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Live with us today: 1/ Saurabh Pandey, Founder & CEO of Eloelo Group , building India's go-to platform for entertainment with StoryTV App (By Eloelo group) for microdramas, Master for microlearning and Eloelo for live social entertainment, redefining how people entertain, learn and connect with each other online. 2/ Kiran Gopinath, Founder & Head of Sahamati Labs , the innovation arm o...

This episode brings together two very different worlds — elite performance and healthcare systems — with one common thread: decision-making under pressure. Paddy Upton breaks down what it actually means to build high-performance individuals and teams, lessons from working with Gukesh Dommaraju, and how mental conditioning differs from motivation. Brijraj Bhuptani explains how SPRY is rebuilding ou...

With us on the show today: Manas Gupta & Srikumar Nair spent 6+ years inside Blinkit — one on data, one on category. They saw how brands were evovlving. They built GobbleCube. $15M Series A. 400+ brands. HUL, Tata, L'Oréal, ITC, Reckitt. 30+ marketplaces.

Today's news: SpaceX eyes $60B Cursor deal Musk wants xAI-Mistral-Cursor alliance SBF's portfolio worth $150B+ now Anthropic Mythos spooks Indian regulators RBI meets banks on Mythos risks Polymarket IPL markets cross $603K Bernstein: India's AI job threat AngelList opens VC to everyone Guests joining us: Akshay Jain built Mlada — a bootstrapped D2C women's fashion brand — from Ludhiana to ₹3 cror...

This week on The Offline Network, Utsav and Dhruv sit down with two founders building very different parts of the modern tech stack — one securing the physical world, one powering the intelligence layer of the digital one. Rohin Parkar, Co-Founder & CEO, Spintly — BLE-mesh wireless access control out of Goa. Closed $8 Mn Series A (Accel, Feb 2026), 500+ enterprise clients in India, ~100 in the...

This week's news: OpenAI turned Codex into a desktop superapp with computer use, Perplexity launched Personal Computer for Mac ($200/month), and Anthropic dropped Opus 4.7 — all on the same day. Jensen Huang went on Dwarkesh Patel's podcast and called the China-chip-as-nuclear-weapon comparison 'lunacy.' UPI turned 10 with 12,000x transaction growth. And the Cabinet approved Startu...

From Hyrox to YC coming to India, today’s briefing: 1/ Urmil Bakhai is the of SatLeo Labs, a spacetech startup building a constellation of thermal infrared microsatellites in Low Earth Orbit. The company has raised $5.5M in seed funding and crossed $42M in LOIs — and is targeting a Q4 2026 launch for its first satellite, TAPAS-1. 2/ Harshit Yadav is Founder and CEO of Zingroll, an AI entertainment...

In the news today: Anthropic hits $30B run-rate revenue — up from $9B in Dec 2025 Claude Mythos New Yorker's Sam Altman article KreditBee raises $280M, valuation doubles to $1.5B Ganesh Gopalan , Co-Founder & CEO of Gnani.ai — India's first 5B-parameter voice-to-voice AI model (Inya VoiceOS), 30M+ daily voice interactions, 200+ enterprise clients, IndiaAI Mission, $10M Series B. Avik A...

On today’s show: Gaurav Seth, CEO & Co-founder of PierSight Space , on building India's SAR+AIS satellite constellation for persistent ocean monitoring, what the IN-SPACe tech transfer unlocks, and the ₹1,200 Cr national EO constellation play. Rebhav Bharadwaj, CEO & Co-founder of Dodge AI, on building AI agents that automate SAP ERP maintenance for large enterprises — and what it took...

For episode 76 of TON, we have: OpenAI raises $122B at $852B valuation TBPN acquired by OpenAI WHOOP raises $575M — Abbott, Mayo Clinic, Ronaldo on the cap table Flowmeter by AngelList India Ed. 01 — Seed→Series A now 905 days; 5yr MOIC 3–7.8x Pratik Sharda (CraftifAI) — agentic AI for embedded software. $3M seed. Automates firmware and edge AI for robotics, drones, and IoT. Pranit Arora (Univest)...

Rishaad Currimjee is the GP of Golden Sparrow — a fund backing India’s deeptech and AI founders at pre-seed, from space-tech and semiconductors to enterprise AI. Fund I returned 5.5× on EtherealX; Fund II just closed its first tranche at $20M. We talk about why he left a 140-year Mauritius family business to build a solo-GP fund in India, and where deeptech is actually going. Pratyush Rai and Sidd...

Vikram Chachra is the Founding Partner of 8i Ventures — the seed fund behind Slice, M2P Fintech, Blue Tokai, and Signzy; Fund II closed at $50M. We talk about what’s still underbuilt for Indian consumers and SMBs, and what the DPI stack has left on the table for founders. Parth Chadha is the Founder & CEO of STAN — India’s social gaming community with 30M+ downloads, backed by Sony Innovation...

