Ankit Acharya

Thanks @Rahul_J_Mathur Cautio has already monitored more than 3 million trips - and it’s a matter of time before they’ll be saving HUNDREDS of lives every week. @theankitacharya is a force of nature, and their command center is a special place to be.

@nitinsharma1 @Rahul_J_Mathur Thank you @nitinsharma1 🙏

Every time you travel in a Shoffr, your driver has a co-pilot - an AI-powered dashcam from Cautio Was he on the phone? Was he on time? Did he show signs of fatigue? Did he take the car for a personal ride? Cautio helps fleet operators answer these questions not with anecdotes, but with video evidence and AI-led driver behavior monitoring. Cautio is not an “AI wrapper”:

At Mumbai Tech Week 2026, Ankit will do Cautio’s first-ever public product demo, walking the audience through their command centre live, where 30+ agents monitor thousands of vehicles round the clock. Cautio is one of 40 AI startups in the Early Stage Startup Showcase at MTW 2026, co-sponsored by OpenAI, Activate and us at DeVC, featuring companies across BFSI, manufacturing, deeptech, consumer and more.

After eleven years of building Cars24 together, Gajju (@gajen_jangid) is stepping back from his executive role. He will stay active on the things he built from scratch: the brand, marketing, and Crashfree India and will continue to advise where needed. This is not a goodbye. It is a change in role. Gajju and I first met in 2001, in a hostel corridor at IIT Bombay. Both of us were a little unsure of our place in a setting full of high achievers who seemed to speak English so much better. I think we formed a bond right there. Two people who didn't quite fit, finding each other. That bond held for the next four years. We were inseparable through college, which, if you know either of us, is saying something because neither of us is particularly easy. Then came placements. Gajju went to the US. I stayed in Mumbai. Cars24 gave us a reason to find each other again. For that alone, I will always be grateful. When we started Cars24, Gajju's son Kabeer had just been born. My best memory of those early years is holding Sailo for the first time, watching Gajju's family put down roots in Gurgaon as we built this thing together. There was something about building a company and building a family at the same time, you stop being just colleagues. You become part of each other's lives in a way that doesn't have a word for it. Gajju built the brand, gave us Crashfree, and made marketing that people actually remembered, which, in this industry, is rarer than it sounds. The talent he found and backed, the doors he opened for TeamBHP and CarInfo, that is his work. And then there is Dhoni. That relationship didn't come from a pitch deck. Dhoni came on board because he trusted Gajju personally and believed in what Cars24 was trying to do. That kind of trust you don't manufacture. Gajju earned it. He taught this company compassion. When we got too aggressive or too mercenary, he was the one who pulled us back. Every time we became transactional, he made us human. He holds two things at once that most people cannot, deeply ambitious and genuinely kind. Every person who has worked closely with him has walked away standing a little taller. He also pushed us to question something most companies never do, why hierarchy exists at all. Today, if you look around, most of our leaders have dropped their titles. No Directors, no VPs. People at Cars24 are now defined by what they own, not what they are called. Gajju brought that change. Beyond all of this and everything he has done, he is and will always be my best friend. Sharing some old photos. Can't help but go back in time. Go ahead and take your time, Gajju. But not too much. We have things to build.

Road safety is not just a matter of policy it is a synergy of enforcement and technology. As shared by Ankit Acharya, Co-founder & CEO of Cautio, the focus must shift from merely recording accidents to actively preventing them by addressing root causes such as fatigue, distraction, and human error. By leveraging AI-powered insights to monitor both the road and the driver in real time, it becomes possible to identify risks early and take corrective action. This integration of technology and awareness can play a crucial role in improving overall road safety. #SadakSurakshaAbhiyan2026 #RoadSafety #SafeDriving #EverydaySafety #DriveResponsibly #SaferRoads #RoadSafetyIndia @NHAI_Official @MORTHIndia @nitin_gadkari

