Rishabh Surendran

VC @gaingels | MBA @cornell | Deep tech, Climate and Moonshots | Prev at @prinsciadvoff & @investindia | Ex @GoldmanSachs

[Rishabh Surendran @rishabh_s7]

Pleasure meeting Air Marshal G S Bedi (Retd.), veteran fighter pilot of the @IAF_MCC, former DG Inspection and Flight Safety and previously Air Attaché to the United Kingdom. We discussed emerging aerial threats (hypersonics), the classic Lockheed U2 and SR71 stories etc. 🫡🙌🏼

[Rishabh Surendran @rishabh_s7]

@mignano Congrats Mike! I remember hearing you speak at Bloomberg HQ while I was a grad student in 2024 and now found my way into early-stage investing. Look forward to your journey at USV.

[Philip Green OAM @AusHCIndia]

Huge congratulations to LTGEN Susan Coyle on making history as Australia’s first female Chief of Army 🇦🇺

Her recent visit to India reinforced the depth of our defence partnership. We look forward to advancing 🇦🇺🇮🇳 ties under her visionary leadership.

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

Oh, this is unbelievable. The edit history on this tweet shows that Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif originally copied and pasted everything he was sent, including:

"*Draft - Pakistan's PM Message on X*"

Now, obviously, Sharif's own staff don't call him "Pakistan's PM," they would just call him prime minister. The U.S. and Israel, of course, would call him "Pakistan's PM."

Would be funny if the fate of the world wasn't hanging in the balance.

[Department of Buildings @NYC_Buildings]

We’re leaving no stone unturned in tackling the city's housing crisis!

Today DOB approved plans for NYC’s 1st underground skyscraper, a 90-story building constructed below street level to protect skyline views.

Keep your eyes peeled for more “earthscrapers” across every borough

[Runtime @RuntimeBRT]

🚨 Bengaluru-based @Airbound_Aero has conducted 700 flights for Narayana Health since January 2026 with a zero failure rate.

[Aakrit Vaish @aakrit]

In the 3 weeks since the IndiaAI Summit, @177pc and I have met 43 founding teams.

Deeply technical, most in their mid-late 20s, and building for India or with a strong India-edge.

Some common themes we saw and like:
- AI-led IT Services: What does the Palantir for India look like? Reimagining Infosys/TCS/Wipro AI-first.
- Compute for India: As enterprise demand ramps up, the country needs more sovereign inference and infra capabilities.
- AI for the "real world": Purpose-built models for material sciences, biotech, manufacturing, security & defence.
- Healthcare AI: Both India's AI doctors and AI agents that transform primary care.
- Physical AI: More than just the end robots, can India provide the data infrastructure for the world? (Scale AI for robotics)
- Voice AI: Everything from foundational research to vertical agents to full stack solutions in what will probably be the largest Voice AI market globally.

Indian AI startups will look different and have their own lane. We’re just starting to see the first signs.

[Rishabh Surendran @rishabh_s7]

@sama Enough man, this is looking even more cheap

[Aman @AmanHasNoName_2]

Watching Nikhil Kamath's podcasts has become increasingly frustrating. Given the kind of access he has to high-profile guests, you feel there is so much potential in what these podcasts could be, yet it leaves you wanting.

He says "this is a conversation", yet after every 'elaborate' answer he simply moves on and reads out the next question from the paper.

The only time it "felt like a conversation" was with Ranbir Kapoor, when it was Ranbir who asked him things and forced him to talk outside the 'script'.

The recent interviews with business personalities, at times it seems you could just edit him out of the whole video without losing much. He simply seems to reading questions at 0.5x and not adding anything from his end.

I know he's not a professional interviewer/podcaster and this is not his job, and we shouldn't really be judging him on things he doesn't claim to be an expert at, but in that case as a viewer I'd just expect him to "converse" with his guests than try to be a "journalist" who is taking an interview.

[Yash Lahoti @YvLahoti]

Sitting in India right now, watching the world burn in real time. US & Israel striking Iran. Iran retaliating across the Gulf. Russia-Ukraine still raging. Pakistan-Afghanistan tensions simmering.

