Arpit Agarwal @arpiit

@LightspeedIndia @ForbesIndia @nainithaker @kumarharsha2212 Congrats Harsha!

@suhasbaliga I missed his talk at SSMum back in 2008-09 and heard it was a rage!

Yes! @Headstarters has been fortunate to host early founders and entrepreneurs from across the country as a part of startup ecosystem. @kunalb11 joined us on stage at several of our Mumbai events as an early startup founder, and @vijayshekhar has been part of our journey as well. Thank you to everyone - on behalf of Headstart Network Foundation. :)

Suhas Baliga @suhasbaliga

4 days ago

I met Kunal at a 2013 startup event in Mumbai, he was on stage with 50 in the audience, wearing shorts and a t shirt, scrappy and hustly. Talking about Freecharge and what is means for the consumer internet in India, and what it is to be a startup entrepreneur. This was a

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@kunalb11 Wish you good luck in continuing to bring India and developing world perspective into Meta. Super congratulations to @miten on getting deal done.

Carrying a copy or two came in handy - @PiyushGoyal ji himself a manifestation of Destiny Avenged Highlighted some of the best founder journeys from the book - @atherenergy @e2enetworks and more at the @BharatInnov2026 Sporting France colors in support for today’s game

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@aviralbhat Very well written. Balanced, nuanced, emotional but restrained.

A proud moment for @BlumeVentures at @BharatInnov2026 in Nice. Our co-founder @BKartRed met Prime Minister @narendramodi alongside 6 of our portfolio companies representing India's deep tech on the world stage: @etherealmachine @NiqoRobotics @OpElectrotech @tricoghealth Part of Blume Founder's Fund: @DhruvaSpace @TM2Space Each of them is building technology that is genuinely 1 of 1 from India, for the world. @arpiit @sanjaynath @sajithpai @AshishFafadia

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Proud beyond words! ❤️

Blume Ventures @BlumeVentures

2 weeks ago

6 of our portfolio companies are representing India's deep tech on the world stage at @BharatInnov2026 in Nice 🇮🇳🇫🇷 @etherealmachine - advanced aerospace manufacturing @NiqoRobotics - AI-powered precision agriculture @OpElectrotech - defence & EV tech @tricoghealth - real-time

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India spent 39 years and over 2000 crore on the Kaveri engine and still cannot hit the thrust a fighter needs. problem was never funding, GTRE had no access to how Rolls Royce or GE engineers think about single crystal blade metallurgy or combustion instability during flight. That kind of knowledge sits inside people who have iterated on live programs for decades, You cannot download someone else iteration history. You have to be inside the program to absorb what it teaches Every country that builds jet engines went through the same ugly loop, Test, fail, retest, discover something that fits nowhere in a textbook. India had no high altitude test facility for the Kaveri. Had to ship the engine to Russia for every trial run. You cannot absorb the parameters that separate a working hot section from a molten one by reading papers. That knowledge gets created inside the program itself. Miss the program, miss the knowledge. No workaround exists. GE will transfer 80% of F414 manufacturing tech to HAL, The remaining 20% is where the real gap lives. Core metallurgy, turbine cooling geometries, thermal margin tables that took forty years of flight data to build. Safran meanwhile is offering India full hot section know how for the AMCA engine. Two competing offers from two different countries, both telling India the same story. You can buy the right to assemble, You cannot buy the intuition that shaped the design. I love yur thought by the way, I watch few weeks Ago reel where he talked about how hard to make just blade :)

Krishnan @cvkrishnan

2 weeks ago

Mech & Aero is an area where, beyond a point, you learn only by doing and working in the ecosystems where state of the art/contemporary work is happening. There are no online resources where you can stay abreast of even 10% of what’s happening at near state of the art. The

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So proud today! A bet made, rather romantically, in 2018 is now gathering consensus.. Kudos to Mudda, Navin and Sumeet for their hardwork and persistence

Ethereal Machines @etherealmachine

2 weeks ago

Big milestone for Ethereal Machines. We've raised $28.5M in Series B funding, led by @AvataarVC with participation from @peakxvpartners and other investors. We're using this capital to: • Build a 300,000+ sq. ft. advanced manufacturing facility • Develop India's first

