding team of total girlbosses building in the voice AI agents space. @nikkithashanker and @DrNeethuJoy are exactly who I'm talking about. But I am not done yet and we are still looking for more such founders. honestly one of the best parts of my job is running @The_CXXO at @Kalaari, where we back women founder-CEOs ($500K–1.5M). if you're seeing strong women-led companies raising seed/pre-seed, feel free to DM me or comment any referrals below. we move fast and we're genuinely trying to change how capital flows to women founders in India.
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Sana Gupta
Sana Gupta@sanantics·
raw cabbage on the menu today
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Akhil
Akhil@akhil_bvs·
been such a dream to finally make this happen with @OpenAIDevs codex. introducing : buildsomethingwonderful.com because it's time we stopped waiting for permission. come build : something useful something beautiful and real. 15 solo founders. 4 weeks to build, launch, and validate a real product. show the world something wonderful and unlock upto $20,000+ in API credits. applications open now.
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amrit
amrit@amritwt·
drishyam 3 is so peak
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sim.eth
sim.eth@Simridhi_·
i am looking for an office space to host an offline event of 30-40 people. twitter algo! please show this tweet to people who can help me with this. also please repost to help me get more people to see this 🥹
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Sana Gupta
Sana Gupta@sanantics·
looking for 2 bhks for rent. help. (Whitefield eek!)
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Sana Gupta@sanantics·
Romanticising the grind bc the alternative is me crashing out ;)
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Tomasz Tunguz
Tomasz Tunguz@ttunguz·
Localmaxxing : pushing more inference to local models. Over five weeks, I tested how much of my daily work can run on a local 35B model instead of cloud frontier models. The answer : half. Many reasons to use local models : privacy, cost, asset depreciation. But the only one that really matters is latency. I ran a head-to-head benchmark. Qwen 3.6 35B-A3B-4bit on my MacBook Pro M5 vs Claude Opus 4.5 via API. Result : 2.1x faster locally. Mean 2.8s vs 5.8s. The local model isn't smarter. Opus scores ~20% higher on reasoning benchmarks. Local models lag frontier by 3-4 months, and for complex tasks, that gap matters. But for routine agent tasks, it rarely does. If half the work runs 2x faster on my laptop, I'll take that trade every time. My little computer is about to earn its keep. tomtunguz.com/localmaxxing/
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Sana Gupta
Sana Gupta@sanantics·
I just read meesho's full q4 letter. A lot of AI in commerce I have seen is just better recommendations on top of a product that already works. what meesho is doing is fundamentally different. PRISM serves 75% of orders through personalised feeds to users who don't know what they want to search for. Vaani lets you shop in any language without typing (1.5M users month one, 22% conversion lift.!!) GeoIndia LLM converts landmark-based addresses into coordinates because half of India's addresses don't exist in any conventional systems. Every single system is solving an access problem, not an optimisation problem. that's what makes this super interesting and can actually work to close our 970M internet users and only 30% shop online vs 80% in China gap
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Sana Gupta
Sana Gupta@sanantics·
@gautamnaray pls post the substack link to your article, looks like a great read!!
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Gautam
Gautam@gautamnaray·
something deepi has advocated actively for is the need to make the ecosystem vertical AND horizontal. dots always connect when you look back but you need to be a special breed to mark the dots first (literally lol) and draw such a masterpiece
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Arjun Malhotra@BadCapitalVC

.@zomato's latest shareholder letter has a really interesting way of describing how the best companies compound: "You start with a core insight, pull ten threads around it, and if you're disciplined and lucky, one becomes a large business. The other nine aren't failures. They're the cost of finding the one that works." The acceleration only makes sense if you understand the cost that came before it. Even in early-stage investing, you're essentially backing someone's willingness to keep pulling threads long enough for one to work.

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Sana Gupta
Sana Gupta@sanantics·
@shivambhotika @WisprFlow Congrats!!! I am so happy for you Shivam!! one of the best people I have met in the VC ecosystem. Onwards and upwards!!
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Shivam Bhotika
Shivam Bhotika@shivambhotika·
Work Update: I have joined @WisprFlow India to do all things growth. For those who know me, you know how I got here. For those who dont, my habit of sending problematic voice notes got me here. If you spot a Wispr Auto in Blr, do say hi
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Tanay Kothari@tankots

i grew up in delhi dreaming of building tech millions of people couldn't live without. today, @wisprflow is officially live in india! before this launch, i flew to india to answer one question: does wispr flow actually work here? in the back of an auto with horns blaring. a mumbai gym with punjabi music at full volume. a dhaba with the waiter rattling off the menu faster than you can type. we went and found out - it worked every single time. india became our second biggest market on its own. we 3x'd growth in 3 months with no campaigns or partnerships. people just found wispr flow organically and made it part of their daily life. the least we could do was show up for them properly. so we're launching wispr flow in india with hinglish & android support. because it's the way i've spoken my whole life. and the way everyone around me still does. grateful to my co-founder @sahajgarg6, our india lead @findingnimo_, and everyone who made this possible.

