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[PuneStartups.org @punestartups]

🚨 Hiring alert!

#Fintech startup https://t.co/8ElPEUD5s9 are looking for a Founding Engineer.

Verispace are building an identity & fraud-prevention layer for India's rental economy.

Interested? Connect with Verispace founders via our community https://t.co/jchOwq6pZS

[Ajinkya Dhariya @Ajinkya_Dhariya]

Last quarter, a Shop Act inspector visited one of our warehouses and issued a ₹75,000 challan

The reason: a ₹5,000 weighing scale did not carry a state-level calibration stamp

That single moment opened up a question I had been avoiding. Is there a single window anywhere ? where a founder can see every central, state and ULB compliance that applies to their business? There isn't.

A few weeks later, I asked @Nithin0dha & @dineshpaii the same thing in a different form: waste management is brutally compliance-driven. How should I navigate it? His answer did not take a second.

"Ajinkya, compliance should become your moat. Don't see it as resistance. Build the system that handles it, and you will have something competitors cannot replicate"

That stuck.

So this weekend, I built something. A free compliance dashboard for founders, EHS teams, and operations leaders running circular-economy and waste-management businesses in India.

It is free. Built over a few late nights, so there are rough edges. If you try it, tell me what is missing or wrong — there is a feedback button inside. I will keep building this in the open.

If anyone wants to take it on as a side project with me, DM me.

🔗 https://t.co/bLBtLEsxLr

[@AIGrantsIndia @aigrantsindia]

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[neeraj arora @neerajarora]

1/ We’ve been long India. Not as a side bet - but as a core market on a single global platform.

[Sutirth Dey @SutirthDey]

Announcing "AI@IISER Pune" a 1-day event for people who are NOT AI/ML specialists, but would like to figure out how AI is used in research. Hybrid (In-Person + Zoom Webinar). Anyone can attend. Registration free but mandatory. To register: https://t.co/zkcP1S7XGC
Limited Seats.

[AIBoomi (formerly SaaSBoomi) @AIBoomi]

🛎️ A quick reminder, #Pune!

@AIBoomi #StartupWeekend is built for people who want to stop discussing ideas and start shipping them.

If you’re wondering what’s in it for #AI builders, here’s the truth:

• A focused 24-hour window to ship a real MVP

• Mentoring from experienced founders, product, tech, and domain leaders

• OpenAI and FastRouter credits for all participants

• OpenAI winners’ credit pool for top teams

• A chance to pitch to VCs, angels, and builders who’ve been there before

• Top 3 teams earn passes to SaaSBoomi Annual '26 in Chennai

Waiting for the right push?
This is it.

APPLY 👉 https://t.co/jdBWbuxopY

Come with an idea. Leave with momentum.

Let’s build! 🦾

[Vaibhav Domkundwar @vaibhavbetter]

Bad founders never get a second chance… from stellar employees, even if they get it from mercenary investors.

Once you do bad things, they are never forgotten by those who suffered.

I know this one case from the dot com boom / bust where a founder screwed his team — none of them ever worked for him again even after him courting them multiple times over the past two decades. One them is a friend I’ve known closely who basically says a founder can break trust just once - and can never fix it.

This founder continued to raise top tier money and build multiple companies since — none of them worked out. Multiple of them had similar problems as the first company - alienated employees and even customers.

It’s not hard to understand the difference between right and wrong and to not do wrong things because people ever forget when you do wrong things.

[PuneStartups.org @punestartups]

✨#Pune tech. jobs update

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[M @mister_whistler]

Got an email from my ex employer @unacademy today saying our exercise window has been changed from 10 years to 30 days forcing us to cough up a huge amount to pay taxes or forfeit our vested esops.

@gauravmunjal this is an awful thing to do. Makes the startup industry look bad.

[Paras Chopra @paraschopra]

We're making a 2026 calendar for talks at @lossfunk.

Who is operating at the frontier of AI and the changing world?

Artists, thinkers, doers, musicians, builders - please tag anyone who you think deserves to be seen, and we will reach out.

[Sebastian Siemiatkowski @klarnaseb]

Are you building AI shopping assistants?!

Klarna has the largest product/inventory database on par with Amazon/Shopfiy!

500 million daily updates price/inventory from more than 50 of top 100 retailers. US & EU.

And it is now publicly accessible!

https://t.co/pDiCcWm2jL

[Anand Deshpande @anandesh]

Happy birthday @venture_center! All the best for continued success!

[PuneStartups.org @punestartups]

@DefenceBrat @punekarnews @Inc42 Are the founders around to tell their story and perhaps inspire other startups?

That'd be an interesting session to have & host.

@thinksantosh

[PuneStartups.org @punestartups]

🚨 Hiring alert!

#Edtech startup Myelin are seeking full-time Research Intern, foundational learning. The internship (12+ weeks) is focused on teacher-development.

Interested? Connect with Myelin founder Manoj Deshpande on our community https://t.co/jchOwq6XPq

#Pune #Startups

[PuneStartups.org @punestartups]

🚨Hiring alert!

Travel startup ACAI, Baner are hiring a Lead Software Engineer for their #Pune office.

They're building AI agents for travel contact centers.

visit https://t.co/D62vnfJ4wQ to get customized, job-alerts for #startup positions.

[PuneStartups.org @punestartups]

🌟Congratulations Anand Kekre and team on the unveiling of deeptech #Pune startup https://t.co/rpVv9XhgfT

They're "building AI-native solutions at the intersection of AI, storage and infrastructure to accelerate performance by removing memory bottlenecks."

[Peak XV Partners @peakxvpartners]

From @OpenAI’s product strategy to the road to agentic systems, join us for an evening of bold questions, real answers, and community conversations.

RSVP now - https://t.co/NDzQU6eYam

@nikunjhanda @tejeshwi_sharma

[YourStory @YourStoryCo]

.@ani_myworld, Head of Engineering at @PhonePe, is building the backbone of India’s digital payments ecosystem. From powering seamless consumer transactions to enabling merchant-scale innovations, he’s driving the vision, strategy, and delivery behind one of India’s most trusted fintech platforms. At #TechSparks2025, he’ll share how PhonePe’s engineering DNA is setting new benchmarks for scalability, reliability, and innovation in digital payments.

📍 Nov 6–8 | Taj Yeshwantpur, Bengaluru
🎟️ Book your tickets today: https://t.co/iE1EGt9KCI

#YourStory #AI #Deeptech #Innovation #Startup #PhonePe #BuildingForBharat #India2030 #Entrepreneurship

[PuneStartups.org @punestartups]

What the respondents for today's event looks like:
https://t.co/OzJ5UUClsu

[PuneStartups.org @punestartups]

Next ☕ Pune OpenCoffee Club
Incubation Opportunities for Pune Startups at 5pm Friday, October 31, 2025 (Online)

Registration (free): https://t.co/1Xw7D0j7Qk

https://t.co/FL8W38yrbb

[PuneStartups.org @punestartups]

Next ☕ Pune OpenCoffee Club
Incubation Opportunities for Pune Startups at 5pm Friday, October 31, 2025 (Online)

Registration (free): https://t.co/1Xw7D0j7Qk

https://t.co/FL8W38yrbb