Sora is shutting down ($15M/day costs). Bryan Johnson says 5-MeO-DMT beat every longevity protocol he’s tried. A non-biologist built an mRNA vaccine for his dog’s cancer using ChatGPT, Gemini, and Grok — it’s working. And the rupee is almost at 95. We’re joined by Niyaz Laiq , Partner at Lumikai — India’s first gaming & interactive media VC. Founder, operator, investor. The $13.8B market, micr...

This week: IPL sees a $3.4B wave as tech capital enters sports, while Jensen Huang’s “AGI is here” comment sparks debate on what AI can actually do today. In this episode, Siddharth Shetty of Finternet Lab breaks down building digital public infrastructure at scale, what it takes for systems like Account Aggregator to work, and how Finternet could enable seamless movement of value globally. Join o...

Two bets: turning math into a game, and digitising procurement. Sudhanshu Bhatia (Matiks): 3.5 lakh+ users, building skill-based gaming around mental math. Gaurav Baheti (Procol): $20B+ procurement managed, now adding AI agents to automate decisions. Join our WhatsApp community: https://chat.whatsapp.com/BK69EsNWP8BJIaoy3k7EfX?mode=ac_t Follow The Offline Network X → https://x.com/OfflineOnAir Ins...

This episode brings together three very different startup stories: • Loud Echo — AI generating ad creative in real time, claiming 80% conversion on qualified sales calls. • Flent — premium house renting with 90–95% occupancy across 140 homes in Bangalore. • Basil — a D2C houseware brand already at ₹36 Cr ARR, aiming for ₹100 Cr next year. Three founders building across AI infrastructure, urban liv...

Today’s healthcare special covers insurance, cancer care and a wildcard of the folks behind our merch. US stocks via GIFT city, capital losses & Leopold Aschenbrenner 🎤 Guests • Abhishek Poddar — Co-founder & CEO, Plum — What the cancer claims data really tells us about India’s health insurance gap • Deepak Kumar — Co-founder, Oncare — Building cancer care infrastructure inside community...

Today’s episode connects geopolitics, AI capital, semiconductors, climate, and search — all in one show. 📰 News • US–Iran escalation hits UAE; falling debris strikes an AWS Abu Dhabi zone as oil spikes to ~$69/barrel • OpenAI closes a $110B round at ~$730–840B valuation — largest private fundraise ever; India now 100M+ weekly users. 🎙 Guest 1: Amritha Sreekumar — Alt Carbon / Alter Magazine Clima...

Three stories. One thread. AI is no longer a promise — it’s compressing jobs, moats, and partnerships in real time. • Jack Dorsey cuts 4,000 at Block, says AI-first teams can do more with less. • 18 major AI releases in 26 days — model half-life now measured in weeks. • Peak XV closes $1.3B fund amid carry drama and senior departures. The real question: are you building for 2021 structures — or 20...

Today’s episode is about long cycles and long bets. 1/ Blume Ventures turns 15. Indian VC is finally seeing real DPI. India AI Week just happened. And the next decade may look nothing like the last. We go deep with Karthik Reddy on venture cycles, oligopolies, AI froth vs. atoms businesses, and what 15 years of backing founders has actually taught him. 2/ Then Vineet Khanna breaks down how Superta...

Today’s episode moves from AI lab instability to early-stage venture conviction to new-age Indian consumer brands . 🗞️ News  • Anthropic’s Head of Safeguards Research quits , warning “the world is in peril,” as multiple senior safety researchers exit in two weeks — raising fresh questions about AI governance stability. • Sarvam AI outperforms Gemini in OCR , doubling down on India-first capability...

Today’s episode looks at how culture, trust, and branding collide at scale—from the Super Bowl becoming an AI advertising battleground to building a food brand that bets on honesty over hype. 🗞️ News Super Bowl LX became the “AI Bowl,” with ~$600M in ad revenue, multiple AI ad misfires, and a visible backlash as tech giants fought for cultural mindshare, not just attention. 🎙️ Guest Shashank Mehta...

Today’s episode breaks down one of the most consequential corporate moves of the decade — SpaceX acquiring xAI — and what it signals for AI, compute, and capital at planetary scale. We also look at how venture firms evolve over cycles, why India exits remain hard, and what this means for founders building real businesses on the ground. SpaceX acquires xAI to form a vertically integrated AI–space–i...

Today’s episode looks at two hard problems India is quietly solving at scale : post-harvest agriculture and voice AI infrastructure. 🗞️ News Economic Survey 2025–26: • GDP growth 6.8–7.2% ; potential ~7% • Capex up 89% (₹5.9 → ₹11.2 lakh crore) • Gig workers up 55% in 4 years • India now #3 global research powerhouse • All top 10 fastest-growing cities globally are in India 🎙️ Guest Segments 1/ Pr...

News: Shadowfax’s IPO marks consolidation in logistics; Titan Capital clocks another outlier seed return; reverse logistics and express delivery emerge as durable moats. Guests: Abhimanyu Rathi on fixing trust, data, and incentives in carbon markets. Anurag Sheth on excess inventory, liquidation economics, and why returns are the real bottleneck in D2C. Shiv Sharma on building global retail-invest...