Vishal Katariya
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Vishal Katariya
@vkatariya8
Deep science investments at @ankurcapital. PhD Physics from @LSU
Katılım Haziran 2022
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2 years ago, I met @Shauryapranos and @roshgor over idlis at Airlines. They were planning to build a fusion energy company in India. There was no ecosystem for it, no playbook, no capital.
Most people I mentioned it to thought I'd lost the plot. No investment committee would have approved a pre-seed cheque into an Indian nuclear fusion startup in 2024. It would've been laughed out of the room.
What I saw, however, was two people who understood fusion physics and engineering at a level that made me feel like a student again.
Two athletes who had decided that this was the Marathon of their life.
@industrial47 wrote the first cheque.
Today, they are a team of 8 PhDs with an integrated fusion development stack, a Tokomak reactor about to hit first plasma and have just raised a $6.8Mn round.
Congratulations Roshan, Shaurya and team @PranosFusion!
The hard part is ahead, but I wouldn't bet against you two.
Welcome to the grand run - @piventures, @ankurcapital, @lkeshre, @MarsShotVC, @shashank_kr, @harshilmathur, @shashankmehta05 and @npbhukhanwala.
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Vishal Katariya retweetledi
@pHequals7 Giving this a spin! Btw - meeting transcription - does it take it from system audio or speakers?
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🚨MUESLI LAUNCH ALERT🚨
renting out speech to text to the cloud never made sense both for dictation and meeting transcriptions!
in the last week, I've been building muesli that can drop in replace Granola and Wisprflow with all STT done all locally on your mac - its free and OSS
kuldeep@ku1deep
Unsubscribed to Granola. To me the value is in the raw transcript. I extract specific quotes from them for further work. In any case tools like Granola are I/O peripherals of the new age. I don’t want a subscription attached to them. This is an OS feature honestly.
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I really loved this post from @baboonzero where he talks about his 2026 AI wishlist. My fav was that "hardware should be digital air"
labs.anshumani.com/essay/2026-ai-…
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need a moratorium on the word "deep-tech" in india
Varun Dubey@varundubey
For years we’ve been told: “India can’t build deep tech.” “We do services. Not systems.” “Real AI is built in Silicon Valley.” Today, that narrative dies. We just launched SuperOS — the world’s first AI Operating System that is already running the hospital. Not assist. Not generate notes. Not make PowerPoints. Run. The. Hospital. Thread. 🧵
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Vishal Katariya retweetledi
I see @mybharatgov as a powerful national platform for channelising the energy, ideas, and aspirations of our youth into constructive nation-building efforts. By providing structured opportunities and institutional support, MY Bharat is helping young Indians move from intent to impact.
Through this platform, the ASSOCHAM Investor Connect – Online Edition for Youth Innovators and Startups is now open for eligible participants.
🔗 mybharat.gov.in/pages/event_de…
I encourage our young founders to come forward with preparation, clarity, and purpose. India’s growth story will be written by youth who combine innovation with responsibility and execution.
@ASSOCHAM4India
#MYBharat #StartupIndia #ViksitBharat
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We are launching Maximus Ventures to incubate startups focusing on electronics supply chain, capital equipments, design tools, and anything related to manufacturing technology in 🇮🇳
We are not Zoho or Zerodha big yet, but we want to do our bit to build the ecosystem.
We have already incubated 2 companies-
1. Building AI based electronics design tool ecosystem.
2. Nanomaterials company building disruptive copper nanomaterials for PCB and electronics industry.
We need to build strong brands in materials, industrial supplies, and machines.
If you are building in this space, DM @Raosted
Nithin Kamath@Nithin0dha
Tech seems to be getting effectively nationalized. Starting from around 2020, we've seen an increase in export controls on things like chips, critical minerals, restrictions on advanced manufacturing equipment and various other trade restrictions. Supply chains have become a security issue for countries. We're no longer in a world where India can be okay with just exporting IT services. If we don't build domestic deep tech capabilities, we'll be locked out when it matters most. Self-sufficiency has become necessary insurance. India's startup ecosystem has come a long way. We have genuine local talent that can build a lot of what we currently import. They just need the right support. The recent government push for deep tech is a step in the right direction. The timing also matters. If AI can pretty much produce all of the software, asset-light models will get hit. The next decade belongs to atoms, not just bits. You're already seeing this with money flowing into data centers, defense systems, batteries, semiconductors, advanced manufacturing. You can also see this in VC investment flows. In the last decade most of VC investments went into eCommerce, lending, and payments. Those segments have now matured and the easy opportunities are gone. For deep tech, it's still day one. We have the talent but what we don't have is the ecosystem around them. Comparisons with China are cliched, but they didn't become an industrial superpower by accident. There are lessons we can learn. China's internal market is brutally competitive. Hundreds of startups compete in a given sector and this forces them to innovate and be efficient. Indian states used to do this for software parks. Why not for deep tech? Tamil Nadu, Gujarat, and Maharashtra are success stories but we need more states in the race. Companies choose to manufacture in China because everything they need to manufacture is within a few miles. This industrial clustering creates genuine competitive advantages. You can create a design in the morning and have a prototype by evening. This density took decades to build, but we can do it if we invest with a long-term mindset. China also built real bridges between universities and companies. In India most ideas die in the minds of students. Brilliant PhDs can't find the capital or institutional support to build a prototype, let alone turn them into businesses. We need government procurement guarantees. Patient capital that understands hardware burns cash for years before revenue. Pathways from idea to commercialization. The government backing deep tech is a good move. But support can't just mean funding. We need R&D tax credits, subsidies, first-purchase guarantees, streamlined approvals and other incentives. All of this has to be sustained across decades, not election cycles. Without domestic deep tech capability, we stay dependent on others for critical infrastructure. That dependence is vulnerability. If we build the clusters, invest in education, fund the R&D, bridge academia to industry, and let states compete to create ecosystems, we get more than self-sufficiency. We become a deep tech exporter. The bulk of our recent investments through @rainmatterin have been to support homegrown deep tech startups.
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One helluva day working with aspiring DeepTech and hardware founders <25 from India🇮🇳 and the US🇺🇸 on cross border GTM and early PMF with @LightspeedIndia
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Gave my personal website a subtle design revamp. With a little help (but not a lot) from Claude Code. vishalkatariya.com
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Revisited this piece by @michael_nielsen - cognitivemedium.com/srs-mathematics. Highly recommend!
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@vkatariya8 I’m impressed with your writing. Not kidding—if you ever want a devrel/product marketing job hit me up.
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bro is the CEO of underpaying Vishals.
150k for a Vishal is a joke.
If you’re a Vishal, dm me. I’ll find you a job paying what you’re worth.
Tanay Kothari@tankots
We hired two incredible people back-to-back who were in the top 1% of their domains. Both called Vishal. Just updated our careers page. If you're a Vishal, come apply.
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Vishal Katariya retweetledi
A FULL house for the fireside chat with @vkatariya8 and @surajnair08 at @ankurcapital ‘s annual Deep Science Forum 2026.
The theme was that India is past the “can we build” phase. The harder questions now are about sequencing, patience, and global competitiveness.
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