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most women founders I meet are SO good, but they're still out here having to work 10x harder just to get a meeting, let alone a cheque.
I've spent the last year scouting for exactly these founders. Our latest investment was in @SuperBryn_AI, an all-women founding team of total girlbosses building in the voice AI agents space. @nikkithashanker and @DrNeethuJoy are exactly who I'm talking about.
But I am not done yet and we are still looking for more such founders. honestly one of the best parts of my job is running @The_CXXO at @Kalaari, where we back women founder-CEOs ($500K–1.5M).
if you're seeing strong women-led companies raising seed/pre-seed, feel free to DM me or comment any referrals below. we move fast and we're genuinely trying to change how capital flows to women founders in India.
Sana Gupta retweeted
the kalaari fellowship has been a j curve for my learning over the 2 years. This would be a great opportunity for anyone that resonates with the following -
> deep interest in the early stage startup ecosystem
> curious about frontier technologies and their broader implications on society
> social! you like talking to founders, operators, building communities, hosting events et al
> creative and original - you like building povs *and* presenting them in digestible formats like writing, decks, interactive websites etc etc etc
the role is a mixture of a lot of things but the ambiguity is a feature; which you can exploit to make the most out of this opportunity!
above all this fellowship is a court-side seat for arguably what is the best and most exciting quarters/halves/innings of our indian startup ecosystem.
if this excites you, do apply to our latest fellowship batch :)
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Sana Gupta retweeted
Kalaari Fellowship is a two-year, paid, immersive VC apprenticeship program with opportunities to work alongside investors and founders, explore emerging technologies, evaluate opportunities, contribute to investment thinking, and gain hands-on experience across the venture ecosystem.
If you're inspired by the progress being made in frontier tech sectors, want to build a future in venture investing, and contribute to the next chapter of India's innovation story — apply for Kalaari Fellowship Batch 5.0.
Applications are now live. Link in comments.
just had some yummyyyy sadhya at the brewery near me?? ABV u saved me from becoming an unbearably sulky mallu after i failed to brave the sadhya lines across bangalore 😭
Sana Gupta retweeted
Quick commerce shelves have become the new D2C launchpad in India: 70%+ respondents to a BofA survey willing to try unfamiliar brands featured on QC apps
Being able to see this vision of a first female founder residency come to life meant a lot.
@kalamazooooo , @inchara_p88711 & Harshita, many (myself included!) talk about ideas like this but you three just executed it, end to end. (and amazingly so)
Cohort 0, rooting for every single one of you! <3
Kalaari CXXO partnered with us for Nova Residency Cohort 0
Grateful to have had their operator network and CXXO's leadership focus backing our Cohort 0 founders through the residency.
Thank you @VaniKola @sanantics @vatsalahali for making this happen
#NovaResidency #Kalaari
Sana Gupta retweeted
Fascinating heatmap mapping the shared users across e-commerce, social and delivery platforms in India.
Sana Gupta retweeted
Localmaxxing : pushing more inference to local models.
Over five weeks, I tested how much of my daily work can run on a local 35B model instead of cloud frontier models. The answer : half.
Many reasons to use local models : privacy, cost, asset depreciation.
But the only one that really matters is latency.
I ran a head-to-head benchmark. Qwen 3.6 35B-A3B-4bit on my MacBook Pro M5 vs Claude Opus 4.5 via API.
Result : 2.1x faster locally. Mean 2.8s vs 5.8s.
The local model isn't smarter. Opus scores ~20% higher on reasoning benchmarks. Local models lag frontier by 3-4 months, and for complex tasks, that gap matters.
But for routine agent tasks, it rarely does.
If half the work runs 2x faster on my laptop, I'll take that trade every time.
My little computer is about to earn its keep.
tomtunguz.com/localmaxxing/
I just read meesho's full q4 letter. A lot of AI in commerce I have seen is just better recommendations on top of a product that already works. what meesho is doing is fundamentally different. PRISM serves 75% of orders through personalised feeds to users who don't know what they want to search for. Vaani lets you shop in any language without typing (1.5M users month one, 22% conversion lift.!!) GeoIndia LLM converts landmark-based addresses into coordinates because half of India's addresses don't exist in any conventional systems. Every single system is solving an access problem, not an optimisation problem. that's what makes this super interesting and can actually work to close our 970M internet users and only 30% shop online vs 80% in China gap
