Pratik Agarwal

looking for Kraantikaaris building public goods of the future @Accel_India @HarvardHBS @iitdelhi

[Pratik Agarwal @_pagarwal]

तो क्रांति हो तुम

जब मौके को फ़र्ज़ मानते हो,
तो क्रांति हो तुम।

जब दर्द से डरते नहीं,
बल्कि उसे अपना रास्ता बनाते हो,
तो क्रांति हो तुम।

जब तन-मन को औज़ार में गढ़ते हो,
तो क्रांति हो तुम।

जब हमसफ़रों में वही जज़्बा जगाते हो,
तो क्रांति हो तुम।

जब ऐसा जीवन चुनते हो,
जिसकी तपस्या से जगत उठता है,
तो क्रांति हो तुम।

wrote for my father on his b'day today..sharing here for all Kraantikaari founders ❤️

[Sarthak Singh @SaSarthaksingh]

Many congratulations to the Moneyview Team, @AccelIndia team and our favourite @subratamitra on the IPO✨✨

Subrata is a pure seed investor at heart. And he’s a legend. Moneyview is his 10th unicorn, almost all Seed Checks (started w Seed in Flipkart). He rarely does podcasts, so good day to share few gems (many counter intuitive!) from his 15 years+ as Seed VC that I am trying to follow:

1. There are 100 reasons to pass on a company. Keep digging for the 1 reason to invest at Seed Stage.
2. Don't take yourself too seriously. Stay a little foolish.
3. Hierarchy kills creativity. Stay weird.
4. Most important thing is to have fun in the journey.
5. The main character of this game is Founder, not the VC.

Grateful everyday to be around the folks here who have shaped the Indian ecosystem! We are celebrating today 🧿🍻🍺

[The Khel India @TheKhelIndia]

Watch this acceleration by Vithya Ramraj to overtake the Chinese athlete in the final leg!

- Helped India win its first Athletics Gold Medal at Asian Games 2026! 🥇

🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[Prukalpa ✨ @prukalpa]

@eatwithposha has been the first robot that has truly changed my life. Yummy food, healthy, robot made. Highly recommend! Also, my mom approves.

[Puneet Kumar @puneetiitm]

Joined Mirae Asset Venture Investments (India) on Jan 1 to take the platform to its next stage.

Today: first close of our flagship fund MAVOF II at ₹1,125 Cr (target ₹1,800 Cr) - anchored by the Unicorn Growth Fund, backed by KRAFTON and NAVER.

We back Series B–D founders with product-market fit, across tech platforms, AI & software, consumer discretionary, and manufacturing & deep-tech.

If you're building at the growth stage, I'd love to hear from you. We are also growing the team in Mumbai and Bangalore, if that excites you, let's talk.

[Press Trust of India @PTI_News]

VIDEO | Glasgow: The first person judoka Asmita Dey wanted to tell about her Commonwealth Games gold was the one person she no longer could do it. Her father, a cycle mechanic who earned barely Rs 300 a day and raised his family in a mud house in a small village in Tripura, died of a brain stroke seven months ago.

On Friday, as the 23-year-old became the first Indian judoka to win a Commonwealth Games gold in the women's 48kg category, the medal felt as much his as hers.

"When my father passed away, I thought everything had finished because he was the one who supported me," Asmita said, struggling to hold back tears after her historic triumph.

For a few moments, the celebrations gave way to memories of the man who had carried her dream long before it became India's dream.

"I am from a very small village in Tripura. People there don't dream this big. But Papa always supported me," she said.

(Full video available on PTI Videos - https://t.co/bIyFWTfmBd)

[India_AllSports @India_AllSports]

STOP PRESS!

𝐀𝐍𝐀𝐇𝐀𝐓 𝐒𝐈𝐍𝐆𝐇 𝐂𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐓𝐄𝐒 𝐇𝐄𝐑𝐒𝐓𝐎𝐑𝐘! 🇮🇳

18 yr old becomes the FIRST EVER Indian to be crowned World Junior Squash CHAMPION! 🏆

Top seed beat Egypt's Ruqayya Salem (2nd seed) 3-0 in Final.

#Squash

[Sarthak Singh @SaSarthaksingh]

Growing up (in Patna/Delhi), the only finish line we were taught to chase was IIT or AIIMS.

My cousin who is in BITS asked me: "Why did we not prepare for IISc?" and we were both clueless. It just wasn't ever part of the narrative.

Need to celebrate Skyroot’s launch as much as we can. Seeing all those kids in the video - we're hopefully looking at a whole generation of future space founders.

