Z47 Moments

Unstarted is a new Z47 series, by founders, for founders. Most people think they need more experience before they start. More operating. More pattern recognition. More certainty. If you’re waiting to feel “ready,” this episode will force you to rethink that. In Episode 1 of Unstarted, legendary investor Avnish Bajaj sits down with Revant Bhate (Founder & CEO, Mosaic Wellness — Man Matters, Be...

Beautiful things shouldn’t cost the world. India exports - $13B in home decor annually, expected to cross - $21B by 2030. Factories everywhere. But almost no global consumer brands built from here. In this episode of Z47 Moments, Sudipto Sannigrahi sits down with Abhik Ghosh, Co-founder & CEO of Trampoline (ex-Amazon, Wayfair), to unpack how they’re building an India-to-world home decor brand,...

Enterprise AI doesn’t fail because models are weak.  It fails because data pipelines break, permissions drift, costs explode, and governance is treated like an annual checkbox instead of everyday operational discipline. In this episode of Intelligent Indians!, Vikram Vaidyanathan sits down with Rohit Choudhury, Founder & CEO of Acceldata, for a deep conversation on how enterprise data systems...

India’s AI moment will be defined by architecture. In our new series Intelligent Indians! we sit down with the builders, policymakers, scientists, and founders shaping India’s AI decade as it unfolds. In the first episode, Avnish Bajaj and Vikram Vaidyanathan sit down with Abhishek Singh, CEO of the IndiaAI Mission, to unpack how India is designing AI as infrastructure, not experimentation. The co...

Future Signals is Z47's view on where the next category-defining companies are likely to emerge, and the spaces we’re actively tracking alongside the founders building them. For Indian startups, 2026 promises to be an inflection year where experiments from previous years create a foundation on which the future is built. Market-defining investing rarely arrive fully formed. They are assembled, piec...

Between overprotective term sheets and oversimplified ones lies the real market. On this episode of #ZeroToInfinity , Avnish Bajaj and Tarun Davda, are joined by Archana Rajaram to weigh in on one of the most misunderstood parts of startup building: the term sheet. As the founder of River Law (formerly Rajaram Legal), Archana’s work has quietly shaped the “market standards” that nearly every India...

In this episode of Zero to Infinity, Rajat Agarwal and Chandrasekhar Venugopal sit down with Vivek Sinha, second-time founder and CEO of Emversity, to unpack one of India’s most urgent and least-discussed problems: 👉 Why are millions of young Indians still unemployable after 16 years of education? 👉 What will it take to build a truly job-ready workforce? 👉 And why might the biggest opportunity...

70% of enterprise AI projects never reach production. The solution: Forward Deployed Engineers (FDEs). In this episode, Vikram Vaidyanathan and Rocketlane CEO, Srikrishnan Ganesan unpack the rise of the FDE model, from Palantir’s origins to how AI companies use it today to bridge the gap between prototypes and production. They discuss why traditional SaaS orgs break in AI, the governance needed to...

From a small apartment in Bengaluru to powering over 2 billion users across 60+ countries, MoEngage is one of India’s most quietly global success stories. This is more than a startup story — it’s a story about India’s rise as a product nation, and the founders who are reimagining how the world engages with technology. Raviteja Dodda, Narasimha Reddy and Yashwanth Kumar built a world-class customer...

756 of 1,009 rows displayed Submarine parts. Metro casings. Agricultural harvesters. Even bombshell casings for the defence sector. In this episode of the #ZeroToInfinity podcast, Ximkart founder explore how solving the “thinking loop” first makes it possible to deliver parts for any industry, anywhere. Once the right inputs hit the execution loop, size, sector, and material become irrelevant, it’...

The US innovates. China industrializes. Can India deploy at scale and claim its right to win in AI? India’s edge has always been its people: engineers, data, and scale. But as LLMs automate language and logic, can that advantage still hold? In this episode of #ZeroToInfinity , Chandrashekhar Venugopal speaks with Avnish Bajaj and Vikram Vaidyanathan about India’s crossroads in the AI race and what...

In the near future, less than 10% of access will come from humans, the rest will be agents? What happens when your next user isn’t human? In this episode of the #ZeroToInfinity podcast, Pranay Desai sits down with Satya Devarakonda and Ravi Madabhushi, founders of ScaleKit, to decode a fundamental shift in software: the rise of agents as first-class users. Humans log in and out with predictable pa...

Dive deep into the transformative power of AI in India’s consumer app landscape. In this episode of Zero to Infinity, Avnish Bajaj, Chandrasekhar Venugopal aka CV, and Kishan Kashyap break down:  ✅ Why ChatGPT is AI’s MS‑DOS moment and what comes after  ✅ How token costs dropped 1000x in a year (and why Sam Altman calls it the “new Moore’s Law”)  ✅ The Disruptor–Digitizer–Enabler framework for...

