Pushpak Kedia

grateful to play a role in shaping the companies of tomorrow @peakxvpartners

[Pushpak Kedia @pushpakkedia]

@OnTheGrapevine yes

[Pushpak Kedia @pushpakkedia]

Stoked for this launch -- TAL is the most intelligent talent agent for India's most ambitious professionals.

This is one of the most compelling use cases of consumer AI. @OnTheGrapevine have put in a lot of love in this release.

Check it out!

cc @kriti_kg @RajanAnandan

[Saumil @OnTheGrapevine]

We’ve raised $4.1M to let AI find the right job for everyone.
So today, we’re launching TAL.

3 years and 1M+ users on Grapevine taught us this:
The internet today works for companies.
Not for talent.

Job boards, applications, resumes, ats.
The system was built to help companies process people.

But people are not pipelines.

You are not a resume.
You are not an application.
You are not a candidate.

You are talent.
TAL is your talent agent.

[Paul Yacoubian @PaulYacoubian]

I’m not sure if anyone looked at the x axis of this chart, but its a % of total calls.

There are dozens of posts saying “its still early” or circling the empty area, implying that all the bars are going to get to 100% 😅

[Peak XV Partners @peakxvpartners]

Three New Funds for Exceptional Founders in India, APAC and beyond 🚀
We are pleased to announce the closing of $1.3 billion in new capital commitments across our India Seed, India Venture, and APAC funds.

Along with significant uninvested capital in our existing Growth fund, we are excited about our ability to back outlier founders building category defining companies, across multiple stages, as we have done for two decades.

We are immensely grateful for the steadfast commitment from our Limited Partners (LPs) for our inaugural Peak XV funds. Many of our LPs are leading non-profit endowments and foundations, and serving them adds a special meaning to our work.

We understand every fundraise is a responsibility to the founder ecosystem and to our LPs, and we are relentlessly committed to serving them.

This is the most exciting time we have witnessed in our lifetimes. AI is transforming the world at an unprecedented pace, and while the initial breakthroughs were concentrated in Silicon Valley, AI opportunities are now abundant in India and APAC. The size, scale and sophistication of technology startups is deeply inspiring across both India and APAC.

India’s FinTech ecosystem is already one of the most advanced in the world and the Consumer opportunity has decades of compounding ahead. The combination of technical innovation, deepening markets, quality of talent and increasing global ambition makes this an amazing time to be investing in the region.

For those special founders who have a vision to change how something works and who combine ambition with execution, hustle with resilience and who wish to serve the world ahead of themselves, we are here to partner with you. 🙌
@sjs_day1 @mobhat @gvravishankar @RajanAnandan @i_sakshichopra @rohitagar_wal @abhishek_mohan

[Pushpak Kedia @pushpakkedia]

@TrivediVedant and crew with a banger release!!!

[Pratyush Kumar @pratykumar]

Drop 7/14: Introducing Sarvam Arya - our multi-agent orchestration platform, built from the ground up with robust systems engineering principles and frontier AI-assisted developer experience.

We illustrate the Arya advantage on a common ETL task of extracting structured data from unstructured documents. Arya system with GPT 4.1 mini achieved ~5x higher accuracy at ~10x lower cost compared to Claude Code with agent swarm.

Read more about Arya in this thread and our blog: https://t.co/UVodZcgMLd

[ved @TrivediVedant]

fwiw, also SOTA in English. more to come next week.

[Ashish Agrawal @dvbydt]

Congrats @lkeshre, @_harshjain26, @ishanishu, Neeraj and the entire @_groww team for their public listing today.

We share a few reflections on our journey together in the @PeakXVPartners blog: https://t.co/Wplnd13K24

[Vinayak @vinayak_agg]

Crossed $6M by the time this came out but not complaining 😉 . 250%+ YoY growth, tracking $10M soon :).

Last year, right after our Pre-Series A fundraise, growth slowed and we had a flat year. A founder's worst nightmare.

We got back to the drawing board, re-evaluated both strategy and execution critically and resolved that we're going to build one of the fastest growing AI-SaaS companies in the country and globally.

There were 3 core areas we decided to bet on 👇

[Sriharsha (Sai) Guduguntla @sguduguntla11]

From 17 pivots → 2,000 user interviews during @ycombinator → Raising our $15M Series A for @HyperboundAI

I'm still processing it.

11 straight days of back-to-back investor calls.

And yet...there was a moment we almost didn't raise at all because we were profitable and cash-flow positive.

So why did we decide this was the right time?

⸻

It started back in Y Combinator Summer 2023.

Our group partners—@t_blom, @gustaf, @snowmaker, and @wcrosby—took a chance on us despite us having 17 different ideas and pivoting just 2 weeks before our interview!

3 minutes into the 9 minute interview, Tom stopped us:

"Do you have any other ideas?"

I was flustered. I threw out a half-baked idea. He just nodded: “ok.”

6 hours later, Gustaf called: "You're in."

That moment changed everything.

Fast forward ⏩ to today, we:

- Created a new category, redefining sales coaching & enablement for large enterprises with AI
- Went from 0 → 7-figures in revenue in 11 months, purely founder-led sales
- 4x'd revenue in 2025 alone (and we're not even done yet)
- 3x'd our team, scaling from 6 to 18 people in 8 months
- Power several Fortune 20 & Fortune 500 clients
- Closed multiple six-figure expansions
- Surpassed hundreds of thousands of AI roleplays
- Been used by reps from over 8,000 different companies

⸻

So why are $200B+ enterprise companies knocking on the door of a small San Francisco AI startup to solve their age-old problems?

It's the same reason why Atul and I built Hyperbound for ourselves in the early days—because *sales is hard*.

Why? Because communication is hard. And teaching it? Even harder.

