A milestone for Activate. Day one for what comes next. 🇮🇳 Today, we’re announcing the final close of our debut fund, building a $105M (~₹1,000 crore) investment platform dedicated to India’s AI opportunity, less than a year after launching. Activate was built around a simple belief: India isn’t behind in AI, its simply early. Our ambition is to build more than a venture fund: a platform that brings together capital, founders, talent, research, enterprises and the global AI leaders to help build India's AI ecosystem. In our first nine months, we’ve made 10 investments across Inception and Global Growth. Thank you to our founders, LPs, partners and the broader AI community for believing in this mission. India’s AI moment is just beginning. Read the full story in The Economic Times → economictimes.indiatimes.com…

Mixture of Experts - Delhi Edition with @offline_members/@encore_members was a full house! Big thanks to @vikramchopra, @alokebajpai, @dhruvsharma_in and @soaibgrewal for dropping serious insights on stage. Top learnings: 💡 How to transition operations into a truly AI-native company 💡 Using AI internally for massive efficiency gains 💡 The huge untapped opportunity for consumer AI in India Thank you to everyone who joined us! @aakrit @177pc @somani_utsav

Delhi is buzzing tonight! ⚡️ A packed house at Mixture of Experts | Delhi Edition hearing from @vikramchopra (@cars24india) and @soaibgrewal (Activate). Sharing candid thoughts on leveraging AI internally and capturing consumer opportunities.

A fantastic session underway at Mixture of Experts. We have: 🔹 Aloke Bajpai (@alokebajpai, ixigo) 🔹 Dhruv Sharma (@_dhruvsharma, AngelList India) Discussing the future of AI-native companies!

Delhi is buzzing with AI energy⚡️ It's a full house at our Mixture of Experts - Delhi edition! Powered by Activate and @offline_members/@encore_members.

We are honored to host Rahul Patil (CTO, @AnthropicAI) on his visit to India! 🇮🇳 From leading global payment infrastructure to scaling compute and inference currently at Anthropic, Rahul is one of the top experts in production-grade AI systems. Join us for an off-the-record Mixture of Experts gathering hosted by Pratyush Choudhury (@177pc). Space is strictly limited. Request a spot here: luma.com/g6hcvhe2

Meet the speakers at Mixture of Experts | Gurgaon! On 15 Oct, Activate & @offline_members/@encore_members are bringing together top leaders building at the frontier of AI for our new edition of Mixture of Experts. Join us for an evening of candid conversations with: 🎙️ @alokebajpai (@ixigo) on consumer AI and leveraging AI internally. 🎙️@vikramchopra (@cars24india) on building AI-native companies and @DeploymentInc. Along with @soaibgrewal, @somani_utsav & @dhruvsharma_in. Request an invite here: luma.com/pqutmcpz

Shaping the future of AI at GIFT City. Our 'Mixture of Experts' with IFSCA featured Shri K. Rajaraman on GIFT City’s tech evolution, Dr. Dipesh Shah on leveraging the local ecosystem, and a deep dive into operating realities for founders with Joseph Joshy, Som Dutt, and Aakrit Vaish. Thank you to the brilliant builders who joined us. @aakrit @IFSCA_Official

Mixture of Experts is coming to Delhi NCR! 🇮🇳 We’re partnering with @offline_members and @encore_members for an intimate dinner bringing together the AI researchers, engineers and builders pushing the frontier forward. 🗓️ Oct 15 | 📍 Delhi NCR Building deeply in AI? Request your spot at the table: luma.com/pqutmcpz @aakrit @177pc @somani_utsav

Few founders in India have built successfully across multiple technology eras. Bhavin Turakhia is one of them. From bootstrapping Directi at 18 to building Radix, Titan, Zeta (~$2B) and now Neo, his journey is less about one big outcome—and more about doing it repeatedly. On 7 Oct in Bengaluru, Bhavin joins Mixture of Experts, in conversation with Pratyush Choudhury. For founders building today, this is a career worth studying closely. Register here: luma.com/rm0ak750

AI is reshaping how we build, interact and create. Our Co-founder, Pratyush Choudhury (@177pc), moderated a conversation at the Tech Leaders Dinner with ElevenLabs, bringing together leaders across India’s technology and AI ecosystem to discuss what’s next. Great founders. Bold ideas. The future of AI.

Activate’s Mixture of Experts is coming to GIFT City on October 7th in partnership with @IFSCA Official! An off-the-record dinner on frontier AI, open problems, and breakthrough research with: Shri K. Rajaraman (Chairperson, IFSCA) Dr. Dipesh Shah (ED, IFSCA) Joseph Joshy (CTO & CGM, IFSCA) Som Dutt (Head of Pharma AI, IAIRO) Aakrit Vaish (Founder, Activate) 👉 Register here: luma.com/q9znu0pz 📍 GIFT City, Gandhinagar | 🗓️ Oct 7 Building deeply in AI systems? Pull up a chair.

That’s a wrap on our Voice AI meetup in Bengaluru with @ElevenLabs × Activate! Huge thanks to our speakers @xan_ps, @devyanigupta and Rohit Sharma for the sharp insights and to the incredible builder community who showed up. Here’s a look back at the evening 📸👇 #VoiceAI #ElevenLabs #Activate #AI #Startups #BengaluruTech #TechEcosystem

Big moment for @ElevenLabs — now valued at $22B. When we partnered with ElevenLabs earlier this year, we believed voice would become one of the defining interfaces of the AI era and that India would be one of the most important markets for it. That conviction has only gotten stronger. India is already ElevenLabs’ second-largest market. We’re proud to be both investors and their strategic partners on the ground, helping take this technology across the country. Congratulations to Mati, Piotr, Karthik and the entire ElevenLabs team. What they’ve built in such a short time is extraordinary! Still early 🚀 elevenlabs.io/blog/tender-22… @mati @dabkowski_piotr @aakrit @177pc @soaibgrewal