Missiles flying over Tehran, Bahrain, Abu Dhabi, Qatar.
And here I am, safe at home on a Saturday evening, in a democratic, peaceful country, worrying about none of this at my doorstep.

We don't say this enough - we are incredibly lucky. Not perfect, not without problems. But at peace. That's not a small thing in 2026.

[Rishabh Surendran @rishabh_s7]

@sama Can we all cancel our ChatGPT pro and switch to Claude? Repost this comment if you did or plan to do so.

[Claude @claudeai]

Ads are coming to AI. But not to Claude. Keep thinking.

[Rishabh Surendran @rishabh_s7]

@naval @what do you define as hardcore?

[Varunram Ganesh @varunram]

I used to think there was a "YC for India" thesis possible after the rise of some Indian investors. But now I realize YC is the YC for India. Nobody thinks like YC. Nobody is founder friendly like YC. YC doesn't play status games.

Couldn't recommend it more.

[Rishabh Surendran @rishabh_s7]

I have the privilege of knowing Lt Col Akshat. Can vouch for this book and the field-learnt and research backed learnings that this book shall present.

[HQ IDS @HQ_IDS_India]

Lt Col Akshat Upadhyay, a serving officer with #HQ_IDS presented his book ‘Emerging Frontiers: Technology Absorption in the Indian Army’ to General Anil Chauhan, Chief of Defence Staff #CDS.

The book tackles a defining challenge of the present time : how can militaries absorb emerging technologies - #AI, drones, #Quantum computing and #Cyber tools - that were never designed for war, yet are rapidly redefining it!
With comparative insights from the US, Israel, Ukraine & India and powerful lessons drawn from the Russia–Ukraine, Armenia–Azerbaijan & Israel–Hamas conflicts, the book calls for bold reforms in India’s defence innovation ecosystem. It advocates for building not just firepower, but technological fluency—where soldiers become co-creators, collaborators & strategic technologists.

@DefenceMinIndia
@SethSanjayMP
@MIB_India
@SpokespersonMoD

[HQ IDS @HQ_IDS_India]

Lt Col Akshat Upadhyay, a serving officer with #HQ_IDS presented his book ‘Emerging Frontiers: Technology Absorption in the Indian Army’ to General Anil Chauhan, Chief of Defence Staff #CDS.

The book tackles a defining challenge of the present time : how can militaries absorb emerging technologies - #AI, drones, #Quantum computing and #Cyber tools - that were never designed for war, yet are rapidly redefining it!
With comparative insights from the US, Israel, Ukraine & India and powerful lessons drawn from the Russia–Ukraine, Armenia–Azerbaijan & Israel–Hamas conflicts, the book calls for bold reforms in India’s defence innovation ecosystem. It advocates for building not just firepower, but technological fluency—where soldiers become co-creators, collaborators & strategic technologists.

@DefenceMinIndia
@SethSanjayMP
@MIB_India
@SpokespersonMoD

[Konstantin Kisin @KonstantinKisin]

What Elon Musk is doing is genuinely heroic.

He will win no friends in politics and will be ostracised by the current administration. But he is totally right.

We (the entire Western world) simply cannot go on pretending our way of life is sustainable.

Historically, countries build up surpluses in peace time and then go into debt to fight wars. We are going into more and more debt during peace time.

Clever economists will tell you this is sustainable. It is not. And someone has to do something about it.

[Rishabh Surendran @rishabh_s7]

It was our great pleasure to meet and interact with Air Vice Marshal Rajiva Ranjan VM, Assistant Chief of Air Staff, Ops Space (Space, Cyber and Electronic Warfare), Indian Air Force to discuss the 'National Deep Tech Start-up Policy', spearheaded by the Office of @PrinSciAdvGoI.

[Rishabh Surendran @rishabh_s7]

@cory Interested Cory, have been building startup communities for climate tech and AI safety in NYC for the past one year.

[Shiv Aroor @ShivAroor]

Wishing our forces Godspeed, safety and further success. To their families across India, thank you. 🇮🇳

#OperationSindoor

[Rishabh Surendran @rishabh_s7]

@sama how do you explain AI to a five-year old?