Today’s episode breaks down how India works now — and why flexible workspaces are becoming the default.
🗞️ Things We Saw on the InternetSpace compute explained in first principle and Storytelling on X — why narratives now matter as much as products
🎙️ Guest Segment
- Utkarsh Kawatra — Co-founder, myHQWhat myHQ does today, its footprint across cities, workspaces and members, and how office design has evolved for flexibility-first teams. We dig into membership economics, industry dynamics and what’s changed after becoming part of Anarock.
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Today’s episode moves between AI search, content moats, and early-stage founder thinking — from SpaceX’s scale to how brands and builders adapt in an AI-first internet.
🗞️ Things We Saw on the Internet
SpaceX completes a tender offer at ~$800B valuation — now the most valuable private company in the world. Employees sold shares; SpaceX raised no capital. Possible IPO in 2026.
🎙️ Guest Segments
1/ Anirudh Singla — Founder & CEO, Pepper
From Peppercontent to Pepper SEO + GEO, Pepper Creative, Pepper AI — what changed, why SEO is being rewritten for AI answers, how Atlas works, and what the real moat is when content becomes infinite. We discuss AI slop, where humans must stay in the loop, what an AI-native marketing org looks like in 2025, and the one human skill that compounds for marketers.
Prateek Mehta — General Partner, South Park Commons IndiaInside SPC’s Minus One philosophy — how residencies, fellowships, and funding fit together; why great founders never leave Minus One; what India’s frontier mix looks like today; and how SPC maintains a 98% survival rate across 150+ companies. We close with “time-traveller founders” and one Minus One habit anyone can start this week.
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Today’s episode covers the capital + compute shift — and what it means for builders shipping in AI.
🗞️ News Highlights
SoftBank “back in action” from 2026 — deal pace re-accelerates after the reset; ~$5.8B raised via Nvidia share sale; focus on AI infra + late-stage, with fewer, bigger, higher-conviction checks. “We want to continue investing in India.” — Sumer Juneja
OpenAI turns 10 — founded Dec 2015; now a ~$20B annualized run-rate enterprise AI giant with ~$1.4T+ commitments and deep Azure alignment.
Amazon adds $35B more to India by 2030 — AI benefits for 15M businesses and 4M students; exports targeted at $80B; supports 3.8M jobs. Plus Satya Nadella’s India AI tour: agentic-AI partnerships with Infosys/TCS/Wipro/Cognizant and more Azure zones + in-country capacity.
🧠 Guest Segments
1/ Manthan Gupta: A sharp technical teardown — can you infer LLM architecture via conversation, why OpenAI skipped RAG for memory, what that implies for “better RAG” startups, and where this approach breaks (Claude/Gemini next).
2/ Himanshu Dubey (Upsurge Labs / Ground Zero): How they build and kill products at speed (Bhindi, Helium, OpenBio, BlueBrain) — first 10× wedges, real user use-cases, and what Ground Zero is becoming. Plus Instadapp, DeFi’s next decade, and AI × on-chain.
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Today’s episode connects India’s new AI success stories, a global capital reset, and real-asset innovations — with founders and investors thinking long-term.
🔥 News Highlights
Google’s AI Futures Fund backs Indian coding startup Emergent — vibe-coding, no-code + AI, 2.5M users, $25M ARR in five months.
Tiger Global steps back with a $2.2B “cautious fund” — shifting to high-conviction, slower-deployment venture investing.
Microsoft to invest $17.5B in India by 2029 — hyperscale data-centres, AI infrastructure expansion and training 20M Indians.
Paramount / Affinity Partners launches a hostile bid for Warner Bros. Discovery — throwing a wrench into the streaming-studio deal frenzy.
🎙️ Guest Segments
1/ Hemant Mohapatra — Partner, Lightspeed IndiaWhy deep-tech from India still matters: from quantum to robotics, and how frontier bets might shape the next decade.
2/ Saket Agarwal — Founder & CEO, OnnivationOn building cross-border startup bridges (US/Israeli ⇢ India); how you vet global founders for “India-ready” scale; what a successful India-market win looks like.
3/ Shiv Parekh — Founder, hBitsWhy fractional real estate / SM-REITs may redefine property investing in India now — and how changing work and housing patterns are reshaping demand.
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Today’s episode is a deep dive on AI, tech & startups.
