Rituraj Singh

Natasha Malpani Launches ₹200 Crore Fund to Power India’s AI Startups Former Kae Capital partner Natasha Malpani has launched Boundless Ventures, an early-stage venture fund with a corpus of ₹200 crore, dedicated to supporting homegrown AI-native startups across India. The fund will focus on pre-seed and seed-stage investments in companies innovating across consumer AI, infrastructure, agent tooling, healthcare, logistics, deep tech, and make-in-India hardware. Boundless has already written its first cheques to startups including Superhealth, Armatrix, PierSight, Knot, and two stealth ventures in AI infrastructure and consumer AI. Beyond capital, the fund promises to bring narrative and network support to founders. As Malpani puts it, India today has a once-in-a-generation advantage talent density, digital rails, and ambition to build global AI leaders from day one. At Startup Veda, we’re thrilled to see local capital fueling the AI frontier. This fund signals rising maturity in India’s venture ecosystem—placing conviction behind AI-first founders well before the rest of the world catches on. Join the conversation: Which early-stage AI ventures excite you the most? How powerful is the mix of capital + storytelling for building AI startups? #Startup #AI #VentureCapital #DeepTech #StartupIndia #FounderStories

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Based on the BharatNext Accelerator Investor Survey Analysis, here is a bullet point summary highlighting key investor preferences and event details: The data stems from the Investor Survey Analysis conducted by the #BharatNextAccelerator, India’s First District Startup Venture Studio Initiative, powered by Amrit Mehsana Startup & Innovation Mission. The analysis gathered 19 responses across various metrics. Investment Focus Areas: Sectors of Interest: The most preferred sector for investment is AI/ML & DeepTech (26.3%). The second most preferred sector is D2C / Consumer Products (21.1%). HealthTech & MedTech is also a significant area of interest (15.8%). Funding Preferences: Preferred Stage: Investors overwhelmingly favor startups in the Early Revenue stage, representing 78.9% of responses. The next preferred stage is Growth Stage (15.8%). Investment Ticket Size: There is a near-equal preference for two distinct ticket sizes: ₹50 Lakhs – ₹1 Crore (26.3%) and ₹3 Crores – ₹5 Crores (26.3%). Investment tickets of ₹1 Crore – ₹3 Crores are also highly sought after (21.1%). Interaction & Participation: Participation Format: A majority of investors prefer Physical Meeting / Demo Day (57.9%) over Online (One-to-one Startup Interaction) (42.1%). Investment Commitments on Demo Day: While a minority say 'No' (26.3%) to signing commitments on Demo Day, the vast majority (68.4%) are "Open to discussion" regarding signing investment commitments. Meeting Logistics: Preferred Time Slot: The most preferred time slot for interactions is the Afternoon (12 PM – 4 PM), accounting for 47.4% of responses. Preferred Duration: Most investors prefer a brief meeting duration of 30 Minutes (73.7%). Invitation to Upcoming Event: Join the #BharatNext Investment Pitching Festival on 09 Oct 2025. The event will be held at the Vibrant Gujarat Regional Conference, Mehsana, North Gujarat. Amrit Mehsana Startup & Innovation Mission #StartupMehsana #startupindia Sumeet Jarangal Abhishek Singh|Shradha Sharma|Milapsinh Jadeja|Sushil Sharma|Mihir Joshi|Jimish Kapadia|Mayuresh Raut|Amit Singal|Pranay Mathur|CA Swati Panchal|Amal P S|Jeffrey A. Stephens|Janne Rauramo|Chirag Patel|Sanni patel|Yamal Vyas|Dr.Panneerselvam ( PS ) Madanagopal|Jeet V.|Dr. Preet Deep Singh

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On this Independence Day, we are proud to announce the launch of Vizuara's first-ever AI product Our product team (Pritam Kudale and Pranavodhayam P R) has been working on this for months, and today we're launching DynaRoute - an intelligent router that automatically selects the best language model based on your query complexity and category. Here is the problem we solved: Most applications use one expensive model (like GPT-4) for everything. Simple questions like "What is the capital of France?" get the same treatment as complex reasoning tasks. It's like using a hammer for every job, even when you just need a screwdriver. DynaRoute analyzes each query and routes it to the optimal model. Simple questions go to efficient models like Gemini Flash. Complex reasoning tasks get routed to more powerful models. The result? 50-70% cost savings while maintaining performance. We tested this extensively. On our GPQA benchmark, we achieve a 9.7:1 performance-to-price ratio compared to 6.9:1 for single model solutions. For typical enterprise queries, we're seeing 93% cost savings over 300k tokens. What makes this different from AWS or Azure routers is the full spectrum access. We support open source and closed source models across GCP, AWS, and Azure. Their routers lock you into their ecosystem - Microsoft only gives you GPT models, Amazon only Claude/Llama. The integration is seamless. Drop-in replacement for OpenAI API, works with CrewAI agents, includes an MCP server for Claude, and comes with a comprehensive dashboard showing real-time savings. This is Vizuara's first AI product for enterprises, and Raj Abhijit Dandekar, Rajat Dandekar, and I are incredibly proud of what the team built. We have transitioned from education to solving real industry problems. Try it at https://lnkd.in/dGSx2KRq - free tier includes 50k tokens to test the $$ savings yourself. We just posted our product launch video on Vizuara's YouTube channel, where we give you a very detailed product walkthrough. We also explain how you can use this as an individual customer or as an enterprise to save $$$: https://lnkd.in/dtEHtHMn We will soon be publishing a paper on the concept of dynamic intelligent routing. Stay tuned. Happy Independence Day to my fellow countrymen! 🇮🇳

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