Entrepreneur, Early-stage startup supporter Co-Founded, 91springboard. ex-Joint-CEO, CIIE ie, IIMA's incubator https://xitter.cf/t.co/nimN1QrprY…
Goa, India
Joined January 2009
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It is sad that financial discipline is punished rather than being rewarded. @nsitharaman #icra #crisil
Ganpati Bappa Morya! 🙏✨
On this auspicious day, sharing why we at 91ventures backed OMji.
Spiritual travel is a $59B market making up 60% of India’s domestic tourism. Yet, booking an ashram stay still relies on: "Uncle, us ashram mein koi jaan-pehchan hai kya?"
Ashrams hold 25–50% of prime stay inventory near temples, but remain fragmented and offline.
Enter OMji:
- Partnering directly with ashrams to standardize stays, front-desk ops, and satvik meals
- Bringing seamless digital discovery and booking to sacred destinations
- Proven playbook: ₹3.8+ Cr revenue and 3,400+ room nights profitably at Maha Kumbh 2025
Led by Vishwanath Ramnath (ex-e-pranam) and @Pallaviparkar (ex-BigBasket Tier-2 P&L Head, IIMA).
Planning a pilgrimage to Ayodhya, Varanasi, or Vrindavan for your family?
Skip the distant generic hotels. Look for "Hosted by OMji" on OTAs or visit their platform to experience authentic, peaceful ashram stays. 🛕🌿
omji.co.in/
Will AI permanently kill retail stock picking? or just turn the entire market into a casino?
I’m curious where you stand: once financial theory is fully democratized, does it level the playing field or make individual investing pointless?
would love to hear what you think. 🧵👇
Once textbook theory is solved for everyone, public markets collapse into two remaining forces:
- Information asymmetry (insider access and private data pipelines)
- Pure gambling
The rational middle ground simply disappears.
50x might be a low number too @masayoshison. More like 1000x. Even if we look at valuations...they are bigger by that range.
Big reconfirmation for fintech! If Mirae assets CEO needs AI help in investment planning... Then probably so does everyone.
Just 3 years after founding, Portkey is being acquired by Palo Alto Networks!
A huge congrats to @PortkeyAI Team, @jumbld (Rohit) and Ayush.
We had Incubated Rohit's first startup, Framebench at @IIMAVentures ! That one had got acquired by @FreshworksInc .
Having seen Rohit in action, when they decided to solve the AI governance and management issues... we (91ventures) could see that it is a great team attacking a right problem at the right time.
Glad to have been part of this journey from the starting. Wishing you guys best for the journey ahead from here.
We’re excited to share our intent to acquire @PortkeyAI.
Once the acquisition has closed, we plan to integrate Portkey’s AI Gateway into Prisma AIRS to establish a control plane to secure autonomous agents, thereby allowing companies to accelerate AI innovation with confidence. bit.ly/4tEwAZX
Walking through Pune today.
You would not guess this city has 399 deeptech startups. 96 funded. 20 at Series A+.
Bangalore got SaaS. Mumbai got fintech. Delhi got consumer.
Pune got hardware muscle memory.
The real moat for India's deeptech decade.
PS: Pic from German Bakery in Pune. Forgot to click pic, so AI helped. :-)
#DeepTech
🤖 Made with AI
ALT At German Bakery in Pune. Forgot to click pic, so AI helped. :-)
I was looking at SME IPOs in India, last 2 years.
Issues: record high.
Capital raised: record high.
Average listing gain: 5-year low.
% of listings below issue price: ~70% !!
The chart everyone shares is of supply. Lets also look at that of returns.
4/ Read "Use of Proceeds" in the RHP.
"General corporate purposes" and vague "working capital" without specifics is a soft answer to a hard question.
Disclaimer: not investment advice. There are 30 other things one should check. These are just a few of the basics I like.
#SMEIPO
India FY26: 47 tech IPOs. Decade high.
India 2025: seed funding fell 30% to $1.1B.
@Sebi_Indian @SEBI_India are we connecting these dots to the new angel fund rules around accreditation and carry sharing?
Feast at growth/end stage. Drought at the roots.
#IndianStartups @IndianVCA @invsttdotcom @AngelListIndia
