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.

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Elon Musk just announced a $25B chip fab — a bold bet on owning the AI supply chain.

In this episode, Natasha Malpani of Boundless Ventures shares a contrarian view: the real value in AI may not sit in models or compute, but in applications and tooling.

A conversation on where the next wave of AI companies will be built.

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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.

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Today’s episode connects three big shifts — edtech consolidation, new VC power, sales in the world of AI and the future of physical logistics.

News:

Unacademy × upGrad merge in a share-swap deal, Peak XV alumni launch Ambition Capital, Travis Kalanick re-emerges with Atoms - betting on industrial robotics over humanoids.

Guest — Rishabh Ladha, EPIC World / ex-SquadStack

Rishabh breaks down what actually drives great enterprise sales, where AI genuinely helps vs where it’s noise, and why India’s GTM motion is still broken for most startups.

Guest — Ankit Kumar, Skye Air Mobility

3.6M autonomous deliveries, 200K/month in one city — we unpack drone logistics at scale, unit economics, regulation (BVLOS), and why India could lead this category globally.

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This episode looks at two different perspectives on building and scaling companies in India.

1/ Ashish Kumar, co-founder of Fundamentum Partnership, explains how growth-stage investors evaluate companies at Series B/C, what differentiates breakout companies from the rest, and what a defensible AI company from India might look like.

2/ Aneesh Sheth shares the journey of building Dr. Sheth’s Skincare — a science-first brand rooted in dermatology — and what changed after the company was acquired by Honasa Consumer.

Two conversations about scale, exits, and the realities of building in India today.

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Today’s episode looks at where the real AI competition is happening.

News:

• a16z’s latest Gen AI rankings show ChatGPT capturing 87% of AI app usage, but the real battle is shifting from standalone apps to AI embedded inside workflows like documents, code, and communication tools.

• Meta acquired Moltbook on March 10, with both founders joining Meta’s Superintelligence Labs as the company accelerates its frontier AI push.

Guest — Harsh Dwivedi & Niket Raj Dwivedi, Medial

Medial is a professional network for India’s tech & startup ecosystem with 250k users. The founders discuss building for depth over scale, adding anonymity to unlock honest conversations, their Shark Tank deal with Ritesh Agarwal and more.

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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 living, and consumer brands — and what they’re seeing on the ground right now.

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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 hospitals across Delhi-NCR

• Jinal & Vivek Ajmera — Co-founders, MYFANDOM — The artist merch layer India’s creator economy has been waiting for

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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

Climate-tech meets craft.

We discuss how AI, biotech and blockchain intersect with India’s 4.3M-strong handloom sector — and whether technology can preserve tradition without destroying it.

🎙 Guest 2: Tanay Goel — Garantie

Warranty-tech for OEMs at scale.

1.5 crore+ customers, 200,000+ claims processed, 40% cost reduction via automation.

Why extended warranties are becoming a $9B India opportunity.

🎙 Guest 3: Saravana Maruthamuthu — optoML

Analog-in-memory AI chips using light instead of copper. 12nm tapeout with TSMC. 50× energy efficiency claims. Can India carve out leverage in semiconductors without owning fabs?

🎙 Guest 4: Nayrhit B — Gushwork

SEO for the AI era. 300+ paying customers, $1.5M ARR in ~3 months, 95% US B2B. How do you rank inside ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini — and will AI search tolerate optimisation for long?

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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 2026 reality?

1/ Gouthami T S — AquaAirX

Climate-tech solving industrial water recovery at scale — hardware + software, real revenue, and the economics behind water scarcity.

2/ Madhav Garg — Jindal Healthcare

Scaling diagnostics and healthcare infra — quality, compliance, and what actually works beyond AI hype.

3/ Pratap Narayan Singh — Vervesemi

India’s semiconductor opportunity — what’s realistic, what’s hype, and where chip design wins are emerging.

4/ Shubham Kukreti & Sushant Pandey — Prava Payments

Agentic payments for AI — enabling machines to transact autonomously across card networks.

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