Income tax exemption for ~6.5 crore people, roughly 90% of tax payers in the country! ๐ฎ๐ณThis will lead to 1 lac additional income per year for the middle class ๐ providing a great push to Indiaโs consumer story. โจ
Historic budget for India! ๐
#UnionBudget2025
DeepSeek showed that itโs possible to build LLM models that are learner, greener & require much less compute!
$6M is all it took for DeepSeek to build their model! Can something like this come from India soon?
@paraschopra - Rooting for you! โจ๐ฎ๐ณ
@a1purva
TAM or Team? What is more important!
Figma started as a drone company. ๐คฏ
Twitter was a podcast app.๐๏ธ
YT was a dating app.๐ซถ
Amazon was a book store. ๐
Zomato was a restaurant guide.๐
The right teams keep building, keep evolving and keep growing their TAM.
Do you agree?
How BluSmart thrived against Uber & Ola, and built one of India's most loved taxi brand. ๐๐ฎ๐ณ 3๏ธโฃ reasons!
Had the chance to talk to @AnmolJaggi and was blown away by how mission led and customer obsessed he is! ๐
@BluSmartIndia
268 IPOs in ๐ฎ๐ณ in 2024! 2.5x more than China. ๐ From these 70% were SME IPOs which is the next big opportunity for founders from India. ๐โจ
@jndlkaran@a1purva
The business saw immediate PMF & raised investment from @VaniKola at @Kalaari and then also got @RNTata2000 as an investor in the company. ๐ชOn his thesis of why Mr. Tata invested โin a country which loves to save, you are giving people cash back. Whatโs not to love โ๐โฃ โฃ
This was one of the best chat's I've ever had with a founder. @Swats26 energy is infectious! Rooting for her and team @Cashkarocom as they build a billion dollar company over the next few years. โค๏ธ
@a1purva@aclr8vc
From growing up in Ambala to building a company with sales of โน4000 crores! โฃ๐Raising money from Ratan Tata,โฃ๐ going through a kidney transplant, supporting young founders and breaking multiple stereotypes, this is Swati Bhargava's story!โฃ โค๏ธ (A Thread ๐งต)
@Swats26
The Bharat t-shirt, the ๐ฎ๐ณ band on his wrist, the energy in his voice. ๐ฏ Arjun Vaidya exudes so much passion for India in everything he says and does! โค๏ธ
Super excited to have Arjun as a visiting partner at ACLR8 to help young founders build large consumer brands from India. ๐ฎ๐ณ
Scaling e-commerce for the next 100M Bharat users! Super amazing chat with @Swats26 at the @aclr8vc founder academy! ๐ฎ๐ณ ๐
Full episode out soon :)
Hosted the super amazing @Swats26 at the ACLR8 studio to talk about how @Cashkarocom is building e-commerce for Bharat! ๐ฎ๐ณ๐
Full episode out soon :) Building the next big consumer business from India? Apply to the ACLR8 cohort today - https://t.co/yvtGvPtaDw
๐ Coming from a small town to build an 14K crore company!
๐ Had a wonderful chat with Brijesh Agrawal, Co-Founder, IndiaMart on building technology for millions of SMBโs!
โ Building the next big SAAS business? Apply to the ACLR8 program today! https://t.co/yvtGvPsCNY
Fintech is the future! We're at an inflection point. ๐ Stable government, technology innovation, demographic advantage & founders taking pride in building for India. ๐ฎ๐ณ
Building the next big fintech business? Apply to the ACLR8 program today! https://t.co/SOP9ZVSD7e
#fintech
"We tend to glorify funding. Instead of celebrating funding, letโs celebrate execution! Letโs celebrate that someone has built something so large, that people want to be part of it.โ ๐ฎ๐ณ Building Fintech for Bharat now streaming! ๐
https://t.co/XDUqg3kk4Z
@a1purva@jndlkaran
My biggest takeaway - choose a category where you can build a large business while creating a positive impact on the lives of millions of people!
@Insurance_Dekho
Building a 500cr ARR D2C brand ! ๐ฎ๐ณ
Had an amazing conversation with Bharat, Co-Founder, Lifelong, on his journey building the most disruptive consumer brands in the country.๐ฅ
Episode out soon! ๐ https://t.co/hgwg8HTms2
#funding#enterpreneurship#aclr8#aclr8vc#startup
โTell me something that no one has told me, make it memorable, make it large & inspire me with your energy.โ๐ @a1purva shares what the perfect elevator pitch should look like!
Looking at raising your first round? Apply to ACLR8 today https://t.co/yvtGvPsCNY #aclr8@jndlkaran
A bad day in India is better than a good day in any other economy globally! ๐ฎ๐ณ
Had an amazing chat with my friend and one of India's best early stage investors, @a1purva on how founders can raise fast, raise effectively and raise from the best! ๐
Full episode out on YT! ๐
Raise fast, raise effectively, raise from the best! ๐
Learn the secrets of fundraising from one of India's best early stage investors, @a1purva. ๐ฎ๐ณ
Full episode out now!
#startup#investing#entrepreneurship#aclr8#aclr8vc