A platform making grassroots sport visible. An AI companion speaking India's languages. Plus — SpaceX's S-1, India's electricity milestone, and Karpathy joining Anthropic.

1/ Sidhhant Agarwal

Founder of SportVot — the platform digitising grassroots sport in India and globally. 3.5 lakh matches digitised, 30 sports, 20,000+ kabaddi athlete profiles. Raised Rs 32.7 Cr. Now in APAC, MENA, and Europe.

2/ Rohan Chaudhary

Founder & CEO of Rumik AI — building Ira, an emotionally intelligent AI companion for India. 35M+ messages in 4 months; 1M+ installs, 40-min average sessions, $6.5M raised.

News:

• SpaceX files S-1 — $1.75T valuation, Starlink at $11.4B revenue, 10.3M subscribers

• India hits 260.5 GW peak demand; 50% non-fossil power capacity achieved 5 years early

• Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic's pretraining team — OpenAI co-founder, ex-Tesla AI lead