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Nikkitha Shanker
Nikkitha Shanker@nikkithashanker·
This was so kind, Sana. @Kalaari has been a true thought partner from day one. You backed us even when we were still figuring things out, and in every conversation, the team has been so kind and helpful when it comes to helping us in our quest to build something generational. @The_CXXO , is such a god send for women founders, offering peer learning, shared experiences, and perspectives that go far beyond capital. see you soon .
Sana Gupta@sanantics

most women founders I meet are SO good, but they're still out here having to work 10x harder just to get a meeting, let alone a cheque. I've spent the last year scouting for exactly these founders. Our latest investment was in @SuperBryn_AI, an all-women founding team of total girlbosses building in the voice AI agents space. @nikkithashanker and @DrNeethuJoy are exactly who I'm talking about. But I am not done yet and we are still looking for more such founders. honestly one of the best parts of my job is running @The_CXXO at @Kalaari, where we back women founder-CEOs ($500K–1.5M). if you're seeing strong women-led companies raising seed/pre-seed, feel free to DM me or comment any referrals below. we move fast and we're genuinely trying to change how capital flows to women founders in India.

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Sana Gupta
Sana Gupta@sanantics·
@charmiekapoor This is super common in the west where people keep mini coolers outside for delivery workers! Great initiative you go girl! I think we all should follow :)
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Sana Gupta
Sana Gupta@sanantics·
@mrgirish @emergentlabs @mukundjha Thank you! It is diabolical on how people assume founders do not know how to report their own ARR?  Many companies for eg separate contracted ARR from usage/AI ARR , and use a simple, disclosed rule (e.g. trailing 3-4 months of usage × 4) to annualise variable revenue which works
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Girish Mathrubootham
Girish Mathrubootham@mrgirish·
I rarely get into twitter (X) debates. As a founder I have always wondered how so many outsiders have opinions about a business. With the @emergentlabs revenue rate debate - here are a few points to consider 1. A private company does not need to disclose any numbers and nobody should care about those numbers except the founders, investors in the company and employees 2. The only time we disclosed revenue numbers for Freshworks as a private company was when we crossed 100M and 200M ARR - and we did that intentionally- not to boast about our revenue- but to inform the global investor community that it was possible to scale a global product company from India 3. I think the Emergent founder sharing numbers is a good thing for Indian startups as it validates AI startups from India can scale and that attracts more global investors to India 🇮🇳 4. There are nuances in metrics - actual revenue vs Annual Recurring Revenue(ARR like in Saas ARR) vs Annualized Revenue Rate (combining subscription plus usage plus deployment - modern AI companies) 5. The only people who should care about this are the investors in emergent and I can tell you that at Together fund as early investors in the company - we are aware of the revenue nuances and so are the other investors 6. For outsiders who don’t have all the details - we should assume that founders know the best about their business and let them execute
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Shivam Bhotika
Shivam Bhotika@shivambhotika·
For years, I’ve listened to @AcquiredFM and wondered: what capture’s the essence of emotion of Indian companies? It’s the word धंधा. 'Business' is too cold. 'Trade' is too small. Dhanda is a life’s work. It’s the soul of the Indian hustle, built on unique constraints, family legacies, and an audacity that borders on madness. Today, I’m launching India’s first AI-led long-form podcast to tell those stories from the inside out. From India, for the world. This is the origin story of our legends. Here’s the trailer:
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Sana Gupta
Sana Gupta@sanantics·
@jbillinson We’re in this very funny/cool era where u need tech to help you become more productive by in turn helping you break free from the shambles of .. well tech ( social media etc.)
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Josh Billinson
Josh Billinson@jbillinson·
Deeply humiliating to realize how much this overpriced chunk of plastic has improved my quality of life in just a week.
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Amrith
Amrith@amrith·
Been homesick lately so I vibe coded this over the weekend. Meet Dhuni – a 24/7 radio that plays Indian classical & instrumental music 🎶 Each station has its own season, raga, and mood.
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Dhruv Agarwal
Dhruv Agarwal@furst_fly·
My Co founder reached out to a couple of "pre-seed" VCs in India. This was the response. and people wonder why India doesn't have a good startup ecosystem lol!
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Sana Gupta
Sana Gupta@sanantics·
what a GREAT day to be a Sanju Samson Paglu, a MALLU, and to eat some pothichoru!!!!!
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