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Microgrants for bold and ambitious student founders.
Mumbai, India
Joined February 2025
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Introducing 3F VC
Microgrants for bold and ambitious founders building in Hardware, AI, Deeptech, and beyond.
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XY Lab!
Our new design made for optical labs, mount it over the optical tables and use it.
Below is the demo of a use case this one is of a DIY masked lithography setup.
Visit: f2r.site
Repo link: github.com/atharvdubey22ug-g… (Look for XY Lab. step)
We keep meeting founders who want to start Company A, make money, and use it to fund Company B.
If making money is the goal, there are much easier ways to do it than starting a company.
Start a company because you want to build that company.
3f.vc/article/dont-start-a-s…
Fundraising compresses time for founders.
If the company has three months of runway, two weeks feels enormous. For a fund, those same two weeks can disappear between partner meetings. 3f.vc/article/what-to-do-whe…
Investors going quiet does not always mean no.
We wrote about what is actually happening inside a fund, how to follow up, and when to move on.
3f.vc/article/what-to-do-whe…
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A VC fund has a clock. A great business doesn’t always do. As India’s first generation of VC funds ages, we think there’s an opportunity to give good businesses a second life with patient capital.
At Malpani Ventures, we like to call ourselves Micro-PE 🧵
@malpani @SaneDhruv
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graduated college. raised our pre-seed. Oru'el is now backed by @join_ef and @transposevc.
we’re removing the infrastructure babysitting that slows teams down from building the next frontier in the physical world.
i have a deep appreciation for the team at @join_ef who made this possible: @MokshitNaidu, @akashizzle, @rahulsamat, Shikhar Shukla, @skorde955.
this started as a small Brain Computer Interface project with a grant from @aigrantsindia back in September last year.
the 2 months residency sprint at @paraschopra's @lossfunk was when we decided to take this up as a scalable idea.
our ideas and approach changed, but the team [@prb5h, @nihipap] kept pushing it.
since then, we've received enormous support from @3FdotVC [@yashpanditrao] and @mercatus at @GeorgeMasonU. a total of $52k in grants that kept us alive and running for an year.
we’ve also met people from all walks of life and careers who helped us get here in their own way, and from whom we’ve learned a lot.
thanks, @alysha_lobo, @shyamalanadkat, @AmitRajaNaik and many others who made sure we keep improving.
onto the next one.
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graduated college. raised our pre-seed. Oru'el is now backed by @join_ef and @transposevc.
we’re removing the infrastructure babysitting that slows teams down from building the next frontier in the physical world.
i have a deep appreciation for the team at @join_ef who made this possible: @MokshitNaidu, @akashizzle, @rahulsamat, Shikhar Shukla, @skorde955.
this started as a small Brain Computer Interface project with a grant from @aigrantsindia back in September last year.
the 2 months residency sprint at @paraschopra's @lossfunk was when we decided to take this up as a scalable idea.
our ideas and approach changed, but the team [@prb5h, @nihipap] kept pushing it.
since then, we've received enormous support from @3FdotVC [@yashpanditrao] and @mercatus at @GeorgeMasonU. a total of $52k in grants that kept us alive and running for an year.
we’ve also met people from all walks of life and careers who helped us get here in their own way, and from whom we’ve learned a lot.
thanks, @alysha_lobo, @shyamalanadkat, @AmitRajaNaik and many others who made sure we keep improving.
onto the next one.
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last year same day @chastronomic and I started a thing, we called it 'lock-in' with a singular purpose -- BUILD. Can't even fathom a year has passed since the "Goat Post" and looking back, it was a crazy year.
> Started with BCIs
> Built near-SOTA EEG Denoising algo at a fraction of the cost
> came across GPU failures at Meta's blog post
> "it's a signal processing problem"
> @nihipap joins
> move to Bangalore
> Join @lossfunk
> SOTA in GPU failure prediction
> PINN based algo, built with $2 (lol)
> $52k in cash grants from @aigrantsindia, @3fdotvc, @mercatus Center at George Mason University (Emergent Ventures Program)
> Connected with great people like @partha ranganathan, @anindya das, @vijay raghavan, @soumithchintala, @shyamalanadkat, @alysha_lobo
> got featured in @analyticsindiam and @economictimes
> got into the @nvidia ecosystem in the Inception Program thanks to @tobiashalloran and @arundhati1504
Oru'el is now backed by @join_ef and @transposevc to do one thing : remove blockers for the teams out there building the future so that they can focus on their core work instead of babysitting infra and stitching tools.
More to come.
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Not all capital is created equal.
An angel, family office & AIF may all write startup cheques but their constraints, investment horizons & ability to follow on can be very different.
We broke it down 👇
malpaniventures.com/blog/fun…
@malpani @SaneDhruv
Tier 1 India lives closer to the future.
Tier 2 India lives closer to the problems the country still has not solved.
If you are building from that reality, we want to hear from you: 3f.vc/article/why-tier-2-fou…
Building hardware young comes with a strange set of lessons.
We spoke with Sparsh from Incy Tech about labs, professors, patents, and executing fast.
3f.vc/article/field-notes-on…
What does it actually take to build hardware while you’re still a student?
Lessons on labs, professors, patents, and executing fast, from our conversation with Sparsh, founder of Incy Tech.
3f.vc/article/field-notes-on…