Sky is not the limit anymore. Bullish on India 🇮🇳🙇‍♂️

[HBCSE @HBCSE_TIFR]

🇮🇳 Outstanding feat by Team India at the 67 International Mathematical Olympiad (#IMO2026) in Shanghai, China! Competing in the largest-ever IMO with 666 students from 117 countries, India secured 2 Gold and 4 Silver medals, achieving an (unofficial) global rank of 7th. 1/5

[Kushal Bhagia 🇮🇳 @kushalbhagia]

Ruminating over @SkyrootA's epic maiden launch yesterday - while credit obviously goes to the founders and the team, hats off to @mukeshbansal06 for being the first cheque in the company!

As per Traxcn data - he was the first and only investor in the company for the first two years. First cheque in 2018 was about a ~5Cr cheque for 15% of the company and he doubled down with another 5CR cheque in 2019 for about 12% more - owning 27% at his peak. He has of course been diluted since then and also sold some stake.

But to have the courage and conviction to back an orbital launch company in India in 2018, with zero deep-tech ecosystem and when the country itself hadn't yet allowed private participation in space - is extraordinary.

As far as Angel cheques go - this one might be one of the best one's ever. Kudos! 👏

[Skyroot Aerospace @SkyrootA]

ORBIT ACHIEVED. 🚀

Vikram-1 Test Flight-1 has reached orbit. India's first privately developed orbital rocket has completed its final burn and injected its payloads into a ~450 km orbit, making India the third country in the world with private orbital launch capability.

History is made. 🇮🇳

#Vikram1 #JourneyToOrbit #SkyrootAerospace

[Narendra Modi @narendramodi]

A historic new frontier for India’s space journey!

At 11:30 AM today, Skyroot Aerospace will undertake the maiden orbital launch of Vikram-1, India’s first privately developed launch vehicle.

This four-stage rocket is designed to provide rapid and on-demand launch services. This mission highlights the talent, determination and entrepreneurial spirit of our youth. It also shows how our space-sector reforms are unlocking new opportunities for innovation and enterprise.

My best wishes to the entire Skyroot Aerospace team for a successful launch. May Vikram-1 soar high, create history and inspire a generation of innovators.

I urge all Indians, especially my young friends, to follow this historic mission and join in wishing Team Skyroot success using #IndiaWithVikram1.

@SkyrootA

[Malay Krishna @Malay4Product]

I taught JEE physics for years. That paper breaks strong kids in three hours.

This exam is five hours of theory and five hours of lab work, and these five did close to perfect scores on it.

Let me tell you what actually happened.

The International Physics Olympiad is the world championship of school physics. It was the 56th edition. Held in Bucaramanga, Colombia, from July 5 to 12.

381 students. More than 85 countries. Every one of them the best physics student their country could find.

India sent five kids.

All five came back with gold.

Their names are Kanishk Jain from Pune. Riddhesh Anant Bendale from Indore. Rishit Garg from Dwarka in Delhi. Shresth Suraiya from Mumbai. Svarit Joshi from Ahmedabad.

We know a hundred cricketers by their nickname and not one of these boys. :)

That clean sweep put India at joint World Number One. Tied with China, Russia, Kazakhstan, South Korea and Taiwan.

Those are countries that pour serious money and national pride into science education. We are standing level with them.

Now here is what the exam actually was.

Two papers. Each five hours long.

The theory paper had three problems. One on the thermodynamics of paramagnetic cooling. One on the photoionisation of ozone. One on the dynamics of electron positron pairs.

The experimental paper was another five hours in a lab, working through heat transfer and thermodynamic processes in fluids.

That means you get given equipment you have never seen, and you have to design your own experiment, take your own readings, handle the errors, and reach a real answer.

Not multiple choice. No shortcuts. No pattern recognition. You either understand physics or you sit there for five hours.

HBCSE says the Indian students were near perfect on theory and excellent on the practical too.

Now, this was India's 27th appearance at the IPhO.

Across all those years, about 44 percent of Indian students have won gold, 41 percent silver, 10 percent bronze.

In the last ten years, every single Indian student has come home with a medal. 62 percent gold, 38 percent silver.

Not one kid has gone and come back empty handed in a decade.

Five golds in one year has happened only twice. This year, and in 2018.

So who built this.

The programme is run by HBCSE, the Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education. It sits under TIFR, which sits under the Department of Atomic Energy.

They run the whole funnel. A national exam, then a national olympiad, then a brutal selection and training camp, and out of everyone in the country, five kids get on a plane.

The team was led by Professor Anwesh Mazumdar of HBCSE-TIFR and Dr Leena Joshi from St Xavier's College, Mumbai.

The scientific observers were Professor Ananda Dasgupta from IISER Kolkata and Nisha Kelkar from Gogate-Joglekar College in Ratnagiri.

Yes. Ratnagiri. A college in a small coastal town in Maharashtra.

This is public education doing something the private coaching industry could never do on its own.

The coaching industry is very good at one thing. Teaching you to solve a known problem fast.

