Manish Seth

Founder, Hustler, Dreamer, Dog parent. On a mission to Reinvent Motion

[CNBC-TV18 @CNBCTV18News]

Vimag Labs has raised $5 million in Series A funding led by Accel, as it looks to build a next-gen electric motor platform.

The startup is positioning itself as a foundational layer in the global electrification ecosystem.

@Arundathi_Ram

[Prashanth Prakash @prashanthp]

A real privilege to join the honourable @narendramodi ji in Nice at the inauguration of Bharat Innovates 2026, along with Minister of Commerce & Industries honourable @PiyushGoyal ji and Principal Scientific Advisor Ajay Kumar Sood ji.

The conviction is real and striking: India is becoming a global hub for deep tech, innovation and investment. And it is getting there not by following, but by building things that are genuinely hard.

We spoke about the scale of the import substitution opportunity. So much of what India still buys from other countries can be designed and made in India. Every component made in India is a market an Indian founder can win. We have already begun efforts on the hardest problems - designing and building our own jet engines, the kind of deep capability that few nations attempt to build on their own. There is real conviction that India deep tech is now good enough to win global markets, not just our own. We agreed that the single most powerful enabling thing for deep tech founders is to become their first customer. The appetite of the government to buy from young and innovative companies is clear and growing. We also spoke about physical AI and why India is uniquely positioned to head here, given our large talent and manufacturing bases.

Looking forward to days 2 and 3 of Bharat Innovates 2026 and what it will spark.

@BharatInnov2026 @EduMinOfIndia

[Manish Seth @mseth1982]

Congrats!

[Pratyush Kumar @pratykumar]

Big day for all of us at Sarvam.

I want to start by thanking my team for shouldering this mission with immense belief, urgency, and care.

Reflecting on the last few years of the founding journey, my conviction has only deepened:
- AI will be far more consequential than most of us realize even today
- The value loops of this new world cannot be owned by a couple of companies
- Country of India scale cannot rent intelligence. We have to build it ourselves

We are going to push hard across every layer of the company, but the thing that excites me most right now is our shot at building frontier-class AI systems from India. We are assembling the team, the compute, and the deployment engine to make this happen.

I also want to thank our new investors. HCLTech’s partnership opens joint opportunities to bring our research and platform to many of HCLTech’s clients - this is also a unique template to bring together India’s strengths. BVP brings to the team the rare combination of being at the forefront of India's biggest tech shifts for the past two decades while globally having partnered with category defining enterprise AI companies.

Onwards

[Manish Seth @mseth1982]

For?

[Hemant Mohapatra @MohapatraHemant]

Sarvam is ready 💪

[Manish Seth @mseth1982]

You mean nationalise?

[Anandamoy Roychowdhary @smdcmc]

India needs to figure out how to wire 1B to @SarvamAI asap to train models. Similar to #nuclear the world will divide into countries that have #recursiveselfimprovement vs countries that don’t. This is as important as #Pokharan was @TrivediVedant @aaditya @Sid_1_0 @AjeyGore

[Manish Seth @mseth1982]

Cope. There is no correlation between churan seller success to core tech development. According to this post in order to make cars you must make horse carriages before. China leap frogged US not by following same trajectory but by creating its own. India needs to do the same and with more vigor and rigor.

[Aviral Bhatnagar @aviralbhat]

https://t.co/lye1puttMm

[Manish Seth @mseth1982]

Wrong

[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

If you can’t make your company interesting to a VC who is literally only in business to fund startups, how are you going to make it interesting to recruits and customers?

[Manish Seth @mseth1982]

Should join the bandwagon too. An Indian VC fund let’s call them AC approached and showed tremendous interest. The founder of the fund was a lady who seemed to have no clue of what I was talking, the parter who was supposedly leading our deal wanted to talk to customers. I thought it as a normal DD but while talking he started asking my customer about other companies which is super strange. Later they asked all our data as part of DD and then passed and immediately invested in a supposed competitor. Doesn’t matter to us as we raised from Accel after this :)

[GREG ISENBERG @gregisenberg]

I was once pitching in a board room at a top 3 VC firm for a $15M Series A.

12 people in the meeting. One of the GPs fully fell asleep. Out cold for 30+ minutes. Nobody acknowledged it. Everyone just kept going.

I kept presenting my Series A slides to an unconscious man in a Herman Miller chair and somehow that was considered normal. That's venture capital.