🎤 Jacob Singh (Sing One Song): What he’s building now, why music, making “fun enough to open daily” products, lessons from taking Blinkit from $40M → $600M and cutting attrition from 80% to <5%, plus what makes great engineering cultures and where the next productivity unlock for developers comes from.
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Episode 37 connects an AI-native game publisher scaling from India–SG with a new AI fund building a homegrown “institution” — alongside big moves in compute, capital, and culture.
🗞️ News Highlights
1/ Nexus closes Fund VIII at $700M (US+India) — US AI/software + India consumer/fintech/infra; single US–India team since 2006; ~242 cos (Nov ’25); winners: Postman, Zepto, Delhivery, Rapido, Apollo; historic exits (Cloud.com→Citrix, Gluster→Red Hat, Dimdim→Salesforce, Netmagic→NTT; OLX stake→Naspers); expects 4–5 IPOs in 2–3 yrs.
2/ “Tata ↔ OpenAI” data-center talks — negotiating 500 MW lease at TCS HyperVault; potential “Stargate India” with OpenAI as anchor; co-develop agentic AI for BFSI/retail/manufacturing; Reliance talks reportedly fell through; HyperVault eyeing >1 GW.
3/ Things We Saw on the Internet- Peak XV holdings — >₹30,000 Cr across listed/soon-to-list- OpenAI readying ads.- Netflix–WBD — Netflix reportedly the winning bidder at $30/share with a $5B break fee; still subject to DoJ review.
- Apple’s management team leaving
Guest Segments
1/ Anurag Choudhary — Founder & CEO, Felicity: AI-native mobile publisher scaling across APAC; $3M raised (Mar ’25) and Felicity Labs Singapore opened in August; portfolio design for “content-like” hit odds, IP acquisition thesis, and how an India-born publisher competes globally.
2/ Aakrit Vaish — AI Investor, Activate: “India’s own native AI institution” — who’s backing it, where it sits in the stack (models/infra/tools/apps), cheque sizes & stages, and the India-shaped gaps it aims to fill.
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Today’s episode centers on Meesho’s IPO journey and what it says about India’s “intermediaries win” thesis — with the week’s AI discourse as backdrop.
News Highlights
Meesho IPO — why a social-first marketplace listing matters for Indian consumer internet, unit discipline, and founder playbooks.
Garry Tan × Zoho — vibe coding vs bundled SaaS; Sridhar Vembu’s pushback on tech-debt and real productivity.
“Code Red” at OpenAI — reallocating toward ChatGPT quality and a new reasoning model; ads/agents pushed back.
Travis Kalanick’s sidequest — buys eXtremeGammon, hunting a “re-founding” CEO at the intersection of games, nets, and UX.
Guest Segment
Arjun Malhotra — General Partner, Good Capital: Meesho as the early win and what the listing validates; spotting AI-native vs AI-washed; and why intermediaries compound in India’s low-trust, high-touch economy.
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Episode connects India’s mobility flywheel with a homegrown AAA push — from bike-first networks and captain earnings to an India-built sports title aiming global.
🛵 Rishikesh SR — Co-founder, RapidoRapido is growing >100% YoY in a once-duopoly market; we dig into footprint vs Ola/Uber, the flat-fee model’s impact on captain earnings/loyalty, labour-code shifts for gig workers, Bengaluru’s bike-taxi rebound, Tier-2/3 expansion playbooks, food-delivery plans, and an EV-forward thesis.
🎮 Tina Balachandran — CPO & Co-founder, LightFury GamesWhat “AAA” means, why bet on an India-first AAA now, pacing ambition vs risk, the AI stack and gaps, E-cricket launching 2026, building for a mobile-first audience, making India an AAA export hub by 2030, and hiring for a human-intensive build.
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The UAE–India Start-up Series is the flagship initiative of the UAE–India CEPA Council, created to promote, support, and connect high-potential Indian start-ups with opportunities in the UAE and international markets under the UAE–India CEPA framework:
https://start-upseries.cepacouncil.com/
From over 10,000 applications and 20 finalists headed to New Delhi, five start-ups emerged as the final winners of the UAE–India Start-up Series.
As Ecosystem Partners, The Offline Network sat down with all five winning founders for this special episode to talk about what they’re building:
Our heartfelt thanks to the UAE–India CEPA Council, the jury, and all collaborators on this initiative, and our warmest wishes to the winning founders as they move into this next phase of growth. 🙏
Today’s episode connects fresh AI capital, a landmark move for gig workers, and the compute shift powering next-gen models — with founder playbooks on money management and rewards.
