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Just closed our ₹2.5Cr pre-seed round! Grateful to our angels — ex-Ninjacart founders and a couple of passionate agri operators. Now the real work begins: onboarding our first 100 farmers in Kolar district 🌱
Founder tip: Stop optimizing for vanity metrics in your first year. Retention rate and NPS are the only numbers that matter before you've hit ₹1Cr ARR. Every other metric is a distraction.
Looking for a co-founder (technical) for SkillBridge! We need someone obsessed with ML and NLP who wants to build for Bharat. Equity: 20–30%, full-time. DM me if you're interested or tag someone awesome.
Thesis update: We're actively looking for neo-banking and B2B lending plays in Tier 2 cities. If you're building for the underbanked MSME market, I want to talk. Drop your deck at deepa@lightspeedindia.com
6 months in: 12 PHCs onboarded, 1,847 diagnostics run, 94% accuracy on chest X-ray interpretation. We're not perfect but we're getting there. The team is working with incredible dedication.
Hot take: Most climate tech founders in India are solving for the West. The real opportunity is building climate risk tools for Indian agriculture, infrastructure, and insurance — a $300B market largely untouched.
Just published our annual state of Indian SaaS report. Key insight: SME SaaS is exploding — 3x YoY growth, but CAC is still too high for most players. The winner will crack distribution, not product. Link in bio.
Question for founders: What's your biggest challenge with user retention right now? I'm running a free group session next week for founders with <10K MAUs. Reply here to get an invite.
LendFast milestone: ₹100Cr in loans disbursed to 8,200 MSMEs. Average loan size ₹1.2L, average approval time 3.8 hours. Zero NPAs in the first cohort. The alternate data model is working.
Teammate search: Looking for a full-stack engineer (Next.js + Python) to join CropMind as a founding engineer. 0.5–1% equity, Bangalore or remote. You'll own the entire farmer-facing product.
Biotech in India is about to have its Infosys moment. With generics expertise, IIT research output, and global pharma looking to India — the next 5 years will be defining. Watching this space very closely.
Engineering question: When should a 5-person startup invest in a proper data infrastructure vs. staying scrappy with spreadsheets? My answer: when you're making product decisions you can't explain to new hires.
SupplyIQ just signed Tata Motors as our anchor customer. 8 months of POC, 3 failed pilots, and one very persistent sales team. If you're in enterprise B2B — patience is the skill no one talks about.
Hosting a small founder dinner in Mumbai this Friday — 8 founders, no decks, no pitching. Just real conversation about what's working and what's not. 2 spots left. DM me if you're in.
Reached 50,000 learners on SkillBridge! These are not vanity users — they completed at least one course in Hindi or Telugu. Average session time: 28 minutes. Building for Bharat is hard but so worth it.
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