At most enterprise companies, the top 20% of sellers drive 80% of revenue.

That means the gap between top-performing and average sales reps is tremendous.

👉🏽 Say you're a $1B revenue business, $800M comes from 20% of your reps.
👉🏽 Now imagine you can upskill even 5% more into elite sellers. That's an extra $50M+ in revenue—with zero new headcount.

It's not that enterprises didn't know this before. The math is simple. The problem was just impossible to solve.

⸻

There's a lot of talk about AI replacing sellers. Here's the truth:

Humans have been selling since the beginning of time. We're persuasive by nature. We convince, we negotiate, we trade.

And the reason why it works is because it's all about

1) Empathy — seeing the world through someone else's eyes
2) Emotion — tapping into what they care about
3) Trust — buyers don't just buy solutions, they buy confidence

That's why elite reps don't feel like they're selling. They're listening, connecting, & solving.

The future of sales isn't about adding headcount or replacing people with AI.

It's about scaling human excellence.

That's the bet we're making at Hyperbound.

Thank you @arnavsahu341 and @peakxvpartners for leading this round, as well as @ycombinator, @snowflake Ventures, @AlexFellowsFund, @RobleVentures, and all our other customers, advisors, and investors who believe in our mission 🚀

[Pushpak Kedia @pushpakkedia]

@smdcmc @grok true AGI has been achieved

[Pushpak Kedia @pushpakkedia]

cc @KaustubhMundra3 @RajanAnandan

[Pushpak Kedia @pushpakkedia]

Let's get it 🎉

As always, we'd love to host you for your next vacation :) now operating in 30+ Indian cities!

On to the next! @StayElivaas

[Surge @_surgeahead]

Huge congrats to @StayElivaas on their Series B round! We're proud to support Ritwik Khare, Karan Miglani & the team as they continue to scale & innovate the vacation rentals market. 🥳
@RajanAnandan @pushpakkedia #Surge09
https://t.co/bDG9X14PNE

[Surge @_surgeahead]

Surge is not just about building startups—it’s building the future, from everywhere.

🚀 350+ founders. 17+ nationalities. 150+ startups. 17 sectors. Over half go global from day one. 🌏

From the US to India and across Southeast Asia:
📲@airalocom: The world’s first eSIM store—keeping 2M+ travelers connected in 200+ countries.
🧩@MySkillmatics: Bringing educational toys to 20,000+ stores from the US and UK to India, Germany, and Australia.
🗂️@AtlanHQ: Uniting data-driven teams across 40+ countries.
🦾@RelevanceAI_: Empowering anyone to build from anywhere—with 40,000+ AI agents helping businesses build AI workforces to supercharge productivity.
🎥@invideoOfficial: Empowering 7M+ creators in 195+ countries to make videos in 75+ languages—in just a few seconds.
🤝@UseMultiplier: Simplifying global employment—helping companies hire and manage talent in over 150 countries.
🌐@tazapay: Powering secure global payments in 170+ markets and 85+ countries.

Surge startups are empowering millions, connecting everyone from everywhere—revolutionizing learning, enabling cross-border payments, and enhancing workflows worldwide.

Want to build the future you see? Join Surge 11, applications close Aug 15 ➡️ https://t.co/svZMc0cLJW

[Pushpak Kedia @pushpakkedia]

@SinghSunint Need Wi-Fi 😭😭😭

[Pushpak Kedia @pushpakkedia]

@TarunAmasa @OpenAI Congrats Tarun! We’d love to try it

[Jessica Tan @jessyhtan]

Thrilled to be partnering with SixSense - a company building the future of AI defect detection in semiconductor manufacturing. This space demands deep expertise and ambition, and the Sixsense team brings both in spades! @peakxvpartners @RajanAnandan @JevynOng @_surgeahead

[Peak XV Partners @peakxvpartners]

Traditional market research systems are outdated, tedious, and cannot scale while the demand from businesses is increasing. @metaformsai is changing this by helping research agencies become AI-first.
Excited to join the mission w @arjunsme & @ofcAkshat🤝.
https://t.co/Eq0rp52maj

[Surge @_surgeahead]

🚀 Founders in Bangalore - the Surge team would love to meet you! We’re hosting an Open House next Thursday, 17 July—meet the Surge team, bring your questions, and get to know more about Surge. Space is limited, please register your interest here ➡️ https://t.co/v2q4SEz55T

Surge Open House: Bangalore
🕒 17 July | 6–9 PM IST
📍Location to be announced upon confirmation of registration

Interested in applying to Surge? Applications for Surge 11 are open, apply now ➡️ https://t.co/CXi3QVo7r4.

Mumbai & Delhi, you’re up next—stay tuned! Keep an eye on our channels for specific dates and venues – we can't wait to meet you there!

[Chandini Jain @chandinijain]

🔥 Super proud to see @auquan_ named to @CBinsights' AI 100 list for 2025!

This recognition is about our obsession with outcomes

We’re not building copilots or dashboards. We’re deploying agents to deliver the autonomous financial organization of the future

#ai #aiagents

[Saumil @OnTheGrapevine]

Today, I am excited to announce Round1 AI 🧡

Round1 leverages the latest advancements in conversational AI to help engineers, marketers, product managers, designers, students and everyone else practice any interview, in under 9 minutes.

We wanted to make interviewing as easy as picking up the phone and calling your best friend.

We’re launching with the following interviews today:
- 31 FAANG/BigTech & startup engineering interviews
- 15 Growth & Strategy consulting interviews
- 12 Product Management & Design interviews
- 7 US B-school & Indian B School interviews
- 10 conversations with role-models

We’re also launching 1 new interview EVERY DAY, for the next 30 days.

What do you want us to make? You'll have it

Round1 AI is in beta and live within the Grapevine App, today.