News Highlights
Google × Accel to co-back India AI founders — up to $2M each for India and diaspora AI startups.
India formally recognises ~12M gig workers — platforms to contribute 1–2% of revenue; only ~300k registered so far.
“The Nine Indias” — why $2,400 per-capita misleads; top 15% households earn ~68% of income; bottom 90% at ~$900/person.
White House launches Genesis Mission for AI — a national AI push on US supercomputers.
Google’s Ironwood TPUs take on Nvidia — 7th-gen TPUs go public as big AI workloads shift.
Guest Segments
1/ Dhruv Pathak — Co-founder & CTO, INDmoney: The net-worth app helping 10M+ Indians track and grow money — product, trust, and what unlocks the next 10M.
2/ Ashish Lath — Founder & CEO, SaveSage: Turning unused credit-card and loyalty rewards into real savings — converting points into tangible value at scale.
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Episode 32 of The Offline Network links India’s SME commerce + credit flywheel with a healthier play in a $2B noodles market.
1/ Nitin Jain (Co-founder, OfBusiness)Building India’s largest SME commerce and credit platform.
2/ Bhuman Dani (Founder & CEO, WickedGud)Building a healthier alternative in a $2B noodles market.
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Episode 31 of TON links India’s digital paperwork rails with a new premium eyewear playbook — from compliant, paperless journeys to design-first consumer brands built in 2025.
News Highlights w/ Srijan Mahajan, The Daily Bureau
Wispr Flow raises $25M (A2) for Voice OS — founders Tanay Kothari & Sahaj Garg (DPSRKP→Stanford); A2 led by Notable Capital with Flight Fund;; voice-to-text app used by hundreds of F500/G500 teams; 10× ARR in five months; $81M total at ~$700M post; plus Utsav’s DPSRKP angle.
Bernstein: India E-commerce — Swiggy & Eternal rated “buy” (₹570 / ₹390); Instamart profitability path; targeting top ~5% (~70M) consumers with an ~$80B wallet by FY30; quick commerce ~$35B by FY30 (Top-40 cities); top three likely persist (Blinkit, Instamart, Zepto); food delivery = cash engine (growth ~16–18% YoY); not winner-take-all; new revenue: dining-out, events, B2B logistics, distribution.
Things we saw on the internet — Google’s Nano Banana Pro image generator (Gemini 3) with better consistency, multilingual text, 4K, localized edits; Meta’s SAM 3D (Nov 19) to auto-select objects and make high-quality 3D models; “Sam’s memo”; and the PG × AjVC × Balaji thread of takes.
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1/ Shivam Singla — Founder, Leegality: After a $5M Series A from IIFL Fintech Fund, we unpack made-for-India legal tech, agentic documentation workflows, and how much BFSI paperwork can truly go paperless by 2030.
2/ Abhinav Agarwal — Founder & CEO, ELUNO: Fresh off the first Experience Centre in HSR, Bangalore, on building a premium eyewear brand — design/materials/pricing discipline, tech in eyewear, and 0→1 lessons from a third-time founder.
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Episode 30 of The Offline Network covers founder playbooks across gaming, social commerce, and global experiences.
Today’s news Highlights
1/ Major Cloudflare outage slows the internet — a database permission bug caused global slowdowns.
2/ Jeff Bezos launches Project Prometheus — $6.2B to build AI for manufacturing and engineering.
3/ Google unveils Gemini 3; Antigravity goes live — new multimodal + agentic tools for next-gen dev workflows.
4/ Microsoft, Anthropic & NVIDIA join forces — cloud, models, and GPUs combined for enterprise AI deployment.
Guest Segments
Salone Sehgal — Founder & Managing Partner, Lumikai Fund: Backing India’s gaming and interactive media founders with a product, community, and IP lens.
Shlok Bhartiya — Founder & CEO, shoppin’: Building social + AI + commerce rails for the next generation of Indian consumers.
Varun Khona — Co-founder & CEO, Headout: Taking real-world experiences global from India with a distribution-first city playbook.
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Episode 29 of The Offline Network connects India’s D2C scaling playbook with how wellness is becoming mainstream.
