Ishan Pendse

Investments @MalpaniVentures

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

The Netherlands has become the first country in the world to successfully eliminate stray dogs, ensuring that every dog has a home.

This remarkable achievement stems from a combination of strict animal welfare laws, large-scale spaying and neutering programs, and a strong culture of responsible pet ownership. The Dutch government has long supported widespread sterilization initiatives and enforces tough penalties for animal abuse and abandonment.

While an estimated 200 million stray dogs exist worldwide, the Netherlands stands out as a global leader. In Dutch cities, it is common to see dogs riding in bicycle baskets, relaxing under café tables, and even joining their owners on public transport, a reflection of how deeply integrated pets are into everyday life.

The country now serves as an inspiring model for animal welfare, demonstrating how coordinated policy, cultural awareness, and compassion can effectively solve a challenge that continues to affect many other nations.

[Ishan Pendse @IPendse]

Would love to learn from founders/operators building across different outpatient formats. Where does this framing feel right or wrong?

[Ishan Pendse @IPendse]

I’ve been trying to understand single-specialty clinic chains in India better.

I wrote a longer piece with some notes from that process, but the main question I was trying to think through was simple:

Why is it so hard to make one good clinic work again in a second location?
https://t.co/lyovuYyhlC

[Ishan Pendse @IPendse]

A new clinic has to earn a lot of this again.

It has to build local trust, compete with known neighborhood doctors, create initial trial, and carry rent and clinician costs while revenue is still ramping up.

That is where the model seems to get tested.

[Nimish Dubey @nimishdubey]

My autorickshaw driver stops, midway through the trip.
He asks for “do minut” (two minutes), runs to the footpath and fills the bowls for animals and birds, with water from his water bottle.
Comes back, apologises to me for the delay and adds “Unka koi nahin hai, bhai sahab.” (They don’t have anyone else).

There are good people. Never forget that.

[Malpani Ventures @MalpaniVentures]

A retailer in a small North Indian town can tell you a lot about rural consumption.

Mountain Dew moving fast. Campa and Sting fighting for share. ₹10 diaper packs mattering. Parle-G picking up in summer. Butter biscuits doing better in winter.

The story is in the details.

[Dr Aniruddha Malpani, MD @malpani]

Our government will uproot as many trees as possible so that builders can create more towers to mint money for themselves , and their crony babus and netas

[Yash Panditrao @yashpanditrao]

Think AI is free?

It’s quietly hitting your electricity bill.
Data centers are driving big new costs on the power grid, and regular families are paying the price.

[3F VC @3FdotVC]

We’re launching RFS with Dr. Malpani.

Every month: one idea
We fund the founder best suited to build it

[Parth MN @parthpunter]

Adivasis are the first to risk their lives to preserve the environment.

Unfortunately the last to get credit for it.

[Yash Panditrao @yashpanditrao]

We kept hearing the same thing about AI:

“They’re crushing it on benchmarks.”
“OpenAI killed my startup”
“Applications layer is still wide open.”
So instead of debating takes, @karansehgal47 and I wrote the report.

A full-stack autopsy.

[The Tatva @thetatvaindia]

Mumbai records surge in sexual assault cases against stray dogs, activists highlight legal loopholes.

[Dev @HoomaNDecoder1]

Another RWA, Another FIR!

FIR Filed Against 9 People, including an Apartment Association President and security staff, for illegally relocating a pregnant cat. The police have booked them under the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act following a complaint!
#saveindiandogs @WHO

[Rajat Sharma @RajatSharmaLive]

I believe love is bigger than fear.
This Valentine’s Day, people across India are coming together for compassion and peaceful coexistence with our community animals.

Every problem has a humane solution – and we hope to solve this together with love and science, not violence.

Join the pan-India peaceful gathering on 14th Feb.

Delhi- 14th Feb, Jantar Mantar 2pm onwards.
For other cities follow #India4Animals and join the protest in your city or a city closest to you.

#SaveIndianDogs #NoGoingBack #UntilEveryAnimalisFree #EndAnimalCruelty

[Vishal Bhargava @VishalBhargava5]

The one addition to the Indian school curriculum that must be considered is - making students periodically undertake tasks like sweeping or mopping in their schools.

We need to build a culture where dignity of labour is recognized. It is an idea whose time has come.

[Tanya @SnooopSnoopy]

Mohit Chauhan paused his performance to light candles for the dogs who were killed across India.
They will never be forgotten. We will get justice for every life taken.

When an artist pauses a concert to honour lives lost, it says something. Thank you @_MohitChauhan for always choosing compassion over cruelty.

#SaveIndianDogs #CompassionMatters

[Anindita Bhadra @Abhadra7]

Selectively highlighting news about dog aggression is #BIAS. Avoiding news of dog-human coexistence is #BIAS. Deciding that the dogs are guilty before having a proper hearing is #BIAS. Ignoring all scientific literature that appears to support coexistence is #BIAS.

[Susruthi Vempati @SusruthiVempati]

In #Prayagraj, U.P, a #streetdog was shot by a home guard who works for a #highcourt #judge!

The reason- Cement Road was freshly being laid in front of the “great” judge’s house and they didn’t want the #dog to walk over it and leave its footprints!

What kind of a horrific mindset people have nowadays? If people in the #judiciary itself are committing such heinous crimes, where should the citizens go for #justice?

#UttarPradesh #Prayagraj #JusticeForIndianDogs #SaveIndianDogs #SaveIndianAnimals