That is what JEE and NEET reward, and I say that with love because I was part of that world.

But an olympiad paper does not have a known type. There is no shortcut chapter. There is no formula sheet that saves you. You have to sit with a problem you have never seen and think.

That is a completely different muscle. And a government funded centre has been quietly building it in Indian teenagers for 27 years.

So yes, be proud. Loudly.

HBCSE also shared that around 64 percent of India's olympiad medallists go on to do a PhD.

But only about 32 percent of medallists end up settling in India.

I do not say that to spoil the moment. These kids owe the country nothing. They earned every option they have.

But it should tell us something. We are excellent at finding this talent. We are excellent at training it. We are still not great at giving it somewhere worth staying.

Congratulations Kanishk, Riddhesh, Rishit, Shresth and Svarit. This is one of the best things an Indian did this year and most of the country will never hear about it.

[DAE India @DAEIndia]

🇮🇳 India Tops the World at the 56th International Physics Olympiad 2026!

🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇India's young physicists deliver an extraordinary performance at #IPhO2026 in Colombia. All five members of the Indian team win Gold Medals. 1/3
@PMOIndia @DrJitendraSingh @HBCSE_TIFR @TIFRScience

[Narendra Modi @narendramodi]

Tomorrow, 4th July, is a very special day for the people of Jodhpur. The New Terminal Building of Jodhpur Airport will be inaugurated. Jodhpur has a very important place as far as tourism in India is concerned. This upgraded infrastructure will encourage more tourists to come to Jodhpur. It will boost commerce as well.

[Accel in India @AccelIndia]

Modern satellites generate a lot of data every day. But getting that data back to Earth is becoming a bottleneck.

Satellites still mostly talk to the ground over radio. But radio has limits: only so much spectrum to go around, too much traffic competing for it, and short windows to send during each pass. The result is a growing backlog of valuable data waiting to come down.

QOSMIC (@QOSMIC__Space) is building the answer. The company is replacing traditional radio links with laser-based optical communications, enabling satellites to transmit data back to Earth at significantly higher speeds and capacities. By developing both optical ground stations and optical communication terminals for satellites, they are building a complete end-to-end optical communications stack.

In under a year, founders Shreyaans Jain (@Jain_Shrey_), Rohit Ramakrishnan (@RohitKR79), and Aloke Kumar (@aalokelab) proved their optical communications stack over a 10-kilometre link on the ground. They showed the full chain working outside the lab: pointing the beam, locking on, tracking the target, and moving data at high speed.

@mbaccel • @_pagarwal • #AccelFamily

[Shrey Jain @Jain_Shrey_]

We've raised $3.33 Million to build the Optical highway to the Cosmos. Led by @AccelIndia and @Prosus_Ventures and given foundational and early support by @spc, @artparkindia and Manish Jain.

Space is going from an endeavor to an economy.

The world is racing to build the satellites of tomorrow, but still using the infrastructure of yesterday to talk to them. At @QOSMIC__Space our goal is to fundamentally solve this problem from an infrastructural lens, and build the backbone of communication for humanity's final frontier.

A decade ago this company gets built in the US or Europe. We built it in Bangalore. All three of us left careers abroad to come back, because India now has the capital, the manufacturing depth, and the institutions to build world-class space infrastructure. We came back because this is now the right place to build it, and we will not be the last founders to make that choice.

Building this with @RohitKR79 and @aalokelab .
We are just getting started.
Onwards and Upwards.

@ACCEL @spc_india @prateekmehta42 @ankitcc @adityaag @akhi_agarwal @nayankote @_pagarwal @artparkindia @iiscbangalore @JPBrebner

[Pratik Agarwal @_pagarwal]

great company for @eatwithposha !

[Selinay Parlak @selinayfilizp]

some of the consumer products that actually changed my life in some way in the last 12 months:

-@eatwithposha (cooking without the stress, 10x hosting experience for the host)
-@Tesla (safer driving, grok as my assistant on the way, can't live without fsd)
-@WisprFlow (you know this)
-retro (keeping up with friends in an authentic way)
-apple watch (closed my ring 90 days in a row, my current flex)
-ask maps by @googlemaps (how dinner gets decided)
-canva (magic layers is unreal if you haven't tried it)

I love good software that makes life better/easier

[Selinay Parlak @selinayfilizp]

some of the consumer products that actually changed my life in some way in the last 12 months:

-@eatwithposha (cooking without the stress, 10x hosting experience for the host)
-@Tesla (safer driving, grok as my assistant on the way, can't live without fsd)
-@WisprFlow (you know this)
-retro (keeping up with friends in an authentic way)
-apple watch (closed my ring 90 days in a row, my current flex)
-ask maps by @googlemaps (how dinner gets decided)
-canva (magic layers is unreal if you haven't tried it)

I love good software that makes life better/easier