Heena Purohit

Director of AI Startups @Microsoft | LinkedIn Top AI Voice | TEDx Speaker | 3x Top Women in AI 🏆Winner | Helping improve diversity in AI/ML | #AI #Startups

[Heena Purohit @justheena]

#SF Startup and Enterprise Builders - Most AI events only give you only half the room.

This one brings both founders and enterprise AI teams into the same room.

If you’re in the Bay Area next week and want to be in the room, register here: https://t.co/cFS5MtLW6T

[Satya Nadella @satyanadella]

Just wrapped our quarterly earnings call.

We are focused on delivering AI infrastructure and solutions that empower every business to eval-max their outcomes in this agentic computing era.

Our AI business surpassed a $37 billion annual revenue run rate, up 123%.

We are at the beginning of one of the most consequential platform shifts that will change the entire tech stack as we move from end-user driven workloads to workloads driven by end-users and agents.

This will drive TAM expansion and change the value creation equation across the entire economy.

To capture this opportunity, we are executing against two major priorities:

[Heena Purohit @justheena]

NVIDIA GTC Day 1 is a wrap.

Some highlights:
1/ Jensen always knows how to pull a crowd.

2/ Jensen on @Microsoft x @nvidia.

3/ One of the Jensen’s first stops after the keynote? The Microsoft booth.
That says something.

4/ My secret to surviving GTC? Cappuccino.

#NVIDIAGTC

[Heena Purohit @justheena]

🤔 Question for AI founders: Are there any other startup campuses worth visiting in-person?

#AIStartups #innovation #AIfounders

[Heena Purohit @justheena]

I just visited the world's largest startup campus.

@joinstationf in Paris is a converted railway station turned into startup city.

Think of it as Europe's answer to YC, except everyone works under the same roof.

My experiences ⬇️

[Heena Purohit @justheena]

Team @msft4startups was meeting founders building Al solutions for enterprises.

It was incredible to see the innovation they're building on
Azure.

And hear firsthand how much value the MSFTforStartups program is unlocking for them.

Excited for what's coming out of this cohort!

[Heena Purohit @justheena]

London founders: If you’re building a b2b startup, don’t miss this tell-all session.

We’re partnering with @nvidia to share the patterns we’re seeing work right now for building and scaling in the AI era.

Link to apply: https://t.co/jL6qbUVnCK

#AIStartups

[Microsoft for Startups @msft4startups]

Selling to enterprise is hard. Winning is harder.

Join @Microsoft + @nvidia in London on Feb 25 for an invite-only founder roundtable on building enterprise-ready AI products and closing enterprise customers faster.

No fluff. Real GTM playbooks.

Apply now: https://t.co/Ca0b7p17pS

[Heena Purohit @justheena]

I previously shared an open, tell-all webinar about my experience self-filing my EB-1A and the lessons I learned along the way.

Linking it below.

PS: It's free. Just wanted to share my experiences and learnings to help others navigating similar journeys: https://t.co/GO9INcmpy7

[Heena Purohit @justheena]

The March 2026 US Visa Bulletin Just Released! HUGE movements once again.

For India-born applicants:
- EB-1 Filing: Jumped forward 4 months
- EB-2 Filing: Leaped 11 months forward
- EB-3 Filing: No change

We’re seeing some of the biggest moves we've seen in a while.

(1/3)

[Heena Purohit @justheena]

👉 Mar 2026 Visa Bulletin: https://t.co/BaLIMvy4Ow

The EB1-A process took me a LOT of time and effort but had outsized returns.

If you’re on the fence about whether you qualify, I highly recommend doing a discovery call with an attorney.

You have nothing to lose.

(2/3)

[Thinkers360 @thinkers360]

TEDx Talk: The Gender Gap in AI is worse than ever https://t.co/PGf4XtJ42g via @justheena #AI #GenerativeAI #Innovation

[Heena Purohit @justheena]

@thinkers360 Thanks for sharing, team!

[Heena Purohit @justheena]

If you don’t have an AI resolution yet, borrow this one:

→ Use AI to reduce your busywork.

🤔 What’s the first thing you want to automate in 2026?

[Heena Purohit @justheena]

Started 2026 by recording an AI Literacy course (more on that soon).

But here’s what I’m thinking about heading into the new year:

→ Most resolutions focus on doing more.
→ In 2026, I want to focus on doing less.

🧵

[Heena Purohit @justheena]

My goal: automate as much of my life’s “busywork” as possible with AI.

Think: Emails, chat, calendars, scheduling loops, follow ups.

As AI agents take up more of the "tactical" stuff that take hours every week, I get time back for strategic thinking and stretch/side projects.

[Heena Purohit @justheena]

@SharmaShradha @PMOIndia @narendramodi This is great! Breaks the myth that there’s limited innovation coming out of India. Thanks for putting this together 👏

[Heena Purohit @justheena]

@thepatwalls Congratulations! Love that

[Heena Purohit @justheena]

@yoheinakajima @yoheinakajima my AI searches would be a lot more effective if the AI could prioritize well across the entire chat history + other data sources.

And my hypothesis is that this would require some forgetting, too.