Raj Kunkolienkar @kunksed

@jxnlco just a simple data pull = medium straightforward plan and write code = high brain surgery = xhigh

.@kunalb11 is an Angel Investor in the truest sense of the word. And he’s done this at scale with several hundreds of founders. Quietly lending them his brand and credibility along with a small cheque with zero fuss on terms or paperwork. Truly a founder’s founder.

Akash Anand @realAkashAnand

3 days ago

In 2023, we were struggling to raise Clueso’s seed round. A YC batchmate introduced me to Kunal over WhatsApp. Before I could reply, introduce myself, or explain what we were building, Kunal responded: “Akash would be keen to invest.” That was it. Before this, I had pitched

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@pratiknagariya @NotDakshBhatia @Meta I’m pretty certain that the people and parties in question here have done the comparison on the value of equity and its liquidity before taking such big decisions :)

@pratiknagariya @NotDakshBhatia @Meta How much equity does it have to be for it to count as meaningful?

In 2026, skill files are raising a seed round. This one’s my go-to as it turns my front-ends from ai hobo to chic.

Anish Acharya @illscience

3 days ago

we're leading a seed round in @impeccable_ai by @pbakaus generative design has an interesting problem shape because you both want parts of the generation in distribution (affordances / hci standards) and others out of distribution (visual identity); solving this demands a sort

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PSA: when you wake up, reach for your phone immediately. Do NOT scroll Instagram reels. Send a good morning message. Not to your girlfriend, to Claude. That way, you can start the clock for your 5 hour Claude Code usage limit while you freshen up and head to the office. At noon, the 5 hour window would have passed and the usage limit would reset. Then you can generate more shareholder value.

Off-season in Goa is looking better than season because of the unfortunate lack of rains.

If you’re building a platform, please work with @aakashrodrigues at @withChariot for your brand initialisation

ujjawal @ujjawalasthana

6 days ago

40 lac for the logo. Early stage is tough. Last night chat with a founder. While I am a huge proponent of doing the brand right, making such a large investment before launch is not wise - unless you are very well capitalised or launching with a celeb for guaranteed traffic.

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Woke up to find this (now deleted) post attacking us for honestly I dunno why. So I checked my chats and mails - > We have passed quickly- wished him the best and readily admitted we are ofcourse often wrong. > Made intros to other funds and angels who maybe be able to help him. > He’s even pinged me for advice on a termsheet he got and then to get into an event we had organised. > accused us of not having a big vision but he’s himself pivoted AFAIk from the idea he actually pitched us. What hurt you so much bro @cosmicanuj ? There are better ways to do engagement farming. Anyways - to founders reading this - please feel free to reference us with founders we have actually backed. If we haven’t invested in someone they haven’t actually received the full @All_IN_CAPITAL package 🤷🏻‍♂️

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Feel like bumping up my subscription just to raise a glass to these weirdos 🧎🙏

Midjourney @midjourney

a week ago

Announcing a new division of Midjourney called "Midjourney Medical"

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I don't know who else to tell this to, so I am going to tell my story here. Every day is a struggle for a young business, but the last few months have been harder than usual. We are a small Indian company. For more than ten years we have been building a homegrown brand in a product category dominated by big foreign players. There are almost no Indian names in this space. We set out to be one. We started in 2014. Over the years we began making parts in India instead of just importing, and we started selling in the US, Dubai, Nepal, Malaysia and South Africa. We showed up at global trade fairs to represent an Indian brand on the world stage. In 2023 we changed the import code we use for our product. We did not do this quietly. Every shipment was declared. Nothing was hidden. We didn't invent our approach. We followed written professional advice and the way this product is treated in markets around the world. And now we are facing a government demand running into tens of crores in duty recovery and penalties, plus personal penalties on the founders and even on an employee. For a company our size, this is not a fine we can pay and move on from. This ends us. We have not run from any of this. I am not built like that. It is not how I was raised. We have written to the authorities, met officials in person, and we have now filed a writ in the High Court. All we are asking for is a fair treatment. I set out to build in India and sell to the world. I am asking only that the system back honest founders trying to compete globally, instead of breaking them. The process is the process, and it exists for a reason. But process should not feel like punishment. From where I am standing today, it does. I am not giving up. I have worked too hard for this. If you have read this far, please share it. If you know someone who can help, point them my way. Help me get the word out.