Guest Segments
1/ Revant Bhate (CEO, Mosaic Wellness): How the portfolio really works, what blocks Tier-2/3 digital health adoption, and India vs global wellness behavior — plus rapid-fire takeaways from Asymmetric on creator-led brands, SaaS from India, brand building with AI, and the quick-commerce playbook.
2/ Combined segment: Scaling a D2C brand online in 2025 — what’s changed in quick commerce, what a “healthy” engine looks like, and pragmatic CAC/ROAS guardrails for early founders.
3/ Sahil Gupta (Co-founder, MyMuse): Normalizing sexual wellness with product and content, the path to profitability, and what will actually drive a $2B+ category by 2030 — including what tech changes for intimacy and wellness over the next decade.
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Today’s episode connects market milestones with on-the-ground rails for MSMEs and early-stage builders.
Things We Saw on the Internet:
Pine Labs raised ~₹3,900 cr; listed Nov 14 at a ~$2.9B valuation vs ~$5B (2022); traded ~28% above issue on debut; FY25 revenue ₹2,274 cr; net loss ₹145 cr.
Elad Gil is doubling a new fund target to ~$3B to double-down on breakout AI bets.
Michael Burry de-registered Scion Asset Management (Nov 10); last AUM ~$154–155M.
Cursor announced a $2.3B Series D at a $29.3B valuation (Accel, a16z, Coatue, Thrive, Nvidia, Google).
Parallel (Parag Agrawal) raised $100M Series A at a $740M valuation led by Kleiner Perkins & Index.
Guest Segments:
🏗️ Aditya Tulsian — Co-founder & CEO, axiTrust; Co-founder, NH1 DesignHow surety bonds stack up against bank guarantees, what MSMEs actually feel on the ground, and near-term adoption/milestones after the latest round.
💸 Abhishek Nag — Head of Early Stage VC, 360 ONE AssetWhat he backs at day-zero, how domestic capital is shifting, and where India’s venture stack heads over the next 3–5 years.
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Today’s stream ties a landmark fintech listing to the pipes powering modern banking and SMB payments.
News Highlights:
- Groww lists after ₹6,632 cr IPO — key milestone in India’s fintech growth story
- SoftBank exits Nvidia for $5.83B — proceeds earmarked for tech investments
- Fireflies’ v0 had no AI — founders joined calls and manually sent summaries to prove demand
- Warren Buffett’s farewell letter — distilled advice and a long-view on markets
Guest Segments
🏦 Priyanka Kanwar — Co-founder & CEO, Falcon Modern core and payments rails for banks: shipping faster with strong controls, where infra still bottlenecks, and what great bank–fintech partnerships feel like.
🔗 Priyanka Kanwar (Falcon) × Anubhav Jain (Rupifi) Fintech infrastructure in India: the API ↔ risk handshake, data pipes that lift approvals, and what standardised rails change for lenders and merchants.
🧾 Anubhav Jain — Co-founder & CEO, Rupifi Payments for SMBs: embedded checkout, working-capital pipes, and the real adoption curve beyond Tier-1.
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Episode 26 of The Offline Network bridges two live frontiers — how money moves across borders in 2025, and how a digital-first brand scaled to 300+ jewellery stores and rang the bell.
Things We Saw on the Internet • Hummingbird’s BillionToOne investment • Sam Altman’s tweet • PJ on “pre-unicorn status”
Guest Segments
🧭 Ashwin Bhatnagar — Co-founder, Xflow
The simplest map of cross-border flows, where costs and waits still hide, what “great compliance” feels like, and milestones for Xflow in 12 months.
💍 Rumit Dugar — CFO, BlueStone
BlueStone from digital → omni shift to 311 stores, real moats in jewellery retail, post-IPO changes for finance/ops, shifting everyday jewellery trends, and the next set of milestones.
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Episode 25 of The Offline Network moves between India’s evolving creative, tech, and capital frontiers — from the rise of AI filmmaking to the year’s biggest IPO stories.
News Highlights:
PhysicsWallah IPO: Opens Nov 11–13; targets ₹3,480 Cr at ~$3.8B valuation
Pine Labs Day 1: Subscription at 7%, positive listing view
Nvidia x Qualcomm x Activate AI: $850 Mn Deep Tech Alliance
Fun on the timeline: TON’s 1-year stream before GTA6, Elon’s $1T comp plan, Uber’s $7.8B FCF chart
Guest Segments:
Chandan Perla & Hardeep Gambhir — Co-hosts of the Mumbai AI Film Festival — share what it takes to make an AI movie, why creators like Tanmay Bhat and Riteish Deshmukh showed up, and how AI is quietly rewriting the future of entertainment.
