Darshan Meher

26 | Building @adiabatic_in | Circular Economy for Lithium ion Batteries | Energy Storage

[Darshan Meher @Darshan_IITH]

@DevoceanWarrior @soumitra_sharma Sent you a message.

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@soumitra_sharma Yes Boss 🙌

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Real India 🔥

[Soumitra Sharma @soumitra_sharma]

[𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐭] 𝐈𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 “𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐥 𝐈𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐚”

While many Indian VCs are chasing Bay Area deals, I’m finding some of the most compelling opportunities in India-based founders building unsexy hardtech products with global ambitions.

https://t.co/YmJgvK7Ot0

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@PritnRandom @Adiabatic_IN 🙌🫡

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Crazy that it was published about our startup @Adiabatic_IN in Tamil and i was wondering why was i getting calls from Coimbatore and around 🙌😅

[Er Satish Kumar M.E (CEM) @satishnagarajan]

Adiabatic, a startup focused on developing intelligent #battery management systems specifically designed for electric vehicles (#EVs) in India.

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@soumitra_sharma @Adiabatic_IN 💪🫡

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@brahma_4u @Adiabatic_IN Thanks @brahma_4u 🙏

[Abhilash @PritnRandom]

If you're building deeptech in India and looking for early round, do speak to @soumitra_sharma. He's been really passionate on Indian founders building global products.

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@iamvarunguru @NaxatraLabs Kudos to @NaxatraLabs @PritnRandom @iam_piyushverma and team 🫡💪

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@sampritibh This is crazy @sampritibh

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@x_rahulraj @svembu I heard zoho CRM is quite popular in China.

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@Adiabatic_IN

https://t.co/sjxfYkmGe0

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💪❤️

[Abhilash @PritnRandom]

https://t.co/3vTkZ4ttD4

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@Rahul_J_Mathur Wishing for full recovery for both of them @Rahul_J_Mathur 🙏❤️

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More of these will be manufactured at @Adiabatic_IN for assistive tech solutions.

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It’s not long way even to replicate these task with automation and robotics i believe 😬

[Ilir Aliu @IlirAliu_]

Robotics companies: let us solve repetitive tasks like folding shirts.
Meanwhile, the factory floor:

[Darshan Meher @Darshan_IITH]

More respect for you pj @BeingPractical 🫡💪

[pj @BeingPractical]

31 May 2020:
I was on the road, staring at failure at the start of my 40s.

1 June 2020:
6 years back, on this day I started my journey of building Raise (@RaiseTheBarHQ) from zero.

The day before, I held a fancy title of Founder, Managing Director and CEO of a financial services company, was an industry pioneer and a leader, built and scaled a product that redefined how India invested online, that made mutual funds popular, and introduced direct mutual funds to the masses. Built a venture that managed few billions dollars and was possibly valued as much as.

Next day, I had nothing. No titles, No power. No team. No salary, No stocks. Practically made no money from the venture I gave everything to for 3 years to make it a grand success. Founders like me are emotional fools & immature beings who trust easily and take a word as a word, only to realise one day - the world doesn't work the way one thinks it works.

Tried to raise money from venture capital, which I thought would be a easy thing to do but it was not. Almost every VC out there rejected me. Few influential people made raising capital a bit difficult. Many VC & partners who promised term-sheets, stopped responding to emails / chats or just backed out.

All of this happened during peak COVID times. I was staring at failure at the start of my 40s. I had no idea what the future would hold for me. Job was never an option, I am too practical and also much of a straight-talker to survive in a corporate life. I had started up 3 times earlier, and was more or less a failure. Somehow gathered courage to start-up again just because giving up again was never an option.

Times have changed since then!

Today we are a team of ~650+ builders and believers at Raise.

Only thing we care about is building the best consumer experiences across all the products we are building - @DhanHQ @ask_fuzz @Upsurge_club @Stratzy_HQ @FilterCoffeeHQ and few more ventures in insurance, wealth and investing that we are building.

5 years back value of everything was Zero. Today for whatever it means, Raise is a unicorn valued at USD 1.2 Bn. At some point, I was offered good money as some sort of settlement which of course I never took. This is why I say that as founders, some of us are emotional fools who keep taking chances even after losing it all!

Looking back, even after this crazy journey and tons of luck by my side, I am still more of an emotional & introvert founder fool. We are still in our early days of building and are far from where we want to be.

Once again, there's no inspiration or gyan here for anyone. Tu tera dekh le bhai, yahaan mein khud bhagwan ke bharose pe hoon..

I post this just as a reminder to myself - never forget where & how we started from.

More importantly to express my gratitude to all those who stood by me and supported us in my tough times - as co-founders, team members, colleagues, believers, supporters, cheerleaders, well wishers, investors, friends and most importantly as our customers.

Thank you, I wouldn't have made it till here without you 🙏

[Rahil @TheRahilShah]

https://t.co/uJgoxm2dC0

[Darshan Meher @Darshan_IITH]

This video is so inspirational, I instantly had more conviction to create a similar 100 years and generational company 🫡❤️

[Harsh Goenka @hvgoenka]

A lovely film made by Raju Hirani on the occasion of 100 years of Bajaj group, a business family I respect immensely. What was amazing to me was that the characters enacted by the Bajaj family members are all done by AI!!

[Darshan Meher @Darshan_IITH]

Farmforce Batteries by @Adiabatic_IN being shipped across India 🇮🇳
For battery operated Agri Spray Pumps.

#battery #spraypump #agri #agrispraypump #agriculture #Adiabatic #farmforce