Most startup journeys are told in hindsight, GreyLabs AI’s told in the middle of figuring things out. In this episode of the #ZeroToInfinity podcast, the founding team of GreyLabs AI reflect on what building actually looked like in year one: navigating a cofounder exit, cash running out, COVID hitting collections, and a work culture being built reactively. This conversation with co-founder Aman Go...

We’re not seeing enough entrepreneurship in India, not for lack of talent, but because most founders haven’t yet internalized how quickly India’s consumption story is shifting. As GDP curves bend upward and new behavior patterns emerge across services, spending, and aspirations, in this episode of the #ZeroToInfinity podcast, Kishan Kashyap, joined by Avnish Bajaj & Chandrasekhar Venugopal, maps o...

India’s largest creditworthy segment remains invisible to the lending ecosystem, not because of a credit problem, but because of a design problem. When every lender chased the top tier or flooded the informal market, Finnable saw an opportunity to build for the 60–70% in between: salaried, PF-backed Indians earning ₹15–40K a month. Join co-founders Amit Arora and Nitin Gupta on the Z47 podcast as...

India will see 100 tech IPOs by 2030. While Silicon Valley still waits for $5B+ exits, Indian founders are going public earlier - at $600 million. Why? Because market receptivity has fundamentally shifted. The buyers want this asset class. On the #ZeroToInfinity podcast, Avnish Bajaj and Rajinder Balaraman define what it actually takes to go public in India today. Through the lens of four distinct...

The next 30 global SpaceTech giants will be built and 10 could come from India. But DeepTech is clunky, Series A is brutal & government still writes 70% of the cheques. So what makes a SpaceTech startup VC-backable and what makes one global? That's where the duo of Anurag Srivastava & Sudipto Sannigrahi from the Z47 team map out the government to private inflection point, opportunity, the...

How do India’s top founders actually think through a P&L?  This special episode of #ZeroToInfinity podcast takes you inside Z47’s experimental panel event with India’s leading consumer founders, including voices from Mamaearth, Urban Company, and Mosaic Wellness.  From CAC to contribution margin, & retention to revenue models, Kishan Kashyap, Avnish Bajaj & Chandrasekhar Venugopal, sha...

What if the next great Indian startup isn’t another consumer app — but a B2B company quietly owning a supply chain, exporting to 40 countries, and compounding capital without ever chasing a billion-dollar valuation? This #ZeroToInfinity podcast episode walks us through a decade-long arc of insight — from Z47’s first B2B bets to the inflection points that changed everything: GST, UPI, COVID, and th...

Z47 invested in WizCommerce in 2022. Since then, Divyaanshu Makkar and team have scaled to $1mn in revenue from the B2B Commerce SaaS mid-market. In this episode of #ZeroToInfinity , Divyaanshu Makkar, Co-founder & CEO of B2B Commerce SaaS startup WizCommerce -, joins Sudipto Sannigrahi and Ashwin Pandian to unpack: 🚀 WizCommerce's pivot from SourceWiz 📈 Scaling to $1M ARR in 5 Quarters 💥 I...

The real revolution is not just AI building products - it’s AI rewriting how we build them. In this episode of #ZeroToInfinity , Avnish Bajaj and Aakash Kumar cut through the noise to reveal why AI is far more than just another tech wave - it’s a paradigm shift. This conversation offers a comprehensive, unfiltered exploration of AI’s evolution, its current impact on industries and knowledge worker...

What if India transformed from outsourcing hub to global engineering powerhouse? In this episode of #ZeroToInfinity , Sudipto Sannigrahi, Z47's investor in B2B Commerce and Manufacturing, sits down with the visionaries making it happen—Karan Anand and Himanshu Uniyal, founders of Wootz.work . Their conversation unlocks the ambitious blueprint behind India's largest advanced engineering export comp...

Consumer brands are being built differently and the next wave of unicorns won’t just be about speed or scale - they’ll be built on AI, hyper-personalization, and a global-first mindset. In this episode of #ZeroToInfinity , Rajinder Balaraman, Tarun Davda, and Rajat Agarwal demystify the rise of real-time commerce and how AI is no longer an add-on - it’s the foundation for intelligent shopping.  In...

FinTech is transforming the economy at every level. India’s financial ecosystem is at an inflection point, where technology isn’t just enabling transactions but engineering entirely new economic structures. In this episode of the #ZeroToInfinity podcast, Avnish Bajaj, Pranay Desai, and Vikram Vaidyanathan bring the sharpest insights to the table, revealing the forces shaping FinTech’s next decade....