Ashish Shah (Co-founder, Pepperfry) joins to talk about scaling design and logistics in a post-Ikea India — from Tier-3 cities driving 50% of festive orders to AR, studios, and a decade-long furniture playbook.This episode is made possible by Smartworks, India’s largest managed office platform.
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Episode 24 of The Offline Network connects three powerful threads shaping India’s tech and business landscape — public markets, sustainable consumption, and the maturing crypto economy.
From Pine Labs, Groww, and Lenskart heading to the markets, to brands like Beco and SuperYou rethinking what Indian consumers buy, and CoinDCX mapping the next phase of digital assets, this episode captures India’s next growth cycle in motion.
We open with this week’s IPO rush and the founders, funds, and returns behind it.
IPO Watch: India’s Big 3 Listings Line Up
Pine Labs: Founder Lokvir Kapoor sees a 450x return, or roughly ₹460 crore in profit. Peak XV Partners leads with 39x gains, booking about ₹4,650 crore. Listing November 14.
Groww: Preparing a ₹3,000 crore IPO after surpassing Zerodha in active investors. Backed by Tiger Global and Sequoia. Listing November 12.
Lenskart: Oversubscribed 28.26× on the final day. Retail demand strong, institutional even stronger. Listing November 10.
Internet Highlights
Google’s Project Suncatcher: Solar-powered orbital compute systems take shape as TPUs head to space.
Sequoia’s Next Chapter: Leadership passes from Roelof Botha to Pat Grady and Alfred Lin, marking a symbolic moment post-Peak XV spin-out.GLP-1 and Food Delivery Fallout: Weight-loss drugs like Ozempic could reshape food and delivery patterns, with possible impact on Indian players like Zomato and Swiggy.
Sumit Gupta — Co-founder & CEO, CoinDCX
Coinbase’s investment and CoinDCX’s next phase
How crypto adoption in India is shifting from hype to utility
The role of retail investors, product edge, and India’s global position
Aditya Ruia — Co-founder, Beco
Building sustainable products before the eco wave
How quick commerce and ONDC changed distribution
GUEST SEGMENTS
Sumit Gupta — Co-founder & CEO, CoinDCX
Coinbase’s investment and CoinDCX’s next phase
How crypto adoption in India is shifting from hype to utility
The role of retail investors, product edge, and India’s global position
Aditya Ruia — Co-founder, Beco
Building sustainable products before the eco wave
How quick commerce and ONDC changed distribution
The tension between scale and authenticity in sustainability
Nikunj Biyani — Co-founder, SuperYou
Protein myths, quick-commerce demand, and social-led growth
Partnering with Ranveer Singh to build a lifestyle brand
What India’s protein aisle will look like two years from now
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Episode 23 of The Offline Network connects three rails shaping 2025 — frontier AI, travel monetization, and on-chain payments. From Grok’s product feel and falling inference costs to airlines turning ancillaries into profit engines and stablecoins moving into everyday spend, we sit down with three operators building what’s next from India. We open with Deepinder Goyal’s new book — and why “India winning” is now an operating system, not a slogan.
🧠 Gaurav Jain: xAI — what’s shipping at xAI, why Grok feels different to a normal user, the plain-English version of cheaper/faster answers from d-Matrix-style kernel work, Grokipedia’s living knowledge layer, and a clear 12-month AI outlook.
✈️ Ankit Sawant: Co-founder & CEO, OnArrival — what truly drives per-passenger spend, concrete “AI-in-the-flow” moments that lift attach and margin, India’s curve vs US/EU on ancillaries, and the founder playbook for building travel infra toward 2030.
🪙 Nakul Gupta: Co-founder & CBO, Multipli — stablecoins for non-crypto users (when they beat card/UPI), what unlocked the category’s surge, global access (IN/SG/US) and tax watch-outs, real user yields, and the roadmap post-funding.
This episode is made possible by Smartworks — India’s largest managed office platform.
🎧 Watch, subscribe, and tell us in the comments: What’s the first “AI-in-the-flow” you want in your daily travel — and would you pay with stablecoins for it?
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