Being a founder is one of the toughest and loneliest jobs on the planet. You're faced with constant noise, uncertainty, constraints, setbacks... while trying to stay physically fit and mentally strong in your quest.
Great founders are comfortable mastering their discomfort.
Our logo changes colour today to match @helloturtlemint as we celebrate them.
We first backed Turtlemint in 2015. The very last cheque from that fund. @dhirendranm and Anand Prabhudesai believed insurance in India could be reimagined, not by replacing the human advisor, but by empowering them with technology. A phygital model before that word became a buzzword.
Over a decade later:
→ 6.3 lakh+ digital partners
→ 45 insurer partnerships
→ 21.87 million policies
→ 19,000+ PIN codes
The IPO isn’t the finish line. Insurance access in India is still one of the great unsolved problems. But today is a moment to pause and say, this founding team earned it.
Green looks good on us as the 🐢 crosses the private to public line with the hope to continue to “mint”.
@BKartRed@AshishFafadia@sanjaynath@sajithpai@arpiit@vikramg05@mitul_am@saritaraichu@riashroff@mehtaalok@DhagashS@gauthamsiv@RinushreeS
And missing a bunch of them this time
Ati Motors
Vecmocon
Carbon Clean
Grey Orange
Many of the @BlumeVentures deep tech portfolio are 1of1 - great tech from India to the world…
@arpiit@BlumeVentures@sanjaynath
Superintelligence will be built on Self Improvement.
Today @hexoai, we’re excited to release ‘SIA’ - an open-source Self-Improving AI, to achieve any goal through recursive self improvement.
While trying to solve a problem, SIA doesn't just improve it's abilities by updating it's harness, it updates it's own weights as well.
Thanks to @ShereenBhan and the @CNBCTV18News team for having me and talking through Pixxel’s recent wins and upcoming plans!
Very exciting few months (and years and decades) ahead for the @PixxelSpace team.
Boom! 💥
Time to accelerate. Glad to partner with @pratykumar@vivekrag and the @SarvamAI team to demonstrate orbital data center capabilities. Kardashev 2 here we come.
Can you feel the acceleration @PixxelSpace ?! This year we are already scaling to 100 satellites in parallel (that's 200-400 satellites a year depending on turnaround). And that's just the start. It will only keep growing from there. Exciting times ahead. And many more announcements coming soon. 🚀
The Revenue AI Stack Is Broken. Here's What Comes Next.
Imagine you're a revenue leader who's all in on AI. You've read the case studies, and you believe the hype. You want to automate everything from outbound to lead scoring to forecasting.
But instead of feeling like you're in the future, you're stuck managing multiple tools, integrations, and contracts. You have a GTM stack that feels like it's stitched together with duct tape.
Here's a map of where things actually stand.
@sameeraculous (Sameera) from Blume's investments team created a BluPrint breaking down what's broken today and where founders should be building next in the revenue AI space.
For revenue leaders and founders, the thesis maps out how AI is rewiring pre-sales, post-sales, and RevOps and where the biggest gaps still sit.
Read the full thesis here: https://t.co/6kbwxDqRVK
@BKartRed@AshishFafadia@sajithpai@sanjaynath@arpiit@riashroff@saritaraichu@mehtaalok@mitul_am@SeekingN0rth@DeepikaDakuda@gauthamsiv@ray_elton99@vikramg05
Super excited to finally share a new project that we’ve been working called Project Astro!
Under this project we'll be launching 333 satellites to map the precise real-time positions of planets, stars, and celestial bodies with accuracy no ground-based observatory can match.
We’re partnering with one of the world's largest astrology platforms (under NDA, but you can guess) to offer the world’s first satellite-verified AI service (no not Artificial Intelligence - Astrological Intelligence).
Real-time planetary and constellation positions. No approximations. No outdated ephemeris tables from the 1960s. Just cold, hard, space-grade astrological truth.
Some highlights:
— First paying customer is an unnamed billionaire who has refused to close his next round of funding until Mercury’s position is independently verified by a satellite. We quoted him $1Mn. He didn’t blink.
— We’re already in talks with 3 matrimonial platforms for API integration. Vibe-matching powered by actual space infrastructure. “Satellite-matched” as a badge on profiles.
— B2G pipeline is strong. One state election commission has informally asked if we can provide “auspicious window analysis” for announcing election dates
— TAM is conservatively 3.2 billion people, but ideal customer profile is anyone that believes this post today.
Our Finance team has flagged that this pivot makes our Series C narrative “complicated.” I have responded that astrology-tech is the only sector with both zero customer churn and zero price sensitivity.
A new layer of Earth intelligence comes to Saudi Arabia with @NeoSpaceGroup!
Pixxel is partnering with NSG UP42, The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s first national Earth Observation data platform, to deliver 5m hyperspectral imagery across 135+ spectral bands, from our Firefly constellation, unlocking deeper insights into surface composition, material properties, and environmental changes at scale.
Read more below 👇