This hits close to home. When Antler backed @CautioTech, we had a camera in proto, no customers, no real traction. Just two founders with a clear point of view on why road safety in India was broken - and why the right answer was edge AI, not cloud-dependent hardware. They didn’t ask for a deck full of metrics. Infact the entire deck was made by the Antler team!! They asked the harder questions - about conviction, about why us, about what we’d do if the first thesis turned out to be wrong. That’s exactly point (1) playing out in real life. Two years later 100M+ km monitored, deployed across 116 cities, near-zero churn. The idea morphed plenty. The conviction didn’t. Grateful to @AntlerIndia, @nitinsharma1, @telljeeves, @GowriShankarNag, Sankalp and the team for everything. everything. That’s a rare thing anywhere in the world, and genuinely rarer than it should be in India. And none of this without people like @SusmitPat, @pblaksh, and @neharikagarg_ ~ who believed in us before the company existed, showed up every time it mattered, and set a standard for what relationships actually look like.

Mobility and Commerce in India is entering its accountability era. Three-wheelers move millions of people every day, yet the safety infrastructure around them has always been minimal. That is starting to change. Together with 3ev Industries and 3eco Systems, we’re deploying AI-powered dashcams across electric three-wheelers, with installations moving directly to the factory level. Grateful to the teams at 3EV and 3eco for leading with conviction and believing in @CautioTech. …mes-indiatimes-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/auto.econo…

anna is more high tech than most ai first founders in bangalore

Closed a $5M internal round at Bounce. We make electric scooters and rent them to gig workers. 25x growth in under a year. Turns out owning full stack - mfg to running own fleet is a pretty good combo. Long way to go. Thanks for the love and support throughout :)

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@Rahul_J_Mathur @CautioTech Thanks for believing in us, before anyone did :) and also. I hope you felt a lil safer today!

Delightful to see my portfolio co Cautio in action! 📸 Taken during my Shoffr ride back from BLR airport; Cautio is live across several cab fleets across India! Fleet monitoring is the starting point - industrial, defense & general security are the emerging frontiers!

And you thought autonomous driving won’t be possible in India ? Here is classic indian driving in Bhopal by autonomous vehicle.

Every day, thousands of fleet and passenger vehicles vehicles move people across cities — to offices, airports, hospitals, and back home. The boom of shared mobility came with one BIG question. How do you ensure safety at this scale? This is the story of @CautioTech and @theankitacharya - Built 7 dashcam iterations. - Built a 24/7 command center. - Monitor Millions of Kms daily. - And save lives. Not just tracking journeys — but bringing accountability to mobility. We're proud to be part of their journey. @nitinsharma1 @GowriShankarNag @telljeeves @dravishakatoch @jasnoorgill @raghavgoyal97

We’re hiring a National Head / SVP - Revenue & Growth at @CautioTech. Lakhs of passengers trust systems we’ve built. An 80+ member team across 100+ towns makes that trust real - every day. At @CautioTech, we don’t sell aggressively. We sell with empathy. This role isn’t about pushing products or chasing quarters. It’s about scaling a safety-first business without losing what makes it special. If you’ve: • 15+ yrs B2B experience (fleets/mobility/ logistics/hardware). MBA from tier 1 preferred. • Built & led national teams • Sold complex HW + SW + services • Deep on-ground understanding of fleets & street-smart! … and want to build something that outlasts targets - let’s talk. DMs open. Or write to ankit@cautio.in

If younger me saw this, he wouldn’t believe it. @CautioTech

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I grew up watching my dad work with the @TataCompanies . Reading about the company. Learning from its culture. Admiring how carefully and thoughtfully it has been built. For me, Tata has always stood for what it truly means to build for decades. So seeing @CautioTech featured by Tata Social Enterprise today feels deeply personal🙏 A small moment. But a powerful reminder of the kind of institution we want to build at Cautio. Grateful. Humbled. Just getting started.

Driver reluctance is the biggest myth in our category. We manage thousands of vehicles nationwide, and not once has a driver pushed back on the value of a dash cam. So proud of the team at @CautioTech for keeping the belief alive!