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31 May 2020: I was on the road, staring at failure at the start of my 40s. 1 June 2020: 6 years back, on this day I started my journey of building Raise (@RaiseTheBarHQ) from zero. The day before, I held a fancy title of Founder, Managing Director and CEO of a financial services company, was an industry pioneer and a leader, built and scaled a product that redefined how India invested online, that made mutual funds popular, and introduced direct mutual funds to the masses. Built a venture that managed few billions dollars and was possibly valued as much as. Next day, I had nothing. No titles, No power. No team. No salary, No stocks. Practically made no money from the venture I gave everything to for 3 years to make it a grand success. Founders like me are emotional fools & immature beings who trust easily and take a word as a word, only to realise one day - the world doesn't work the way one thinks it works. Tried to raise money from venture capital, which I thought would be a easy thing to do but it was not. Almost every VC out there rejected me. Few influential people made raising capital a bit difficult. Many VC & partners who promised term-sheets, stopped responding to emails / chats or just backed out. All of this happened during peak COVID times. I was staring at failure at the start of my 40s. I had no idea what the future would hold for me. Job was never an option, I am too practical and also much of a straight-talker to survive in a corporate life. I had started up 3 times earlier, and was more or less a failure. Somehow gathered courage to start-up again just because giving up again was never an option. Times have changed since then! Today we are a team of ~650+ builders and believers at Raise. Only thing we care about is building the best consumer experiences across all the products we are building - @DhanHQ @ask_fuzz @Upsurge_club @Stratzy_HQ @FilterCoffeeHQ and few more ventures in insurance, wealth and investing that we are building. 5 years back value of everything was Zero. Today for whatever it means, Raise is a unicorn valued at USD 1.2 Bn. At some point, I was offered good money as some sort of settlement which of course I never took. This is why I say that as founders, some of us are emotional fools who keep taking chances even after losing it all! Looking back, even after this crazy journey and tons of luck by my side, I am still more of an emotional & introvert founder fool. We are still in our early days of building and are far from where we want to be. Once again, there's no inspiration or gyan here for anyone. Tu tera dekh le bhai, yahaan mein khud bhagwan ke bharose pe hoon.. I post this just as a reminder to myself - never forget where & how we started from. More importantly to express my gratitude to all those who stood by me and supported us in my tough times - as co-founders, team members, colleagues, believers, supporters, cheerleaders, well wishers, investors, friends and most importantly as our customers. Thank you, I wouldn't have made it till here without you 🙏

@helloanand @Netra Thank you so much, Anand

Thank you Netra for being a constant in my life for last two decades, like an elder sister. 🤗 😍

Netra Parikh @Netra

a month ago

Lastly, let’s raise a glass - many congratulations to you, my dear friend @arpiit and Smriti. I am so happy for you. 🤗❤️

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Lastly, let’s raise a glass - many congratulations to you, my dear friend @arpiit and Smriti. I am so happy for you. 🤗❤️

With fabulous @BlumeVentures team, investing in their partner's @arpiit personal life partnership ❤️ @AshishFafadia @sajithpai @saritaraichu #blumevibes #TeamLove

किसी के सपनों के सोलह सिंगार की शादी है... आज मेरे यार @arpiit कि शादी है लगता है जैसे सारे संसार की शादी है आज मेरे यार कि शादी है ...😍 @KesavaReddy @saritaraichu

phoolo wali haldi, @arpiit ki dastaan-e-ishq ka rang 🤩 @SparklinGuy @KesavaReddy. @AbeOye @annkur @adityamishra @SakshiChowdhry_

Exhibition at the “North Tech Symposium 2026” #Prayagraj depicts contributions by around 280 industry partners and #StartUps from all over India, with 284 stalls showcasing cutting-edge defence technologies. A strong assertion of India’s indigenous capabilities, sending across the world a message of not only India’s self-reliant prowess, but also the credibility of India’s defence equipment including Brahmos missiles and radar systems which have, in recent years, attracted buyers from over 100 countries including USA, France, Indonesia,Italy, Armenia, Philippines etc.

Engineers looking to break into the VC world 👋🏼 @arpiit is hiring a DeepTech Associate! Link below 👇🏼