I use 1B+ tokens a month on AI and not one rupee of it stays in India. That, not the Fable ban, is the real sovereignty problem. A sovereign model is the one layer of this entire stack we could have cloned in a weekend. Weights are downloadable; Deepseek, Kimi and GLM already proved frontier-grade intelligence is a few thousand GPU-hours and an RLHF pipeline away. The layers underneath the model - power, copper, fabrication, ports, rare earths - are where India has ZERO position, and no amount of national pride changes that. Quick recap for anyone who missed it: on 12 June the US Commerce Department slapped an export-control order on Fable 5 and Mythos 5, three days after Anthropic shipped them. It covered every foreign national, including Anthropic's own non-US staff, so the only compliant move was to kill both models globally. India is reportedly their 2nd largest market, which is why the good folks on X went crazy. 5 things are true at once, and the panic flattens them into a single grievance: 1. This is bullish for open weights, not bearish. Take one frontier lab off the board and demand doesn't vanish; it reroutes to the next lab on the pareto frontier of cost x performance. I run 10x the token volume on Deepseek as I do on Opus despite paying for the $100 Claude plan, because it gets me ~90% of the output at a 1000x less the cost. Pure Jevons paradox: token cost falls 100x, usage spikes >100x, the price elasticity of intelligence is effectively infinite. The VCs aren't the subsidy anymore; the heavy users are the revenue. 2. Every input I pay for sits outside the country. Power from US gas, solar, wind. GPUs the Taiwanese built from rare earths which China rations. Substrates and optics from Japan. Racks built by Dell and SMIC. Data centres in Texas and Virginia. My AI bill has the lowest domestic value capture of anything I buy - pure dollar outflow that leaves and never comes back. 3. Blaming Infosys and TCS for not building a lab is lazy. Vishal Sikka pointed Infosys at roughly this future and got pushed out in 2017; the forward-leaning bet left with him. With hindsight it's one of the most expensive governance calls in Indian corporate history. But it's a symptom of the incentive structure, not the cause. 4. Even with a sovereign model, it wouldn't matter. Under 100 million Indians have ever used an AI that Google doesn't serve them for free. The number willing to pay tens of dollars a month is a few million. You cannot underwrite frontier-scale capex against that base. 5. This is a sequencing problem decades deep. While the Dutch were spinning ASML out of Philips with Carl Zeiss optics, HMT was importing watch movements from Citizen and Seiko because we couldn't cut our own steel accurately. My grandparents in Calcutta queued hours, several times a week, for baby formula at the same time Shenzhen was growing its economy ten-thousand-fold in 40 years by letting free markets run; we spent the same decades dismantling a licence raj that still isn't gone.

Some of you might remember this effort (check below thread) from one of the most traumatic times of our recent past. Customs has reclassified these as "imported for personal use" & issued a show cause notice + demand of 35L. Can anyone please help 🙏🏾 @Chinmayi @sanjayuvacha

Vinay Kumar @bahudari

5 years ago

I'm trying to augment the Oxygen capacity in Bengaluru by procuring O2 concentrators from Germany in collaboration with Technik ohne Grenzen & Project Smiles Trust. Please contribute & share widely 🙏🏾 betterplace.org/en/projects/94…

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@RohanPaliwal7 I admire you for getting things done but why are you on the $20 plan?

Anyone on here working at @Setu_API? My KYC has been pending for a week now.

@shobhitic Was skeptical, tested it out. A sufficiently long and random string surfaces gems.

@manavj29 That’s not on brand for them, does not make sense.

Habuild Protein Atta will take them to ₹3000 Cr run rate ✅👍

Ishan Sukul @isawsukul

3 weeks ago

Say hello to the GRAND DADDY of all consumer startups in India. Does 70% EBITDA, 60%+ PAT @ 300Cr+ run rate (approx). Habuild is probably the craziest thing I've seen come out of India - Founder is an IIT BHU grad that just taught Yoga/mediation after unit - Amassed a massive

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@PrasadKarwa Why not? The consumer deserves better products (that work for their health) and who better to improve their lives than the ones they trust with their fitness?

@FilterCoffeeHQ thanks for the market map, sending this to the wife to see what products we can buy 🤣