You might fly across the country to perform for people who may or may not be conscious.

It's a dance.

And sometimes you lead and sometimes you follow and sometimes your partner is unconscious.

If you're raising right now, just know: every founder has a story like this. The process is weird. The power dynamic is weird. You're not crazy for thinking it's weird.

No one talks about it because they want to continue raising. But I'm happy to stick my neck out there.

It is weird.

[Manish Seth @mseth1982]

@bchesky @Yuchenj_UW Everything’s has a cost - question is how good you are in executing to get the most of that cost.

[Manish Seth @mseth1982]

After more than 87,600 cumulative engineering hours - equivalent to nearly 44 full-time engineering years - we are proud to announce the grant of #patent for or #VirtualMagnet #Motor System.

This achievement now positions us among the leading pioneers globally working beyond conventional motor architectures.

At the time, when the traditional industry is still focused on making incremental improvements to 200-year-old motor technologies. We chose a different path to fundamentally reimagine the motor itself. Today, the patents, working systems, testing data, and performance of our technology are proving it was the right decision.

Interestingly, several large global companies have now started openly discussing technologies and architectures moving in a direction very similar to what we envisioned years ago.

This patent covers our early Gen-1 architecture developed more than 3 years ago. Since then, we have already significantly accelerated the technology - improving performance, reducing cost, simplifying the architecture, and conducting more than 100 million simulations and 500+ tests and validations across the system.

The goal is to enable not only few hundred thousands but hundreds of millions of systems powered by Virtual Magnet technology across #mobility, #robotics, #industrial systems, #defense, #energy infrastructure, and beyond - helping nations build stronger technological sovereignty and reduce dependence on fragile supply chains.

This is another important step toward the future of technological sovereignty.

#DeepTech #ElectricMotors #Innovation #Patent

[Manish Seth @mseth1982]

@garrytan Bad engineering and these devices are in market long before AI

[Manish Seth @mseth1982]

@karthikRanga92 Is that really the case?

[Anupam Mittal @AnupamMittal]

Don’t know the full story behind fino payments CEO, Rishi Gupta’s arrest, but overreach by tax authorities & judiciary are common. I am also fighting baseless FIRs right up to Supreme Court. @FinMinIndia @nsitharamanoffc We must get rid of these onerous provisions and create an enabling environment if we want world-beating companies coming out of 🇮🇳

[Manish Seth @mseth1982]

Wow

[BRICS News @BRICSinfo]

JUST IN: 🇨🇳🇩🇪 China showcases AI humanoid robots performing kung fu moves during Germany Chancellor Merz's visit.

[Manish Seth @mseth1982]

This prediction is gold. Never thought like this.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

@robustus Code itself will go away in favor of just making the binary directly.

The next step after that is direct, real-time pixel generation by the neural net.

[Manish Seth @mseth1982]

Honoured to be part of a truly power-packed panel at #ACMAAutomechanika, alongside leaders from #semiconductors, #electronics, #pcbs #automotivecomponents — and India’s #1 carmaker.

The discussion reinforced a clear reality: #EVs are entering a major transition phase.
The next decade won’t be won through mechanical engineering alone — it will be defined by #software, #semiconductors, and intelligent control architectures.

I shared how @vimaglabs Labs is gradually building the technology stack, tools, and core IP to create a new category of electric motors and controls where performance and efficiency come not from incremental material improvements, but from a step change enabled by software-defined motor intelligence and semiconductor-driven innovation while also removing the bottlenecks of #rareearth dependencies.

The opportunity ahead is massive and building the right ecosystem is critical. Glad to see we are moving in right direction.

[BuccoCapital Bloke @buccocapital]

For 50 yrs we treated the supremacy of asset-light businesses as a permanent economic law

But if AI commoditizes asset-light businesses, we’d just be reverting to the historical mean where value accrued to atoms, infrastructure, energy

It would be a 50 year blip. An anomaly

[Accel in India @AccelIndia]

Already bootstrapped to revenue. Already in commercial deployments. Excited to partner on this journey with the Vimag Labs team.

Read more here: https://t.co/Dfk2pCRHJd

@vimaglabs • @barathshankar • #AccelFamily

[Manish Seth @mseth1982]

@aravind Well they took Hongkong

[JIX5A @JIX5A]

This is how a female NDTV reporter was assaulted in Germany during the 2006 World Cup..

She tried to stay professional but in the end she couldn’t take it.